Total 5 transportation logistics job vacancies in Finance / Banking / Insurance category in singapore tanglin road

Job Purpose

The Finance Data Specialist plays a critical role in the execution of our APLL Finance transformation mandate by actively supporting data-driven business intelligence initiatives. This role will act as a bridge between Finance, business units and IT. It requires close collaboration with cross-functional teams in understanding business requirements and designing and developing the data architecture for BI solutions and visualization. Key deliverables include proactively providing timely, reliable and easy-to-use financial information and valuable and actionable insights to help drive high-impact business changes and strengthen financial performance analytics.

Roles & Responsibilities

Data Governance, Strategy and Collections

• Support the development and execution of Finance data, governance and analytics strategy and roadmap.
• Collaborate with finance and business stakeholders to understand business logic and their analytics needs, identify data metrics and document the requirements.
• Translate business needs into specifications and data requirements. integrate business and financial data to establish a solid foundation for financial analysis or reporting solutions.
• Work closely with business partners and IT to design, define and develop end-to-end data pipelines for BI solutions: build instrumentation and define dimensional models, tables or schemas that support business processes.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of databases and data pipelines. This ensures data quality and accessibility for analysis.
• Gather data from various sources (databases, APIs, web scraping, etc.), clean it, and transform it into a usable format. This often involves dealing with datasets that have challenges including missing values, lump sum amounts, inconsistencies, and different data types.
• Design, write and support extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes of finance and business operations data from various sources, deliver insightful data findings for business success

Data Analytics and Business Intelligence

• Conduct “deep dive” reviews of financial data to uncover trends and patterns. Deploy different types of advance data analytics to identify anomalies, outliers and leakages in transactions to mitigate risks and optimize profit.
• Align with stakeholders on key metrics, design and propose experimentation strategies to continually raise the bar on our analytical capabilities
• Ensure data accuracy by mining, cleaning, and analyzing large datasets for effective use-case development of BI and dashboard visualization solutions.
• Interpret results using a variety of techniques, ranging from simple data aggregation via statistical analysis to complex data mining.
• Develop, optimize financial reporting and enhance data automation to enable reliable self-service reports and streamline financial closing process.
• Use BI tools to create compelling data visualization and dashboards to generate timely, meaningful and actionable insights in driving critical business decision making.
• Predictive Modelling: Building models to forecast future outcomes based on historical data. This can involve machine learning techniques like regression, classification, and clustering.
• Support projects or gathering of additional data for ad-hoc analysis as needed

Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence
• Proven experience in financial data analytics, reporting automation, and Power BI tools.

Requirements

• At least 3 – 5 years of financial/business/data analysis experience.
• Experience in audit or logistics industry is a plus.
• Strong understanding of finance principles, datasets and business processes.
• Self-motivated, forward-thinking, resulted orientated and the ability to manage priorities.
• Ability to self-start and self-direct work in an unstructured environment, comfortable dealing with ambiguity.
• Strong analytical skills, curious, meticulous, innovative and resourceful to resolve issues.
• Good business acumen with the ability to synthesize complex data from different source into meaningful insights and actionable information to stakeholders.
• Vocal and confident to voice constructive challenges to business assumptions.
• Good perspective in achieving results both short and long term and be held accountable.
• Strong communications and interpersonal skills in a multicultural environment with a good command of spoken and written English to influence and motivate.
• Eagerness to learn and adapt to new tools, techniques, and technologies in the field of data analysis
• Experience building/applying statistical and/or machine learning solutions to solve business problems and facilitate interactive data visualization.
• Good understanding of data design pattern differences between transactional ERP systems (e.g. SAP) and analytical data warehouses (e.g. Teradata, Snowflake)
• Proficient in data analysis tools (e.g. Excel, SQL) and BI tools (e.g. Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Tableau)
• Familiarity with scripting or programming languages (e.g. Python, R) for advanced analytics.

Key Results Area

• Deliver timely and seamless execution of projects that align with organizational objectives and needs, meeting the stipulated scope and budget.
• Excellent business collaboration skills and the ability to communicate effectively with a broad and diverse group of stakeholders to ensure stakeholder needs are met.

My client is a well-established shipping & logistics company with a strong presence in APAC. They are looking for a Finance Business Partner to translate financial data and insights into actionable recommendations that support the overall success and profitability of the organization. Reporting to the Group Head of FP&A, you will liaise closely with the business units not limiting to budgeting, financial modelling to make investment decisions, and business cases.

