Finance and Administration Accountant (6-months Contract)

Objective

Support back-end business operations in Finance and Admin in the Singapore branch office. The qualified candidate needs to have good understanding at finance and operation processes and have the ability to provide partnership with key stakeholders to drive business operations while maintaining process efficiency and control effectiveness. We are looking for a candidate with great personality and adaptability.

Responsibilities

• Manage finance closing cycle and admin procurement process
• Liaise with statutory bodies in the responsibility areas when required
• Able to act as contact for branch finance and admin operations
• Support other departments for related functions

Finance

• Ensure monthly accounts closing and management reporting to HQ
• Support local and HQ annual finance and tax audits
• Work with third party agents to meet service level and work deadlines
• Review monthly staff claims and ensure timely approvals
• Prepare payments to vendors, staff
• Check completeness of invoicing to customers and follow up with collections
• Review and ensure quarterly GST filing by Agent
• Review accounting work by Agent and ensure timely closing
• Prepare cash plan to support monthly cash planning
• Prepare monthly chargeback to HQ
• Timely registration of new/deletion of fixed assets in system
• Support any new finance initiatives such as modules upgrades, reporting needs and internal controls improvements
• Other ad hoc duties

Administration 

• Support local administrative duties such as travel bookings and visa forms
• Oversee procurement for monthly office expense and ad hoc expenses
• Oversee ad hoc matters

Skills

• Good communication skills in a matrix environment
• Competent in prioritizing; able to work independently and with minimum supervision
• The individual pays attention to detail. She or he needs to be analytical and logical, willing to proactively present and discuss proposal with different levels of management
• Ability to prioritize and to deal with deadlines from multi-tasking

Qualifications

• Degree/Diploma major in finance, business administration
• More than 3 years of experience in relevant fields
• Good command in English and Mandarin, able to converse in Mandarin is required
• CPA firm with audit experience is good to have