Senior Finance Executive (Sales & AR)

Maxim's Group in Singapore operates several food and beverage brands, including Starbucks and Genki Sushi, since its partnership began.

This position plays a key role in contributing to the success of Maxim's Group in Singapore by ensuring the accurate and timely completion of Sales and Accounts Receivable accounting for multiple business units. The role involves managing one or more accounting, tax, or reporting systems and assisting business unit or department managers in interpreting financial reports. Additionally, it includes providing support to various departments, ensuring that strategic decisions are financially sound and aligned with overall business objectives.

Responsibilities and essential job functions include but are not limited to the followings :

• Maintains various accounting systems and processes. Contributes ideas and innovations to improve upon existing systems, work processes and procedures affecting month-end financial close, account analysis preparation, and financial reporting.
• Overall key lead for Sales, checking for accuracy & completeness of the high volume of sales accounting entries interface from an in-house sales system to ERP, including reporting to external and internal stakeholders. The role involves working with shared-service team to manage full set of sales accounting.
• Overall key lead for Account Receivable, and ensuring the completeness, accuracy and timeliness of all transactions, collections. The role involves working with shared-service team to process daily transactions for area of responsibility, which include preparing AR invoices, posting business receipts vouchers, cash checking, balance sheet schedules and reconciliations, etc using ERP and in-house reconciliation system. Verifies accuracy of work.
• Work with and manage external Shared Service teams.
• Work and liaise with external and internal auditors for year-end audit and sales audit.
• Provides financial information and subject matter expertise knowledge to all teams.
• Builds and maintains strong collaborative relationship with stakeholders in functions and teams across the business.
• Works directly as a business partner with cross-functional teams & vendors on projects to ensure the sales, accounts receivable recognition and accounting set ups are in place.
• Assist in other ad-hoc duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Minimum Diploma in Accountancy, ACCA or Degree
• More than 4 years related work experience
• Preferred working experience in F&B Industries
• Advance skills in Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook
• Knowledge of accounting systems (preferably Microsoft Dynamix AX) and processes.
• Ability to develop and implement process improvements.
• Ability to train and guide others (if necessary)
• Able to work overtime during closing or when required.
• Able to handle high volume of transactions and cost centre accounting.
• Willing to learn basic data analytics and business partnering
• Able to communicate with different levels of personnel.
• Team player.
• Independent and able to work with minimal supervision.
• Meticulous, responsible, has initiative, patient, has sense of urgency, resourceful, flexible, highly-organized, capable of managing multiple priorities effectively.
• Ability to think-out-of-the-box and to adapt to quickly changing situations.

Maxim's Group in Singapore operates several food and beverage brands, including Starbucks and Genki Sushi, since its partnership began.

This position plays a key role in contributing to the success of Maxim's Group in Singapore by ensuring the accurate and timely completion of Sales and Accounts Receivable accounting for multiple business units. The role involves managing one or more accounting, tax, or reporting systems and assisting business unit or department managers in interpreting financial reports. Additionally, it includes providing support to various departments, ensuring that strategic decisions are financially sound and aligned with overall business objectives.

Responsibilities and essential job functions include but are not limited to the followings :

• Maintains various accounting systems and processes. Contributes ideas and innovations to improve upon existing systems, work processes and procedures affecting month-end financial close, account analysis preparation, and financial reporting.
• Overall key lead for Sales, checking for accuracy & completeness of the high volume of sales accounting entries interface from an in-house sales system to ERP, including reporting to external and internal stakeholders. The role involves working with shared-service team to manage full set of sales accounting.
• Overall key lead for Account Receivable, and ensuring the completeness, accuracy and timeliness of all transactions, collections. The role involves working with shared-service team to process daily transactions for area of responsibility, which include preparing AR invoices, posting business receipts vouchers, cash checking, balance sheet schedules and reconciliations, etc using ERP and in-house reconciliation system. Verifies accuracy of work.
• Work with and manage external Shared Service teams.
• Work and liaise with external and internal auditors for year-end audit and sales audit.
• Provides financial information and subject matter expertise knowledge to all teams.
• Builds and maintains strong collaborative relationship with stakeholders in functions and teams across the business.
• Works directly as a business partner with cross-functional teams & vendors on projects to ensure the sales, accounts receivable recognition and accounting set ups are in place.
• Assist in other ad-hoc duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Minimum Diploma in Accountancy, ACCA or Degree
• More than 4 years related work experience
• Preferred working experience in F&B Industries
• Advance skills in Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook
• Knowledge of accounting systems (preferably Microsoft Dynamix AX) and processes.
• Ability to develop and implement process improvements.
• Ability to train and guide others (if necessary)
• Able to work overtime during closing or when required.
• Able to handle high volume of transactions and cost centre accounting.
• Willing to learn basic data analytics and business partnering
• Able to communicate with different levels of personnel.
• Team player.
• Independent and able to work with minimal supervision.
• Meticulous, responsible, has initiative, patient, has sense of urgency, resourceful, flexible, highly-organized, capable of managing multiple priorities effectively.
• Ability to think-out-of-the-box and to adapt to quickly changing situations.