Total 10 tax accountant job vacancies in Singapore, Central Singapore

Purpose:

The Associate works with the tax team to provide support on tax compliance services to a mixed portfolio of corporate and individual clients.

Core Responsibilities:

• Work with the tax team to provide support on tax compliance services to a mixed portfolio of corporate and individual clients.
• Support clients on the queries raised by the IRAS, including tax audits.
• Provide support to team in tax advisory and consulting assignments.
• Build and manage relationship with clients.
• Core responsibilities will include monitoring deadlines of a portfolio of clients and preparation work. 

Tasks / Duties:

• Liaise with clients or colleagues to collate the information necessary to prepare the tax computations and returns.
• Preparation of corporate and individual tax computations and returns.
• Liaise with IRAS and the client on tax related matters.
• Handle withholding tax returns, applications for Certificate of Residence and other matters in relation to tax.
• Provide support to team in attending queries issued by the IRAS.

Purpose:

The Senior Associate works with the tax team to provide tax advisory and compliance services to a mixed portfolio of corporate and individual clients.

Core Responsibilities:

• Work with the tax team to provide tax compliance services to a mixed portfolio of corporate and individual clients.
• Support clients on the queries raised by the IRAS, including tax audits.
• Assist with tax advisory and consulting assignments.
• Build and manage relationship with clients.
• Core responsibilities will include reviewing work done by junior members of the tax team.

Tasks / Duties:

• Review / preparation of corporate and individual tax computations and returns.
• Liaise with IRAS and the client on tax related matters.
• Handle withholding tax returns, applications for Certificate of Residence and other matters in relation to tax.
• Attending to queries issued by the IRAS.

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Accountant to join our finance team. The successful candidate will be responsible for preparing and examining financial records, ensuring accuracy and compliance with regulatory requirements. The ideal candidate will have excellent analytical skills, be proficient in accounting software, and possess a strong understanding of accounting principles and practices.

Key Responsibilities:

- Handle General Ledger and post the relevant entries into accounting software

- Manage month-end closing and ensure the month is closed on time

- Prepare and review financial statements, including balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements

- Conduct account reconciliations and resolve discrepancies

- Prepare balance sheets schedules and ensure they reconcile with the balance sheet

- Ensure compliance with accounting standards, regulatory requirements, and company policies

- Perform financial analysis and reports as required

- Develop and implement accounting processes and procedures

- Collaborate with external auditors, tax agents and corporate secretary, and internal stakeholders

- Maintain accurate and organized financial records

- Provide financial insights and support to management

- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Professional certification (CPA, CMA, etc.)

- At least 2 years of experience in accounting

- At least 1 year of experience with financial planning and analysis

- Proficiency in accounting software (Xero) preferred

- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills

- Attention to detail and organizational skills

- Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure

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. 

This truly is Money Without Borders.

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

Purpose:
To provide high quality service deliverables to the firm’s Real Estate (RE) Clients you are responsible for, ensuring all deliverables are met and the clients expectations are managed and met on a day to day basis.
This entails reviewing all Financial Statements and disclosures and ad-hoc client deliverables in relation to providing fund administration services to PE clients.
Expected to help improve the processes and efficiencies of the department.
Be subject matter expert of RE Fund Structures accounting and administration processes.

Core Responsibilities:

• Managing financial servicing for a portfolio of RE clients ensuring the smooth running of day to day relationship with clients and consistent delivery of client reporting/ information accurately and on time
• Be an ‘expert’ on designated clients including understanding technical details of their LPA, SLA, Fee Agreement and any technical nuances
• Minimise risk to IQ-EQ by ensuring all procedures and checklists are followed by all team members

Tasks / Duties:
Client Delivery

• Deliver timely quality service to the client to ensure all requests for designated clients are met, ensuring any client/investor queries are responded to within 24 hours
• Complete a review on designated client work (includes NAV, Financial Statements and other Ad Hoc Tasks) and assist on reviews for other teams as required
• Ensure that KPIs are developed, implemented and reported quarterly in accordance with agreed SLA’s
• Prepare quarter end timetable for all client work and manage quarter end process to ensure all deliverables adequately resourced and completed on time
• Maintain regular contact with client through weekly phone calls and emails detailing upcoming deliverables and progress thereof.
• Assist with new business take on where required.

