Mandai Wildlife Group advocates for biodiversity, contributes leading wildlife research, develops innovative solutions to promote living sustainably, and collaborates with conservation partners in Singapore and Southeast Asia.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

Assist in overseeing daily operations in assigned show area. Specific duties and responsibilities assigned may include the following:

• Work directly with staff in daily operations to ensure proper and consistent husbandry, housing, care, feeding, training, enrichment, and presentation of the animals to achieve the highest level of positive welfare as per the WRS Animal Welfare Code.

• Oversee daily deployments, staff duties and responsibilities, training assignments, special projects, and the implementation of enrichment activities for all animals.

• Manage staff attendance records.

• Review and make recommendations to management on staff performance.

• Ensure that proper record keeping of animal-related activities, including feeding, weights, behaviour, training, and enrichment forms, are completed each day by appropriate staff.

• Provide support in the implementation of staff training programmes.

• Ensure adherence to all departmental policies and procedures.

• Ensure the maintenance of safe, clean, species-appropriate enclosures for the animals.

• Assist to coordinate and implement regular improvements, repairs and renovations to enclosures as needed.

• Assist to requisite and collect supplies and equipment.

• Maintain the highest quality of animal presentations and guest interactive programmes and promote the conservation messages of WRS.

• Participate in shows as trainer/presenter, handler, and/or backstage support as needed.

• Conduct training sessions with assigned animals and strive to meet completion timeframes.

• Contribute to the design and development of new behaviours, routines, and presentation ideas for the shows and related guest interactive programmes in assigned areas.

• Other projects and duties as assigned.

Job Requirements

• Minimum Degree/Diploma or equivalent.

• At least 3 years of animal care, training, and/or show management experience.

• Ability to manage animals appropriately, identify health or behavioural problems, and develop solutions.

• Ability to contribute to new concepts and ideas to improve presentations.

• Ability to multi-task in a diverse working environment.

• Ability to problem solve.

• Good written and verbal communication skills.

• Strong people management skills.

· Assist with project management such as project progress, monitoring and site
supervision.

· To carry out coordination and liaisons with all relevant parties.

· Conduct project site inspection.

· Assist project engineer to co-ordinate & carry out all works assigned.

· Need to plan, Schedule and arrange the worker to complete the work.

· Responsible to assess progress claim and to report to management.

· Coordinate and supervision of the team and assist in technical aspects of construction.

· Checking and monitoring of work and site progress according to schedules.

· Liaise with project engineer on all the coordination shop drawings.

· Need to communicate with workers regarding project progress.

· Provide regular reports to the Project Management on the progress of overall works in assigned projects.

· Attend technical meeting/site meetings with consultants, and provide technical solutions.

· Handle any other ad-hoc duties and tasks assigned.

· Able to work in pressure and in shifts/PH if required to complete the project.

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.