AEM Holdings Ltd
1 month ago
Group Accountant/Finance Manager
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Company information
- Company
- AEM Holdings Ltd
- Location
- Singapore Singapore
- Posted
- 1 month ago
Job description
About the Company
The Finance Organization provides excellence in controllership, financial management and business performance driving profitability with insightful financial planning and analysis, reporting and business partnering support. Group Finance provides financial stewardship, controllership, planning and performance insights, and business partnering support across the Group. The function works closely with regional finance teams, business leaders, auditors, IT and other corporate functions.
About the Role
Reporting to the Vice President of Group Finance, the Group Accountant / Group Finance Manager is responsible for the hands-on delivery of Group consolidation, financial reporting and management reporting, including the standalone accounts of AEM Holdings Ltd. The role coordinates submissions from finance teams across a multi-entity, multi-currency and multi-ERP environment, ensuring that reporting is timely, accurate and compliant with Group policies, applicable financial reporting standards and SGX/statutory requirements. The primary focus of the role is Group reporting and consolidation. The role also supports budgeting, forecasting, performance analysis and selected finance transformation initiatives. The successful candidate will convert financial data into clear narratives and insights, strengthen controls and data quality, and use approved analytics and automation tools to improve the efficiency and reliability of finance processes. This is a development role with potential and rapid progression to Senior Group Accountant, Group Reporting Manager, Finance Manager or broader finance transformation and analytics roles, subject to performance and organisational needs. An experienced and strong candidate will also be expected to provide analytical support to business and finance stakeholders, recognising and understanding the operations and business of the Group.
Responsibilities
- Manage the Group close and consolidation calendar, reporting instructions, templates and submission deadlines.
- Review entity reporting packages, account mappings, reconciliations and supporting schedules for completeness, accuracy and consistency.
- Prepare and review Group consolidation entries, including intercompany matching and eliminations, foreign currency translation, consolidation adjustments and other Group journals.
- Prepare consolidated financial statements, disclosure schedules, management financial statements from reporting packs and supporting information for periodic management, SGX, statutory and annual report requirements.
- Maintain the standalone financial accounts of AEM Holdings Ltd., including month-end close, reconciliations and statutory reporting schedules.
- Investigate and resolve consolidation, reporting and data quality issues with entity finance teams, and drive actions to shorten and improve the close process.
- Ensure compliance with Group accounting policies and applicable SFRS(I)/IFRS requirements, and monitor relevant changes in accounting standards and reporting requirements.
- Support the preparation of technical accounting analyses and position papers for non-routine transactions, significant judgements and disclosure matters.
- Maintain strong close controls, balance-sheet substantiation and documentation standards; follow up on control deficiencies and remediation actions.
- Coordinate external and statutory audit deliverables, respond to audit queries and support timely resolution of audit findings and proposed adjustments.
- Support the preparation of financial information and analysis for management, the Board and the Audit Committee.
- Support annual budgeting, periodic forecasting and long-range planning processes, including consolidation and review of business submissions.
- Prepare management reports, dashboards and written narratives explaining actual performance, forecast movements and key business drivers.
- Perform profitability, margin, working-capital, cash conversion, cost and other performance analyses relevant to the Group's businesses.
- Identify trends, risks and opportunities, challenge the quality of assumptions and provide clear analytical support for management decision-making.
- Develop financial models, scenario analyses and ad-hoc decision-support analyses where required.
- Use Excel, Power Query, Power BI and relevant finance systems to improve reporting, reconciliations, analysis and self-service insight.
- Partner with Finance, IT and business stakeholders to improve finance data quality, mapping, master-data governance and reporting traceability.
- Participate in ERP, EPM, consolidation, reporting and workflow improvement initiatives, including requirements gathering, user acceptance testing, process documentation and post-implementation support.
- Identify and implement practical automation opportunities, while ensuring appropriate review controls, documentation and segregation of duties.
- Use approved AI, Copilot and low-code tools responsibly to support analysis, reporting narratives and process improvement, subject to Group policies.
- Drive continuous improvements in reporting efficiency, governance and data quality.
- Coordinate intercompany balances, transactions, reconciliations and settlement follow-up.
- Provide accurate data and schedules to support treasury, tax, government surveys, statutory compliance and other Group requirements.
- Undertake ad-hoc finance projects and cross-functional assignments as required.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accountancy or a recognised professional qualification (ACCA, CPA, CA Singapore or equivalent).
- Minimum 5–8 years of relevant experience in Group reporting, consolidation and FP&A.
- Experience in a multinational manufacturing, technology or listed-company environment preferred.
