Finance Manager

Responsibilities: - Manage accounting and bookkeeping activities, including transaction recording, reconciliations, payments, and maintenance of accurate financial records. - Lead month-end and year-end closing, including preparation and review of management accounts, financial statements, schedules, budgets, and forecasts. - Prepare and improve internal management reports and external reports for statutory, regulatory, investor, board, audit, tax, and other stakeholder requirements. - Coordinate external audits, statutory financial statements, tax matters, and group consolidation where required. - Manage tax compliance, including timely submissions and coordination with tax advisors on corporate tax, withholding tax, SST, and other relevant tax matters. - Manage transfer pricing matters, including documentation, related-party transactions, management fee charge-outs, and intercompany arrangements. - Support budget rollout, forecasting, cash flow planning, and working capital management. - Work with senior management on long-term financial projections and budgeting strategies aligned with company goals. - Conduct financial assessments of partners, collaborators, vendors, affiliates, and other counterparties. - Support funding or grant applications and related documentation where required. - Work with the technology team on finance process automation, system migration, and efficiency improvements. - Support other finance, administrative, and business requirements as needed in a fast-scaling environment. Requirements: - Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field; ACCA, CPA, ICAEW, or equivalent is preferred. - Minimum 4–6 years of experience in accounting, financial reporting, finance operations, or audit; fintech, remittance, startup, or regulated financial services experience is a plus. - Hands-on experience in full-set accounts, bookkeeping, reconciliations, month-end/year-end closing, and financial reporting. - Good knowledge of tax compliance, statutory reporting, audit processes, financial reporting standards, and transfer pricing requirements. - Experience in budgeting, forecasting, cash flow planning, working capital management, and financial performance monitoring. - Able to support financial assessments or due diligence reviews of partners, collaborators, vendors, or other counterparties. - Strong understanding of end-to-end finance operations, reporting, compliance, controls, and process improvement. - Strong communication, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and analytical skills. - Proactive, accountable, detail-oriented, resourceful, and able to manage multiple priorities with minimal supervision. - Very comfortable using Excel; exposure to various AI tools and automation is an added advantage. - A collaborative team player who works well with colleagues across departments, senior management, and external stakeholders.