Executive (Contract), Finance Department (Budgeting)

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OFFICE OF SINGAPORE; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore is seeking a finance team member for budget planning and administration. The role involves supporting budgeting exercises, coordinating with departments, and managing grant claims, ideal for someone with bookkeeping knowledge and proficiency in Excel. This 7-month contract offers the potential for a 3-month extension.

Qualifications

• Basic bookkeeping and accounting knowledge required.
• Meticulous and able to manage multiple priorities under time pressure.
• Good interpersonal skills to interact with various stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support annual budgeting and forecasting exercises.
• Coordinate timely and accurate budget submissions.
• Process and validate grant claims ensuring compliance.

Skills

Bookkeeping

Interpersonal skills

Time management

Proficiency in Microsoft Excel

Job description

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Great ideas do not discriminate, and anyone can have them. Given the right protection and support, a great idea can become a power brand, a transformative technology, an innovative process or design, or even a song or story that moves one’s soul.

Housing Singapore’s largest community of intellectual property (IP) experts, IPOS understands better than anyone how important it is to protect ideas and creations for now and the future. We leverage on our deep technical, legal and business expertise to help innovative enterprises grow, through their intangible assets, including IP, from Singapore, through Singapore. We catalyse the ideas today, into assets tomorrow.

The Finance Department ensures IPOS' financial resources are efficiently managed through proper allocation of resources and funds management. TheDepartment is looking for a new team member to execute activities for budget planning and administration to support the business operations and strategic outcomes of the organisation.

Responsibilities

Reporting to the Senior Assistant Director, Finance, you will:

Budgeting and Forecasting:

1. Support annual budgeting and forecasting exercise, including operational budget planning and review.
2. Coordinate with department budget representatives to ensure timely and accurate budget submissions.
3. Process and upload budget submissions into the Workday financial system.
4. Prepare financial reports for analysis of budget projections and forecasts.
5. Support Workday financial system enhancements and troubleshooting.

Grant Administration:

6. Process and validate grant claims while ensuring compliance with funding guidelines and timely disbursement.

Are you the one? Please write to us if you have:

1. The energy, curiosity, and ambition to make a difference in an innovation agency.
2. Basic bookkeeping and accounting knowledge.
3. Meticulous and the ability to manage multiple priorities under time pressure.
4. Good interpersonal skills and comfortable dealing with multiple stakeholders.
5. Proficient in Microsoft applications, especially Microsoft Excel.
6. This position offers a 7-month contract term with possibility of extension for an additional 3 months.
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