Description

About the Client

Our client is a reputable investment bank with active businesses across global equities, fixed income, derivatives trading, and wealth management. As part of their continued growth in Singapore, they are seeking a seasoned Finance Manager to join the local finance team. This role offers strong exposure to regulatory reporting, capital adequacy monitoring, and multi-entity financial oversight within a dynamic trading environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the full financial accounting and month-end close for the Singapore trading entity, ensuring integrity of trade-to-ledger interfaces, reconciliations, and robust balance sheet governance across equities, fixed income and derivatives.
• Drive daily monitoring of MAS risk-based capital adequacy requirements and oversee timely, accurate regulatory submissions.
• Act as a key finance partner to local, regional and head office stakeholders, ensuring high-quality financial reporting and alignment across jurisdictions.
• Strengthen internal controls, governance standards and operating processes to enhance compliance, scalability and risk management across Singapore-managed entities.
• Lead statutory reporting, audit and tax coordination, while contributing to finance transformation and strategic projects to support evolving regulatory and business demands.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accountancy or a related discipline; CPA qualified or progressing towards qualification
• Minimum 8 years of relevant experience within regional or international financial institutions
• Solid hands-on experience with Singapore regulatory capital adequacy calculations under a CMS or Banking licence framework
• Strong product exposure across cash equities, equity-linked products, listed futures and options, swaps, fixed income and FX preferred
• Analytical, commercially minded and able to operate independently while driving process improvements
• Proficient in MS Office, with experience in SAP or similar ERP systems
• Confident communicator with strong presentation and stakeholder management skills
• Proven experience managing financial and statutory audits

Application Process

Interested candidates may submit their CV quoting the job title to Tina Wang at tw@empowerpartners.sg.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

License No: 24S2395

Registration No: R2090553