What we will offer:
We will offer you a place where you can be yourself and where there are no limits on what you can achieve. With us, you can take ownership of your career and have honest conversations throughout. You would join an ambitious firm with a clear strategy for profitable growth where you can get early responsibility and early involvement in growing the business. Here you can expect a competitive and fair reward as well as recognition based on all round performance. This forms part of our internal promise to you, The Deal, between the firm and its employees.
You can expect:
- A competitive salary and a host of family friendly policies
- Private medical insurance and dental care for you
- The opportunity to support the firm's charity through volunteering leave
- A wellbeing strategy that focuses on preventative measures to maintain overall health, and tools and support for when our people experience physical or mental difficulties. The strategy focuses on four pillars: physical, emotional, financial and social aspects.
Team structure
The team in Singapore comprise a total of five members: Finance manager, Accountant, Accounts executive, two Accounts assistants and a Credit controller. The team is responsible for the processing and integrity of information relating to; purchase ledger; credit control; cashiering, billing and the preparation of daily, weekly and monthly reports. The finance manager prepares the management and financial statements.
You will have a dual reporting line to the Office Managing Partner, Daryll Ng and the CFO, Hamedeh Ghobadian.
You will be part of a wider team of finance professionals in the SH network of offices and will be in regular liaison with the Head Office team in London.
Main responsibilities
Finance function
- Day to day management of the Finance function in the Singapore office ensuring optimal structure and work allocation within the finance team.
- Oversee the preparation of GST tax and withholding tax returns.
- Process and control improvements of the financial operations and promoting consistency of operations in line with firmwide best practice.
- Managing working capital management and oversight of WIP and Debtor reviews with partners.
- Authorisation of overhead expenses in accordance with the Firm's policies.
- Authorisation of cashier payments.
- Review of client and office account bank reconciliations.
- Overseeing finance related policies and procedures and compliance with SAR rules.
- New joiner induction – finance related aspects.
- Coaching and mentoring the finance team.
Management Accounts
- Review of monthly management accounts, within the firm wide month end close timetable.
- On-going review and monitoring of the P&L against budget, ensuring that variances are understood and advising management of the same.
- Preparation of the annual budget and liaison with the FLA team in relation to the budget of our Singapore alliance law firm, Virtus Law.
- Preparation of forecasts during the year.
- Monthly presentation of financial performance to the Singapore partners.
- Review of full monthly cash flow statements.
- Regular reviews of balance sheet.
- Preparation of monthly payroll posting.
Annual Accounts
- Preparation of the annual audit and review audit of the annual accountant reports.
- Ownership and preparation of the Annual accounts including partner profit allocations, drawings and current account statements; this will be aligned to IFRS in due course.
- Liaising with tax adviser in relation to the preparation of the LLP’s annual tax return and adhoc tasks such as withholding tax and other tax related issues.
Partners and Tax
- Providing reports to assist Partner appraisals.
- Liaison with the London partnership team in relation to partners’ capital and current accounts held in London.
- Liaising with tax advisor in the preparation of the partner’s tax returns.
- Information requests / ad hoc reports from the London office.
Most of our roles are hybrid, meaning that colleagues benefit from working in our office and remotely. We are happy to discuss this and other flexible working arrangements with you as part of the application and interview process.
Attributes / skills required
- Excellent persuasion and reasoning skills and the ability to work methodically and under pressure
- A flexible, professional and proactive attitude
- Strong communication and inter-personal skills and excellent team player
- Good presentational skills
- Excellent excel skills
- Flexible and willing to work additional hours if required to complete tasks and meet deadlines
Education and experience
- Proven experience working as a qualified accountant
- Experience of IFRS
- Proven experience in a similar senior role with international law firm experience
This job description is indicative only and does not represent an exhaustive list of responsibilities. The firm reserves the right to alter or change the responsibilities at any time, in line with the firm's strategy and business needs.
