Client Accounting Assistant Manager (Work-From-Home)

About the role

Harvest Accounting is seeking a Client Accounting Manager with excellent interpersonal and communication skills to join our team in Malaysia. The candidate must have had minimum 4 to 6 years of relevant working experience with Singapore clients, and preferably from a professional services firm in Assurance / Accounting / Outsourcing / Client Accounting environment serving SME clients.

You will be responsible for building and maintaining relationships with a portfolio of customers ranging from SME business owners to Finance-Admin SME staff and assist with issues on accounting, GST, tax, payroll and corporate secretarial matters.

You may be tasked to assist in training and helping a team of 2 junior accountants and bookkeepers based both in Singapore and in our Philippines office. In this regard, the ideal candidate should have sound technical knowledge, be task-driven, but also have an ability to work with other accountants and bookkeepers, helping and guiding them technically.

This is a full-time position with a 100% remote working arrangement.

Key responsibilities

• Prospect, quote, onboard new customers and identify suitable Xero-integrated apps or solutions for accounting automation
• Drive and lead migration work, managing production team members to complete
• Identify opportunities to provide more value and services to the customers, translating to higher fees and upsell of services
• Create and disseminate monthly management accounts using Xero cloud accounting ecosystem and its integrated solutions
• Prepare workpapers, annual unaudited financial statements and tax computation
• Perform or review monthly or quarterly GST submissions for customers, as well as submissions of Estimated Chargeable Income and final tax Form C/S on IRAS portal
• Compute or review payroll and submission of CPF to CPF Board, submission of annual IR8A and IR21
• Liaise with Corporate Secretary partner firm to ensure Annual Return filing deadlines are met
• Ensure all timelines and reporting deadlines are adhered to
• Communicate complex technical information to customers and other stakeholders

About you

• Minimum 4-6 years of relevant working experience preferably from a professional services firm in Assurance/Accounting/Outsourcing/Client Accounting environment serving SME clients in Singapore
• Strong understanding of IFRS, financial statements standards, Singapore's GST and tax laws, corporate governance and regulatory compliance
• Minimum Diploma in Accounting or equivalent professional qualification (ACCA, CPA, CA etc.)
• Experience preparing Financial Statements, Tax Computation with good knowledge in Singapore Financial Reporting Standards, tax laws, GST and CPF is preferred
• A self motivated and proactive mindset, able to make suggestions on the improvement of the firm, and generate initiatives on your own
• A high level of interpersonal or communication skills, a good leader, results and outcomes driven with great people skills
• Ability to be an extremely good communicator of complex technical information into simple client centric language
• A natural people person and love working with and dealing with client's problems, and teaching and mentoring junior staff members
• Prior experience with Xero accounting software is preferred

Benefits

• Full-time employment
• Base salary depending on experience, as well as variable bonus determined by winning new sales contracts, outperforming gross profit margin targets
• Annual leave entitlement
• The opportunity to be part of a growing, vibrant team helping companies grow through trust and technology

About us

A Xero Platinum Partner, Harvest Accounting is a digital-first accounting firm that is passionate about streamlining operational finance, reimagining workflows, and identifying suitable add-ons and technology from the Xero app ecosystem to help small businesses win. The firm won Xero Singapore's Accounting Partner of the Year award in 2024 and 2025. Harvest Accounting strives to build and foster a strong community of like-minded business partners to streamline and transform accounting operations through cloud technology and ecosystem solutions.