Toa Payoh - Senior Accountant / Assistant Manager

Profile for the position of Senior Accountant / Assistant Manager (Location: Singapore Downtown Core)

Sheltons are Accountants & Business Advisers to businesses expanding internationally

We offer a rare opportunity to grow and develop, with rapid advancement, working within a small team looking after internationally operating clients, based in modern central offices.

This role would really suit individuals who yearn to be regularly challenged and work in a globally centric environment

• Senior Accountant / Assistant Manager
• Very competitive salary

• Commencement – ASAP
• Singapore CBD

• Assist managing a portfolio of foreign based clients (Singapore subsidiaries) including ad-hoc client advisory
• Bookkeeping using accounting software such as Xero and Quickbooks including the preparation of supporting schedules
• Preparation of unaudited financial reports
• Preparation and filing of monthly and quarterly GST returns
• Payroll administration including payslips using excel and/or payroll software
• Preparation and filing of simple corporate and personal tax returns
• Drafting company secretarial documents using CAS360

Professional characteristics

It is essential that you have:

• ACCA degree (or equivalent), or working towards completing qualifications
• Relevant recent experience in an accounting firm (minimum 3 years)
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Excellent relevant IT skills (CAS360, Xero, Quickbooks)
• Confidence in liaison with clients based in the UK, Western Europe and North America

It is an advantage if you:

• have worked with overseas-based clients setting up in Singapore
• speak another major European language
• have completed GST Programme Level 1 in the Tax Academy Singapore
• have completed Income Tax Programme Level 1 in the Tax Academy Singapore
• have prepared Australian BAS, IAS, FBT and company tax returns (considering that there would be some involvement with our Australian office)

• Ambitious
• Self-directed, organised and process driven
• Analytical, and enjoy collaborating
• Mature interpersonal skills and life long learner

About Sheltons Accountants and Sheltons Group

www.SheltonsGroup.com

Sheltons Group is an accounting and business advisory firm. We are very strong in the area of international tax consulting; we also run courses around the world on international tax for tax advisers and in-house tax staff of MNCs.

We cover a wide range of areas for our niche target group.

Sheltons Group is completely independent - with no formal links to any network of accounting, legal or other firms. We have offices in Sydney, Copenhagen (since 1995), Malta, London, and Singapore. We have plans for offices in other countries as well.

Contact and applications

If this role sounds like you, please submit your cover letter and CV

Detailed CVs and are very welcome; we also like to hear about your interests and hobbies and your non-work achievements.

What we offer

• Interaction with people and businesses from many countries
• Sheltons Accountants works exclusively with internationally operating businesses
• These are SMEs (and sometimes larger) from many countries, in particular from Australia / New Zealand, North America (especially the US) and Western Europe (especially the UK)
• We expect the clients’ Singaporean operations to range from those with substantial operating subsidiaries in Singapore to those merely exporting, or with just a single employee in Singapore
• Our clients operate in a wide range of business sectors

• With the wide range of clients and varied tasks, no two days are the same
• After a settling in period you would, with the assistance of internal and external resources, be responsible for looking after specific aspects of our clients needs

• Sheltons is a growing firm, with new clients and enquiries coming in every day
• We plan to open offices in several countries in the near future
• You would have the opportunity to grow rapidly with the firm
• We would hope that you would eventually be in the position to have new staff working for you and to head up a team
• You would have the opportunity of working in one of our offices abroad

• You would not only be able to cultivate your current skills but we would assist you in developing new skills
• We would actively assist in your development – not only with your technical skills (tax, law, etc) but with your managerial skills, IT skills, etc
• We are always very keen to assist our colleagues with external training
• We conduct international tax training courses all over the world, some of which you would be welcome to attend
• We are very strong in international tax and we can assist you in developing knowledge in this area

• You would work on internationally operating clients, with extensive contact with the client’s head office abroad and with the client’s foreign advisers
• You would regularly work with your colleagues in our other offices
• With offices in Sydney, London, Copenhagen, Malta and Milan, and new offices to come, there is the opportunity in due course to work at one or more of these offices for a shorter or longer period of time
• We expect to open at least 2-3 new offices in other countries in the next 2-3 years, in addition to Singapore

• Sheltons is a small but growing firm with a very professional but friendly working environment
• We all work as a team and assist our colleagues when required on a daily basis
• Not only does the local office work as a team but the group works as a team and when required people from one office assist other offices in other countries.

• We would encourage you to progress to a senior managerial level
• As you develop we would expect you to have a growing influence on client-related matters
• You would join a well-functioning and pleasant team of colleagues - and you would be expected to make every effort to maintain that status

• Central. Our Singapore office is at serviced offices in a prestigious location in the Singapore CBD
• Comfortable. Our forthcoming Singaporean offices will be very comfortable and in modern premises with good communal areas with opportunities for social interaction with staff of other businesses there
• Lunch. Each Friday Sheltons cover lunch for all employees, the idea to get out of the office and eat together.