Finance Operations Manager

What you will do: 

Performance

·      Day-to-day bookkeeping, general ledger management, and monthly close across both entities

·      AP and AR - timely vendor payments, customer invoicing, and collections

·      Prepare monthly consolidated management accounts and investor pack (P&L, balance sheet, cashflow statement, variance commentary)

·      Cashflow monitoring and forecasting - maintain bi-monthly visibility for group

·      Manage banking relationships; oversee payment run approvals and controls

·      End-to-end payroll for SG and MY — statutory deductions, payment runs, resolution of tax authority queries

·      Statutory filings: income tax, SST (Malaysia), GST (Singapore), EPF, SOCSO, PCB

·      Cross-border withholding tax advisory

People

·      Annual audit coordination - prepare supporting schedules, liaise with external auditors

·      Tax computation and annual compliance; work closely with external tax advisors, legal counsel, and company secretary.

·      Partner with department heads on budgeting, cost control, and financial decisions that affect their teams

·      Primary finance interface for the CEO

Product

·      First-line commercial contract review

Process

·      Maintain and improve financial systems to reduce manual processes

·      Optimise working capital and flag liquidity risk early to the CEO

·      Trend analysis and financial forecasting

·      Build and maintain financial models

·      Quarterly budgeting by function; track actuals vs. budget and provide variance commentary

Philosophy

·      Able to identify gaps and close them

·      Able to work comfortably with ambiguity

·      Can build a scalable process

·      Can move between strategic and operational work

·      AI forward

About you:

·      Degree in Finance or Accounting; ACCA or equivalent preferred, not mandatory 

·      5+ years hands-on across accounting, FP&A, tax, audit, and payroll - across both MY and SG 

·      Working knowledge of MFRS and SFRS, comfortable operating under both in parallel 

·      MY and SG taxes: income tax, SST, GST, EPF, CPF, SOCSO, PCB, cross-border WHT 

·      Can build a financial model from scratch and explain it to someone who isn't a finance person 

·      Comfortable with first-line contract review; knows what to escalate to legal 

·      Proficient in Xero or equivalent