Accountant - Shared Service

Job Description

Job Description:

The Accountant is responsible to provide Finance Shared Service to Testia Asia Pacific Pte Ltd (an Airbus company) including General Ledger, Accounts Receivable (AR) and Accounts Payable (AP), Fixed Assets, Treasury, Taxation, Audit and Group Reporting, and Internal Controls activities.

He/she works closely with both internal and external stakeholders to deliver results, ensure compliance with statutory requirements, ultimately achieving customer satisfaction on the accounting service provided.

He/she is also in charge of Vendor Verification process functions for 3 local companies under the Shared Service team.

Responsibilities:

General Ledger & Reporting

• Review and verify staff claims, preparing monthly claim summary for Human Resource (HR) reimbursement.
  
• Perform month end closing tasks, including posting payroll related entries, tracking and posting of necessary journal entries for closing, running monthly revaluations.
  
• Perform account analysis and reconciliation to ensure that journal entries and balances are correct
  
• Prepare Sales reports, Management reports, General Ledger (GL) reconciliations, Bank reconciliations and Audit schedules
  
• Submits monthly reporting to Head of Finance Testia
  
• Collaborate with internal departments to gather, analyze, and interpret relevant financial information.
  
• Ensure accounting is performed to adhere to local and group accounting standards
  
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, such as Business Operations, external auditors, tax agents, and corporate secretary to ensure compliance with all statutory requirements and regulations.
  
• Responsible for external audit process and prepares statutory financial statements
  
• Furnish data for the reconciliation of intercompany balances and transactions to the business in charge
  

Fixed Assets

• Fixed Asset Management in SAP, familiarize with business capitalization rules and depreciation policies
  
• Cleanse the asset register through regular data checks including assets disposal requests.
  
• Support the Fixed Assets reporting compliance with the Accounting rules
  

Accounts Receivable

• Perform daily finance operational duties in AR, including posting of receipts, checking of sales invoices against Purchase Order (PO), Goods Received and quotation. Posting of sales invoices and receipts into SAP system, sending statement of accounts to customers upon request.
  
• Gather required documentation from Business and submits to Finance Manager to create or edit customer master in SAP to ensure compliance with Company’s directives and procedures
  
• Run AR Ageing Report and follows up with inter-companies on long aged receivables
  

Accounts Payable

• Key User for Account Payable Master Data Management including Vendor verification and validation process with Internal, External and Central stakeholders for 3 Singapore entities (Testia Asia Pacific, Airbus Singapore, Airbus Asia Training Centre). This includes gathering and submission of documents required for on-boarding or updating of vendors on SAP P11 vendor master, performing call back to vendors to confirm bank details during bank mapping process
  
• Manage communication between AP team and stakeholders (e.g. purchasing team, requesters, vendors, Bank), ensuring that all queries and issues are addressed timely
  
• Checking of 3-way match of supplier invoices on Goods Received and Invoice Received posting.
  
• Ensure timely and accurate posting of supplier invoices
  
• Ensure payments are made on time
  
• Review checking on vendor & intercompany reconciliation
  
• Be the focal point for finance related supplier queries
  

Bank

• Responsible for updating the management on the company cash flow position on weekly basis, obtaining approval for payments, and coordinating with the AP team to process payments.
  
• Handle other bank related matters, including bank reconciliation
  
• Bank Account user maintenance (adding, updating, or removing of users)
  

Taxation

• Prepare and submit quarterly GST filing
  
• Prepare corporate income tax computation for statutory filing
  
• Prepare and submits withholding tax filing
  
• Assist in applying company certificate of residence (COR) from IRAS portal for customer tax clearance upon request from the business operation.
  
• Liaise with tax agent to ensure compliance with all statutory requirements
  

Internal Controls

• Ensure compliance with internal controls and Airbus finance directives
  
• Responsible for internal controls exercises/audit e.g. ICSA, Fit-checks for Testia
  
• Preparation of Compliance Block list report on all 3 entities for review and perform the necessary blocking process in SAP
  

Others

• Review and extract Staff benefit-in-kind related expenses from claims system for Airbus Singapore, and report to HR for declaration purposes
  
• Support in Company’s digital transformation (e.g. migration of ERP, deployment of digital tools etc)
  
• Act as back up to Other Accounting function in the Shared Service team
  
• Any other ad-hoc duties as assigned.
  

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or higher Diploma in Accountancy or ACCA with experience in financial accounting.
  
• At least 3 years of relevant experience with a full set of accounting experience preferred.
  
• Knowledge in Financial Accounting and Financial Reporting Standards, Taxation (GST, company income tax, Withholding tax)
  
• Proficiency in SAP and Google Workplace applications will advantageous
  
• Hands on, organized and meticulous with an eye for detail
  
• Self-driven and independent
  
• Good interpersonal skills
  
• Resilient and adaptable to organizational shifts and new ways of working.
  

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company:
Airbus Singapore Private Limited

Employment Type:
Permanent
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Experience Level:
Professional

Job Family:
Accounting

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