About Sciente

Sciente Group is a multi-award-winning, ISO 27001 & ISO 9001 certified, Great Place To Work recognised technology consultancy headquartered in Singapore, with offices across the USA, Malaysia, Philippines, and India. Since 2007, we have been helping leading BFSI clients navigate AI-driven Governance Risk & Compliance, Data Intelligence, and Business Technology — partnering with Anthropic, Dataiku, Denodo, AWS, Databricks, and Snowflake.

We are built to matter, not just to grow.

We are building our India team to support our global operations.

Depending upon the level of competency and prior experience, incumbent shall be assisting in some of the following areas:

Shall assist Accounts department in accounting activities for one or more entities - Singapore, Malaysia, India and USA entity;
Own the books: record transactions accurately and keep our financial data clean and current;
Drive timely bank reconciliations and play a hands-on role in month-end and year-end closing.
Process supplier invoices with precision and pace: accuracy matters, and so does speed.
Stay on top of customer payments and proactively chase outstanding receivables — cash flow is king.
Prepare journal entries and supporting schedules with the rigour as per audit requirements.
Be the custodian of our financial records: meticulous, organised, and always audit-ready.
Manage the Scope of Work process for the services being offered to overseas (Singapore, Malaysia) clients and invoicing accordingly;
Shall run and manage invoicing process from preparation to submission to filing it for records;
Shall manage in meeting the stipulated dead-lines for various transactions like payroll, local payroll and tax returns etc.
Responsible for miscellaneous transactions like payroll, expense claims management, time-sheet management, health/corporate insurance premiums, office supplies, fixed-asset management etc.

Qualifications and Experience :

Degree in Accounting or equivalent;
5 years of relevant accounting (AR, AP, GL, reconciliation, month end closing, FS, compliances etc.) and payroll work experience within IT services industry is required;
Candidates with full set of accounts experience shall be preferred.
Accounting experience for one of the countries - Singapore, Malaysia, India, USA entities shall be required;
A meticulous person who can work under pressure and delivers on accuracy and deadlines (This is a critical requirement).
Comfortable working across Singapore, Malaysia, USA and India contexts - cross-border coordination is second nature to you.
Able to use an accounting software, preferably Tally;
Able to communicate with on-site colleagues and clients with confidence and on a regular basis;
Working with desired accuracy and turn-around time is required;
Must be proficient in MS Office applications like Word/Excel;

To know more about us, please visit https://www.sciente.com

This is an on-site Mon-Friday role based at our office in Koramangala, Bangalore

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Assistant Accountant (Singapore / Malaysia)