Important Working Relationships

Shared Services Team

Business Operations Team

Procurement Team

Regional Revenue Controller

FP&A Team

Corporate Secretariat

Sales Admin Team

Sales Operations Team

Regional Process Owners

• Manage and interface with the shared service centre, taking full responsibility for the deliverables in accordance with the reporting timetable
• Review and approval of journals and reconciliations
• Review and approval of purchase requisitions
• Review the revenues and costs in accordance with the master chart of accounts and dimensional structure of the Group
• Review and approval of sales commissions entries
• Review and approval of intercompany and related party transactions, ensuring all intercompany transactions are recorded and netted off in accordance with group instructions
• Analytical review of balance sheet and P&L and providing analysis as required to Group
• Review of the reporting pack to be submitted in the consolidation tool
• Ensure compliance with Group accounting policies and review of significant accounting judgements
• Support cash collections drive working with I2C team and Business Operations team to triage and resolve customer invoicing and collection issues
• Responsible for cost analysis and support in cost control activities

Compliance

• Ensuring compliance with the Group’s minimum internal control framework, and enhancing those controls where necessary
• Timely response to internal audit questionnaires, queries and requests
• External audit liaison and compliance
• Preparation of the statutory accounts

Audit

• Manage matters relating to the statutory audit or internal audit of the entity
• Prepare the entity financial statement for statutory audit

Taxation

• Responsible for all tax matters concerning the entity including GST return, corporate tax return and submissions, timely respond to queries from tax authorities working with the appointed local tax advisor
• Indirect tax compliance (sales taxes)
• Compliance on withholding tax and employment tax (work together with HR)
• Prepare corporate tax and deferred tax provisions under IFRS for group reporting and under local GAAP for the entity financial statements
• Advise Group Tax of risks and audit

Treasury

• Responsible for optimal working capital management of the entity and ensure compliance with the bank balance target set by Group Treasury
• Prepare and submit weekly cash flow forecasts to Group Treasury
• Weekly reviews of cashflow and submit funding requests to Group Treasury as required
• Manage relationships with local banks and maintain signing and online banking authorities.
• Arrange bank and parent company guarantees through Group Treasury
• Manage the entity corporate cards

Planning and analysis

• Responsible for budgeting costs within the legal entity and submission to Group FP&A
• Analysis of actuals against budget and forecast for the entity

Revenue

• Review of large and complex contracts in accordance with IFRS15 working with the Regional Revenue Controller on areas of accounting complexity
• Review of revenue recognition entries by the Business Operations team to ensure accuracy of the data
• Review of forecast revenue against actuals and reporting of variance analysis
• Working closely with the Head of Finance and other stakeholders to help them understand revenues booked in the local ledger Corporate Secretarial matters
• Support and liaison with Corporate Secretariat function on corporate secretarial matters

Other Duties

• Any other tasks as assigned by the line manager/management

• At least ten (10) years of accounting and finance experience, with minimum four (4) years in similar capacity and preferably in MNCs
• Accounting degree or professional accounting qualification
• Able to deal with multiple systems and stakeholders and has strong organisational skills with ability to prioritize tasks to meet deadlines
• Experience in managing and interfacing with the shared service centre
• Familiar with Singapore GAAPs and IFRS
• Experience in handling financials of an investment holding company is an added advantage
• Good knowledge in Oracle Fusion, HFM, FDW, TM1, Power BI, SalesForce etc. is an added advantage
• Good experience in month-end/year-end closing process
• Self-starter – able to work remotely effectively with guidance
• Positive attitude, adaptable and able to manage on-going changes and ambiguity
• Fluent in English with good communication skills, both written and verbal