Senior Executive, Finance (Financial Reporting and Operations)

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Intellectual Property Office of Singapore

Singapore

SGD 40,000 - 80,000

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6 days ago

Job description

What the role is:

Great ideas do not discriminate, and anyone can have them. Given the right protection and support, a great idea can become a power brand, a transformative technology, an innovative process or design, or even a song or story that moves one’s soul. Housing Singapore’s largest community of intellectual property (IP) experts, IPOS understands better than anyone how important it is to protect ideas and creations for now and the future. We leverage on our deep technical, legal and business expertise to help innovative enterprises grow, through their intangible assets, including IP, from Singapore, through Singapore. We catalyse the ideas today, into assets tomorrow. To succeed, we seek individuals who are anchored in integrity, sensible and confident. We seek team players who are interested in collaboration to explore diverse ideas and deliver tangible outcomes. We seek leaders who are forward-looking, flexible and dynamic.

What you will be working on:

Responsibilities
Reporting to the Deputy Director, Finance, your responsibilities include:

Oversee the Accounts Payable and Staff Claims (Non-HR) functions to ensure smooth day to day operations and timeliness of payments to vendors.
To partner and provide finance advice on accounts payable and staff claims to departments, with an end-to-end view of finance processes. Monitor the aging report to identify and resolve long outstanding payments.
Review staff claims to ensure compliance with IPOS’s policies and regulatory requirements.
Perform month-end and year-end accounts closing tasks related to Accounts Payable and General Ledger.
Extract and analyse data, prepare reports and statistics for management, government agencies etc.
Review and update policies and procedures through monitoring of changes to accounting standards as well as government policies and guidelines.
Work with internal and external auditors and support the audits.
Lead and execute accounting related system enhancements and projects.
Ad-hoc finance duties as assigned.

What we are looking for:

Are you the one? Please write to us if you have/are:

The energy, curiosity and ambition to make a difference in an innovation agency.
Proactive, resilient and confident in engaging multiple stakeholders of varying seniority.
Meticulous, demonstrate critical and independent thinking, good adaptability skills, capability to solve problems and think creatively.
Hands-on experience with WorkDay system would be an advantage.
Relevant qualifications in Accounting or Finance with preferably 3-5 years of related functional working experience.

About Intellectual Property Office of Singapore

The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) is the national authority that registers and is responsible for the administration of IP rights in Singapore. IPOS helps businesses use intangible assets (IA) and IP to grow and is committed to building Singapore into an international IA/IP hub. We help to catalyse a future driven by life-enhancing, commercially successful ideas created by businesses, professionals and everyday people. We help to turn today’s ideas into tomorrow’s assets. IPOS is a statutory board under the Ministry of Law.