Senior Executive Finance

Global Schools Foundation; Singapore; On-site; SGD 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An educational institution in Singapore is seeking a finance operations assistant to manage daily financial tasks and engage with parents regarding fee collections. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree or diploma in a relevant field and 3-6 years of related experience, with strong customer-facing skills. This role is critical to ensuring efficient financial operations and compliance with policies.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3-6 years of relevant experience in finance operations.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Manager in financial operations.
• Ensure Insurance for fees paid by students.
• Provide reports/documents for audits.
• Engage with parents for fee queries.
• Ensure payments are raised and received.
• Follow-up on fee payments and manage defaulters.
• Prepare Monthly MIS Report.

Skills

Customer-facing skills

Financial operations

Education

Bachelor’s degree/Diploma in relevant field

Job description

The role holder is responsible for assisting the Manager in the day-to-day financial operations in the campus.

• Ensure Insurance for all fees paid by students (Fee Protection Scheme - insurance)
• Statutory & Internal audit - Provide all reports / documents for audits conducted.
• Resolve any queries or observation. Ensure Minimal observation / no repeat observation of areas for improvement ( AFI) and 100% closure of observations.
• Engage with parents on query resolution on fee collections
• Response Time (TAT) for queries from parents should be minimal and as defined.
• Collections : Ensure Payment of fees for students billed and raise receipts for all payments made. Ensure Payment of fees by digital means (GIRO/AutoDebit/payment gateway)
• Register Students for GIRO immediately on joining
• Receivables (AR): Follow-up of fee payments & initiate legal procedures for fee defaulters
• Collections : Ensure Deposit of fees to bank account for traditional payment method (Cheque/ Demand Draft/ Cashier order/ Cash)
• Member of scholarship core team and review of applications
• Process credit notes & Voids as per SOPs & provide digitised document to parent
• Process refund of fees as per policy and contracts. Ensure 100% compliance with refund timelines
• Prepare Monthly MIS Report for Collections & reconciliations
• Support in Implementation / upgradation/ maintenance ( LMS / other equivalent system)

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree/Diploma in relevant field
• Minimum 3-6 yrs of relevant experience in finance operations
• Must have excellent customer-facing skills