Group Accountant - Oil and Gas

About the role

This is a hands-on Group Accountant role in the oil and gas industry, based in Jurong East, Singapore. You report to the Group Finance Controller and are functionally accountable to the Group Finance Director. As the sole accountant for the head-office entity, you own the full set of accounts and the group-level schedules supporting consolidation, the board pack and statutory audit, and you are responsible for accurate, first-time-right numbers and a robust statutory file.

Key responsibilities

• Month-end close: own the general ledger, AP, AR, fixed assets, accruals, prepayments, bank and intercompany reconciliations, and deliver the entity pack and schedules to consolidation without rework.
• Intercompany discipline: intercompany billing, management fee recharges, AP/AR contra entries and agreement of balances with counterparties.
• Cash concentration interest and withholding tax, prepared with the tax advisor's treatment documented.
• Monthly exchange rates, quarterly forecasts for the holding company and annual budget exercise.
• Group schedules: SG&A and headcount cost analysis, entertainment, transition and adjusting items, and corporate card expenditure.
• Recharge of shared and head-office costs to operating entities with clear cost detail.
• Statutory audit: prepare the audit file, resolve auditor queries and deliver draft financial statements that foot and disclose correctly.
• Corporate secretarial cycle with the outsourced provider (AGM documents, resolutions, minutes, filings).
• Singapore tax compliance with the external adviser: corporate income tax, GST, withholding tax and BEPS 2.0 Pillar Two registration and filing.
• Maintain audit-ready documentation, support internal audit and control remediation.
• Approve payments in the group banking platforms, maintain the vendor master and apply segregation of duties and month-end review.

Required profile

• Degree in accounting; qualified or finalist-level professional accountant (CA, CPA, ACCA or MICPA).
• Five or more years of experience owning a full set of accounts through to statutory audit in a multi-entity, multi-currency group.
• Demonstrated experience of intercompany accounting and cross-border recharges.
• Preferred: holding or head-office entity experience, private-equity-owned or group head-office environment, energy services, engineering or project-based industry exposure.

Required skills

• Working command of Singapore FRS and IFRS, and Singapore statutory, corporate tax, GST and withholding tax compliance.
• Strong Excel; ERP-literate and comfortable in a group consolidation submission process.
• Precise, self-managing, able to work across countries and time zones.