Management of Workflow

• Work with Back Office on client deliverables to ensure adequate resources are allocated and fully utilised
• Ensure Back Office are preparing all work to a standard suitable for client review
• Provide constructive feedback to Back Office on a timely basis and ensure Back Office receive appropriate development support
• Plan workloads and utilise support team / additional resources where necessary to ensure deadlines are achieved
• Ensure reconciled cash balances are maintained for clients at all times.

IQ-EQ Fee Management

• Ensure our electronic time sheets are completed daily, and accurately for all hours worked and recording ad hoc work completed for billing purposes
• Systems
• Understand and use best practice on Investran (accounting platform)
• Understand and make best use of the functionality in our software when producing accounts
• Ensure client database is up to date and accurate in Investran (contact changes completed within 24 hours of receipt) and Outlook databases for client related changes

Risk

• Ensure relevant procedures and checklists are adhered to by staff to minimise risk of errors
• Report any breaches, complaints or errors to Compliance officer promptly
• Ensure all error reports are completed for review by the Senior Accountant on the day an error is identified

Other

• Undertake any additional reasonable requests as deemed by the firm

Purpose:

To provide high quality service deliverables to Open End Fund clients. The candidate shall need to ensure that all deliverables are met, and the client’s expectations are managed and met on a day to day basis.

This entails reviewing all Financial Statements and disclosures and ad-hoc client deliverables in relation to providing fund administration services to Open End Fund clients.

The candidate is expected to help improve the processes and efficiencies of the department and be a subject matter expert of Open End Fund structures accounting and administration processes.

Core Responsibilities:

• Managing financial servicing for a portfolio of clients ensuring the smooth running of day to day relationship with clients and consistent delivery of client reporting/ information accurately and on time
• Be an ‘expert’ on designated clients including understanding technical details of their PPM, side letters, SLA, Fee Agreement and any technical nuances
• Minimise risk to IQ-EQ by ensuring all procedures and checklists are followed by all team members
• Liaise with the auditors, banks, brokers, custodian and regulatory authorities i.e.

ACRA, IRAS, MAS, CIMA

Tasks / Duties:

Client Delivery

• Deliver timely quality service to the client to ensure all requests for designated clients are met, ensuring any client/investor queries are responded to within 24 hours
• Complete a review on designated client work and assist on reviews for other teams as required
• Ensure that KPIs are developed, implemented and reported quarterly in accordance with agreed SLA’s
• Prepare deliverables timetable for all client work and manage the reporting process to ensure all deliverables adequately resourced and completed on time
• Maintain regular contact with client through weekly phone calls and emails detailing upcoming deliverables and progress thereof.
• Assist with new business take on where required.

Management of Workflow

• Work with Back Office on  client deliverables  to ensure adequate resources are allocated and fully utilised
• Ensure Back Office are preparing all work to a standard suitable for client review
• Provide constructive feedback to Back Office on a timely basis and ensure Back Office receive appropriate development support
• Plan workloads and utilise support team / additional resources where necessary to ensure deadlines are achieved
• Ensure reconciled cash balances and position are maintained for all clients at all times.

IQ-EQ Fee Management

• Ensure our electronic time sheets are completed daily, and accurately for all hours worked and recording ad-hoc work completed for billing purposes

Systems

• Understand and use best practice on PFS Paxus (accounting platform)
• Understand and make best use of the functionality in our software when producing accounts

• Ensure Client database is up to date and accurate in PFS Paxus (contact changes completed within 24 hours of receipt) and Outlook databases for client related changes

Risk

• Ensure relevant procedures and checklists are adhered to by staff to minimise risk of errors
• Report any breaches, complaints or errors to Compliance officer promptly
• Ensure all error reports are completed for review by the Senior Accountant on the day an error is identified

Other

• Undertake any additional reasonable requests as deemed by the firm

The position is responsible to provide transitionary / project support to the Singapore Corporate Accounting Team.

