Senior Financial Accountant – Financial Controllership | GL, Month-End Close & Statutory

This is a hands-on individual contributor role with no direct reports. Our entity portfolio has grown with new business launches and structural additions, and we are bringing in an experienced accountant for a defined period to take real ownership rather than support from the sidelines. You will run the month-end close and recurring reporting for a group of operating entities, and act as the controller for a small portfolio of smaller entities — holding, investment and newly incorporated companies — from trial balance through to signed financial statements. You will report into the Singapore Controllership team and work directly with country finance, Tax, FinOps and the external auditors. It is a hands-on individual contributor role with no direct reports.

Get to know the team

The Singapore Controllership team owns the integrity of the financial records for Singapore-incorporated entities spanning mobility, deliveries, financial services, holding and investment companies. The role is responsible month-end close, prepare statutory financial statements under SFRS(I), manage fixed asset and lease accounting, and partner country finance, FP&A, Tax and FinOps so that what we report stands up to audit and to Group management scrutiny. Alongside the recurring calendar, the team is driving a close acceleration and automation agenda to shorten the close and take manual effort out of it.

Job Summary

This is a hands-on individual contributor role with no direct reports. Our entity portfolio has grown with new business launches and structural additions, and we are bringing in an experienced accountant for a defined period to take real ownership rather than support from the sidelines. You will run the month-end close and recurring reporting for a group of operating entities, and act as the controller for a small portfolio of smaller entities — holding, investment and newly incorporated companies — from trial balance through to signed financial statements. You will report into the Singapore Controllership team and work directly with country finance, Tax, FinOps and the external auditors. It is a hands-on individual contributor role with no direct reports.

Key Responsibilities

• Run the month-end close for an assigned group of Singapore entities, including preparing and posting journals, completing balance sheet reconciliations, performing flux and variance analysis, and clearing open items within the Group close calendar.
• Own recurring reporting and compliance deliverables, including incentive and rebate accounting, GST-related schedules, funds and cash requirement reporting, investment monitoring, and statutory and government survey submissions.
• Act as controller for a small portfolio of smaller entities, carrying full responsibility for the trial balance, intercompany positions, statutory financial statements, audit deliverables, tax pack inputs and the director approval process for each.
• Investigate and clear ageing and unreconciled items, including unidentified receipts, outgoing fund items and clearing account differences, and document a treatment that stops them recurring.
• Support the year-end audit for assigned operating entities by preparing schedules, responding to auditor queries and helping resolve accounting issues raised during the review.
• Partner with FP&A, Tax, FinOps and country finance teams to resolve queries on assigned entities and explain movements in the numbers to non-accounting stakeholders.
• Document processes and identify which steps can be standardised, automated or transitioned to the Shared Service Centre.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accountancy, Finance or a related discipline, or a recognised professional accounting qualification such as CA Singapore, ACCA, CPA or equivalent.
• Minimum 4 years of relevant experience in financial accounting or controllership, with the role suited to candidates with approximately 4–6 years of relevant experience.
• Practical end-to-end month-end close experience delivered against a fixed close calendar.
• Ability to own an entity end to end, from maintaining the trial balance through to a full set of financial statements and the supporting audit file.
• Working knowledge of IFRS / SFRS(I) and Singapore GST requirements, with the judgement to apply them to day-to-day transactions.
• Strong Excel and Google Sheets skills, with the ability to handle high-volume transactional data and system-extracted trial balances.
• Proven ability to work independently across multiple entities and stakeholders with minimal supervision.
• Strong written communication skills and the ability to set out accounting issues clearly.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Oracle Fusion ERP or a comparable large-scale ERP.
• Exposure to a multi-entity, multi-country group, including intercompany and cross-entity clearing account reconciliation.
• Experience preparing statutory financial statements for Singapore-incorporated entities, including dormant, investment holding and newly incorporated companies, and taking them through audit clearance and ACRA filing.
• Background in a technology, platform or high-transaction-volume business such as e-commerce, marketplace, logistics or payments.
• Familiarity with automation or reporting tools such as Alteryx, Power BI, Google Apps Script or SQL.
• Experience documenting or transitioning processes to a Shared Service Centre.
• Interest in improving and automating accounting processes.

How to Apply:

Interested candidates are invited to submit their application via LinkedIn or email idhil.hashim@adecco.com and staffing@adecco.com. Please include "Senior Financial Accountant – Financial Controllership'' in the subject line.