Senior Accountant

Job Description

Job description:

We are looking for a Senior Accountant for India & Singapore who is responsible for securing the integrity of financial reporting and local statutory compliance across both entities, with a global remit covering intercompany accounting and support to the group’s transfer pricing and tax assessment work.

Objective of the role:

Accounting, close and reporting

• Day-to-day accounting, general ledger management
• and balance sheet reconciliations for both entities. This is a hands-on role: journals, accruals, fixed asset and payroll entries, invoice processing and reconciliations are posted directly in the ERP.
• Month-end, quarter-end and year-end close for India and Singapore, and submission of reporting packages to Group Finance in accordance with IFRS and internal guidelines.

Global intercompany accounting and transfer pricing

• Own the global intercompany cycle: monthly intercompany working files and internal billing file with intercompany sales and purchase invoices, and reconciling and settling balances with the entity owners.
• Monthly currency revaluation across all group entities.
• Support the group’s transfer pricing cycle – collating data for the group transfer pricing report, master file and local files, coordinating with external advisors on India-specific requirements, and making sure the agreed intercompany pricing is applied.

Payroll, payments, cash and banking

• Together with the local People & Culture representative, act as the coordination point for outsourced payroll, authorising the payroll bank file and posting the payroll journals.
• Act as the escalation point when vendor output needs correction or follow-up.
• Weekly and monthly cash-flow forecasting and liquidity management, local banking relationships, and early flagging of funding requirements.

Tax, audit and corporate governance

• Compliance with local tax laws and statutory filings: India (GST, corporate income tax, TDS and withholding tax on cross-border payments including Section 195, Forms 15CA/15CB and DTAA relief, tax audit and Form 3CEB) and Singapore (GST Form 5, corporate tax and IRAS/ACRA filings).
• Internal coordination point for income tax and transfer pricing assessments across the group’s entities – currently India, Singapore, Sweden and Hong Kong.
• Lead the local annual audits and act as key contact for auditors – the India statutory audit and tax audit, and the Singapore statutory audit and XBRL filing.
• Primary corporate governance contact for both locations: ROC/MCA and ACRA filings, board and director documentation, corporate secretarial matters, and FEMA/RBI and export-related compliance for the Indian entity.

Outsourced partners and ways of working

• Manage, monitor and review the deliverables of third-party accounting and payroll firms, and act as the escalation point when their output needs correction or follow-up.
• Support transitions between service providers and the rollout of global finance systems, such as the global payroll platform implementation for India and Singapore.

About the team:

Global Finance team of 13, spread across North America, Europe, and APAC.

What you will do:

The role combines hands-on financial management with oversight of outsourced accounting, tax and payroll partners, working closely with the global Finance team – in particular colleagues in India, Hong Kong, Sweden and Canada.