- Strong Microsoft Excel and financial modelling skills.
- Experience with SAP S/4HANA or equivalent ERP systems.
- Experience with Power BI, SQL, analytics, reporting automation or finance transformation initiatives will be advantageous.
- Experience leveraging AI, Copilot, automation, business intelligence or digital technologies to improve FP&A, management reporting, forecasting and finance processes will be a significant advantage.
- Strong communication, analytical, problem-solving and stakeholder management skills.
Required Skills
- Group financial reporting and consolidation
- IFRS and financial governance
- Financial planning and analysis (FP&A)
- Business partnering and stakeholder management
- Management reporting and business insights
- Power BI, analytics and data visualisation
- Finance transformation and process improvement
- AI, Copilot and automation adoption awareness
Preferred Skills
- Experience in a multinational manufacturing, technology or listed-company environment preferred.
- Experience with Power BI, SQL, analytics, reporting automation or finance transformation initiatives will be advantageous.
- Experience leveraging AI, Copilot, automation, business intelligence or digital technologies to improve FP&A, management reporting, forecasting and finance processes will be a significant advantage.
Equal Opportunity Statement
We are committed to diversity
Required skills
- reconciliations
- accuracy
- technology
- it
- management
- analysis
- efficiency
- communication skills
- operations
- analytical skills
- reliability
- finance
- governance
- budgeting
- reporting
- tax
- erp systems
- sql
- power bi
- ai
- trends
- excel
- automation
- finance transformation
- erp
- financial reporting
- process improvement
- auditors
- financial planning
- problem-solving skills
- bachelor's degree
- forecasting
- diversity
- analytics
- treasury
- data quality
- segregation of duties
- finance manager
- acca
- automation tools
- ifrs
- statutory compliance
- profitability
- fp&a
- cost analysis
- business intelligence
- power query
- financial models
- opportunities
- cpa
- microsoft excel
- accountancy
- requirements gathering
- process documentation
- user acceptance testing
- stakeholders
- accounting standards
- statutory requirements
- performance analysis
- profitability analysis
- audit committee
- multi-currency
- digital technologies
- intercompany transactions
- external audit
- business partnering
- management reporting
- group policies
- financial modelling
- controllership
- financial governance
- dashboards
- sap s/4hana
- consolidation
- copilot
- professional qualification
- consistency
- data mapping
- ad-hoc analyses
- templates
- business performance
- data visualisation
- financial reporting standards
- financial information
- month-end close
- group reporting
- documentation standards
- statutory audit
- close process
- management reports
- performance insights
- margin analysis
- consolidated financial statements
- assumptions
- business leaders
- automation opportunities
- board
- sgx
- risks
- epm
- finance systems
- corporate functions
- business stakeholders
- audit queries
- finance processes
- stakeholder management skills
- completeness
- multi-entity
- ca singapore
- post-implementation support
- financial stewardship
- timely reporting
- accurate reporting
- data quality issues
- it stakeholders
- low-code tools
- intercompany balances
- reporting packs
- business insights
- performance analyses
- reporting efficiency
- business drivers
- long-range planning
- regional finance
- intercompany matching
- listed-company
- annual budgeting
- audit findings
- scenario analyses
- consolidation adjustments
- management decision-making
- position papers
- control deficiencies
- senior group accountant
- reporting automation
- group financial reporting
- group reporting manager
- sfrs(i)
- supporting schedules
- finance stakeholders
- finance transformation initiatives
- remediation actions
- reporting traceability
- multinational manufacturing
- group accounting policies
- disclosure schedules
- vice president of group finance
- aem holdings ltd.
- multi-erp
- analytics roles
- business of the group
- group close
- consolidation calendar
- reporting instructions
- submission deadlines
- entity reporting packages
- account mappings
- group consolidation entries
- intercompany eliminations
- foreign currency translation
- group journals
- management financial statements
- supporting information
- periodic management
- annual report requirements
- standalone financial accounts
- statutory reporting schedules
- technical accounting analyses
- non-routine transactions
- significant judgements
- disclosure matters
- close controls
- balance-sheet substantiation
- audit deliverables
- audit adjustments
- periodic forecasting
- business submissions
- written narratives
- actual performance
- forecast movements
- working-capital analysis
- cash conversion analysis
- decision-support analyses
- self-service insight
- finance data quality
- master-data governance
- workflow improvement initiatives
- review controls
- settlement follow-up
- government surveys
- ad-hoc finance projects
- cross-functional assignments
- minimum 5–8 years experience
- automation adoption awareness
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