Accounts Executive

**Role Summary**:

- Responsibilities: You will be responsible for a range of finance tasks within our Singapore office, focussing on a mixture of sales ledger and purchase ledger tasks
- Salary: S$3,300 per month
- Benefits: Hybrid working options that allow you to work from home up to 50% of your time after passing probation, generous holiday allowance, flexible working hours, private medical insurance, comprehensive travel insurance, full funding for external training, comprehensive travel insurance and more
- Role Type: Full-time, permanent
- Location: Our new recruits will be based in our Singapore office

**About the Role**:
If you are looking to kickstart your career in finance or take on a new opportunity within this field, we are seeking a new Accounts Executive to join our vibrant Singapore office.

In this role, you will support with a range of finance tasks across both sales and purchase ledger and quickly take on significant responsibilities within the team. You will work alongside our Accounts Executive in Singapore and the wider Finance team in our UK-based Global Headquarters, as well as our Office Administrator in Shanghai to provide financial support for the Shanghai office.

Key responsibilities will include:

- Supporting with sales ledger tasks, such as producing, sending and monitoring invoices as well as contacting clients to ensure timely payments, where necessary
- Supporting with purchase ledger tasks, including approving and/or obtaining approval for all purchase invoices, recording and reconciling all petty cash and reviewing credit card expenses
- Managing and maintaining client contracts
- Advising our scientific teams on invoicing or purchase related queries
- Collaborating with the Shanghai Office Administrator to manage financial processes for the Shanghai office, including tasks such as reconciling local payments, tracking expenditures, and ensuring compliance with local requirements
- Ad-hoc tasks in support of the wider Finance and Operations teams, across both Singapore and Shanghai, as needed

**Hybrid Working Policy**:We recognise that homeworking can improve work life balance, reduce commuting times and costs, and provide the opportunity to juggle personal commitments. At the same time, we believe that having face-to-face time in the office holds many benefits and is central to ensuring that the community we have created, where people have a workplace, they belong to and feel part of, is never lost.

Therefore, we offer flexible working arrangements that allow our colleagues to work from home for up to half of the time, measured across a 2-week rolling period.

**Career Profile**:
**Requirements**:
**About You**:
Essential requirements for the role are:

- A degree level in a relevant discipline. For example, finance, accounting, business administration with a concentration in finance, or similar
- Excellent proficiency in written and spoken English as well as business-level Mandarin
- A fluency in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively within a team and interface confidently with client-facing staff
- The ability to manage suppliers to ensure that we receive an excellent service
- The ability to manage pressure and conflicting demands, as well as prioritising tasks and workload autonomously
- An excellent attention to detail
- An excellent level of productivity, and the flexibility to respond to changing deadlines

Whilst no prior working experience is required for this position, it is desirable. Full training, both internal and external, and mentoring from experienced colleagues will be provided.

**Benefits**

**About Costello Medical**:
Costello Medical is a rapidly growing global healthcare agency specialising in medical communications, market access and health economic and outcomes research. We work with a wide range of clients, including the industry’s most successful pharmaceutical and medical technology companies, patient and public health bodies and charitable organisations. Our lasting client partnerships create a direct and measurable impact on the successful launch of novel therapies and devices across a wide range of disease areas. Our vision is to be a community of the very best people, constantly challenging ourselves to make meaningful and outstanding contributions to improving healthcare.

We are committed to our company values which are central to creating our fun, friendly and innovative workplace in which we strive to deliver the highest standards of quality. As a result, we have been listed in The Top 100 Companies to Work For list for six consecutive years.

On 27th May 2022 Costello Medical received its certification as a B Corporation. We are really proud of this achievement as it demonstrates that Costello Medical is meeting the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance. We underwent a rigorous assessment that covered t