Assistant Manager / Manager (Finance)

The Assistant Manager / Manager (Finance) will oversee the financial operations, ensuring accurate and timely month-end and year-end financial closing. This role includes producing comprehensive financial and management reports. The Assistant Manager / Manager (Finance) will ensure compliance with company policies, corporate directives, and accounting standards. Additionally, the role involves managing the Accounts Receivable function and leading process automation initiatives and other finance-related projects.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Manage the month-end and year-end closing processes, ensuring accuracy and timeliness, including preparing financial statements.
• Prepare and review journal entries, such as accruals, deferrals and reclassifications entries in the general ledger monthly. Maintain and ensure the accuracy of the general ledger and financial records.
• In charge of Cost Centre, Fund Code and Project Code creation in SAP ByD.
• Oversee accounting processes and tasks, including bank reconciliation, account reconciliation, and balance sheet schedules.
• Ensure compliance with corporate governance for Charities and Institutions of a Public Character (IPC) and meet all reporting requirements.
• Ensure the application of funding sources aligns with the terms of funding and sponsorship agreements.
• Managing different types of funds, ensuring proper accounting and tracking of each fund type.
• Coordinate with Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) on grant revenue recognition.
• Perform project reconciliations with respective project team upon project completion.
• Handle grants audits, ensuring deadlines are met.
• Prepare quarterly GST filing.
• Lead and oversee the Accounts Receivable (AR) function to ensure accurate and timely invoice processing and AR collection.
• Collaborate with various departments to resolve operational issues, such as AR-related queries, aging reports, statements of accounts, and AR collection etc.
• Co-ordinate and liaise with external stakeholders such as external auditors, internal auditors, local tax, and government authorities.
• Review and enhance work processes and internal controls, making recommendations for improvement where necessary.
• Participate in and lead ad hoc projects as assigned.

Secondary Responsibilities:

• Assist in minute writing for Audit Risk Committee meetings.
• Other ad hoc projects assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or associate degree in accounting, or ACCA qualification. CPA candidate is preferred
• Minimum 3-5 years of relevant experience
• Grant & project reconciliation experience is preferred
• SAP ByDesign knowledge is preferred but not mandatory
• Well versed in MS Office, especially MS Excel (V-lookup, Pivot table, etc.), Word and Power-point
• A self-starter who is able to plan, organise and take initiative to meet job objectives and deadlines independently
• Can-do attitude, driven and passionate about work
• Able to work independently and as a team