Requirements:

• Min Degree in Accounting/Finance or equivalent
• Min 5-7 years of business partnering experience and relevant FP&A experience in logistics sector (FP&A-focused instead of hybrid is a must)
• Strong communication skills and ability to work with cross-functional teams
• Strong in technical skills (Excel, PowerBI, Thinkcell)

If you would like to be considered for this opportunity, please forward a copy of your full CV to [email protected] and attn it to Kristine Tan (R23116401)

Shortlisted candidates will be notified.

www.ambition.com.sg

EA Registration Number: R23116401

Data provided is for recruitment purposes only

Business Registration Number: 200611680D.

Licence Number: 10C5117

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About the role

Reporting to the Regional Credit Manager, this intern will be part of a larger team within the Asia Pacific Finance department, working closely with internal and external stakeholders to minimise company financial risk and assist in enforcing existing policies and procedures. This 6-month full-time internship commences December 2024/January 2025.

What you will be doing

• Ensure monthly Credit Management Reporting is submitted to Regional Management/HQ on timely basis
• Assist the Regional Credit Management team to request and pursue payment on delinquent/Close monitoring accounts via communication with account holder
• Review and update account status according to established guidelines
• Maintains log of payment promises and pertinent account details; schedules follow-up communication with account holder
• Responsible for handling the collection activity for delinquent accounts and enforcing collection policies & procedures
• Follow up with internal customers & external customers to ensure overdue amounts are paid promptly
• Investigate and resolve discrepancies relating to non-payment of invoices
• Prepare and send monthly statements of account & reminder letter to customers/internal customers
• Report and alert any exceptional and problematic customers and apply appropriate actions to minimize bad debt
• Liaise closely with Internal External customers, proactively build and foster strong relationships
• Other duties as assigned

The successful candidate

• At least a diploma or above (finance/accounting/business studies preferred)
• Knowledge in accounting would be advantageous
• Strong skills in excel / BI tools (e.g. Tableau)
• Self-Motivated, analytical mindset
• A team player with excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to work well in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
• Independent and fast learner with minimum supervision
• Meticulous, organized, able to meet deadlines and work under pressure
• Possess good attitude and willingness to learn

Responsibilities:

· Develop and implement the accounting system and financial management/internal control policies for all four companies, while managing operational risks and providing timely feedback.

· Review the compliance of original vouchers, process accounting entries, and prepare financial statements and analytical reports on schedule to support effective decision-making.

· Execute tax planning strategies, maintain relationships with tax authorities, and ensure compliance with business and tax regulations to minimize operational risks.

· Prepare, execute, and evaluate the company's financial budget and performance.

· Perform other ad-hoc tasks as assigned by management.

Requirements:

· Bachelor’s degree in finance or a related field, with over 5 years of financial experience or at least 2 years in a management role within a relevant industry.

· Strong sense of responsibility, ability to work under pressure, and excellent interpersonal skills, with a team-oriented mindset.

· Preferences will be given to candidates with experience in financial management for shipping industry

· Open to Singaporean citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents only.

About the role

Reporting to the Regional Business Finance Manager, this role will provide meaningful analysis and spell out the business impact to the Asia Pacific Regional Management team, work closely with the Business Intelligence and Operational Control team, and coordinate with different functions to improve existing processes.

What you will be doing

• Provide Regional management with business analysis for decision making process (key accounts, activity trends, trade lane analysis, operational purchases analysis, ad-hoc reporting)

• Coordinate with entity management and various regional teams (finance, operational controller and BI) to ensure timely and accurate submissions (flash activity, ad-hoc reporting)

• Take part in and improve the budgeting process

• Assist entities in improving their business analysis communication and reporting

• Assist regional management team to monitor follow-up actions / implementation plans with various stakeholders

• Take part in financial consolidation process

• Generate monthly reports of P&L by department for Regional Singapore office

• Create PowerBI reports or dashboard for management

• Assist other ad-hoc projects on financial reporting, credit control or accounting process as needed

The successful candidate

Essential

• At least a Bachelor’s degree in business, finance or accountancy

• Meticulous with strong analytical skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Strong excel skill with the ability to handle large data set with complex formula

• Good grasp of Microsoft Office suite, VBA, MS Visio

Desirable

• Knowledge of Cognos, PowerBI, PowerAutomate, Tableau, Oracle Smart View, Cargowise is a plus