Finance manager

About the role

We're looking for an experienced Finance Manager to lead the finance function of Agora Colearning, a Singapore education group of 120+ people across 3 brands: Agora, Josiah Montessori and Les Petits Gaulois (LPG). This is a Singapore-based role reporting directly to the CEO on all matters relating to finance. You'll lead a remote team consisting of a senior accountant, a senior accounts executive, an accounts executive and a finance analyst, and own reporting, statutory and control outcomes across every entity in the group.

Key responsibilities

• Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual accounts for every entity
• Own the statutory audit across all entities, as preparer and as the auditors' main counterpart
• Own quarterly GST filing
• Own the annual corporate tax filing, with support from external tax adviser
• Own the group consolidation
• Deliver the monthly management pack within an agreed time frame
• Own the cash position and the rolling cash forecast
• Set and maintain the control environment, including approval thresholds and bank mandates
• Manage the offshore team's training, performance and cover arrangements
• Use AI tools to automate workflows, build checks and improve processes

About you

• Degree in Accountancy, Finance or a related field, and a recognised professional qualification (CA Singapore, ACCA, CPA or equivalent)
• At least 8 years of accounting experience, including multi-entity month-end close and group consolidation
• Hands-on experience with Singapore GST filing, and statutory audit experience as preparer
• Experience supervising offshore or outsourced finance staff
• Proficiency in Xero
• Comfortable using AI tools to automate workflows and build checks
• Hands-on and process-minded, with the judgement to know when to step in and when to delegate

About us

We are a different kind of education institution, dedicated to transforming learning experiences for children. We combine our own programmes with a wide selection of tuition and enrichment programmes so as to offer our community the best possible learning opportunities, empowering families to tailor their child's unique learning journey.