Our Client is seeking an Assistant Client Accounting Manager with excellent interpersonal and communication skills to join the team in Singapore. The candidate should have minimum 1-3 years of relevant working experience preferably from a professional services firm in Assurance / Accounting / Outsourcing / Client Accounting environment serving SME clients.
You will be responsible for building and maintaining relationships with a portfolio of customers ranging from SME business owners to Finance-Admin SME staff and assist with issues on accounting, GST, tax, payroll and corporate secretarial matters.
You may be tasked to assist in training and helping a team of junior accountants and bookkeepers based both in Singapore and in our Philippines office. In this regard, the ideal candidate should have sound technical knowledge, be task-driven, but also have an ability to work with other accountants and bookkeepers, helping and guiding them technically.
This is a full-time position with a 100% remote working arrangement. You may either fully work-from-home or pursue a hybrid option of working from our office situated at 80 Robinson Road and work-from-home.
What you will do:
Sales and Onboarding:
● Prospect, quote, onboard new customers and identify suitable Xero-integrated apps or solutions (point-of-sales, inventory, payments, payroll) for accounting automation
● Drive and lead migration work, managing production team members to complete
● Identify opportunities to provide more value and services to the customers, translating to higher fees and upsell of services
Production of Deliverables:
● Create and disseminate monthly management accounts using Xero cloud accounting ecosystem and its integrated solutions. You may be tasked to supervise and review the work of production team members.
● Prepare workpapers, annual unaudited financial statements and tax computation. You may be tasked to supervise and review the work of production team members.
● Perform or review monthly or quarterly GST submissions for customers, as well as submissions of Estimated Chargeable Income and final tax Form C/S on IRAS portal.
● Compute or review payroll and submission of CPF to CPF Board, submission of annual IR8A and IR21.
● Liaise with Corporate Secretary partner firm to ensure Annual Return filing deadlines are met.
● Ensure all timelines and reporting deadlines are adhered to.
● Communicate complex technical information to customers and other stakeholders.
● Ensure good client feedback, customer satisfaction and encourage referrals.
What you will need:
● Minimum 1-3 years of relevant working experience preferably from a professional services firm in Assurance/Accounting/Outsourcing/Client Accounting environment serving SME clients
● Minimum Diploma in Accounting or equivalent professional qualification (ACCA, CPA, CA etc.)
● Experience preparing Financial Statements, Tax Computation with good knowledge in Singapore Financial Reporting Standards, tax laws, GST and CPF is preferred
● A self motivated and proactive mindset, able to make suggestions on the improvement of the firm, and generate initiatives on your own.
● A high level of interpersonal or communication skills. The ideal candidate should be a good leader, be results and outcomes driven but with great people skills
● Have the ability to be an extremely good communicator of complex technical information into simple client centric language
● A natural people person and love working with and dealing with client’s problems, and teaching and mentoring junior staff members
● A knack and interest in testing and rolling out new software and tech solutions. A comfortable digital native.
● Training on accounting software and integrated apps will be provided, however prior experience with Xero accounting software is preferred
What you will get:
● Full-time employment
● SGD 3,000 to SGD 3,800 base salary depending on experience, as well as variable bonus determined by winning new sales contracts, outperforming gross profit margin targets
● CPF and annual leave entitlement
● The opportunity to be part of a growing, vibrant team helping companies grow through trust and technology
