Role Summary
- Responsibilities: You will be responsible for a range of finance tasks within our Singapore office, focussing on a mixture of sales ledger and purchase ledger tasks
- Salary: up to S$3,300 per month
- Benefits: Hybrid working options that allow you to work from home up to 50% of your time, generous holiday allowance, flexible working hours, private medical insurance, comprehensive travel insurance, full funding for external training, comprehensive travel insurance and more
- Role Type: Full-time, permanent
- Start Date: The role will ideally commence in early 2025. However, we have start dates available every month of the year and you will be asked to state your availability on your application form
- Location: Our new recruits will be based in our Singapore office
About the Role
If you are looking to kickstart your career in finance or take on a new opportunity within this field, we are seeking a new Accounts Assistant to join our vibrant Singapore office.
In this role, you will support with a range of finance tasks across both sales and purchase ledger and quickly take on significant responsibilities within the team. You will work alongside our Accounts Assistant in Singapore and the wider Finance team in our UK-based Global Headquarters, as well as our Office Administrator in Shanghai to provide financial support for the Shanghai office.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Supporting with sales ledger tasks, such as producing, sending and monitoring invoices as well as contacting clients to ensure timely payments, where necessary
- Supporting with purchase ledger tasks, including approving and/or obtaining approval for all purchase invoices, recording and reconciling all petty cash and reviewing credit card expenses
- Managing and maintaining client contracts
- Advising our scientific teams on invoicing or purchase related queries
- Collaborating with the Shanghai Office Administrator to manage financial processes for the Shanghai office, including tasks such as reconciling local payments, tracking expenditures, and ensuring compliance with local requirements
- Ad-hoc tasks in support of the wider Finance and Operations teams, across both Singapore and Shanghai, as needed
Hybrid Working Policy: We recognise that homeworking can improve work life balance, reduce commuting times and costs, and provide the opportunity to juggle personal commitments. At the same time, we believe that having face-to-face time in the office holds many benefits and is central to ensuring that the community we have created, where people have a workplace, they belong to and feel part of, is never lost.
Therefore, we offer flexible working arrangements that allow our colleagues to work from home for up to half of the time, measured across a 2-week rolling period.
Career Profile
We offer many opportunities for personal and professional development at Costello Medical. Please click below to read firsthand accounts from our colleagues about their time with the company: https://www.costellomedical.com/careers/working-at-costello-medical/
Please click here to learn about Gallia’s time within our Finance team: https://www.costellomedical.com/careers/working-at-costello-medical/career-profiles/gallia-goddard/
About You
We are seeking a proactive and enthusiastic individual, with a “can do” approach. The ideal candidate will also have the initiative, positivity and creativity required to continually improve processes and ease the administrative burden of financial processes on their colleagues.
Essential requirements for the role are:
- A background in a relevant discipline. For example, finance, accounting, business administration with a concentration in finance, or similar
- Excellent proficiency in written and spoken English as well as business-level Mandarin
- A fluency in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively within a team and interface confidently with client-facing staff
- The ability to manage suppliers to ensure that we receive an excellent service
- The ability to manage pressure and conflicting demands, as well as prioritising tasks and workload autonomously
- An excellent attention to detail
- An excellent level of productivity, and the flexibility to respond to changing deadlines
Whilst no prior working experience is required for this position, it is desirable. Full training, both internal and external, and mentoring from experienced colleagues will be provided.
About Costello Medical
Costello Medical is a rapidly growing global healthcare agency specialising in medical communications, market access and health economic and outcomes research. We work with a wide range of clients, including the industry’s most successful pharmaceutical and medical technology companies, patient and public health bodies and charitable organisations. Our lasting client partnerships create a direct and measurable impact on the successful launch of novel therapies and devices across a wide range of disease areas. Our vision is to be a community of the very best people, constantly challenging ourselves to make meaningful and outstanding contributions to improving healthcare.
We are committed to our company values which are central to creating our fun, friendly and innovative workplace in which we strive to deliver the highest standards of quality. As a result, we have been listed in The Top 100 Companies to Work For list for six consecutive years.
On 27th May 2022 Costello Medical received its certification as a B Corporation. We are really proud of this achievement as it demonstrates that Costello Medical is meeting the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance. We underwent a rigorous assessment that covered the whole of our business including employee benefits, charitable giving and sustainability. We believe this certification is external validation of our mission to be a force for good.
The Recruitment Process
Our recruitment process starts with a telephone interview with a member of the Talent Acquisition team, followed by an assessment for you to complete in your own time. If successful, you will be invited to an interview. Our standard recruitment process lasts around 1 month however, this can be adapted if necessary.
The role will ideally commence in early 2025. However, we have start dates available every month of the year and you will be asked to state your availability on your application form. Whilst there are no set application deadlines, we strongly recommend applying as early as possible so that we can begin processing your application. The role will close when a suitable candidate found.
Please note that this role is available in our Singapore office. You can learn more about our office locations here: www.costellomedical.com/careers/locations
What We Offer
- A starting salary of up to S$3,300 per month
- 18 days’ annual leave plus public holidays
- The chance to work from home for up to half of your working time across a 2-week rolling period
- Private medical insurance
- Flexible benefits scheme offering additional holiday, cash payments and wellbeing benefits
- Paid study leave and funding for external qualifications
- Comprehensive travel insurance
- Flexible working hours
- Regular company-funded social activities
Please click here to learn about our reward package and the other benefits of working for Costello Medical: https://www.costellomedical.com/careers/working-at-costello-medical/benefits-package-in-singapore/
How to Apply
You are required to submit your CV and a cover letter via our online application form. In your cover letter, you must explain why you think you would be suited to the role and why you would like to join Costello Medical, with examples to support both. Your CV should clearly state the dates of all qualifications and grades achieved where applicable.
While we embrace Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies to innovate and improve processes, we want to understand your unique skills and experiences throughout the recruitment process. Therefore, if you use AI to assist with your application, we recommend that you do not rely solely on this technology to generate your application materials. As your role may involve developing new written content from scratch and handling confidential data that cannot be uploaded to AI technology, it is important for us to assess your own skills and abilities.
Please contact the Talent Acquisition team at [email protected] if you have any questions about the role or application process.
Visa Sponsorship
Please note that we are unable to support Employment Pass applications for this role and you will therefore need the right to work in Singapore independently from the company.
