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Finance and Administration Assistant

Industry Specialization	:
Type of Employment	:	Permanent
Minimum Experience	:	Less than 1 year
Work Location	:	South Singapore

Duties and accountabilities

1. A) Finance support:

• Submission of invoices / bills for payment processing
• Liaising with external vendors on settlement updates
• Maintaining records of staff and vendor expenses and collation of supporting documents
• Run and analyse expense reports with line manager
• Prepare / update slides for weekly team meeting
• Assisting with regulatory reporting

1. B) Credit control:

• Allocation of premium received in Eclipse system
• Submit premium payment requests as directed by line manager

1. C) Adminstration duties:

• Booking of flights and accommodation (preferred corporate hotels) for underwriters and senior management group
• Mailbox clearing
• De-facto cover for Office Manager’s reception duties when the latter is on leave

 

Skills, knowledge and experience

We are looking for a person who is willing to learn and develop his/her skills and knowledge of financial managemen and general insurance (specialist classes of business). There is significant room for technical insurance know-how development for this role over time.

Technical Competencies:

• Have at minimum a Diploma in Finance / Accounting or Business Administration
• Working experience is preferred but new graduates are most welcomed to apply for this role
• Proficient user of MS Excel and Powerpoint.

Behavioural Competencies:

• Be a keen learner and have initative to suggest changes or new ideas
• Be meticulous and attentive to details
• Have good communication and interpersonal skills
• Have good analytical skills
• Be able to multi-task

Markel competencies

Pursuit of excellence:

• Consistently provides quality work products
• Adapts behaviour to reflect the style of others to foster effective working relationships
• Finds the most efficient and practical means of overcoming challenges

Customer focus:

• Actively looks for solutions to customer problems
• Seeks to further knowledge of customer needs
• Builds relationships with customers and responds to needs by demonstrating tact, empathy and professionalism

Business results

• Seeks the best and most direct option to accomplish tasks
• Demonstrates effective organisation skills
• Applies logic and draws accurate conclusions from information

Collaboration

• Helps others succeed
• Approaches change in a positive manner
• Listens for and acts on key information

Strong foundations

• Holds self and others accountable to ethical standards
• Takes ownership and accountability for own development
• Shows accountability and resilience in achieving goals