Finance Manager

### Key Responsibilities - Manage the full spectrum of finance and accounting functions across several Singapore entities and one Malaysia entity. - Oversee the finance operations of the Malaysia entity, ensuring compliance with Malaysian accounting standards, statutory requirements, tax regulations, and reporting deadlines. - Lead the month-end and year-end closing processes, ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting. - Monitor accounts receivable aging, verify payments, perform bank reconciliations, and ensure effective cash collection. - Prepare accurate monthly management reports, including consolidated Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow statements. - Lead the annual budgeting, financial forecasting, rolling forecasts, variance analysis, and cash flow planning processes. - Provide strategic financial insights and recommendations to support business growth, improve profitability, and enable informed management decision-making. - Analyse financial performance against budgets and forecasts, identify key variances, and proactively recommend corrective actions. - Oversee treasury and cash flow management to ensure adequate working capital and healthy cash positions. - Act as the primary liaison with external auditors, tax agents, company secretaries, banks, and regulatory authorities. - Review, develop, and implement finance policies, internal controls, and process improvements to strengthen governance and improve operational efficiency. - Plan, organise, and administer accounting systems, including payment processing, invoicing, billing, and financial workflows. - Ensure compliance with statutory, tax, audit, and regulatory requirements. - Partner closely with management by providing timely financial analysis and strategic recommendations to support business planning and expansion. - Drive continuous improvement initiatives within the finance function by implementing scalable processes suitable for a rapidly growing business. ### Requirements - Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related discipline. - Minimum 5 years of progressive finance and accounting experience, including previous experience as a Finance Manager or in an equivalent leadership role. - Experience in the e-commerce industry is a MUST. - Proven hands-on experience preparing and managing: Annual budgets, Rolling forecasts, Cash flow forecasts, Monthly variance analysis, and Financial planning and analysis (FP&A). - Experience managing multi-entity/group accounts. Exposure to Singapore and Malaysia accounting and statutory requirements is highly preferred. - Strong analytical, problem-solving, and business partnering skills. - Proficient in Xero Accounting Software and Microsoft Excel. - Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. - Startup mindset with the ability to build, improve, and streamline finance processes while adapting to a dynamic, fast-paced environment. - A proactive, hands-on individual who is comfortable taking ownership and driving initiatives independently.