Senior/Accountant, Finance Business Partner

at  SMRT BUSES LTD

QUALIFICATIONS & WORK EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accountancy or ACCA.
• 3-4 years relevant accounting and finance experience (with staff and people management responsibilities), with 1-2 years audit background.

TECHNICAL SKILLS INCLUDE:

• Good working knowledge in Singapore Financial Reporting Standards and tax regulations
• Good working knowledge with ERP systems, such as SAP and Anaplan planning & forecasting system

GENERIC SKILLS INCLUDE:

• Good interpersonal skills and communicate with all levels in the organization and stakeholders in both verbal and written English.
• Ability to work independently and operate in a fast paced environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

JOB PURPOSE

This is a Finance Business Partner (FBP) role to support growing business units in the local transportation landscape. You will lead a team of two to three reports to collaborate with various stakeholders in a cross-functional environment.

RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Business Units’ (BU) Financial Reporting and Management:

• Work closely with internal and external stakeholders to ensure compliance with financial policy and procedures.
• Manage daily accounting functions of a portfolio of companies, including review of journals.
• Reconciliation of inter-co reconciliation and ensure no discrepancies in month-end balances.
• Liaise with AR & AP Shared Services team and Treasury on accounting issues for period closing, collections and payments.
• Ensure timely and accurate month-end, quarter-end and year-end closing and statutory and management reporting with preparation of variance analysis, cashflow statement, accounting schedules and bank reconciliation.
• Ensure compliance of financial records with corporate and statutory requirements.
• Prepare annual budget, with monthly forecast and projections.
• Develop and coordinate inputs from BU for budget and projections, liaising with Group Finance and Financial Planning & Analysis to meet reporting deadlines.
• Draft financial presentation material to present data/figures.
• Liaise with external auditors for audited financials and XBRL filings for portfolio of companies.

1. Business Analytics & Costs Control:

• Engage with BU to stay updated on business and cost developments to challenge cost escalations and business cases to realize operation efficiencies.
• Identify or explore opportunities for more effective delivery of outputs.
• Actively participate in the learning and sharing of best practices.

1. Undertake ad hoc projects and analysis work when required.