Finance Operations Manager

What you will do: Performance · Day-to-day bookkeeping, general ledger management, and monthly close across both entities · AP and AR - timely vendor payments, customer invoicing, and collections · Prepare monthly consolidated management accounts and investor pack (P&L, balance sheet, cashflow statement, variance commentary) · Cashflow monitoring and forecasting - maintain bi-monthly visibility for group · Manage banking relationships; oversee payment run approvals and controls · End-to-end payroll for SG and MY — statutory deductions, payment runs, resolution of tax authority queries · Statutory filings: income tax, SST (Malaysia), GST (Singapore), EPF, SOCSO, PCB · Cross-border withholding tax advisory People · Annual audit coordination - prepare supporting schedules, liaise with external auditors · Tax computation and annual compliance; work closely with external tax advisors, legal counsel, and company secretary. · Partner with department heads on budgeting, cost control, and financial decisions that affect their teams · Primary finance interface for the CEO Product · First-line commercial contract review Process · Maintain and improve financial systems to reduce manual processes · Optimise working capital and flag liquidity risk early to the CEO · Trend analysis and financial forecasting · Build and maintain financial models · Quarterly budgeting by function; track actuals vs. budget and provide variance commentary Philosophy · Able to identify gaps and close them · Able to work comfortably with ambiguity · Can build a scalable process · Can move between strategic and operational work · AI forward About you: · Degree in Finance or Accounting; ACCA or equivalent preferred, not mandatory · 5+ years hands-on across accounting, FP&A, tax, audit, and payroll - across both MY and SG · Working knowledge of MFRS and SFRS, comfortable operating under both in parallel · MY and SG taxes: income tax, SST, GST, EPF, CPF, SOCSO, PCB, cross-border WHT · Can build a financial model from scratch and explain it to someone who isn't a finance person · Comfortable with first-line contract review; knows what to escalate to legal · Proficient in Xero or equivalent