Accountant

Role Name: Accountant

Location: Singapore (Hybrid, 3 days onsite and 2 days remote)

Employment Type: 12-Month Contract

Job Description

Our client is seeking an experienced professional to join the APAC Finance team. This is a great role for anyone looking to accelerate their learning, build new things and enjoy a fast-paced culture. The ideal candidate will be able to work well with cross functional teams and provide accounting guidance for decision making and managing administrative aspects of client and company projects, tracking and monitoring of project progress with regards to deadlines and client needs, assisting in scheduling and logistical coordination, and communicating frequently with team members and management.

You need to recognize how to strike a balance on getting the details right while still moving fast enough to support the rapid business growth. The candidate is highly collaborative and able to partner well with internal and external partners at all levels. This role reports to an APAC Accounting Manager, and Singapore is the preferred location.

Job Responsibilities

• Responsible for achieving timely and accurate statutory financial statements compliance for an assigned portfolio of APAC entities.
• Build relationships and manage service levels with key external vendors supporting the preparation of financial statements and review the work of our outsourced partners.
• Coordinate and manage the audit process with our statutory auditors.
• Work closely with Tax Teams for the filing of Corporate tax and VAT returns.
• Prepare and/or review Tax-related balance sheet reconciliations monthly and quarterly for US GAAP close for assigned APAC entities.
• Lead projects to optimize and transform the Statutory Compliance process by analyzing areas of opportunities and designing, testing and roll-out of new tools and processes.
• Track and coordinate activities, status and planning for the APAC statutory audits by working closely with the International Statutory Operations COE team.
• Collaborate with cross functional partners within and outside Finance to execute Accounting Team Objectives, providing support to finance management where required including ad hoc financial analysis or special projects.
• Primary contract administrator within International Statutory Operations team.
• Coordinate end to end StatOps vendor contracting and billing processes, triaging and escalating queries or issues as they arise, and tracking through to resolution (40–60% of this assignment).
• Coordinate with cross functional partners both internal and external to effectively design and manage execution of contracting project plans on time.
• Fully own all tasks related to execution of contracts and issuance of purchase orders, including maintenance of status tracker, risk assessment and reporting.
• Build rapport with cross functional partners and be vendor facing primary point of contact.
• Contribute to ongoing process improvement for the benefit of the team.
• Assist in preparing progress and planning documentation when necessary.
• Attend all client and staff meetings pertaining to projects.

Skills

• Proven experience in delivering a project on time, especially to tight deadlines.
• Excellent planning, organizational and interpersonal skills and ability to work in a team environment.
• Strong computer and analytical skills, including proficiency in G-Drive and MS Excel.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in Accounting, Finance or related discipline.
• Recognized accounting qualification (CA, ACCA).
• 8+ years relevant experience with a fast-growing, multinational company or professional services.
• Strong knowledge of IFRS and US GAAP.
• Able to operate with a high degree of autonomy.
• Experience implementing and improving business processes and systems.
• Highly collaborative, excellent communicat