Assistant Director (Innovations & Improvements) - Finance Transformation

What The Role Is

The Accountant-General’s Department (AGD) plays an important role in making Singapore a better place through Finance. At AGD, we aim to be a future-ready leader in transforming Public Sector finance by putting finance at the heart of our decision-making. We do this through building a strong foundation in providing robust financial systems and processes that serve key stakeholders including our pensioners, vendors and the public sector. Our team of accounting professionals work at AGD and are deployed to the public agencies to deliver a wide range of financial and accounting-related services to the Public Service. Together we play a critical role in helping the Government achieve its fiscal and economic objectives through sound stewardship and governance.

You will join the Government Central Team in supporting Project Cumulus (Workday) for 41 onboarded statutory boards in Workday. Workday is a cloud-based Software-as-a-Service financial system.

What You Will Be Working On

• Build functional competencies in Finance (Accounts Receivable) business process design and principles in compliance with policies, business and statutory requirements;
• Develop Ops-Tech competencies through hands-on opportunities to perform system configurations in Workday;
• Partner with service delivery vendor to resolve system issues for Statutory Boards in accordance to service delivery standards and requirements;
• Propose/ review/ execute tenant-wide or localized system changes, with the objective to achieve harmonization with the global design;
• Liaise with third party system vendors – Workday to resolve product-related issues, assess product limitations and workarounds, roadmap planning and partake in new innovation testing;
• Support new feature releases through change impact assessment, UAT, change management and deployment;
• Facilitate user engagement forums to gather feedback on user experience to identify focus areas for system enhancements;
• Evolve the communication framework, build a vibrant user community, and foster a collaborative spirit between users to share system usage expertise and experiences
  
  
  

What We Are Looking For

• Tertiary qualifications in Accounting / Business / Finance / IT / Systems required;
• CA Singapore certification is preferred
• Keen interest in Ops-Tech;
• Possess critical thinking, problem-solving and analytical skills;
• Good time management skills to multi-task and prioritize key deliverables;
• Understanding of Finance and/or Procurement processes and experience working on related systems as well as system implementation will be advantageous;
• Meticulous and a good team player who is able to work well independently;
• Able to proactively develop and manage relationships with various key stakeholders;
• Strong communication and presentation skills
  
  
  

You will be notified whether you have been shortlisted within 4 weeks from the closing date of this job posting.