Accounting/Finance - Associate (Outward Billings Unit)

Singapore Airlines; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading airline company in Singapore is seeking a Finance Officer to manage billing processes, ensuring high quality and accuracy in outsourced services. Responsibilities include monitoring BPO performance, performing quality checks, and addressing discrepancies in interline billings. The ideal candidate has a diploma in Finance or Business Administration and possesses strong analytical and communication skills. This role emphasizes team collaboration as well as independent problem-solving.

Qualifications

• Diploma in areas such as Finance or Business Administration is preferred.
• Strong analytical, coordination, and communication skills.
• Detail-oriented, resourceful, and comfortable solving non-routine problems.
• Team player who can also work independently.

Responsibilities

• Ensure all the OAL coupons are processed promptly and completely.
• Monitor the processing done by the BPO staff.
• Answer queries regarding involuntary-routed tickets.
• Ensure SPAs are maintained for interline billings.
• Update SPA conditions in the IPRA System.
• Ensure high quality of BPO work.
• Perform QC checks on BPO work monthly.
• Provide feedback to improve BPO staff quality.
• Compile monthly reports on QC checks.
• Ensure accuracy of billings to OAL.
• Review OAL tickets with low yields for accuracy.
• Amend billed values where applicable.
• Follow up on noted anomalies.
• Investigate anomalies in OAL ticket processing.
• Perform UAT for system changes related to billings.

Skills

Analytical skills

Coordination skills

Communication skills

Detail-oriented

Problem-solving

Teamwork

Education

Diploma in Finance or Business Administration

Job description

Job Description

The successful candidate will be part of the Finance Division.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure all the other airlines (OAL) coupons uplifted for the month are processed promptly and completely by the outsourced Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) vendor


• Monitor the processing done by the BPO staff.


• Answer their queries especially those relating to involuntary-routed tickets so that the coupon values can be calculated for billing.


• Ensure the Special Prorate Agreements (SPA) signed by Partnership Department are maintained promptly for interline billings


• Update the conditions of the SPAs promptly in the International Passenger Revenue Accounting (IPRA) System


• Ensure the quality of BPO work remains high


• Perform QC checks on the BPO work monthly.


• Provide prompt feedback on the errors to improve the quality of the BPO staff.


• Compile monthly reports on QC checks for reporting to the accountant.


• Ensure accuracy of billings to OAL for uplifting their passengers on SQ flights


• Review the OAL tickets with low yields to check for accuracy.


• Amend the billed values where applicable before each week's billing as we cannot raise supplementary invoices to OALs for under-billings.


• Ensure anomalies noted are followed up


• Investigate into anomalies noted in the course of processing OAL tickets and highlight to the accountant for follow-up with the relevant departments to take corrective actions such as rectifying the SPA conditions that are detrimental to SQ.


• UAT for system changes relating to Outward Billings


• Perform UAT to ensure system changes are done correctly as per the business requirements specified. These system changes are either to comply with new industry requirements or improved efficiency to reduce manual processing.

Requirements

• Diploma in areas such as Finance, Business Administration and Finance is preferred.


• Strong analytical, coordination, and communication skills.


• Detail-oriented, resourceful, and comfortable solving non-routine problems.


• Team player who can also work independently.

We thank all candidates for your interest in Singapore Airlines, and regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.