Total 5 Director/C-Level information technology job vacancies in Accounting / Auditing category in Singapore

As an Account Delivery Director for Software Engineering at Luxoft, a DXC Technology Company you will play a critical role in driving project success, ensuring client satisfaction, and leading our software engineering teams to excellence.
You will be responsible for overseeing the entire project lifecycle, hiring and managing a team of talented professionals, building and maintaining strong client relationships to drive business development, enforcing best practices and quality standards, and monitoring project budgets and financial performance.

Responsibilities:

Key role responsibilities will include:
• Responsible and accountable for the overall and holistic delivery performance within the account, ensuring delivery excellence and a high customer satisfaction level
• Financial responsibility for the account, both from revenue (in close collaboration with dedicated Sales & Account Manager)
• Responsible for new business development at the account level
• Key contact point from a client perspective for all delivery services within the account
• Managing engagement governance process with the client
• Work closely with offering leads in order to adapt best delivery practices within the engagement
• Improving internal communication and management processes
• Work closely with resource management and recruitment organizations for hiring/fulfilling client demand
• People management, personnel appraisal, and recruitment
• Close cooperation with various key corporate functions and operations team
• Identify and mitigate project risks, ensuring successful project outcomes

Mandatory Skills:

Client management
Delivery Management
Financial Management
People Management

Mandatory Skills Description:

• The successful candidate should have 5+ years of experience in software development or system integration, outsourcing or service-providing
• Hands-on experience in program management consisting of at least 100+ people and multiple distributed activities and sub-projects
• Ability to build and maintain executive-level client relationships in a complex corporate hierarchical corporate environment, understanding of contemporary IT technologies and platforms used in banking, enterprise applications, and software development methodologies
• The candidate should have excellent communication and problem-solving skills, the ability to work under pressure, and excellent people management skills
• The candidate should be proactive and innovative

Project Details

As an Account Delivery Director for Software Engineering at Luxoft, a DXC Technology Company you will play a critical role in driving project success, ensuring client satisfaction, and leading our software engineering teams to excellence.
You will be responsible for overseeing the entire project lifecycle, hiring and managing a team of talented professionals, building and maintaining strong client relationships to drive business development, enforcing best practices and quality standards, and monitoring project budgets and financial performance.

Responsibilities

• Responsible and accountable for the overall and holistic delivery performance within the account, ensuring delivery excellence and a high customer satisfaction level
• Financial responsibility for the account, both from revenue (in close collaboration with dedicated Sales & Account Manager)
• Responsible for new business development at the account level
• Key contact point from a client perspective for all delivery services within the account
• Managing engagement governance process with the client
• Work closely with offering leads in order to adapt best delivery practices within the engagement
• Improving internal communication and management processes
• Work closely with resource management and recruitment organizations for hiring/fulfilling client demand
• People management, personnel appraisal, and recruitment
• Close cooperation with various key corporate functions and operations team
• Identify and mitigate project risks, ensuring successful project outcomes

Requirements

• The successful candidate should have 5+ years of experience in software development or system integration, outsourcing or service-providing
• Hands-on experience in program management consisting of at least 100+ people and multiple distributed activities and sub-projects
• Ability to build and maintain executive-level client relationships in a complex corporate hierarchical corporate environment, understanding of contemporary IT technologies and platforms used in banking, enterprise applications, and software development methodologies
• The candidate should have excellent communication and problem-solving skills, the ability to work under pressure, and excellent people management skills
• The candidate should be proactive and innovative

What We Do
As the third line of defense, Internal Audit’s mission is to independently assess the firm’s internal control structure, including the firm’s governance processes and controls, and risk management and capital and anti-financial crime frameworks, raise awareness of control risk and monitor the implementation of management’s control measures. In doing so, internal Audit:

• Communicates and reports on the effectiveness of the firm’s governance, risk management and controls that mitigate current and evolving risk.
• Raise awareness of control risk
• Assesses the firm’s control culture and conduct risks; and
• Monitors management’s implementation of control measures.

Goldman Sachs Internal Audit is organized into global teams comprising business and technology auditors to cover all the firm’s businesses and functions, including global markets, investment banking, consumer and investment management, risk management, finance, cyber-security and technology risk, and core engineering.

Who We Look For
Goldman Sachs Internal Auditors demonstrate strong risk and control mindsets, analytical, exercise professional skepticism, can challenge and engagement in discussion with management on risks and control measures. We look for individuals who enjoy learning about audit, businesses, and functions, have innovative and creative mindsets to adopt analytical techniques to enhance audit techniques, building relationships and can evolve and thrive in teamwork and in a fast-paced global environment.

