Job Description

Lesaffre presence in Asia Pacific has been established for decades. With Asia Pacific regional headquarter based in Singapore, we aim to serve our customers in this region with better engagement and service. Proximity to our customers is one of our core missions. This ensures Lesaffre can collaborate with local bakers to create regional specialties and anticipate trends.

We seek highly dynamic and enthusiastic individuals to explore the opportunity to be part of Lesaffre. The ideal candidate will demonstrate the ability to balance strategic vision with practical execution, ensuring Asia Pacific continued development as a vital part of our global operations.

We are looking for a Junior Accountant to join our team at Lesaffre. The successful candidate will support the Finance team for monthly reporting.

Core Safety Roles & Responsibilities

• Comply with local governmental HSE regulations, with Lesaffre fundamental principles and apply the safety Policy,
• Participate in entity safety activities and always show best examples (Rules application, PPE wearing, perform safety visits, accident analysis, safety committees…),
• Participate actively in the risk assessment of own’s job area
• Follow the safety action plan of own perimeter,
• Make safety rules in your perimeter, communicate it, make sure your team understands and applies them,
• Start all meetings (from 8 persons minimum) by a safety contact,
• Encourage safe acts and discourage each time you see unsafe acts,
• Report unsafe conditions / acts and near misses to the managers,
• Report within 12 hours all recordable accidents to the next level of management,
• Report each month all recordable accidents and first aids happened in your perimeter,
• Participate in the target-setting process for the safety KPIs,
• Be a part of recognition & sanction program.

HSE roles and responsibilities for Finance

• Make sure in the yearly budget, there is a dedicated area for safety,
• Ensure that safety issues are considered in all new investment projects,
• Report the realized and booked safety budgets,

Main responsibility

• Monthly reporting
  • Perform full aspect of finance operation in Account Payable & Receivable.
  • Perform treasury & banking functions.
  • Perform sales & purchase reconciling trade activities with inter-company affiliates.
  • Prepare monthly AP & AR reporting.
  • Handle of VAT report and submission, tax relevant reports.
  • Review sales & purchases process flow to ensure sales activities are properly carried out.
  • Support in monthly operations reviews & other management reports.
  • Support in annual audit exercise.
• Perform ad hoc projects for reporting enhancement and per management request.

Qualifications

• Degree in Accounting or Finance.
• 2 years of experiences.
• Preferable fluent in English to communicate with colleagues in APAC region.
• Advanced Excel is essential.
• Ability to learn new systems quickly.
• Well organized and hands-on approach.
• Ability to work independently and to work in cross-functional, fast paced environment.
• Ability to think critically and analytically.
• Proactive approach to problem solving and customer-oriented mindset.
• Positive working attitude, good team player, high sense of ownership and good interpersonal skills.
• Experience with Oracle HFM, SAP SD/FI-CO, SAP S/4 HANA modules will be added advantage.