We are supporting a large Asia-Pacific alternative investment manager as it hires a Finance Manager in Singapore to own the finance, governance and compliance of its SPV and holding-entity platform.
The firm holds its investments through SPVs across several jurisdictions. This role is the single owner of their accounts, audits, tax and statutory filings and governance. It also coordinates the external accountants, corporate-secretarial firms, tax advisors, auditors and legal counsel who support the platform.
What you will do
- Review SPV financial statements and management accounts, and set accounting treatments for investments, shareholder funding, redeemable preference shares, intercompany balances and distributions
- Manage SPV statutory audits, annual declarations, tax computations and filings, including India advance tax
- Own the SPV governance framework: policies, workflows, manuals and responsibility matrices
- Run Singapore board meetings, resolutions, share issuances and statutory registers
- Oversee SPV treasury across jurisdictions and monitor every key deadline
- Act as the central coordination point for external service providers, and improve processes and controls
- Support projects and restructurings
What you will bring
- Hands-on experience with Singapore entities: financial statements, statutory audits, and corporate-secretarial or tax filings
- Typically 7–12 years across private funds, alternatives, fund finance, SPV accounting, governance, tax compliance, corporate services or professional services
- Strong SPV financial statement review under IFRS / SG GAAP; CPA, CA or ACCA preferred
- Familiarity with master-feeder and parallel funds, shareholder loans, redeemable preference shares, holding structures and 13O / 13U schemes is an advantage
- Experience managing external accountants, corporate-secretarial firms, tax advisors and auditors
- Advanced Excel; Power BI and AI tools are a plus
- Clear English communication, careful planning across many entities, and a strong sense of ownership
Why this role: you will own a whole SPV platform on the buy side, covering accounting, audit, tax, corporate secretarial and treasury, and design the governance framework as well as run it.
The role is based in Singapore. To apply or have a confidential conversation, contact Diana Teh at FP GLOBAL.
