Job Description: Senior Finance Executive / Assistant Manager / Manager

SING WAH ENTERPRISE PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 67,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

SING WAH ENTERPRISE PTE. LTD. is seeking a finance professional to oversee project accounting and the monthly close in a fast-paced environment.

You will manage revenue recognition, POC calculations, WIP reporting and margin analysis, ensuring accuracy and timely reporting across projects. You will drive process improvements, automate recurring reports, and collaborate with stakeholders to strengthen financial controls and data quality, while embracing AI-enabled tools to boost productivity and

Qualifications

• Degree in Accounting, Finance or a related discipline.
• Professional accounting qualification or active progress toward one is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Support and progressively lead month-end closing activities, ensuring financial information is accurate, complete and delivered on time.
• Manage project-based accounting, including project cost tracking, revenue recognition, percentage-of-completion (POC) calculations, work-in-progress (WIP) reporting, accruals and margin analysis.
• Review project financial performance and highlight cost overruns, margin movements, unbilled revenue, WIP risks and data inconsistencies.
• Maintain accurate project accounting records, reconciliations, schedules and audit trails.
• Improve the accuracy, timeliness and consistency of project reporting and monthly management accounts.
• Review finance workflows and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, accuracy, controls and scalability.
• Redesign and implement practical improvements across project accounting, closing, invoicing, expenses, reconciliations and reporting.
• Automate recurring processes and reports where appropriate, reducing manual effort and duplicate work.
• Apply AI-enabled tools, automation platforms and data tools responsibly to improve finance productivity, analysis and documentation.
• Develop and maintain process maps, standard operating procedures and checklists.
• Work with internal stakeholders and system providers to test, implement and embed process improvements.
• Improve the quality, consistency and timeliness of finance and project data across systems and reports.
• Support the development of a trusted single source of truth for project, revenue, cost, WIP and financial reporting.
• Create or enhance management dashboards and reporting packs that provide clear project and financial insight.
• Reconcile key data between project records, operational systems and the accounting system.
• Identify data gaps, errors and inconsistent definitions, and recommend appropriate corrective actions and controls.
• Support the adoption of structured data standards and reporting discipline across the business.
• Strengthen finance controls relating to project costs, revenue recognition, WIP, approvals and reconciliations.
• Support year-end audit, statutory reporting and finance-related compliance requirements.
• Partner with project and operational teams to improve the quality and timeliness of financial inputs.
• Support the adoption of new processes, reporting standards and tools within the Finance team.

Skills

Month-end closing

Data analysis

Excel

Power BI

SQL

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance

Tools

ERP/Accounting system

Power BI

Power Query

SQL

Job description

Project accounting and financial close

• Support and progressively lead month-end closing activities, ensuring financial information is accurate, complete and delivered on time.
• Manage project-based accounting, including project cost tracking, revenue recognition, percentage-of-completion (POC) calculations, work-in-progress (WIP) reporting, accruals and margin analysis.
• Review project financial performance and highlight cost overruns, margin movements, unbilled revenue, WIP risks and data inconsistencies.
• Maintain accurate project accounting records, reconciliations, schedules and audit trails.
• Improve the accuracy, timeliness and consistency of project reporting and monthly management accounts.

Process improvement and automation

• Review finance workflows and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, accuracy, controls and scalability.
• Redesign and implement practical improvements across project accounting, closing, invoicing, expenses, reconciliations and reporting.
• Automate recurring processes and reports where appropriate, reducing manual effort and duplicate work.
• Apply AI-enabled tools, automation platforms and data tools responsibly to improve finance productivity, analysis and documentation.
• Develop and maintain process maps, standard operating procedures and checklists.
• Work with internal stakeholders and system providers to test, implement and embed process improvements.

Data and reporting

• Improve the quality, consistency and timeliness of finance and project data across systems and reports.
• Support the development of a trusted single source of truth for project, revenue, cost, WIP and financial reporting.
• Create or enhance management dashboards and reporting packs that provide clear project and financial insight.
• Reconcile key data between project records, operational systems and the accounting system.
• Identify data gaps, errors and inconsistent definitions, and recommend appropriate corrective actions and controls.
• Support the adoption of structured data standards and reporting discipline across the business.

Controls and stakeholder support

• Strengthen finance controls relating to project costs, revenue recognition, WIP, approvals and reconciliations.
• Support year-end audit, statutory reporting and finance-related compliance requirements.
• Partner with project and operational teams to improve the quality and timeliness of financial inputs.
• Support the adoption of new processes, reporting standards and tools within the Finance team.

Candidate Profile

Essential requirements

• Degree in Accounting, Finance or a related discipline. Professional accounting qualification, or active progress toward one, is an advantage.
• Approximately 3-6 years of relevant finance or accounting experience.
• Strong hands-on experience in month-end closing, reconciliations, journal entries and financial reporting.
• Experience in project-based accounting, including POC or revenue recognition, WIP, project costing and margin analysis preferred, but not essential.
• Strong Excel skills and confidence working with large or incomplete datasets.
• Experience with an ERP or accounting system and reporting tools. Exposure to Power BI, Power Query, SQL, workflow automation or comparable tools is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated experience improving a process, automating reporting, improving data quality or implementing a more effective finance workflow.
• Good understanding of financial controls and accounting fundamentals.

Personal attributes

• Strong ownership, initiative and attention to detail.
• Analytical, structured and solutions-oriented.
• Genuine interest in AI, automation, data and finance transformation.
• Able to balance improvement initiatives with the discipline required for accurate month-end delivery.
• Effective communicator with the ability to work confidently with finance, project and operational stakeholders.
• Able to challenge existing processes constructively and support change adoption.
• Organized, dependable and focused on delivering high-quality outcomes.