[Hiring] Senior Accountant @Penbrothers

Role Description

Our client is looking for an experienced, hands-on Senior Accountant to manage billing, invoicing, accounts receivable, supplier payments, and day-to-day accounting operations. This is an execution-focused role for someone who can independently manage accounting processes, maintain accurate financial records, proactively follow up on outstanding payments and missing information, and ensure billing and collections are completed on time. Advanced, hands-on Xero experience is a non-negotiable requirement.

The role involves limited direct customer interaction, with most payment and documentation follow-ups handled through email and messaging. Outbound customer calls, when required, will be supported by the CX team.

What you’ll do

• Billing & Accounts Receivable: Manage customer invoicing, credit notes, payment tracking, and accounts receivable. Monitor outstanding balances and proactively follow up on overdue payments through email and messaging.
• Accounts Payable: Process supplier bills, maintain purchase orders, match invoices against approvals, and prepare payment schedules.
• Accounting Operations: Complete bank, customer, supplier, and balance-sheet reconciliations. Prepare manual journals, accruals, prepayments, and month-end adjustments.
• Financial Records & Clean-Up: Maintain accurate accounting records, identify and correct errors, and support historical transaction clean-up when required.
• Reporting & Cash Flow: Maintain billing and collections trackers and prepare basic cash-flow forecasts and finance reports.
• Cross-Functional Coordination: Work with the Singapore team to obtain missing documents, approvals, and information needed to complete billing and accounting processes.
• Process Ownership: Take ownership of day-to-day accounting activities, identify issues proactively, and ensure billing, collections, supplier payments, and financial records remain accurate and up to date.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of accounting or finance operations experience, preferably in a fast-paced or growing business.
• Advanced, hands-on Xero experience is mandatory, including:
  • Customer invoices and credit notes
  • Supplier bills and purchase orders
  • Bank reconciliations
  • Manual journals
  • Accounts receivable and accounts payable
  • Month-end adjustments
  • Account clean-up and error correction
• Strong experience in billing, invoicing, accounts receivable, collections, and accounts payable.
• Strong Excel or Google Sheets skills.
• Good written and spoken English.
• Ability to work independently in a remote environment and take ownership without close supervision.
• Strong attention to detail, organisation, and accuracy.
• Proactive and assertive when following up on payments, documents, and approvals.
• Ability to identify and resolve accounting issues independently.
• Able to work during agreed Singapore core working hours.

Nice to Have

• Experience in any of the following environments is an advantage:
  • Construction or contracting
  • Solar or renewable energy
  • Installation or field-service businesses
  • Project-based or milestone-billing environments
  • Startups or fast-growing SMEs
  • Engineering or technical services

Hiring Process

We utilize AI tools to enhance our hiring efficiency and ensure a fair evaluation of all candidates. As a result, candidates who passed our initial evaluations should expect an AI Interviewer as a component of our recruitment process. This is supervised by Human Talent Acquisition Experts who will also engage with you throughout your application journey.

Benefits

• Meaningful work & Growth: We take every opportunity to stretch ourselves and deliver an excellent client experience.
• Employee as our biggest asset: We are genuinely invested in our people’s career and welfare.
• Global reach & local impact: Get to work with high-growth startups and dynamic companies from the comfort of your own home.
• Powering global startups: We’ve created 1,400 Filipino jobs that empower global start-ups to focus on growth.

Don't meet every single requirement? At Penbrothers we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but you don't feel 100% aligned with the qualifications, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may just be the right fit for this or other roles.