DealStreetAsia is looking for an experienced office manager to handle HR admin, basic bookkeeping, quarterly filing and other related functions. This role will be responsible for being an internal champion and a central point of contact for all company staff and key vendors.
Your role is to create and maintain a pleasant work environment, ensuring high levels of organizational effectiveness, communication, key-record keeping and coordination among departments.
You should be mature and capable of multitasking with various stakeholders to support our core back office functions.
DealStreetAsia is now majority owned by Japan’s Nikkei Group, which is among the largest media companies globally. The company, launched in 2014, now has around 35 employees across 8 countries. It is a subscription-media company, whose other business arms include non-editorial content and annual summits in Singapore and Indonesia.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Liaising with relevant parties for regular secretarial filings
- Organizing materials for quarterly board meetings
- Managing all human resource needs for company staff (running payroll, processing claims and maintaining personnel records, onboarding, offboarding)
- Ensuring that all company invoices are paid on time.
- Responsible for petty cash, bank reconciliation, payables and receivables for regular bookkeeping
- Keeping abreast of MOM regulatory changes with regards to employment related matters
- Assisting in events management logistics (planning and organizing staff flight bookings and accommodations, applying for visas)
- Coordinating with sales, subscriptions and other teams - providing updates when payments are in
- Helping the CEO and managers in all admin-related functions
- Stay Organized - ensure the structure and processes we have in place are maintained
- Sustain company culture; Be technologically flexible
EXPERIENCE AND ATTRIBUTES
- Interest or experience as an HR professional
- Previous experience in (basic) accountancy is a plus point.
- Proficiency in Microsoft office (Excel, Word, Outlook in particular)
- Excellent people and personal skills; Ability to maintain composure and deal with sensitive material.
- Organization and the ability to multitask to complete a wide variety of tasks.
- Essential that person in this role be an optimist, have the initiative and anticipation of needs, always have an active interest in the company's well-being, be accessible (at all times during office hours and even outside office hours during emergencies or when there is a crisis), and should have the ability to adapt and learn.
Working Start Date: 1 January 2024
WHY WORK FOR US?
DealStreetAsia is the region’s leading publisher of news on PE, VC, M&A, IPOs and start-ups. Our growing global readership comprises executives from the deals and investment space (investors, corporates, SMEs, start-ups, fund managers, advisors, law firms, among others) across ASEAN, India, the US and Hong Kong.
Since 2016, DealStreetAsia organises the flagship ‘Asia PE-VC Summit,’ helping our audience understand the changing megatrends in the deals and investment space across sectors and countries.
A young and vibrant team with a non-hierarchical structure, we are looking for an executive who can contribute his/her skills to the success of our firm.
This is a work from office position: DealStreetAsia shares an office with its parent firm - Nikkei Asia, and the Financial Times - at Mapple Tree, Anson Road.
If this sounds like you, please submit your CV and cover letter to [email protected]. Only applications with a cover letter will be considered. Suitable candidates will be invited to an interview.
About DealStreetAsia
DealStreetAsia™ is a Singapore-headquartered media company that covers the private capital industry and the business of startups across Asia. We are a subscription-backed digital media and data company, producing journalism, data and analytics worth paying for!
