Manager, Accounting

QBE Insurance Group; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Working

Life Leave

Wellbeing coaching

Job summary

QBE Insurance Group in Singapore seeks an experienced Finance Accounting Operations leader to oversee accounting and reporting activities, ensuring timely month-end close and accurate regulatory returns. You will collaborate with finance business partners, drive process improvements, and provide strategic financial analysis to support decision making.

The role requires deep accounting expertise, people leadership, and a track record of delivering reliable financial reporting in a complex

Qualifications

• Significant accounting experience within a complex financial services organisation.
• Strong knowledge of IFRS standards and regulatory reporting requirements.
• Proven people management and leadership capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate day-to-day accounting and reporting activities to ensure accurate month-end close.
• Prepare regulatory returns and support external audits.
• Provide high-level financial analysis and recommendations to stakeholders.

Skills

IFRS17 knowledge

Financial reporting

Accounting leadership

Regulatory reporting

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Cost management

Education

Accounting degree

Tools

ERP systems

Excel

Power BI

Job description

Primary Details

Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

The purpose of this role is to lead and coordinate the operational and day-to-day management of accounting and reporting activities within the Finance Accounting Operations team. This includes ensuring an accurate and timely month-end close, preparing regulatory returns, supporting the annual external audit, and supporting finance business partners. The role involves analysing, reviewing, and approving team outputs, implementing changes and policies, and providing high-level business analysis and recommendations to key stakeholders, while ensuring compliance with accounting standards and regulations. Additionally, this role leverages deep financial expertise, strategic thinking, and collaborative leadership to drive the achievement of the organization’s overarching goals by enabling sound financial management and decision-making.

Role Highlights

Singapore, Full Time

Happy to talk flexible working

The Opportunity

The purpose of this role is to lead and coordinate the operational and day-to-day management of accounting and reporting activities within the Finance Accounting Operations team. This includes ensuring an accurate and timely month-end close, preparing regulatory returns, supporting the annual external audit, and supporting finance business partners. The role involves analysing, reviewing, and approving team outputs, implementing changes and policies, and providing high-level business analysis and recommendations to key stakeholders, while ensuring compliance with accounting standards and regulations. Additionally, this role leverages deep financial expertise, strategic thinking, and collaborative leadership to drive the achievement of the organization’s overarching goals by enabling sound financial management and decision-making.

About QBE

At QBE, we get to the heart of what matters for our customers. And we do it all with a human touch. We’re an international insurer with more than 13,000 people working across 26 countries – which means we’re big enough for your ambitions, yet small enough for you to make a real impact. It’s an exciting time. We’re building momentum towards our vision to become the most consistent and innovative risk partner. What if you could have a positive impact – at work and in the world? As part of the QBE team, you’ll get to spend every day working with people who are passionate, talented and kind.

Your New Role

• Ensure accurate and timely financial reporting to support business operations.
• Lead and support continuous improvement initiatives in reporting processes.
• Manage day-to-day delivery of team services to meet specific needs of the business.
• Provide technical expertise and guidance on financial matters.
• Preparation of regulatory returns.
• Drive process optimisation and efficiency targets.
• Maintain compliance with policies, procedures, and regulations.
• Provide financial management leadership in areas such as tax, financial reporting, and treasury management to the finance team.
• Prepare accurate and timely financial reports and forecasts for the organisation.
• Establish effective financial controls.
• Support the development and maintenance of financial systems and procedures.

About You

• Significant accounting experience within a complex financial services organisation, and sound understanding of relevant accounting standards (e.g. IFRS17).
• People management, financial services and/or accounting experience, with increasing levels of responsibility.
• Background in planning and forecasting process, monthly analyses and reports, building complex financial models, managing and supporting Budget and Reforecasting submissions, preparation of ad hoc financial projections and analysis, building and updating profitability and cash flow models, drawdown funding, special financial planning and analysis projects.
• Experience of technical transformation processes and change management.
• Experience working within a global team, to lead and support continuous improvement in reporting processes and financial controls.
• Project management and change management experience,
• Proven experience in taking active accountability for own workload, consistent and constructive people management capabilities, working with all levels of an organisation.

Benefits

• ‘Hybrid Working’ – a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance
• Life Leave, supporting the life events we all experience, leaving your annual leave for rest
• Free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice

Awards & Recognition

• Qorus Reinvention Awards APAC 2025: Gold winner in the ESG category
• Digital Insurance Awards APAC: Digital Insurance - Insurer Leader 2025
• HKB Technology Excellence Awards: Automation - Insurance

Skills

Analytical Thinking, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Cost Management, Critical Thinking, Financial Accounting, Financial Data Reporting, Financial Products, Intentional collaboration, Managing performance, Process Improvements, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management, Talent Management, Team Management

Equal Employment Opportunity:

QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.