A well-established Singapore-headquartered private equity firm with multi-billion dollar assets under management and more than 15 years of investing track record across Asia. The platform has grown into multiple strategies, vintages, and asset classes, with a complex network of GP and corporate entities consolidating into a single holding company.
This is a senior, newly shaped seat created as the platform builds out its group finance function for the next phase of growth. You would report directly to the Group CFO and lead the corporate finance and consolidation pillar. The intent is for you to independently own group reporting, audit, controls, and consolidation, and to deputise for the Group CFO when needed.
The Role
This is the corporate, GP-level finance seat at its core. Alongside that, you oversee the fund finance function and fund NAV and financial reporting for the funds, working with the dedicated team that handles day-to-day fund accounting. You own how the GP, as the managing and holding entity, accounts for and reports on itself across a complex, multi-jurisdiction structure.
- Group accounting and consolidation (core): Own GP-level accounting, statutory reporting, and IFRS consolidation across more than 30 corporate entities and multiple jurisdictions, including eliminations and non-controlling interests. Be the technical anchor for the group close.
- Audit ownership: Run the year-end and interim audit relationship with the Big Four auditor as the principal-side counterpart — driving timelines, documentation, and technical positions end to end.
- Tax oversight: Supervise direct and indirect taxes (including GST) across the group — company-level and cross-border, at both the manager and the portfolio-company level — and stay across all tax matters for every entity in the structure. Enough depth to challenge and validate, not just delegate.
- Service-provider orchestration: Hold a network of outsourced accountants, administrators, and corporate secretaries to timeline and quality across entities and jurisdictions. This seat manages the orchestra rather than keying entries.
- Build and systems: The reporting infrastructure has not kept pace with platform growth. You will standardise timelines and controls, close the gaps, and help shape the planned ERP roadmap.
- Deputising scope: Run the corporate finance function with significant autonomy under the Group CFO, and be ready to deputise on group finance matters when needed.
- Fund finance and NAV oversight: Oversee the fund finance function and fund NAV and financial reporting for the funds.
- Controls and statutory compliance: Maintain the fund manager and GP financial books and records (including offshore entities) in accordance with relevant statutes, ensure accurate statutory reporting to local and overseas authorities as applicable, and monitor taxation and corporate-secretarial compliance with the relevant statutory authorities.
- Planning and financial reviews: Prepare the annual business plan and the monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, and annual financial reviews for the corporate.
- Compliance and governance: Ensure compliance with shareholder agreements, company policies and procedures, and relevant regulatory frameworks (including MAS where applicable).
- Fund operations interface:
Oversee fund operations approvals for corporate actions and fund operations, partnering closely with the relevant internal teams.
What Makes You a Fit
You have likely spent the first part of your career in Big Four assurance or in an environment that built genuine technical depth, and you have since owned corporate, group-level finance inside a fund manager, investment platform, or complex multi-entity group. You are now operating at, or ready to step into, a finance-leadership seat.
- A qualified accountant (CA, ACCA, CPA, or equivalent) or an MBA (Finance) with 10+ years post-qualification experience — the most recent 3+ years in a functional finance-leadership role — and the technical command to anchor an IFRS group close without notes.
- Recent, hands-on consolidation across many entities and at least two jurisdictions — a cycle you personally tied out, including eliminations and NCI, not light supervision of an outsourced team and not something gone stale.
- GP-level or corporate group accounting, rather than a fund NAV, capital-call, or waterfall background. This matters because the seat owns the corporate consolidation and the most confidential financials of the platform.
- Company-level and cross-border tax literacy, including indirect and GST exposure at both manager and portfolio-company level.
- Comfortable owning a Big Four audit relationship as principal-side, and orchestrating multiple outsourced providers to a clean, on-time close.
- The calibre to deputise for the Group CFO — a clear communicator who carries gravitas and earns trust quickly.
- Strategic orientation and commercial acumen — able to use analytics and judgement to assess decisions and drive best practices.
- Leadership credibility, integrity, and maturity — able to positively influence stakeholders in a multi-stakeholder environment, with operational rigour and agility as a finance leader and subject-matter depth across financial controls, statute, tax, compliance, governance, financial structures, and company law and its legal and regulatory implications.
- Working style fit: self-starter with a high energy level and entrepreneurial mindset, comfortable in a promoter-driven setup, and able to collaborate across multiple groups to an inclusive agenda that promotes team culture.
- Multi-jurisdiction exposure across Asia and offshore structures.
- A track record of standing up or rebuilding a reporting framework, or leading an ERP or finance-transformation effort.
- Builder DNA — an early or first finance hire who has imposed order on a fragmented setup.
- A second relevant Asian language alongside English.
What is On Offer- A genuine ownership seat at the heart of the platform group finance, reporting to the Group CFO with a clear, ring-fenced mandate.
- A build mandate rather than a maintenance role — the chance to design the cadence, the controls, and the consolidation engine for the next phase of growth.
- Compensation calibrated to attract a finance leader operating at Deputy CFO or Finance Director level, with a competitive package and benefits.
- Singapore-based, five days a week in office.
