Job Responsibilities:
1) Accounting Operations and Financial Closing
- Lead and review the preparation of full sets of accounts for assigned Group companies.
- Ensure timely and accurate closing.
- Review balance sheets, profit and loss accounts, general ledgers, journal entries, reconciliations and supporting schedules prepared by Accounts Executives.
- Review accruals, prepayments, depreciation, foreign exchange adjustments, intercompany transactions and other closing entries prepared by Account Executives.
- Investigate significant variances, unusual balances, long-outstanding items and accounting discrepancies and ensure their timely resolution.
- Ensure that transactions are properly classified, supported and recorded in accordance with applicable accounting standards and Group accounting policies.
2) Outsourced Accounting Oversight
- Coordinate with external accounting firms responsible for the accounting and financial reporting of assigned Group companies.
- Establish and monitor reporting timelines for periodic and year-end closing.
- Review financial statements, management accounts, reconciliations, schedules and other deliverables prepared by external accounting firms.
- Ensure that outsourced accounting records are complete, accurate and consistent with the Group’s accounting policies and reporting requirements.
- Follow up on outstanding information, adjustments and accounting issues to ensure timely completion of accounts.
3) Group Consolidation and Financial Reporting
- Lead the preparation and review of monthly, quarterly and annual Group consolidation.
- Review reporting packages submitted by Group companies and external accounting service providers.
- Review intercompany reconciliations, eliminations, consolidation adjustments and foreign currency translation entries.
- Ensure that intercompany differences are investigated and resolved on a timely basis.
- Review the financial results of Group companies and provide explanations for significant movements and variances.
- Ensure that consolidated financial information is accurate, complete and submitted within the Group’s reporting timetable.
- Prepare and review financial reports and analysis required by senior management.
4) Consolidated Audited Financial Statements and Audit
- Draft financial statements and related disclosures.
- Support annual statutory audit, ensuring audited financial statements are completed and submitted within statutory deadlines.
- Prepare audit schedules, supporting documents and responses to audit queries.
- Review proposed audit adjustments and accelerate any significant matters.
- Identify recurring audit findings and implement appropriate corrective actions.
5) Tax and Statutory Compliance
- Prepare or review estimated chargeable income, final tax computations, tax returns and supporting schedules.
- Ensure that tax computations are reconciled to the accounting records and properly supported.
- Manage tax filing timelines and ensure timely and accurate submission of tax returns.
- Coordinate tax submissions through external tax agents or directly with the relevant tax authorities, as applicable.
- Liaise with tax agents and respond to tax-related queries.
- Monitor tax filing, payment and other statutory compliance deadlines for Group companies.
- Review current and deferred tax accounting entries, where applicable.
- Identify and escalation significant tax exposures, uncertain tax positions and compliance matters to senior management.
6) Budgeting and Performance Reporting
- Support the annual Group budgeting process.
- Coordinate, prepare, review and consolidate of budgets submitted by divisions.
- Review and report actual financial performance against budget, forecast and prior periods.
7) Financial Control and Governance
- Implement internal controls with oversight from Senior Accounting and Finance Manager.
- Apply Group’s chart of accounts and ensure that changes are properly reviewed, approved and implemented.
- Identify financial and accounting risks, control weaknesses, recurring errors and process gaps.
- Ensure that accounting, audit, tax and statutory records are properly maintained and retained.
8) Accounting Systems Administration
- Act as one of the administrators for the Group’s accounting systems, managing day-to-day administration, maintenance, system interfaces between BASSnet and Dynamic 365.
- Maintain and control user access, roles, approval workflows, account codes and system configurations, and ensure audit trails are maintained.
- Coordinate with Information Systems Division and internal users to resolve system issues.
- Support system upgrades, testing, implementation, integration of financial information across systems, and user training.
9) Process and Systems Improvement
- Act as the primary escalation point for accounting and system-related matters.
- Support process improvement initiatives across the accounting and financial reporting functions.
- Review existing reporting templates, workflows and controls; and identify opportunities to improve the efficiency, accuracy, control and scalability of accounting operations.
10)Team Leadership and Development
- Lead, guide and support Accounts Executives.
Job Requirements
- Minimum 5 – 8 years of relevant experience, with prior audit background preferably with either Big 4 or mid-tier accounting firms
- Strong financial statement preparation experience
- Solid knowledge of SFRS / IFRS
- Experience in multi-entity and regional reporting
- ACCA / CA Singapore (qualified preferred)
- Working experience with Dynamic 365 is preferred.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to manage stakeholders across divisions and external service providers.
- Attention to detail, meticulous and a good team player who can adapt to dynamic work environment and collaborate effectively across departments and offices