Job Responsibilities

• Accounts: Manage full set of accounts. Post general ledger, fixed assets and monthly closing, accounts receivable and accounts payable entries. Manage business finances, and cost control.
• Reporting: Prepare and analyze monthly, quarterly and annual financial reports. Cash flow management: Assist Finance Manager to plan and manage the company cash flow. Prepare cash flow and income statement and budgets for the business plan.
• Audit management: Prepare and check relevant audit schedules, liaise with external auditors and answer specific queries.
• Tax management: Ensure the company meets its obligations and deadlines of GST declaration and other local taxation and liaise with tax agents (if needed).
• Personnel Administration: Handle staff and vehicle and other company insurances, validate expense claims, manage petty cash and help with ad hoc tasks.

Work Scope

• Managing full set of accounts for multiple legal entities.
• Ensuring all AP/AR are accurately posted in the system and properly reconciled.
• Preparation of monthly routine journal entries for accrual, prepayment, fixed assets and service jobs.
• Preparing balance sheet schedules to its control accounts including bank reconciliations.
• Assist to prepare monthly financial statements and analysis for management reporting and year end statutory reporting.
• Update and analyze monthly expenditure schedules to identify accrual and prepayments to be included in the monthly management accounts.
• Review and reconcile intercompany transactions on a timely basis.
• Tabulate service staffs’ working hours for salary and job costing.
• Manage costing and revenue recognition, need to have good understanding of accounting for repair and commissioning jobs.
• Tabulate cost reports to reflect actual costs against project estimates.
• Compute and maintain labour recovery rates and report on variances.
• Review the project and service ‘work in progress’, ensuring no long outstanding ‘work in progress’
• Assist to prepare and file GST/VAT and corporate income Tax returns.
• Able to liaise with key internal and external stakeholders including auditors, corporate secretary, contractors.

Requirements

• At least a degree in Accounting and Finance.
• At least 5 -7 years of accounting experience.
• Financial accounting and system implementation experience preferred.
• Competency in MS office Excel, Word and Power point.
• Possess integrity and ability to exercise discretion in confidential matters.
• Ability to multi-task and work in fast paced environment and under tight deadlines
• Candidates with experience in within manufacturing / marine domains an added advantage.

Kindly understand that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Reporting & Operation

- Lead the finance team and manage financial cycles, providing leadership, direction and management of the finance and accounting team, oversee the financial management, accounting and reporting matters;

- Establish business control over financial processes and complying with corporate policies, Financial Reporting Standards, legal, statutory and tax requirements, ensure compliance with SGX Mainboard listed rules;

- Proactively communicate with operating team, understand the work-in-progress, analyse the operating costs incurred, propose ideas to optimize cost saving and productivity;

- Work closely with joint venture stakeholders, regularly track the business and returns from joint venture;

- Control the progress and review the quarterly and annual consolidated accounts and variance analysis for submission to SGX;

- Presentation of quarterly / annual results, business progress to Audit Committee & Board of Directors;

- Highlight financial / operational variances and recommend action plan to CEO / peer managers;

- Involved in managing cross-functional project, put in place of accounting policies;

- Guide staff for preparation of annual quarterly budget and drive control of variances for whole group;

- Contacting person with auditors, company secretary, share registrar, public relationship company for annual audit planning, annual report printing and arrangement of annual general meeting (“AGM”);

- Liaise with lawyers and company secretaries, review resolution, (banking) legal documents, agreements, contracts, acquisition of new subsidiary and properties;

- Co-ordinate and work closely with corporate advisors for sustainability reports and any ad hoc reporting required by SGX or statutory board;

- Participate in operational action plan, spearheading the finance related projects, e.g. system digitalisaiton and implementation of ERP

- Ad hoc assignment from the Director(s) / Board of Directors

Treasury

- Review debts collections and payment to suppliers / subcontractors;

- Negotiate and work closely with banks for borrowing, interest rate, performance bond, banker guarantee, corporate guarantee, project financing, responsible for annual review from each bank;

- Cashflow projection and fund management, improve working capital management and facilitate business growth

Planning & Leadership

- Train up, influence and improve finance team, prioritize the tasks and direct the assignment

- Put in place of system and internal control procedures, evaluate the organization structure and reporting lines

- Regular discussion with CEO to evolve strategies, advise and align on long-term business and financial planning in line with corporation vision;

- Provide commercial insight and leadership across the business and risk management;

- Establish and develop relations with senior management, external partners and stakeholders;

- Review all formal finance, HR and IT related procedures.

Qualification of Chief Finance Officer

- An MBA or CPA is also highly desirable;

- At least 10 years' experience in the finance industry and proven leadership and management experience is essential – with examples of when they have demonstrated excellence in the workplace;

- Possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the executive presence to work with senior management, investors and external stakeholders.

- Able to engage with staff at all levels of the organisation and exercise sound judgement.

- Strong business and leadership acumen.

- Able to make decisions and proactive.

- Team player.