Contractor, Financial Accountant

Team Overview 

The Singapore Finance department is the regional finance hub for Schroder’s Asia business. It is responsible for:

1. Financial Control: Preparing annual accounts, reviewing the month end financial close, preparing tax and indirect tax returns, preparing regulatory returns, liaising with external advisors (auditor, tax consultants); managing cashflow and liquidity of the businesses;
2. Finance Operations: accounts payable, accounts receivable, performing the month end financial close, balance sheet reconciliations; and
3. Management Reporting: Providing monthly analysis of business performance, responding to ad-hoc analysis requests and preparing the annual budget. 

Overview of role 

This position will report to the Financial Controller. The key responsibilities of the role are: 

• Ensuring that financial and management reporting deliverables are completed accurately and promptly;
• Ensuring that operational processes assigned to them are completed accurately and promptly; and
• For finance project tasks that have been assigned complete the deliverables on time to expectations. 
• Financial Control and Financial/ Statutory Reporting/ Regulatory Reporting
  • Performing month end financial closing, including liaising with other locational finance hubs
  • Preparing financial statements and supporting the annual statutory audit
  • Perform monthly account reconciliations and monitor general ledger transactions
  • Maintaining documentation of finance processes within the Financial Controls Framework
  • Preparing monthly regulatory returns and various surveys required by local authorities
  • Prepare cashflow and capital projections of the business and facilitate the interco loan and fixed deposits placements
  • Tax filing and compliance to local tax regulator and group tax reporting
• Transactional Processing
  • Accounts Payable, Costing, Accounts Receivable and Cash processes; and
  • Ensuring that Group controls around accounts payable and costing are implemented
• Management Reporting
  • Assist in preparing of monthly / quarterly / ad-hoc reporting for management
  • Work with the Asia Pacific Finance team to ensure accuracy and integrity of financial information in support of overall business objectives
• Group Reporting
  • Assisting in the monthly, quarterly, interim and year end financial disclosures to Group
  • Assisting in the delivery of the regulatory returns for assigned entities within the regulatory deadlines
• Assist in ad-hoc projects
  • Involved in various finance projects and initiatives
  • Support business initiatives where finance participation is required 

Essential Skills 

Qualities

• Ability to work on multiple deliverables concurrently;
• Be able to interact with internal and external stakeholders and able to understand cross cultural differences;
• Strong written and verbal communication skills;
• Have a genuine interest in, and curiosity about, our business;
• Commitment and energy; and
• Good analytical skills.

Experience

• Degree in Accountancy and / or Qualified accountant;
• At least 6 years of relevant experience in financial control and/ or management reporting;
• Strong Excel skills is a requirement;
• Experience in use of a corporate accounting system (e.g. Oracle, SAP) 

Desirable Skills

• External auditing experience is highly desirable
• Preferably with relevant industry experience (asset management or financial institutions)