Finance Operations (Assistant Manager)

Location: Mapletree Business City or Punggol Digital District (depends on client's needs)

Working Hours: Office Hours

Contract Period: 11 months 30 days

Job Description:

You will be part of the Finance Operations function within the Finance Business Partner (FBP) team, supporting client's mission by ensuring strong financial governance, operational excellence, and high quality financial reporting.

This role focuses on delivering accurate, timely, and well controlled finance operations, enabling Finance Business Partners to focus on strategic advisory, decision support, and value creation for client's products, programmes, and divisions. You will work closely with FBPs, project teams, and central finance stakeholders to ensure financial processes are executed efficiently and in compliance with policies and accounting standards.

What you will be working on:

Month-end closing and reporting:

. Update monthly financial tracker & reporting deck for various divisions/programmes reporting

. Perform manpower cost allocation and adjustment for products and programme on monthly / quarterly basis

. Execute central cost allocation to products and programmes on a monthly / quarterly basis

. Perform monthly pre-close reasonableness checks, highlighting key movements, risks and issues to FBPs

. Prepare and review revenue and expense accruals, reclassification journals, and supporting documentation with proper approvals and audit trails

. To ensure month/year-end close activities are performed timely, ensure completeness and accuracy

. Proactively follow up on outstanding items and data gaps, ensuring timely closure

Finance Operations Support:

. Act as the primary Finance Ops contact to handle operational finance queries and providing clear guidance to users and project teams

. Work with Project and procurement teams to manage purchase order (PO) lifecycle, including re-tagging, amendments, closure and clean up

. Work with project teams for fixed assets for transfer and re-tagging

. Update and tracking of Resource Augmentation trackers

. Co-ordinating with central finance teams to resolve issues efficiently

Governance:

. Ensure compliance with client's financial policies, accounting standards, instruction manuals (IMs), Government policies, and audit requirements

. Ensure proper revenue and expenses classification, tagging and documentation to support governance, reporting accuracy and policy compliance

. Identify and escalate governance risks or control gaps in a timely manner

Process Improvement:

. Identify opportunities to streamline, standardise, and automate finance operations and reporting processes

. Participate in system enhancements, automation initiatives, and continuous improvement projects

. Perform User Acceptance Testing (UAT) where required to validate reporting logic, controls, and data accuracy

. Document and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs) and playbooks to enable consistency and scalability

. Work with FBPs and system teams to improve data quality, reporting reliability and operational efficiency

Stakeholder Management:

. Work closely with FBPs, Project Managers, Procurement, and central finance teams to resolve operational issues and improve end to end processes

. Provide clear, timely, and practical guidance to users on Finance Ops matters

Other Responsibilities:

. Undertake ad-hoc analysis, projects or duties assigned to support Finance and organisational priorities

Requirements:

• Degree in Accountancy, ACCA or a relevant professional accounting qualification
• At least 3 years of relevant working experience in finance operations, reporting, audit or accounting roles
• Prior experience in a technology, public sector or large matrix organisation is preferred

Skills and Experience:
Skills& Competencies

• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate clearly across different levels
• Solid analytical and problemsolving skills, with attention to detail and a strong sense of ownership
• Comfortable working with large datasets, handson operational tasks, and tight timelines
• Proactive, selfmotivated team player with a strong sense of ownership, accountability, cando and positive attitude
• Able to operate effectively in a fastpaced, evolving environment, and comfortable proposing and implementing change

TechnicalSkills

• Strong Proficient in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, AI tools and data tools such as Power Pivot, Power Query, Tableau, or other dashboarding tools
• Experience with Workday or similar ERP systems is preferred
• Basic knowledge of automation or scripting (e.g. Python, VBA, Power Automate) is an added advantage

EA License No.: 96C4864

Reg No.: R25128798 HUANG QIMENG