Accounting Intern (Empact Pte Ltd)

Organisation Overview: Empact is a social enterprise with a social mission to build the capacity of social organisations here and the region. We serve as an intermediary to our corporate partners where we match and manage their resources, expertise and skilled volunteers with the real needs in the social sector. Much of the matching in most cases requires us to design and develop customised activities or programs for a meaningful exchange or partnership between corporates and social organisations.

Brief Description: The Intern will be working together with our Client Service Managers and Executives to provide bookkeeping and finance services to our clients. The work requires a high level of efficiency, accuracy, and responsibility. A positive attitude, eagerness to learn and ability to work in a team are essential qualities.

Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Assist with bookkeeping and preparing month-end financial reports

2. Assist with audit queries

3. Assist with payroll preparation/cashier duties

4. Assist with research, filing, data entry, and recording and maintaining accurate and complete financial records

5. Support volunteers with accounting/client-related queries

6. Be present at and assist with company events, as well as work with internal teams, corporate partners and community partners in providing on-the-ground support for CSR/community engagement activities.

Learning Objectives and Outcomes:

1. To be exposed to the social sector: types of social organisations, key stakeholders, key needs and challenges of social organisations, resources and solutions

2. To be exposed to the community: its members, concerns, issues and available support for groups including PWDs, Special Needs, vulnerable seniors etc.

3. To apply accounting knowledge to practice

4. To learn a whole range of accounting and accounting-related tasks from Empact's product and service set

5. To be exposed to and learn to use accounting software

6. To participate in cross-team collaboration such as software innovation in the process, understand social organisations' operational needs and the use of technology and digital solutions to help build capacity.

Duration of Internship: 6 months

Daily Working Hours: 10.00 am - 7.00 pm

Work Days: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Minimum Qualification: Polytechnic diploma or professional qualifications

Requirements (if any): Min. Poly Year 2 and above

No of Vacancies: 2

Contact Person Name: Foo Mei Ling

Contact Person Email: meiling.foo@empact.sg

Please read the following to apply for the internship:

1. Click here for the application form.

2. Select the number of internship roles you wish to apply for at "Number of Internship Role(s) to Apply For".

3. Copy and paste "Accounting Intern (Empact Pte Ltd)" into the "Internship Role" field.

For further enquiries on the internship role, you may email the contact person as stated in the description.