Finance Business Partner - Part-Time

Sciente is a multi-award winning and a leading business technology consulting services provider within banking and insurance industry sectors of Singapore, Malaysia, India, Philippines and USA.

Depending upon the level of competency and prior experience, incumbent shall be guided through The Sciente Way to deliver the services in the following major areas:

• Manage full set of accounts for at least one of the countries - Malaysia, India and USA entity;
• Take the responsibilities for cross border transactions ie. withholding tax, transfer pricing etc;
• Ensure the compliance to Accounting best practices, year-end closing and support the end-of-year audit processes
• Work closely with Client Facing Managers & Clients to formulate Service Agreements/Terms of Business/Scope of Work (SOW) for services offered to clients and issuance of invoices accordingly;
• Assist in costing of services being offered from overseas locations;
• Manage the monthly processing and checking of payroll and reimbursement for external associates within the stipulated timeline;
• As and when required, manage the end to end process in setting up overseas entity(ies) covering local taxation and regional labour laws etc. of overseas subsidiary;
• Govern the activities related to company secretarial services;
• As and when required, assist in Government grants for Sciente group companies (ie. Internationalisation)
• Assist Head of Accounts in meeting the stipulated deadlines for various transactions such as GST returns, IR8A, IR21, tax returns, etc;
• Maintain the fixed assets register and journal entry (i.e. Maintain fixed assets records, depreciation entry, fixed assets tagging, etc);
• Participate in special projects if required e.g. Payroll projects including implementation/ replacing of system;
• Assist in auditing the accuracy, completeness of the documents and records (ie. SOW, Invoices, payroll information, contract, etc) and
• Work with agility as a management lead catalyst for the growth of the business in an ever-changing environment.

Qualifications and Experience:

• At least a Diploma/ Degree in Accounting, Finance or equivalent;
• Chartered Accountancy certification is an advantage;
• At least 6 years of relevant work experience related to activities for full set of accounts and stated job role responsibilities is mandatory;
• Prior hands-on experience in a regional environment shall be highly desired;
• Hands-on experience with accounting software, preferably Tally;
• Excellent communication (verbal/written) skills in regional language such as Malay (Bahasa Melayu) and English are very much required because this role requires communication with Malaysia government agencies;
• Confidence in communication with clients and external stakeholders on a regular basis;
• Ability to deliver the responsibilities of this job role with confidence;
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications such as Word/ Excel;
• Experienced in high volume invoice management, hands-on with Singapore/Malaysia/India payroll, expense claims etc., AR/AP operations and in submitting GST/VAT returns, IR8A, IR21 etc.

Our office location is in Changi Business Park, near to Expo MRT.

To know more about us, please visit https://www.sciente.com

Only shortlisted candidates meeting mandatory skill requirements shall be notified.