Total 3 job vacancies by Rics International Limited Singapore Branch

About Us

Flexible/Hybrid working: This role can be performed with a hybrid working arrangement which balances working from home and your contracted office. It is expected that regular attendance in the office will be required in line with team needs.

"Unlock your potential and drive change with RICS, a leader in professional standards."

Join us, a global leader in shaping the built and natural environments. With 134,000 members worldwide and offices in key financial markets, we set the highest standards in land, real estate, construction, and infrastructure. Through innovation and trusted data, we drive positive change for present and future generations.

Role Purpose and Key Responsibilities

Join RICS as an Event Specialist and play a crucial role in delivering a diverse portfolio of knowledge and competence events globally. Reporting to the Event Manager, you will be integral in ensuring high-quality, efficient, and consistent event delivery across all markets and formats, both digital and face-to-face.

• Ensure all events align with the latest industry trends, are engaging, and delivered efficiently across global markets.
• Build effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring continuous feedback and improvement in product delivery.
• Handle all aspects of venue and speaker management, including negotiations, technical requirements, and onsite coordination.
• Manage digital event setups, registrations, and real-time hosting.
• Conduct post-event reporting, including budget reconciliation and engagement analysis, to gauge success and areas for improvement.

About You

• Proven experience in event management, including organising conferences, and digital event platforms
• Technical proficiency with PowerPoint.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with a knack for negotiation and stakeholder management.
• Ability to manage multiple projects in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Strong organisational skills and detail-oriented approach.

Rewards and Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage including private medical insurance.
• Mandatory Provident Fund Scheme
• Annual leave of 18 days plus public holidays for a healthy work-life balance.
• Generous time off policies including maternity, paternity, moving house leave, marriage/civil partnership leave, volunteering, and wellbeing days.

Summary

The Accountant shall be accountable for the accounting operations of the organisation. This includes:

• the production of periodic internal financial reports;
• maintenance of an adequate system of accounting records;
• maintenance of a comprehensive set of controls and budgets designed to mitigate risk, enhance the accuracy of the organization's reported financial results and ensure that reported results comply with generally accepted accounting principles (or IFRS).

Support the delivery of the Southeast Asia business strategy and plan by proactively providing financial information, analysis and expertise to the Strategic Partnership, Member Engagement, EQS team and Head of Finance, Asia Pacific.

Work alongside the Southeast team to develop business objectives & strategies and monitor their subsequent delivery.

Key responsibilities

· Responsible for ensuring all ledger/account reconciliations are performed in a timely manner for all Southeast Asia reporting entities;

To include:

• ‘Accounting submission pack’ – Review input of monthly financial general ledger transactions including cash disbursements and receipts, credit card statements, PayPal statements, and other day to day financial activities;
• Account for any accruals and prepayments;
• Perform monthly bank reconciliations and other account reconciliations as appropriate;
• Recording of monthly accruals, reversing entries and allocations;
• Reconciliation of inter-company activities;
• Preparation of annual year-end statements, annual audits, government reviews and any other year end activities.

· Responsibility for the delivery of monthly accounts for each entity in local currency to Group Finance for consolidation purposes on a timely basis to meet all Group deadlines;

· Provision of periodic/monthly/quarterly performance analysis to Group Finance and local management - including variance analysis & commentary on business position;

· Preparation of any local tax registrations and ongoing corporate, sales/GST & other tax filings with support from external advisors;

· Preparation of company statutory accounts where applicable, including liaison with RICS auditors;

· Preparation (in conjunction with RICS legal, corporate governance teams and external advisors) of necessary legal/statutory filings;

· Ensure maintenance of an appropriate legal and tax compliant structure in the Southeast Asia in conjunction with Group Finance and external advisors;

· Drive the Southeast Asia forecasting & budget planning process;

· Treasury, cash management and cash flow forecasting/reporting (including cash collection and management of payments to suppliers);

· Responsibility for any and all Southeast Asia license renewals such as registration certificates, taxation registration certificates, organization code certificate etc on annual basis.

· Define, document & implement local processes in line with Group overarching processes, looking for continual improvements and efficiencies;

· Ensuring compliance with all local legislation around invoicing;

· Monitor sales ledgers and action credit control as required;

· Operating a suitable accounting system until such time as D365 is implemented;

· Assist with the implementation and delivery of any financial or operating system;

· Account for Fixed Assets.

Personal skills

· Excellent rapport building and communication skills to build highly effective relationships with stakeholders;

· Ability to analyse and present complex information in a simple and concise manner to people at all levels within the team and wider organisation, using appropriate language and tools;

· Excellent influencing skills to challenge and persuade effectively at all levels;

· High degree of personal effectiveness and flexibility;

· Team collaboration and effective working with others to achieve corporate goals;

· Desire to learn and develop personal knowledge.

