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Senior Accountant, Finance Business Partner

12/20/2025

The Senior Accountant will lead a team to manage financial reporting and compliance for business units, ensuring accurate month-end and year-end closing. They will also engage in business analytics and cost control to identify operational efficiencies.

Working Hours

40 hours/week

Company Size

5,001-10,000 employees

Language

English

Visa Sponsorship

No

About The Company
SMRT Corporation Ltd (SMRT) is a leading public transport services provider in Singapore. As the nation's dominant rail operator, SMRT manages and operates the North-South Line, East-West Line, Circle Line, Thomson-East Coast Line, and Bukit Panjang Light Rail Transit. These services are complemented by its bus, taxi, and private hire vehicle operations. Through Kaizen, SMRT enhances lifestyles by creating vibrant transit destinations for commuters and the communities it serves. In addition, SMRT collaborates with Malaysia's Prasarana to design, build, and subsequently operate, and maintain the RTS Link, which will enhance cross-border connectivity between Singapore and Johor. SMRT's core values are encapsulated in the acronym R.I.S.E, which stands for Respect, Integrity, Safety, Service, and Excellence. SMRT is dedicated to providing safe, reliable, and commuter-centric transport services. Terms of Use: We welcome your comments, constructive feedback and suggestions. We expect that our users follow the Terms of Use and share their opinions respectfully. We do not discriminate against any view, but we reserve the right to remove comments that contain vulgarities, are personal attacks against individuals or are deemed inappropriate and/ or disrespectful towards users of our page. For the purpose of constructive discussions, please note that SMRT reserves the right to remove irrelevant or offensive comments. Users who breach the above-mentioned may also be banned from this page.
About the Role

Job Purpose

This is a Finance Business Partner (FBP) role to support growing business units in the local transportation landscape. You will lead a team of two to three reports to collaborate with various stakeholders in a cross-functional environment.


 

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Business Units’ (BU) Financial Reporting and Management:

  • Work closely with internal and external stakeholders to ensure compliance with financial policy and procedures.
  • Manage daily accounting functions of a portfolio of companies, including review of journals.
  • Reconciliation of inter-co reconciliation and ensure no discrepancies in month-end balances.
  • Liaise with AR & AP Shared Services team and Treasury on accounting issues for period closing, collections and payments.
  • Ensure timely and accurate month-end, quarter-end and year-end closing and statutory and management reporting with preparation of variance analysis, cashflow statement, accounting schedules and bank reconciliation.
  • Ensure compliance of financial records with corporate and statutory requirements.
  • Prepare annual budget, with monthly forecast and projections.
  • Develop and coordinate inputs from BU for budget and projections, liaising with Group Finance and Financial Planning & Analysis to meet reporting deadlines.
  • Draft financial presentation material to present data/figures.
  • Liaise with external auditors for audited financials and XBRL filings for portfolio of companies.

 

2. Business Analytics & Costs Control:

  • Engage with BU to stay updated on business and cost developments to challenge cost escalations and business cases to realize operation efficiencies.
  • Identify or explore opportunities for more effective delivery of outputs.
  • Actively participate in the learning and sharing of best practices.

 

3. Undertake ad hoc projects and analysis work when required.

Qualifications & Work Experience

  • Bachelor's Degree in Accountancy or ACCA.
  • 3-4 years relevant accounting and finance experience (with staff and people management responsibilities), with 1-2 years audit background.

Skills and Competencies

Technical skills include:

  • Good working knowledge in Singapore Financial Reporting Standards and tax regulations.
  • Good working knowledge with ERP systems, such as SAP and Anaplan planning & forecasting system.

 

Generic skills include:

  • Good interpersonal skills and communicate with all levels in the organization and stakeholders in both verbal and written English.
  • Ability to work independently and operate in a fast-paced environment.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

 

Advanced Innovative Technologies and Digital Solutions & Services Partner

Strides Engineering has deep, proven experience in exploiting advanced innovative technologies, and digital solutions & services to drive safety, reliability, and comfort.

Key Skills
Financial ReportingManagementAccountingBudgetingForecastingVariance AnalysisCashflow ManagementInterpersonal SkillsAnalytical SkillsProblem-SolvingERP SystemsSingapore Financial Reporting StandardsTax RegulationsStakeholder CommunicationTeam LeadershipCost Control
Categories
Finance & AccountingManagement & LeadershipConsultingTransportationData & Analytics
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