Senior Accountant

We are recruiting a highly skilled Senior Accountant to join our finance team in our Singapore headquarters. The ideal candidate will be responsible for general financial operations and consolidation across our regional entities in Asia, manage external audits, and act as a key business partner to the organization. This role reports into the Senior Manager, Finance.

As the Senior Accountant, you will

• Be a business partner to the organisation, providing financial insights and support for decision-making
• Be responsible for day-to-day general financial operations around all general accounting activity across the regional companies
• Prepare monthly and annual consolidated financial statements, supporting schedules and disclosure notes for the group (SG HQ and regional subsidiaries), using the group's consolidation system (LucaNet) 
• Maintain and ensure accurate intercompany transactions and accounts, ensuring transactions are recorded consistently on both sides of the entity pair and eliminated correctly on consolidation
• Work closely with project managers and department heads to track and manage budget performance for large-scale projects, ensuring accurate cost allocation and revenue recognition in line with organisational goals
• Manage the annual financial audit process with the Group's external auditors, including preparing audit working files
• Proactively liaise with regional service providers, tax agents, corporate secretarial agents, local tax and government authorities, ensuring compliance with local filings and regulations
• Mentor and provide day-to-day guidance to finance executives across the regional entities and review work to ensure quality deliverables
• Support the ongoing NetSuite ERP implementation and transition, including data migration, chart of accounts and workflow configuration input, user acceptance testing, training, and post-go-live process redesign, as the finance function moves from manual to system-driven workflows
• Contribute to budgeting and forecasting activities
• Review existing policies and procedures to identify gaps in internal controls, and recommend and implement improvements to prevent possible fraud and reduce errors
• Proactively identify opportunities for process improvements, system enhancements, and lead their implementations
• Contribute insights and recommendations to strategic planning initiative, projects and tasks   

You should have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accountancy
• 5-6 years of relevant working experience
• Experience with multi-entity, multi-currency group consolidation
• Strong communication skills and presentation skills
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Demonstratable initiative, attention to detail, be organised, resourceful, collaborative, and a self-motivated team player
• Demonstrated ability to lead, motivate, and manage a team
• A professional qualification in Accounting (CPA / CA / ACCA)
• Proficiency in Mandarin (spoken and written), to liaise with Mandarin-speaking vendors, service providers and regions the Group serves

It would be good to have:

• Audit experience in an established firm
• Familiarity, or experience, with large project budget management
• Experience with using LucaNet
• Experience supporting an ERP implementation or system migration (e.g.NetSuite, SAP, Oracle)