Finance and Accounting Manager

We are searching for a Finance and Accounting Manager to join our fast-growing tech company in Singapore. In this role, you will drive the financial and accounting strategy, operations, reporting, and analysis of Affinidi’s results. Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, you will partner with stakeholders across the business to drive financial reporting, planning, and compliance excellence across our global entities.

This is a senior individual contributor role with end-to-end ownership of finance operations, with the opportunity to build and lead a team over time as the business scales. This is a managerial role and has one direct report.

Our work culture at Affinidi is shaped by the following tenets:

• We are unapologetically customer-focused
• We invest in cultures and teams to enable high performance
• We embrace experimentation and build fast
• We have the courage to be misunderstood
• We work together to unlock data

What’s in it for you:

• Manage end-to-end accounting and finance functions including financial planning, budgeting, reporting, variance analysis and forecasting for entities within Group
• Own the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close process, partnering with external accounting vendors to ensure timely and accurate close
• Lead annual audit for all entities, coordinating closely with external auditors
• Lead ESOP valuation with external vendors and co-ordinate with auditors
• Assist in preparation of management, board, investor, and statutory financial reporting on a timely basis
• Analyse past results, perform variance analysis, identify trends, and make recommendations for improvements
• Provide inputs for cash flow forecasting, runway analysis, and working capital management
• Review employee expenses and claims, prior to disbursement and continuously improve expense controls
• Review local and foreign tax returns and compliance in line with statutory requirements
• Review and post inter-company transactions and support inter-company reconciliations and transfer pricing processes
• Manage the banking and treasury needs of the entities
• Ensures internal controls in place are adequate and in compliance with all corporate governance requirements, including liaising with investors
• Learn AI tools to drive operational efficiencies
• Ad-hoc tasks and duties as required

You will be a great match if you:

• Chartered Accountant and/or Degree holder in Accountancy with 10+ years commercial and/or audit experience, with excellent knowledge of IFRS and SFRS. Knowledge of India and Germany accounting standards is preferred but not necessary
• Experience in maintaining a full set of accounts for multiple entities, including consolidation and audit preferably in technology start-ups
• Experience in drafting financial statements and projection modelling
• Strong track record of automation and process simplification and improvement
• Experience working with decentralised, cross-functional teams will be a plus
• Detailed individual who takes pride in accuracy
• Solutions-oriented with strong technical acumen
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Have a high degree of ownership, critical thinking, creative and innovative thinker
• Proficiency with Netsuite is an advantage

Bonus points if you:

• Have a strong interest in using AI tools, self-starter, life-long learner,
  passionate about great products and customers

Sounds like you? Apply now!