Accountant, South East Asia

AVEVA is a global leader in industrial software. Our cutting-edge solutions are used by thousands of enterprises to deliver the essentials of life - such as energy, infrastructure, chemicals and minerals - safely, efficiently and more sustainably.

We’re the first software business in the world to have our sustainability targets validated by the SBTi, and we’ve been recognized for the transparency and ambition of our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We’ve also recently been named as one of the world’s most innovative companies.

Accountant, South East Asia

Location: Singapore

Legal Entity: AVEVA Software Singapore

Reports to: Senior Manager Finance, South East Asia

Role summary

The Accountant, South East Asia is part of a small in-house financial team responsible for the South East Asia Market (“SEA”). As AVEVA’s Accountant, SEA, your core responsibilities are to support SEA Senior Manager Finance in entity controllership, accounting, tax, compliance, treasury, reporting and internal control including taking lead in assigned scope and/or work together with local controller and revenue controller. The role has a responsibility for managing the outputs from a shared service centre which supports the entity. The Accountant, SEA is also required to support ad-hoc projects, analysis and reporting as well as occasional back-up support for the SEA finance team.

Financial controllership and accounting responsibilities

Manage and interface with the shared service centre, taking full responsibility for the deliverables in accordance with the reporting timetable
- Review and approval of journals and reconciliations
- Review and approval of purchase requisitions
- Review the revenues and costs in accordance with the master chart of accounts and dimensional structure of the Group
- Review and approval of intercompany and related party transactions, ensuring all intercompany transactions are recorded and netted off in accordance with group instructions
- Analytical review of balance sheet and P&L and providing analysis as required to Group
- Review of the reporting pack to be submitted in the consolidation tool
- Ensure compliance with Group accounting policies and review of significant accounting judgements
- Responsible for cost analysis and support in cost control activities
- Resolving escalated queries from vendors/ employees.
- Act as one of the key finance point of contact for Singapore.

Treasury
- Reviews of cashflow and submit funding requests to Group Treasury as required
- Liaison with banks on issue resolutions as required.
- Support optimal working capital management and ensure compliance with the bank balance target set by Group Treasury
- Maintain signing and online banking mandate
- Arrange bank and parent company guarantees through Group Treasury
- Manage administration of corporate cards

Compliance
- Support and ensure compliance with the Group’s internal control framework, enhancing those controls where necessary and maintaining supporting documents to demonstrate that sufficient controls are in place.
- Support internal audit and responding to requests
- Support local controller and/ or revenue controller with other processes such as record keeping, data and document retrieval, liaison with tax consultants.
- Support and liaison with Corporate Secretariat function on corporate secretarial and compliance matters

Audit
- Support statutory audit and/or internal audit
- Support preparation of entity financial statement for statutory audit
- Support liaison with Auditors to clear queries and/or requests of information.

Taxation
- Lead/support tax matters including GST return, corporate tax return and submissions, timely respond to queries from tax authorities working with the appointed local tax advisor
- Lead/support Indirect tax compliance
- Compliance on withholding tax and employment tax (work together with HR)
- liaison with Tax Consultant/tax authorities to clear queries and/or requests of information.
- Support preparation of corporate tax and deferred tax provisions under IFRS for group reporting and under local GAAP for the entity financial statements
- Advise Group Tax of risks and audit

Other duties
- Any other tasks as assigned by the line manager/management

**Requirements**:

- Minimum 5 to 8 years working experiences in similar role preferably from MNC environment
- Accounting degree or professional accounting qualification or equivalent
- Strong knowledge of financial terms, concepts, and accounting principles
- Familiar with IFRS
- Familiar with taxes (direct and indirect)
- Able to deal with multiple systems and stakeholders with ability to prioritize tasks to meet deadlines
- Experience in managing and interfacing with the shared service centre
- Positive attitude, adaptable to change, able to handle ambiguity
- Good experience in month-end/year-end closing process
- Working knowledge of Oracle Fusion, TM1, FDW, Power BI, SalesForce etc. is an a