Assistant Manager / Associate, Finance

About the role

Lion Global Investors Limited is hiring an Assistant Manager / Associate in Finance. The role covers accounts payable, financial reporting for an overseas branch, soft commission and expense management, fixed assets, GST remissions and counterparty risk reporting.

Key responsibilities

• Manage accounts payable, including vendor invoices, staff claims and payments.
• Prepare financial, management and regulatory reports for an overseas branch, taking part in month-end and year-end closing, journal entries for prepayments, accruals and adjustments, and monthly reconciliations.
• Manage soft commission credit and expenses, reconcile brokers' statements of account and prepare payments and month-end accrual journal entries.
• Manage fixed assets records, including annual verification, reconciliation, recording additions and disposals, and generating depreciation and disposal entries.
• Prepare and submit quarterly GST remissions by collating and tabulating vendor invoices and computing the GST claimable.
• Compute counterparty risk requirements for the company's investments under MAS637 rules and prepare the monthly MAS 637 (BASEL III) report for the parent company.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Required profile

• Diploma in Accountancy or Finance, or an equivalent qualification.
• Preferably 2-3 years of relevant experience in a comparable role in a commercial environment, ideally in financial institutions; fresh graduates with the relevant qualifications are also welcome.
• Meticulous, detail-oriented, with good organisational and follow-up skills, initiative and resourcefulness.
• Integrity and discretion with confidential information, team spirit and ability to work independently.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills, able to multitask under tight deadlines.

Required skills

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.
• Experience with an ERP system.