Assistant Manager / Manager, Office of Finance
Singapore Management University- Posted 22 days ago
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Job Description
Job Description
- Compliance: Process customer invoices/ funding claims in accordance with policies, procedures and funding agreement. Follow up with customer and funding agency when debts are due.
- Maintenance of Master Records: Update customer master records and ensure integrity of data.
- Data Analytics and Dashboarding: Analyse data to identify trends and/ or anomalies and prepare dashboards for reporting.
- Reporting: Support month-end and year-end close processes, ensuring all billing-related entries are accurate and complete, with compliance to revenue policies and regulations. Prepare audit schedules and reconciliation of balance sheet accounts.
- Governance: Provide support queries from internal and external audit.
- Collaborate with Other Departments: Work closely with other departments to deliver timely billings and receipting and streamline the billing and collection process.
- Customer service: Handle customer inquiries and disputes related to billing, providing customer support and resolving issues promptly.
- Process Optimization: Analyze current billing processes to identify areas for improvement and work with IT to develop solutions that enhance efficiency and accuracy.
- Policy Review: Gather feedback and suggest refinements to policy to strengthen control.
- System Implementation and Upgrades: Participate in the planning and execution of system implementations and upgrades, ensuring minimal disruption to daily operations.
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT): Coordinate and conduct UAT for new systems or features, ensuring they meet business requirements and function correctly before full deployment.
- Ad hoc projects: Any other tasks assigned.
Qualifications
- Degree in Accountancy with at least 3 years of experience relevant work experience, preferably with CA qualifications.
- Candidates with at least 2 years of audit experience are welcome to apply.
- Experience with system changes implementations and UAT.
- Proficient in MS Office, particularly Excel, and experience with financial software and databases.
- Knowledge and hands-on experience in any of the major accounting software (SAP, Oracle etc.).
- Excellent communication, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
- Strong interest in data management, RPA and data analytics.
- Familiar with BI tools (e.g. Power BI, RPA) has an added advantage.
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple responsibilities.
- Detail-oriented with a focus on accuracy and quality.
- Compliance: Process customer invoices/ funding claims in accordance with policies, procedures and funding agreement. Follow up with customer and funding agency when debts are due.
- Maintenance of Master Records: Update customer master records and ensure integrity of data.
- Data Analytics and Dashboarding: Analyse data to identify trends and/ or anomalies and prepare dashboards for reporting.
- Reporting: Support month-end and year-end close processes, ensuring all billing-related entries are accurate and complete, with compliance to revenue policies and regulations. Prepare audit schedules and reconciliation of balance sheet accounts.
- Governance: Provide support queries from internal and external audit.
- Collaborate with Other Departments: Work closely with other departments to deliver timely billings and receipting and streamline the billing and collection process.
- Customer service: Handle customer inquiries and disputes related to billing, providing customer support and resolving issues promptly.
- Process Optimization: Analyze current billing processes to identify areas for improvement and work with IT to develop solutions that enhance efficiency and accuracy.
- Policy Review: Gather feedback and suggest refinements to policy to strengthen control.
- System Implementation and Upgrades: Participate in the planning and execution of system implementations and upgrades, ensuring minimal disruption to daily operations.
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT): Coordinate and conduct UAT for new systems or features, ensuring they meet business requirements and function correctly before full deployment.
- Ad hoc projects: Any other tasks assigned.
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About Company
Singapore Management University is a place where high-level professionalism blends together with a healthy informality. The 'family-like' atmosphere among the SMU community fosters a culture where employees work, plan, organise and play together - building a strong collegiality and morale within the university. Our commitment to attract and retain talent is ongoing. We offer attractive benefits and welfare, competitive compensation packages, and generous professional development opportunities - all to meet the work-life needs of our staff. No wonder, then, that SMU continues to be given numerous awards and recognition for its human resource excellence.



