Total 7 research associate job vacancies in Singapore - Singapore

• Ensure timely, accurate client management accounts reporting and analysis.
• Audit liaison with auditors on client related audit queries
• Preparation, review and submission of GST & GST Remission claims,
• Prepare and review unaudited financial statements.
• Prepare cashflow forecast, liquidity report and payments for clients bank accounts.
• Coordinate with banks, auditors and clients.
• Prepare and review accounting related entries, bank reconciliations, and month-end schedules.
• Improve internal controls, processes and procedures.
• Experience with the use of Business Central is a plus
• Handle additional ad-hoc operational duties as needed.

Compensation:

SGD 3,950 (Fixed) + RSUs 

Your mission: 

• Communicating with Wise's business customers and helping them over the phone and via email whilst forming valuable, long-lasting relationships. 

• Collaborating internally with operational and product teams to make sure that we are providing the best service and custom solutions for our business customers.

The role will give you the opportunity to:

• Be a Problem Solver: With a customers-first mindset and empathy, enable a smooth customer experience for our business customers

• Go above and beyond the call of duty: work with less supervision and solve complex problems by working with other teams

• Grow through mentoring and side projects with other teams, developing your skills and figuring out how to have a big impact on our customers

• Work with Empowerment - at Wise you get in what you put out so you’ll need to take the initiative when it comes to your career progression

This position is available from January 2025 onwards.

This position analyses and supports the hotel’s results and performance in various revenue streams (Rooms, F&B, Spa and Boutique) and recommends strategies and expectations based on the observed data trends and market changes.

Primary Responsibilities

Manages Revenue Management Operations

• Daily rate strategies review for daily rates and inventory to ensure room revenue optimization.
• Manage distribution of rates and inventory for the various market segments to ensure accuracy and parity.
• Ensures daily communication between Reservations and Front Office colleagues regarding inventory, short-term sell strategies, Group / Convention arrivals, rate changes and sell out strategies.
• Support different revenue streams with extraction of sales figures to support and analyze initiatives.
• To accurately process and manage Group reservations.
• Daily review and optimization of F&B reservations to ensure full optimization of covers and revenue for F&B outlets.
• With direct leader’s guidance, works closely with different revenue streams to support achieving the budget and forecast expectations.

Involvement in Wider Job Function Actions / Relationships

• Surveys the market and competitors in terms of performance (RevPAR Index, market penetration), pricing and availability as a basis for future tactical decisions.
• Takes an active role in the development of rates, promotions, packages and other selling strategies.
• Ensures compliance with the Best Price Guarantee and manage third party distributors in line with AccorHotels standards.
• Identifies business opportunities for need periods and participates in various newsletters, banners, e-brochures or ads to drive incremental revenue in various revenue streams.
• Stays current with the industry trends.
• Conducts and attends relevant meetings.
• Supports AccorHotels Corporate programs, such as Planet 21.
• Ensures service standards and individual performance are aligned with Accor Values.
• Participates in developing different tactics, encompasses performance metrics, data standards, processes, policies, tools, training, best-practices and case studies to successfully roll out the strategies focusing on all revenue streams including Rooms, Food & Beverage, Spa and Raffles Boutique.
• Performs any other duties and responsibilities that may be assigned.

• Manage a portfolio of clients
• Provide advisory and consultancy services to clients
• Submit and/or review of regulatory filings and notifications
• Liaise and correspond with MAS and auditors
• Periodic compliance reporting to senior management or board of directors
• Provide or review compliance manual
• Provide or review compliance checklists, registers, and calendar
• Prepare and review regulatory returns and forms
• Perform ad-hoc projects, including but not limited to regulatory mock inspections, AML/CFT CDD checks
• Other ad-hoc duties as the need arise

This is a 1 year direct contract role which require the shortlisted candidate to be based onsite on client office.

• Ensure timely, accurate client management accounts reporting and analysis.
• Audit liaison with auditors on client related audit queries
• Preparation, review and submission of GST & GST Remission claims,
• Prepare and review unaudited financial statements.
• Prepare cashflow forecast, liquidity report and payments for clients bank accounts.
• Coordinate with banks, auditors and clients.
• Prepare and review accounting related entries, bank reconciliations, and month-end schedules.
• Improve internal controls, processes and procedures.
• Experience with the use of Business Central is a plus
• Handle additional ad-hoc operational duties as needed.

Team Summary

The Visa Asia Pacific Legal team manages Visa's legal affairs in the Asia Pacific region. Our team provides advice and services to ensure business goals are successfully met and that Visa's brand and reputation are protected while minimizing legal liability and regulatory risk. Our vision entails each legal professional living the guiding principles to be a proactive partner who never loses sight of his/her responsibility to protect the company.

What a Senior Associate Counsel (Value-Added Services) Asia Pacific in Legal does at Visa:

The position is for a highly motivated and skilled attorney to join Visa's growing legal team. You will be a key regulatory and commercial legal lead supporting the Visa business teams as they expand their value-added services and product offerings to enhance value for traditional bank/FI clients as well as develop new clients/partners/business streams in the evolving payment ecosystem. You will be exposed to a broad range of product and commercial legal work, supporting regulatory reviews and commercial negotiations in the areas of value added services, including digital/tech partnerships, acceptance solutions, and other financial/technology products and services.

You will report to the Vice President Legal (Asia Pacific) and will be expected to work closely and in collaboration with Visa lawyers across geographies and functional support areas, including the Visa lawyers in from the US headquarters and other international offices.

