Accounts Payable Manager - JL18

TRUST RECRUIT PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

TRUST RECRUIT PTE. LTD. in Singapore is seeking an experienced Accounts Payable professional to manage full AP scope and lead the AP team. You will ensure timely processing, compliance with policies, and collaboration with GL, procurement, and vendors. Proficiency in Navision and Excel is required, with 5–7 years of accounting experience.

This role emphasizes accuracy, discretion, and the ability to work under tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Degree in Accounting with 5-7 years of experience.
• Familiar with Navision or similar accounting system.
• Competency in MS Office, particularly in Excel.
• Integrity and discretion in confidential matters.
• Meticulous, proactive, independent and able to work under pressure.
• Good interpersonal skills to liaise with internal departments/trainers/vendors.
• Ability to multi-task and work in fast-paced environment and under tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Handle full spectrum of accounts payable.
• Supervise and guide the accounts payable team to ensure compliance to accounting policies and SOPs.
• Ensure purchases documents received are completed, properly approved and accounted in the accounting system in a timely and accurate manner.
• Ensure timely submission of WHT.
• Ensure complete compilation of agent commissions and royalties records.
• Ensure month end and year end closing activities are completed within deadlines.
• Close liaison with GL team and follow up on bank reconciliation items.
• Approve creation of new vendors in Navision.
• Supervise and guide PO users and PO approvers on the Navision system.
• Prepare monthly cash flow projections.
• Assist to manage cash flow efficiently.
• Close monitoring of funds to ensure sufficient funds are available for payment.
• Liaise with operations on expected cash collections and manage payment outstanding.
• Prepare AP reports for month end closing and year end closing.
• Prepare relevant expenses variance analysis for management reports.
• Prepare and review monthly audit schedules.
• Prepare relevant data for board deck.
• Assist in preparing forecasts and budgets of direct cost and expenses, where applicable
• Oversees the outsource vendor performance.
• Guide and ensure outsource vendor meet the daily/required deliverables.
• Provide feedback to the outsource vendor.
• Ensure Desk Top Process are updated regularly or when required.
• Assist in audit process and liaise with external auditor for submission of audit request report.
• Resolve operational issues and acts as a business partner to various business units
• Correspondence and follow up on queries from both internal and external parties.
• Ensure fixed assets are accounted accurately and tagged appropriately when required.
• Any other ad-hoc duties as required by the company from time to time.

Skills

Multitasking

Interpersonal skills

Attention to detail

Discretion

Education

Degree in Accounting

Tools

Navision

Excel

Job description

Education Industry
5 days work

Accounts Payable function

• Handle full spectrum of accounts payable.
• Supervise and guide the accounts payable team to ensure compliance to accounting policies and standard operating procedures.
• Ensure purchases documents received are completed, properly approved and accounted in the accounting system in a timely and accurate manner.
• Ensure timely and accurate submission of WHT.
• Ensure complete compilation of agent commission and royalties records.
• Ensure month end and year end closing activities are completed within deadlines.
• Close liaison with GL team and follow up on bank reconciliation items.
• Approve creation of new vendors n Navision.
• Supervise and guide PO users and PO approvers on the Navision system.

Cash Flow Management

• Prepare monthly cash flow projections.
• Assist to manage cash flow efficiently.
• Close monitoring of funds to ensure sufficient funds are available for payment.
• Liaise with operations on expected cash collections and manage payment outstanding.

Management Reporting

• Ensure timely month and year end closing of AP subledger.
• Ensure expenses accounted are complete and accurate.
• Prepare relevant AP reports for month end closing and year end closing.
• Prepare relevant expenses variance analysis for management reports.
• Prepare and review monthly audit schedules.
• Prepare relevant data for board deck.

Forecasting/Budgeting

• Assist in preparing forecasts and budgets of direct cost and expenses, where applicable

Outsource vendor management

• Oversees the outsource vendor performance.
• Guide and ensure outsource vendor meet the daily/required deliverables.
• Provide feedback to the outsource vendor.
• Ensure Desk Top Process are updated regularly or when required.

Ensure compliance to Edutrust and Audit requirements in relation to:

• Payment Control processing.
• Regular review and updating of documents for Edutrust (CPE) requirements.
• Assist in audit process and liaise with external auditor for submission of audit request report.

Resolve operational issues and acts as a business partner to various business units

• Correspondence and follow up on queries from both internal and external parties.

Fixed assets related matters

• Ensure fixed assets are accounted accurately and tagged appropriately when required.

Others

• Any other ad-hoc duties as required by the company from time to time.

Job Requirements

• Degree in Accounting with 5-7 years of experience.
• Possess integrity and ability to exercise discretion in confidential matters.
• Meticulous, Proactive, independent and able to work under pressure.
• Good interpersonal skills to liaise with internal departments/trainers/vendors.
• Familiar with Navision or similar accounting system.
• Competency in MS Office particularly in Excel skills.
• Ability to multi-task and work in fast-paced environment and under tight deadlines.