Associate Accountant (Research Finance)
- Managed daily financial operations of the largest research institute in NUS.- Ensure timely processing of high volume transactions (for payments, billings, taxes, staff claims, assets and journals) to facilitate complete and accurate grant claim submissions to local and foreign grantors.- Prepared detailed invoice billings to internal and external parties and analyzed monthly debtor aging to ensure timely income recovery.- Managed stakeholders inquiries to ensure compliance to finance policies and processes.- Automated the process of sending timely financial reports to internal stakeholders (eg. principal investigators, lab representatives) through the use of Power Automate Workflows, resulting in increased efficiency in sending timely reports out punctually.- Identified and executed process improvement projects through internal stakeholder engagements (with research institutes and central office of finance) , resulting in increased efficiency in daily finance operations.