Duties and responsibilities:

- Support the Managing Director in all financial matters: Implement financial policies, manage the financial administration, planning and budgeting. 

- Book keeping (about 30%). Responsibility for the book keeping with the software Netsuite. Full responsibility to keep the books according to professional standards (Singapore Financial reporting standards)

- Payments (Invoices of Suppliers and Reimbursement Claims) (30%):  Processing all payments such as invoices from suppliers (e.g. adding the correct cost centre, chart of accounts, obtaining the signatures from the Directors, scanning and uploading approved invoices to Netsuite); filing of all original documents and receipts in a cabinet and keep in perfect order; prepare cheques and payments (OCBC) for all company’s transactions. Keeping track of all payments, avoiding double-payments, establish a process that everything keeps going smoothly in case of absences of the Financial Officer.

- Monitoring of ‘Budget versus Actual’ (about 15%): Adding the annual budgets and adjusting the 5 years budgets in the Financial Software ‘Netsuite.com’. Generating monthly ‘Budget versus Actual’ reports for Module Leaders and Managing Director using Netsuite’s built in functions; serve as contact point for Module Leaders and Module Coordinators, especially to answer questions on how much and how they have spent the funds.

- Withholding Tax (about 5%): Calculating the Withholding Taxes for invoices from non-Singapore based entities. Filling in the necessary forms from IRAS and regross the values if needed. Filing them with IRAS and involving external consultant if needed. 

- Payroll (about 10%): Control, calculate and manage the payroll for 100+ people, which are prepared by the HR Officer. Execution of payments before the 16th day of every month.

- Innovations (about 10%): Develop and implement ideas to increase efficiency and innovation with regard to financial matters. Implementation with Managing Director and other people.

Reporting:

- You are to report directly to Managing Director, Dr. Remo Burkhard.

Your profile: You must have at least 4 years of experience as a Financial Officer, excellent command of English. Able to work well both independently and as part of a team. You must hold a bachelor or post- graduate degree in a relevant field.

Remuneration: We offer competitive salary and will commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Work Location: No 1 Create Way, CREATE Tower, #06-01, Singapore 138602

Please send your resume to hr@fcl.ethz.ch

Beyond efficiency is a new paradigm for buildings in the tropics based upon new technologies and integrative designs. Radically re-thinking, re-assembling and re-designing buildings as systems offers new pathways of increased environmental performance and value creation at lower costs, while providing more comfort.

Thursday 25 April 2013, 12 noon.

Dr. Andreas Zangger, Historian (Amsterdam, NL)

Andreas Zangger gives a presentation on the prehistory of the Future Cities Lab in Singapore. He will talk about the history of the Swiss connections with colonial and postcolonial in Singapore and Indonesia. This comprises trade, plantations, and academia/technical co-operation. Switzerland never had colonies of its own. But as a highly industrialized and highly exporting country it has been dependent on access to colonial markets for commodities as well as an outlet. Singapore and the Netherlands East-Indies have been preferential access points to the colonial world. Andreas Zangger will give a general overview over the Swiss engagement in the region by presenting a photographic impression of the Swiss involvement. He will look at different stages and areas: 1) early trade relations, 2) the plantation business, 3) academic institutions, and 4) business involvement in Singapore after decolonisation.

The Edge Singapore, Issue 571 (April 22 – 28)

ABSTRACT:

In summer of 2011, Fundación Metrópoli began the Penang Project, a joint effort with Penang-based thinktank ThinkCity, on the transformative potential of the Penang conurbation, co-funded by the federal government of Malaysia.  Penang is rapidly urbanizing, which brings productivity and growth in addition to complex environmental and social challenges. The research team took a holistic approach baseed on the Fundación Metrópoli’s Proyecto Cities methodology, to analyze the territory, engage local stakeholders, and, ultimately, to propose five transformative strategic projects.

SPEAKER’S BIO

Luke Mitchell (City Planner + Urban Designer) holds a Masters Degree in City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania, School of Design, and a Bachelors Degree in Geography and Sociology.  He is the Coordinator of Asian Projects for Fundación Metrópoli, an organization based in Madrid working for the sustainable future of cities around the world.  Luke has also held previous positions in city planning and geospatial research in the United States.

Efficient LiDAR processing with LAStools by Dr Martin Isenburg, Scientist and Founder, rapidlasso GmbH

Dr. Isenburg received his PhD in 2004 from UNC Chapel Hill. He was first exposed to LiDAR as a post-doc at UC Berkeley constructing seamless Delaunay triangulations for billions of points. Dr. Isenburg is a vocal advocate of open LiDAR formats. He is a member of the LAS Working Group and provides the open-source LASzip compressor. His company rapidlasso GmbH licenses the popular LAStools LiDAR processing software.

In this talk, Dr. Isenburg will first present a hands-on talk on the technology in LAStools and how it can be used for efficient LiDAR processing at the example of recent projects. For example, LAStools were used in the Canary Islands to create canopy height maps, forest density grids, and bare-earth elevation rasters.

The processing results significantly improved the existing photogrammetrically derived topographic maps as the vegetation-penetrating lasers uncovered elevation differences of up to 25 meters between the official records and the real terrain - entire hills and valleys had been hiding under the canopy of the dense local pine forest. 

Another on-going project to be covered is the DREAM-LiDAR project for creating a National Elevation Model for Flood Mapping purposes in the Philippines.

Prof. Dr. Oliver Deussen

Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Konstanz, Germany

About the talk

Today, computer graphics methods are able to create all kinds of visual effects and to simulate the light transport with high fidelity. The real challenge is to efficiently create, edit, store, render, and transmit the associated mass of data. In “Avatar” the geometric scene complexity was about one Billion surfaces for rendering an average frame.

Using the example of realistic plants and landscapes the modeling problem is discussed. Methods are shown that divide models into visually important aspects and procedurally generated details. Such representations are efficient, very compact, easy to modify, can interact with the environment and thus are especially well suited for computer graphics applications.

Though we do not aim at simulating such systems with high botanic fidelity, the results might serve as very efficient and interactive pre-simulation tools for many applications ranging from movies and computer games up to forestry, landscape and city design as well as Computational Biology. 

About the speaker

Prof. Deussen graduated at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology,  Germany in 1996 and was appointed as a professor for Computer Graphics and Media Design by Dresden University of Technology in 2000. Since 2003 he is professor for Computer Graphics and Media Informatics at Konstanz University. He is Visiting Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the Eurographics Association and Editor in Chief of Computer Graphics Forum. His areas of interest are modeling and rendering of complex objects, in particular botanic objects and landscapes, Non-photorealistic rendering as well as Information Visualization.