Total 8 Manager tax accountant job vacancies in Singapore River, Central Singapore

Global Tax Free(“GTF”) Singapore is authorised by Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) as a Central Refund Agent (CRA) as well as sole Central Refund Counter (CRC) operator in Singapore, thereby licensed to provide tax refund services for tourists. Specialists in Tax-free shopping services, Global Tax Free offers:

• Tax Refund Services for tourists and merchants
• Central Refund Counter

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Plan, schedule, and implement the approach to acquiring retail accounts relevant to our business.
• Suggest and propose new ideas and initiatives to management
• Providing quality training to front-line staff, review statistic and identifying business opportunities and performance improvements. Regular training and store visits
• Able to Build multi-level relations with Finance, Operations, Marketing, Training, IT teams
• Improve merchants’ knowledge to ensure retention

Requirements:

• at least 1 year of retail experience
• Able to have strategic sales planning skills
• Self-driven with outgoing personality.
• Personable and persuasive

Purpose of the job

To ensure excellence in delivery of financial accounts, including financial statements, management accounts, and annual returns, by overseeing the local private clients’ accountants and coordinating with the Mauritius Private Clients accountants assisting with the preparation.

This role offers an excellent opportunity to quickly build upon accounting, tax and financial management experience, especially in the private clients’ space.

The candidate will form part of a vibrant Trust Services (Private Clients) team, that lends his/her accounting expertise to bring greater value to the private clients’ relationships.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support the local Trust Services (Private Clients) team by taking ownership and responsibility over preparation and quality of the financial accounts within the team.
• Managing a portfolio of clients accounts ensuring high quality service deliverables to clients, including but not limited to, review and preparation of the financial accounts where applicable.
• Ensure excellence in delivery of all financial accounts of the local private clients team.
• Coordinate, liaison and lead the accounting process with Group centralised accounting team (i.e. Mauritius) where applicable, towards ensuring excellence in delivery of accounts.
• Review and prepare full or partial sets of accounts (monthly, quarterly and yearly) for the portfolio of clients.
• Ensure accurate recording of accounting transactions and analyse financial information, to prepare meaningful management accounts and supporting schedule
• Prepare tax computation and assist with tax compliance matters.
• Ensure payments are processed in compliance with the client’s policies and statutory requirements.
• Review and prepare financial statements under SFRS and other international GAAP where applicable
• Coordinate with external parties including external auditors, tax agents, corporate secretarial and government authorities, where required
• Establish good client relationships through positive interactions with the clients
• Liaise with banker, auditors and other professional parties where required
• Any other such duties that would be reasonably required for this role.

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Wise PLC is one of Europe’s fastest growing companies we move billions of customers money around 160 countries and in 40 currencies, hold billions of customer funds, facilitate our customers to spend like a local with our Wise card and trusted by over 300,000 business both small and large with our international business account all the while saving our customers millions in fees. 

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As part of our expanding operations in the APAC, we are now looking for an awesome Tax Manager to join our growing finance team in Singapore serving our APAC operations.

You’ll be part of a commercially-minded Global Tax team in Finance, helping to ensure our tax affairs are efficient, transparently compliant and slick so that our mission is sustainable. 

Your mission

• Manage the outsourced preparation of APAC corporate tax and withholding tax computations (e.g. Australia, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Philippines and Thailand). This includes adhering to controls, managing risks and identifying ways to automate and streamline manual tasks using existing systems or emerging technologies. 
• Work closely with Product and Banking teams on expansion of new products and licence applications to ensure tax requirements are met.
• Assist with the preparation of IFRS half year and year-end tax reporting and tax provisions for local statutory accounts and group reporting with the help of advisors where necessary. 
• Work closely with financial controllers, accounting, and finance system teams for sources of data and information, including directly extracting information from our ERP system.
• Support the on ad hoc research and projects, including expansion into new countries and liaising with external advisors to ensure tax requirements are met.
• Engage in team-wide initiatives including budgeting, forecasting, planning, risks and controls. It is important to be interested in and engaged in all tax initiatives and to work closely with all members of the tax team.

Purpose:

The Manager / Senior Manager, Tax Advisory works with the tax team to provide tax advisory services to a mixed portfolio of corporate and individual clients.

