Finance & Tax Intern

About the team:

At Aspire, Finance plays a strategic role in driving our business forward. Our Finance team consists of a wide range of crucial functions across 5 verticals: (i) Financial Controlling with Financial reporting, Audit support, Cost Management, Compliance and Risk Management and Tax planning, Reporting, (ii) Treasury, which is a core function for a Fintech with Cash flow and Liquidity Risk, Treasury Product, FX Risk Management, Treasury Operation and Treasury Risk Management, (iii) Data including Business Intelligence, Data Analytics and Data Engineering, (iv) Strategy & Planning, which covers strategic road map, long term planning, fundraising and FP&A and (v) Credit Risk including risk modelling and scoring, portfolio monitoring and credit control. Our Finance team engages in frequent strategic data analysis, research, and modeling to provide the best financial insights for critical business decisions, helping Aspire navigate the competitive landscape and capitalize on emerging opportunities. The team also plays a key part as the first user of our Aspire software, pioneer in Finance transformation, reengineering our internal process to stay agile while maintaining the internal control in a hyper fast growing environment.

About the role:

• Work closely with the finance and tax team on various accounting and tax projects
• Assist in month-end & year-end closing activities such as bank reconciliation, journal postings, expense management, account payables etc. to ensure completeness of all transactions
• Assist in annual financial audit requests
• Assist on the registration of taxes for new entity set ups
• Assist on various tax computations
• Assist on filling up various tax trackers and drafting tax memos to document the tax profile and historical positions of various Aspire group entities

Minimum Qualifications:

• Full-time student in Singapore majoring in finance / accounting / business / management
• Ideally be able to commit full-time or part-time for 3 to 6 months from Dec 2024 / Jan 2025
• Proficient in Microsoft Office tools such as word, excel and powerpoint
• Detailed oriented with a desire to problem solve and take responsibility

Preferred Qualifications:

• Have previous experience working as an intern in accounting or tax
• Have studied Tax Module in university