Essencemediacom Senior Finance Executive

1 week ago

Singapore EssenceMediaCom Full time

Joining a small but expanding accounting team as a contract Assistant Accountant (6 months), your primary role will be to assist the Senior Accountants in recurring accounting, reporting, and statutory matters for Essencemediacom.

This will include helping to manage month-end closing and reporting processes, ICFR documentation, and assisting in statutory filing.


With a fast-growing business and increased complexity in the financial reporting processes and compliance requirements, this role is crucial to help manage recurring accounting processes to enable the Senior Accountants to focus and deliver quality results within tight deadlines.


Reporting of the role

This role reports to:
Andrew Wong, Accounting Director.

3 best things about the job:

  • Good exposure and learning opportunity with respect to internal controls across company processes
  • Exposure to different finance operating system including SAP, Concur, Olive, and HSBCnet
  • Friendly and helpful teammates and working culture.

What your day job looks like at GroupM:

  • Assist in month-end closing which includes accrual preparation and supporting schedules
  • Assist in monthend reporting which includes updating BFC schedules and submission before deadlines
  • Assist in quarterly forecasting and annual budgeting process.
  • Maintain fixed assets register including additions, disposals, depreciation, asset tagging, etc.
  • Assist in statutory matters including external audit, GST filing, corporate tax, Transfer pricing documentation, Government Statistic Survey, etc.
  • Preparing ICFR documentation for review by the deadlines
  • Assist in external, internal, and ICFR audit
  • Assist in intercompany reconciliation, identify and resolving mismatches
  • Collate information for intercompany billings
  • Vendor/ customer/ employees account creation in SAP accounting system
  • Perform bank reconciliation and GL reconciliations
  • Other adhoc assignments from time to time

What you'll bring:

  • Relevant experience in general ledger/ reporting function.
  • Selfdiscipline and Independent
  • Positive and willing to learn
  • Excellent organisational skills
  • Ability to manage workload
  • Ability to manage multiple concurrent deadlines

Minimum qualifications:

  • Degree/diploma in accounting
  • Ideally 2 3 years' experience in accounting and reporting related functions
  • Experience of working with Microsoft Excel and Google sheet (added advantage)
  • Responsible, diligent, and attentive to detail; follows through on queries and issues
  • Good communicator, comfortable in dealing with both internal and external parties
  • Experience in SAP B1 is preferable

More About EssenceMediacom

We are a global communications agency leading with breakthrough thinking, building explosive growth for brands, and helping our clients see the bigger picture.

Our daring global network of 10,000 influencers help our clients breach traditional boundaries in media, uncover novel ideas, and unleash exponential growth.

EssenceMediacom challenges conventional thinking to build, propel, and supercharge our clients' businesses at scale and lead our industry in critical areas such as diversity, equity, inclusion, and sustainability.


EssenceMediacom understands that our people are tasked with big goals: building breakthrough growth for brands and leading with breakthrough thinking in our industry.

Our people are at the heart of this work because their ideas will enable us to decode the intersections of people, content, and technology to bring our aspirations to life.

Our success is down to our eclectic, diverse, and talented people.

EssenceMediacom is a place for us to grow our careers and expand our horizons.

EssenceMediacom is committed to building an agency culture that supports our people, puts diversity at the forefront of our operations, and creates opportunity for all.

This collective culture will be our "new power" where ideas are freely exchanged, and collaboration is actively encouraged in a place where you can innovate in our hyperconnected world.


About GroupM Singapore
GroupM Singapore operates in one of the most dynamic and exciting environments in the world.

Although it is a small domestic market, there is a vibrant media industry which is undergoing rapid evolution as digital technology reshapes the way marketing supports advertisers' needs.

Being at the crossroads of Asia means, that aside from the local clients and media owners, we also have a high proportion of multi-national clients, renowned brands and media owners.

Making GroupM Singapore the Number One organisation to join and develop your career in media investment.

GroupM is an equal opportunity employer.

We view everyone as an individual and we understand that inclusion is more than just diversity - it's about belonging.

We celebrate the fact that everyone is unique and that's what makes us so good at what we do. We pride ourselves on being a company that embraces difference and tru

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