Accountant

Grounded in a talent-centric mindset, Maker Lab is a marketing agency designed to build decentralised technology-led agency teams, rooted in collaboration with clients from the ground up. Maker Lab’s cross-functional teams of multidisciplinary specialists are embedded into client teams across digital marketing competencies — from measurement & analytics to content production.

Accountant

As a Maker Lab Accountant, you’ll work closely with our Finance and Business Operations teams to manage transactional accounting, invoicing, and third-party passthrough support for our entities in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the United Kingdom.

You’re a great communicator, meticulous, results-driven, motivated and entrepreneurial with a ‘hands-on’ attitude and a strong sense of urgency. 

Role:

• Manage day-to-day accounting transactions within the accounting system, ensuring accuracy and compliance with relevant standards. Perform monthly closings, including accounts receivable and revenue functions.
• Oversee the preparation and processing of invoices, including tracking payments and reconciling accounts. Provide support for month-end and year-end closing activities, including consolidation of entities’ accounts, reconciliations, and reporting. Reconcile discrepancies arising between the system and finance records, proactively seeking solutions to identify and minimize the differences.
• Support third-party passthrough processes, ensuring smooth coordination and accurate financial reporting.
• Collaborate with internal teams to resolve discrepancies and maintain accurate financial records.
• Assist in the development and implementation of improved accounting processes and controls.
• Help in the preparation of monthly financial and management reporting packages, as well as monthly cashflow forecasts.
• Prepare and provide accounting schedules and GST returns.
• Support auditing and prepare financial statements. Communicate with various stakeholders for new initiatives and process improvement.
• Perform other related ad-hoc duties as assigned.
• Stay abreast of changes in accounting standards and regulations concerning accounting, implementing best practices to ensure compliance.

You:

• Possess a Bachelor’s degree in accounting or ACCA, CA or its equivalent.
• 2-4 years of working experience in accounting-related fields, Big 4 accounting firm experience preferred but not a must
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to work well with people across different cultures and markets.
• A team player with good organisational skills.
• Solid accounting knowledge as well as local tax/audit regulation.
• Hands-on/relevant working experience in a finance operating environment.
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel, and experience working with finance system Xero preferred.
• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail, with the ability to identify cost-saving opportunities and discrepancies.
• Exceptional verbal and written English communication and presentation skills and - ideally - fluent in another Asian language to cover projects across APAC.

Please note: due to the high volume of applications, only successful candidates will be contacted with a follow-up introduction email.  If you do not receive an email from Maker Lab, your application has been unsuccessful this time around. Look out for future roles! By submitting your application, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your data by the Maker Lab team for the purposes of your application. Where your application contains personal data of third parties, you confirm that you have obtained all necessary consents to provide the Maker Lab team with such personal data and that we may collect, use and/or disclose such data in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Act 2012.