Core Responsibilities:

• Advise clients on Singapore corporate tax issues which include cross-border restructuring, tax treaties, withholding tax, permanent establishment issues, BEPS 2.0 Pillar Two matters, tax due diligence, acquisition tax structuring, and drafting tax advisory memos to a mix of corporate clients across industries.
• Identify tax planning opportunities
• Provide technical training
• Mentor and manage junior staff

Tasks / Duties:

• Manage the delivery of tax advisory services
• Advise client on restructuring exercise and cross-border transactions
• Assist clients with the application for income tax advance ruling, tax exemption, etc.
• Work with Head of Delivery to identify business development opportunities
• Identify and follow up on opportunities to grow tax advisory services
• Support tax compliance team in relation to tax advisory matters
• Conduct seminars on corporate tax topics for clients and within the firm
• Build relationships and communicates effectively in order to positively influence to the tax team.
• Work effectively in diverse teams within a highly inclusive team culture where everyone is supported, respected and recognised for their contribution
• Provide clients with tax efficient solutions which take into consideration sound knowledge of our clients’ businesses

• Managing a portfolio of clients, developing and maintaining client relationships
• Acting as the main point of contact for clients, liaising with them throughout the engagement cycle
• Actively promote team and personal profile to internal networks in order to promote collaboration and increase internal leads
• Identify key client issues that represent opportunities for the Firm to capitalise on and play active role in securing it
• Financial management, including developing and managing project budgets and billing to ensure profitable delivery of client engagements
• Coaching and developing junior team members
• Play key role in people development activities (coaching / mentoring) for less experienced team members

Requirements:

• Degree in Economics, Business or Accountancy or obtained relevant professional qualifications
• Min. 10 years of relevant experience in a public accounting firm
• Extensive experiences in transfer pricing tax environment
• Excellent technical skills and commercial awareness
• Strong interpersonal skills in developing internal and client relationships; Sustains a high level of drive, shows enthusiasm and a positive attitude that translates across the team
• Excellent project management skills
• Experience of working in a Transfer Pricing Team within a large international consulting firm

Job Description:

• Assist in developing and building the Tax Advisory Team;

• Develop strong and enduring relationships with clients, centered on our firm’s 7Ps value system;

• Build market presence, reputation and credibility through contributing papers to professional bodies, publications and newspapers, conducting talks and seminars, and participating in committees relevant to brand building of the range of advisory services;

• Coach and mentor staff in the team; and

• Provide quality control and risk management on all advices issued by the firm.

Requirements:

• Degree or relevant post graduate/professional accounting qualifications

• Being an Accredited Tax Professional with SCTP will be an advantage

• Minimum 6 years’ relevant experience with IRAS or an international public accounting firm

• Possess passion, initiative, strong technical skills and an analytical mind

• Strong interpersonal and business communication skills

Responsibilities:

• Manage all GST matters for the group ensuring tax compliance with GST regulations
• Advise on GST implications on transactions, identify and address areas with GST risk and provide tax advisory support to business groups
• Analyse and interpret the impact of changes to laws and regulations, identify tax planning opportunities etc
• Assist in due diligence and ad-hoc projects and liaise with local and overseas consultants on local and regional GST / indirect matters
• Assist in other tax projects and assignments

Requirements:

• Degree in Accountancy, Finance or equivalent qualification
• Technically competent with minimum 3-5 years of GST managerial experience in commercial and Big 4 accounting firms.
• Hands-on, detail-oriented, independent and analytical with good problem solving skills
• Strong communication, organisational skills and ability to work across all levels

Global Tax Free(“GTF”) Singapore is authorised by Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) as a Central Refund Agent (CRA) as well as sole Central Refund Counter (CRC) operator in Singapore, thereby licensed to provide tax refund services for tourists. Specialists in Tax-free shopping services, Global Tax Free offers:

• Tax Refund Services for tourists and merchants
• Central Refund Counter

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Plan, schedule, and implement the approach to acquiring retail accounts relevant to our business.
• Suggest and propose new ideas and initiatives to management
• Providing quality training to front-line staff, review statistic and identifying business opportunities and performance improvements. Regular training and store visits
• Able to Build multi-level relations with Finance, Operations, Marketing, Training, IT teams
• Improve merchants’ knowledge to ensure retention

Requirements:

• 0-1 year of relevant experience
• Able to have strategic sales planning skills
• Self-driven with outgoing personality.
• Personable and persuasive