Successful candidate will be placed under a 6month contract through our dedicated recruitment agency.

Responsibility

General Ledger / Statutory Compliance

• Ensure accounting records are kept in accordance with corporate policies.
• Prepare monthly management reports and records by collecting, analyzing and summarizing accounts information.
• Responsible for annual statutory audit for 3 entities in Singapore and Philippines and and assist in responding to audit queries, preparation of audit schedules, confirmations, financial statements and notes to accounts, and XBRL filing.
• Ensure Annual Income Tax for 3 entities in Singapore and Philippines are completed in a timely and efficient manner to meet filing timeline and any tax positions taken and deviation from tax provision and past year’s tax returns are discussed and followed up with relevant management.
• Ensure all other tax reporting for 3 entities in Singapore and Philippines - Advance / Monthly / Quarterly Income Tax filing are filed on time and consistent with tax provision and past year’s tax returns.
• Ensure all Indirect Tax reporting for 3 entities in Singapore and Philippines – VAT, GST, withholding tax filing are filed accurately and timely.

Receipts / Payments and Other Responsibilities

• Process hotel / interco receipts / Manage Payments for a few entities in Singapore and Philippines.
• Carry out any other accounting related duties as assigned by Senior Manager and Director of Finance.

Purpose:
To provide high quality service deliverables to the firm’s Real Estate (RE) Clients you are responsible for, ensuring all deliverables are met and the clients expectations are managed and met on a day to day basis.
This entails reviewing all Financial Statements and disclosures and ad-hoc client deliverables in relation to providing fund administration services to PE clients.
Expected to help improve the processes and efficiencies of the department.
Be subject matter expert of RE Fund Structures accounting and administration processes.

Core Responsibilities:

• Managing financial servicing for a portfolio of RE clients ensuring the smooth running of day to day relationship with clients and consistent delivery of client reporting/ information accurately and on time
• Be an ‘expert’ on designated clients including understanding technical details of their LPA, SLA, Fee Agreement and any technical nuances
• Minimise risk to IQ-EQ by ensuring all procedures and checklists are followed by all team members

Tasks / Duties:
Client Delivery

• Deliver timely quality service to the client to ensure all requests for designated clients are met, ensuring any client/investor queries are responded to within 24 hours
• Complete a review on designated client work (includes NAV, Financial Statements and other Ad Hoc Tasks) and assist on reviews for other teams as required
• Ensure that KPIs are developed, implemented and reported quarterly in accordance with agreed SLA’s
• Prepare quarter end timetable for all client work and manage quarter end process to ensure all deliverables adequately resourced and completed on time
• Maintain regular contact with client through weekly phone calls and emails detailing upcoming deliverables and progress thereof.
• Assist with new business take on where required.

Management of Workflow

• Work with Back Office on client deliverables to ensure adequate resources are allocated and fully utilised
• Ensure Back Office are preparing all work to a standard suitable for client review
• Provide constructive feedback to Back Office on a timely basis and ensure Back Office receive appropriate development support
• Plan workloads and utilise support team / additional resources where necessary to ensure deadlines are achieved
• Ensure reconciled cash balances are maintained for clients at all times.

IQ-EQ Fee Management

• Ensure our electronic time sheets are completed daily, and accurately for all hours worked and recording ad hoc work completed for billing purposes
• Systems
• Understand and use best practice on Investran (accounting platform)
• Understand and make best use of the functionality in our software when producing accounts
• Ensure client database is up to date and accurate in Investran (contact changes completed within 24 hours of receipt) and Outlook databases for client related changes

Risk

• Ensure relevant procedures and checklists are adhered to by staff to minimise risk of errors
• Report any breaches, complaints or errors to Compliance officer promptly
• Ensure all error reports are completed for review by the Senior Accountant on the day an error is identified

Other

• Undertake any additional reasonable requests as deemed by the firm