Core Engineering/ Tech Risk and Cybersecurity Audit

IA Core Engineering/ Tech Risk and Cybersecurity Audit Team performs the review of technology risks and controls within a challenging, dynamic, and complex technology environment in GS.

The role involves:

1. End to end involvement of the audit life cycle (Plan, execute and report)
2. Assessment of technology controls through testing of design/operating effectiveness and data analytics.
3. Identification of emerging risks and regulatory requirements applicable to GS technology environment and formulating an audit plan / strategy.
4. Bridging the gap between the local and global audit teams to ensure global audits have sufficiently coverage in region-specific requirements.
5. Stakeholder management and monitor changes in the impacted geographic region, such as technology / organizational changes and security incidents.
6. Respond to and facilitate regulatory inquiries/ inspections.

Your Impact

As part of the third line of defense, you will be involved in independently assessing the firm’s overall control environment, effectiveness of the firm’s controls that mitigate current and emerging risks, monitoring the management’s implementation of control measures, and communicating the results to the firm’s local and global management. In doing so, you are supporting the provision of independent, objective, and timely assurance around the firm’s internal control structure, and supporting the Audit Committee, the Board of Directors, and Risk Committee in fulfilling their oversight responsibilities.

Responsibilities

You will play a vital role in the scoping and planning of the audits, deploy audit and analytical procedures and techniques to assess the design and operating effectiveness of the controls to mitigate the risks, and discuss the results with the firm’s local and global management. In addition, you will monitor and follow-up with management on the resolution of the open audit findings.

Basic Requirements

• Minimum of 12 years of experience as a technology auditor, executing audits on IT general controls, agile software development lifecycle (SDLC) controls.
• Strong foundation in IT general controls e.g change management, incident management, system resiliency, infrastructure security configurations etc.
• Able to understand and identify security vulnerabilities by manual inspection in multiple code across programming and configuration languages including but not limited to Python, Java, C++ and Terraform. System development experience in Agile/ DevOps is a plus.
• Strong foundation in SDLC methodologies, such as automated software security testing (e.g DAST, SAST, IaC etc), continuous integration and deployment of applications.
• Familiar or have audited software development and virtualization tools such as GitLab, Dockers, Kubernetes etc.
• Must be highly motivated with strong analytical and multitasking skill. Willing and able to learn new business and system processes quickly.
• Ability to work effectively across a large audit team, understanding the team's role in the overall strategy of the firm and able to coordinate with global counterparts.
• Understanding of financial regulatory requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

Technology audit skills, including understanding of (but not limited to):

• Relevant degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering or equivalent.
• Relevant technology standards e. g ISO 27001, NIST Framework, COBIT.
• Relevant professional certifications e.g., Certified information system audit (CISA), Certified secure-software lifecycle professional (CSSLP).

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital, and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities, and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.

We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html

Our Audit Technology team leverage leading technologies and work to transform the audit experience for our professionals and our audited entities. We are dedicated to providing exceptionally high quality audits by increasing our ability to focus on the issues that matter through the data and insights our audit technology provides. The team draws on a diverse and dedicated group of people, powerful KPMG methodologies, innovating capability and assets, and global resources to support our clients in achieving the right milestones.

Your Opportunity
As a Senior Consultant you will assist Audit Technology and Innovation in carrying out various engagements and projects, by applying your knowledge of client/firm/industry trends and current issues. You will:
Apply proficiency in data analysis and visualization to enhance audit quality through support in substantive audit procedures. This encompasses tasks such as data sanitisation, pre-processing, and visualisation, which involves collecting, analysing and interpreting information on the financial standing, and the design and implementation of audit methodologies and processes.
Develop innovative visualisations through Power BI to provide valuable audit insights, supporting the risk assessment audit procedures, which includes assessing financial risks, evaluating cost structures, the potential risks of operational processes, activities, policies, and systems
Efficiently communicate and collaborate with audit engagement teams and external clients, fostering an in-depth understanding of their business models and audit data analysis requirements. This collaboration serves to align audit objectives and testing requirements effectively, and to report on the existence and effectiveness of the system of internal controls.
Enhance team efficiency by identifying procedures that can be streamlined or standardised. Actively contribute to the development of documentation templates, audit validation tools, or internal testing procedures for Power BI dashboards
Take on the role of coaching junior team members, sharing expertise to facilitate their professional growth and proficiency.
Take on the role of a technical reviewer. This involves evaluating audit data analysis routines designed and implemented by fellow team members, ensuring the work meets the highest quality standards, and verifying the technical accuracy of data pre-processing steps.