You should have a good working knowledge of laws and regulations applicable to financial, digital and payments services, including payments/FI licensing, data privacy and outsourcing regulatory regimes in Singapore (and preferably, in addition, other jurisdictions in the Asia Pacific) and have experience in conducting and leading regulatory reviews and contractual negotiations.  You should also be well versed in commercial, technology and IP laws, and be able to apply this experience to your role in Visa by being a sound and practical legal advisor to the business.  You must have excellent risk judgment and analytical capability, and be a strong and efficient communicator, with the ability to juggle multiple priorities in a fast paced and challenging, but rewarding, environment. 

In this role, you are expected to:

• Be the lead counsel driving commercial negotiations on both the supply side as well as the client facing side.
• Assist with regulatory consultations/compliance with regulations across the region as applicable to existing or new Visa products/initiatives.
• Assist with regulatory issues relating to products, services or functions.
• Draft, negotiate and drive to completion complex commercial, technology, or strategic partnership agreements in support of business objectives.
• Provide advice and guidance to business and product teams regarding deal structures and key risks and proactively identify and resolve legal issues/risks.
• Travel internationally as needed.
• Possess strong inter-personal skills including the ability to communicate complex legal issues (and relevant solutions/recommendations), clearly and practically to the business.

Why this is important to Visa

The Senior Associate Counsel will play a key role as a trusted advisor to our commercial solutions and products businesses that represent some of the most important pillars of Visa’s future growth and strategy. This role is critical in ensuring that both supply and client facing contracts and negotiations are managed efficiently with relevant stakeholders while enabling our business to innovate and push across new frontiers (particularly in the fast-evolving global payments industry).

The Senior Associate Counsel can look forward to being a key representative of a high performing Legal team in advising and managing projects that drive innovation and development within the payments industry.

Projects you will be a part of:

You will be a member of a regional legal team that works at the cutting edge of new payment technologies, innovation and the fintech industry in an increasingly regulated environment, which brings unique and novel challenges in the commercial/technology law space

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Team Summary

The Visa Asia Pacific Legal team manages Visa's legal affairs in the Asia Pacific region. Our team provides advice and services to ensure business goals are successfully met and that Visa's brand and reputation are protected while minimizing legal liability and regulatory risk. Our vision entails each legal professional living the guiding principles to be a proactive partner who never loses sight of his/her responsibility to protect the company.

What a Senior Associate Counsel (Commercial and Money Movement Solutions) Asia Pacific in Legal does at Visa:

The position is for a highly motivated and skilled attorney to join Visa's growing legal team. You will be a key regulatory and commercial legal lead supporting the Visa business teams as they expand their commercial and money movement solutions, licensing footprint, and product offerings to enhance value for traditional bank/FI clients as well as develop new clients/partners/business streams in the evolving payment ecosystem. You will focus on supporting regulatory reviews, licensing applications and commercial negotiations in the areas of new money movement flows, innovative commercial products, value added services, and other financial/technology products.

You will report to the Vice President Legal (Asia Pacific) and will be expected to work closely and in collaboration with Visa lawyers across geographies and functional support areas, including the Visa lawyers in from the US headquarters and other international offices.

You should have both solid technical knowledge as well as practical experience in banking/financial institution regulatory regimes (with a focus on, but not limited to, licensing and outsourcing regimes), in Singapore (and preferably, in addition, other jurisdictions in the Asia Pacific) and have experience in conducting and leading contractual negotiations.  You should also be well versed in commercial, technology and IP laws, and be able to apply this experience to your role in Visa by being a sound and practical legal advisor to the business.   You must have excellent risk judgment and analytical capability, and be a strong and efficient communicator, with the ability to juggle multiple priorities in a fast paced and challenging, but rewarding, environment. 

In this role, you are expected to:

• Advise on local and cross-border regulatory compliance issues concerning regulations across the Asia Pacific region as applicable to existing or new Visa products/initiatives (including FI licensing, outsourcing, payments and open data regulations).
• Advise on local and cross-border regulatory issues across the Asia Pacific region relating to new products services or functions, particularly in relation to the integration of new money movement flows/commercial solutions and products.  
• Assist with in-flight and new-to-market licensing applications, working with in-market legal colleagues and external counsel, to advise on regulatory, compliance, safeguarding, marketing, structural and other strategic licensing issues.
• Assist on engagement with regulators in relation to existing licensed entities and pending license application, as well as respond to regulatory enquiries on existing or new business activities, or product initiatives.
• Be the lead counsel driving commercial negotiations on both the client facing as well as supply side, including with banking / payment service intermediary partners and vendors/suppliers.
• Draft, negotiate and drive to completion complex commercial, technology, or strategic partnership agreements in support of business objectives.
• Provide advice and guidance to business and product teams regarding deal structures and key risks and proactively identify and resolve legal issues/risks.
• Travel internationally as needed.
• Possess strong inter-personal skills including the ability to communicate complex legal issues (and relevant solutions/recommendations), clearly and practically to the business.

Why this is important to Visa

The Senior Associate Counsel will play a key role as a trusted advisor to our commercial money movement solutions and products businesses that represent some of the most important pillars of Visa’s future growth and strategy. This role is critical in enabling our business to innovate and push across new frontiers (particularly in terms of cross-border money movement capabilities, licensing footprint and fast-evolving technology products), while ensuring that both supply and client facing contracts and negotiations are managed efficiently with relevant stakeholders.

The Senior Associate Counsel can look forward to being a key representative of a high performing Legal team in advising and managing projects that drive innovation and development within the payments industry.

Projects you will be a part of:

You will be a member of a regional legal team that works at the cutting edge of new payment technologies, innovation and the fintech industry in an increasingly regulated environment, which brings unique and novel challenges in the commercial/technology law space

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.