We're hiring: Accounting Assistant - based in Singapore
At Aqua Expeditions, we are passionate about providing exceptional levels of service to our guests. We take pride in pampering our guests and ensuring that their time with us creates a trip of a lifetime. The Aqua experience is carefully curated by a team of talented individuals - from onboard crew to reservations staff - who work behind the scenes to guarantee smooth sailing. We are always on the lookout for new team players who share our passion and expertise, to ensure a world-class travel experience. If this sounds like you, apply now and be part of our extraordinary voyage!
Sounds great - what's the role in a nutshell
We are seeking an organized, efficient Accounting Assistant with a keen eye for detail and a high level of accuracy. The Accounting Assistant can expect to handle communications with vendors, clients, and internal departments, assist with inventory management, database maintenance and record keeping, prepare financial reports, issue cheques, make deposits, and generally ensure that office operations run smoothly. The ideal candidate should be professional and courteous, possess strong computer skills, and have a thorough understanding of accounting and financial principles.
Your day-to-day:
Accounts Receivable:
- Daily monitoring of collections from all sources, communicate to reservation team member on timely manner to ensure it is correctly and timely registered in reservation system.
- Bill the sales orders after verifying with the report downloaded from reservation system and ensure sales invoices are all closed.
- Register on-board sales, if any.
Accounts Payable:
- Prepare PO.
- Register all invoices on timely basis to correct account and maintain accounts payable listing with due dates.
- Prepare payments as per due date through online banking based on the due date on a weekly basis.
- Register the payments into accounting system.
- Email payment voucher to respective suppliers.
Cash Management:
- Petty cash management.
- Prepare weekly cash/bank position.
- Support the preparation of monthly cash flow forecast.
Month End Closing Tasks:
- Monthly reconcile all of Bank and payment gateway accounts and register bank interest and bank charges at the month end.
- Register month end Journal entries for accrual, depreciation, and prepayments.
- Register intercompany Journal entries on timely manner and co-ordinate with subsidiaries to register the corresponding intercompany entries.
- Assist in Intercompany reconciliation at the end of the month.
Others:
- Communicate with subsidiaries, banks and suppliers when needed.
- Ensure proper and timely filing of the documents.
- Visit bank if needed.
- Any other ad-hoc admin duties as required by supervisors/managers.
What are we looking for
- Singaporean or PR only.
- University degree in Accounting/Business or a related field.
- Desired 2-3 years of extensive relevant working experience in the hospitality industry.
- Language proficiency: Proficiency in written and spoken English required.
- Computer literacy in Microsoft Office and accounting software.
- Honesty, integrity, and reliability are essential.
- Must have the attitude of a high achiever, be self-motivated, a clear thinker, and analytical.