Your Experience
At KPMG, we believe diversity of thought, background and experience strengthens relationships and delivers meaningful benefits to our people, our clients, and communities. To be considered for this opportunity, your qualifications, skills & experience could include:
Good communication skills; sound understanding of KPMG procedures and internal processes, detailed understanding of audit and accounting practices; strong professional acumen and ability to lead/direct a team.
Advanced proficiency in Microsoft applications, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, utilizing these tools proficiently to augment data analysis, reporting, and communication processes.
Demonstrate a high level of mastery in Alteryx, effectively employing its functionalities to streamline data processing and transformation activities. This contributes to enhanced workflow efficiency and the derivation of accurate insights.
Demonstrate a high level of mastery in Power BI, including the creation of intricate visualizations, dashboards, and interactive reports.
Detailed understanding of audit and accounting practices.

We are hiring for the following employment types: Casual, Max-Term Full-Time, Max-Term Part-Time, Permanent Full-Time & Permanent Part-Time

We also have offices in the following locations:
Sydney
Melbourne
Brisbane
Perth
Canberra
Adelaide
Hobart
Gold Coast
Darwin
Townsville
Parramatta
Wollongong
Newcastle/Hunter Region
Geelong

Qualifications
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JOB SUMMARY:

The Group Accounting Director is responsible for the Group’s accounting, consolidation & reporting function with respect to statutory accounts and financial reporting in accordance with IFRS, relevant GAAP and statutory requirements. The successful candidate has experience in group consolidation of foreign subsidiaries (50-100 entities), manufacturing related accounting policies, proven skills in team building and is an effective change agent for system implementation and continuous improvements.

The Accounting Director evolves and adapts the financial reporting organization, policies and procedures to changing business environment, technology innovation and global best practices. Success factors also include strong oral and written communication, a hands on approach with an eye for details and quality in all aspects of job deliverables.

WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:

• Within the organization – Group, Regional & Site Controllers (30 sites globally), FP&A Manager, Tax Manager, BPO Manager and SAP application team.
• External – Primarily with External auditors, financial and tax advisors and accounting services providers.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES – Consolidation, Accounting & Reporting:

• Leadership and oversight of the Group’s global consolidation and corporate accounting team
• Preparation of the Group’s consolidated financial statements (in conformity with IFRS, US GAAP) including subsidiaries, associates, JVs.
• Group accounting and financial reporting policies, procedures and key controls over financial reporting (KCFR), including Chart of Accounts and cost center structure
• Ensure the accuracy and timeliness of monthly PNL reporting and integrity of the balance sheet.
• Provide technical guidance on accounting matters to the Group CFO and controllers.
• Monthly financial reporting of group results and balance sheet position, including geographical and divisional performance.
• Monthly close of corporate entities and holding companies. Ensure timely regulatory compliances such preliminary tax computation and audited statutory financial statements filings
• Lead monthly close action and deadlines for global finance teams to ensure timely reporting
• Enhance internal control mechanisms and improve the Reporting & Consolidation process, including automation and centralization, where necessary. Lead efforts to standardize Site & Group reporting.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES – Taxation & Innovation:

• Support corporate income tax computation, filing and other statutory compliance matters for corporate level entities (mainly SG and US).
• Lead or support new application or new functionalities implementation efforts to the extend they impact financial reporting (incl Design, Build, UAT, Implement).
• Continue to evolve and improve financial reporting and accounting function in tandem with global best practices and technology innovation as to enhance effectiveness and efficiency.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Degree in Accounting, Chartered Accountant or equivalent
• Minimum 8 years of relevant experience, preferably in a Big 4 or MNC
• Track record in building coherent motivated teams that are results oriented and quality conscious
• Proficient in use Reporting tools (such as COGNOS, Hyperion, etc). Knowledge of COGNOS is preferable.
• Proficient in SAP, Microsoft excel and Microsoft Power Applications/data analytics
• Able prioritize work effectively to meet tight timelines
• Positive learning attitude to go the extra mile to understand and resolve issues
• Fluent and proficient in written and spoken English. Chinese (mandarin) would be advantageous. Strong communicator to effectively communicate with business partners and stakeholders.