Technical skills / experience

· Qualified Accountant with demonstrable experience in financial and management reporting, internal control, financial analysis, budgeting and forecasting;

· Excellent modelling & analytical skills;

· Excellent skills on Microsoft Office;

· Excellent people management skills and experience;

· Excellent written and spoken English;

· Deadline focused and driven;

· An independent team player with an inquisitive mind who is able to work under minimal supervision;

· Working knowledge of SME cloud based accounting software (Xero, QuickBooks) would be advantages.

Who Are We? As a globally recognised professional body, everything we do is designed to effect positive change in the built and natural environments. Through our respected global standards, leading professional progression and our trusted data and insight, we promote and enforce the highest professional standards in the development and management of land, real estate, construction and infrastructure. Our work with others provides a foundation for confident markets, pioneers better places to live and work and is a force for positive social impact. With over 134,000 highly qualified trainees and professionals, and offices in every significant financial market, we are ideally placed to influence policy and embed our standards within local marketplaces in order to protect consumers and businesses. In doing so, we can innovate and progress the development of spaces and places so they are fit for future generations, in addition to the challenges faced in the present.

RICS is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage qualified candidates from a wide array of backgrounds to apply because we know that it’s the differences in our people that make the difference to our performance. We are committed to ensuring that all candidates have an equally positive experience, and equal chances for success regardless of any personal characteristics. Please speak to us if we can support you with any adjustments to our recruitment process. Please make sure you have the correct right to work in the country the role resides in.

Job Purpose

To provide local HR administrative support, advice and guidance to employees and managers located in the Asia Pacific regions on all HR matters of the employee lifecycle

Key Responsibilities

- Delivery of a high quality, consistent and responsive HR operational service to managers and staff within Asia Pacific region
- Building relationships with managers to give sound, professional advice on HR issues
- Manage employee relations issues e.g. advice to managers on performance matters and disciplinary issues
- Provide advice and guidance on local recruitment process from vacancy approval to job offer
- Process right to work documentation for new employees to RICS across Asia Pacific, including but not limited to being the main contact for the Ministry of Manpower in Singapore
- Advise on any management change issues, including redundancies or variations to contracts
- Consulting, influencing and coaching line managers on people management matters to develop knowledge and capability
- Provide advice and local legislation guidance where required, efficient, high quality administrative support (documentation and HR system management) to the HR Co-Ordinators. Including but not limited to:
o Contracts of employment and new starter documentation
o Changes to terms and conditions
o Leavers
o Recruitment
o Maternity/Family Friendly
o Restructures
o Benefits
- End to end management of Employee relations issues
- Local benefits administration, advice and communication
- Deliver high quality data and liaise with payroll as appropriate & adhere to payroll cut-off times
- Provide support to the HR Co-Ordinators to manage the Global HR inbox within agreed SLAs
- Provide people intelligence and work with HRBPs to deliver solutions
- Support the HR team in other projects and activities as required

Expected Outcomes

- Management of Employee relations and sickness health Cases
- Provide solutions relevant to meet local legislation
- Customer feedback
- Quality of administration produced meeting minimum Key Performance Indicators
- Delivery of services within SLAs/deadlines

Experience / Skills Required

- HR experience gained working in Asia, including but not limited to Singapore, China and Hong Kong
- Employee relations knowledge and broad generalist experience, including team restructures and Employment Law knowledge in Asia
- Experience of recruiting candidates in Asia but not limited to Singapore, China and Hong Kong
- Excellent communication skills
- Extremely well organised and efficient with the ability to respond effectively to ad-hoc and unexpected issues
- Significant experience providing HR administration support within a busy environment
- A hands on approach as well as exposure to the full HR employee life cycle
- Have experience of undertaking redundancies, performance management and formal disciplinary processes and achieving successful outcomes
- Experience of influencing managers in dealing with people situations
- Providing advice and guidance to managers on HR policies
- Experience of designing and maintain local HR policies
- Fluency (written and spoken) in English and Mandarin

Who Are We?

As a globally recognised professional body, everything we do is designed to effect positive change in the built and natural environments. Through our respected global standards, leading professional progression and our trusted data and insight, we promote and enforce the highest professional standards in the development and management of land, real estate, construction and infrastructure. Our work with others provides a foundation for confident markets, pioneers better places to live and work and is a force for positive social impact. With over 134,000 highly qualified trainees and professionals, and offices in every significant financial market, we are ideally placed to influence policy and embed our standards within local marketplaces in order to protect consumers and businesses. In doing so, we can innovate and progress the development of spaces and places so they are fit for future generations, in addition to the challenges faced in the present.

RICS is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage qualified candidates from a wide array of backgrounds to apply because we know that it’s the differences in our people that make the difference to our performance. We are committed to ensuring that all candidates have an equally positive experience, and equal chances for success regardless of any personal characteristics. Please speak to us if we can support you with any adjustments to our recruitment process. Please make sure you have the correct right to work in the country the role resides in.