Associate Director - Compliance Solutions

Waystone; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Waystone in Singapore seeks an Associate Director to oversee the corporate services team, ensuring delivery of corporate secretarial and accounting services to a diverse client portfolio. You will manage engagements, guide a professional team, and ensure compliance with statutory deadlines and regulatory requirements.

Ideal candidates have 7–10 years of governance, accounting, and corporate secretarial experience in financial services, with strong knowledge of Singapore Acts, and excellent

Qualifications

• Minimum 7–10 years of governance, accounting/finance, and corporate secretarial services experience in financial services.
• Strong working knowledge of the Singapore Companies Act, ACRA requirements, and statutory filings.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, written and verbal; fluent in English.

Responsibilities

• Oversee delivery of Corporate and Compliance Solutions services for Singapore clients, focusing on corporate secretarial and accounting services.
• Support and fulfil Qualified Individual (QI) requirements for corporate secretarial business.
• Lead and develop the team, provide technical guidance, ensure quality control and timely delivery.
• Manage client engagements, allocate work, and meet regulatory deadlines; liaise with ACRA, IRAS and auditors as needed.
• Assist in Singapore corporate tax matters, including corporate income tax and GST; contribute to business growth initiatives.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

English proficiency

Governance experience

Education

International professional qualification

Job description

About Waystone

Waystone is a leading asset-servicing solutions provider of institutional governance, administration, risk and compliance services to financial institutions. With over 25 years’ experience and a comprehensive range of specialist services to its name, Waystone helps our clients structure, operate and grow through our expertise, innovation and digitisation, backed by the operational scale to support global expansion.

Summary:

Serve as Associate Director providing oversight to the entire corporate services team in Singapore. Manage delivery of services to diverse portfolio of external clients, management of a team to deliver on KPIs. Provide oversight on delivery of service which includes corporate secretarial matters, tax related matters, accounting, payroll, and computation of regulatory forms.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Oversee delivery of Corporate and Compliance Solutions services across the Singapore client portfolio, with primary responsibility for corporate secretarial and accounting services.
• Support and, where required, fulfil the Qualified Individual (QI) requirements applicable to Waystone’s corporate secretarial business.
• Oversee corporate secretarial matters including incorporations, statutory registers, corporate actions, annual returns and other ACRA filings.
• Maintain strong working knowledge of the Singapore Companies Act, Variable Capital Companies Act and relevant ACRA requirements.
• Review and provide technical guidance on corporate secretarial matters, including more complex client structures and governance matters.
• Oversee accounting services including bookkeeping, management accounts, financial statements, GST, payroll and other client reporting.
• Review the team’s accounting work, including financial statements, GST filings and other financial deliverables, before submission to clients or relevant authorities.
• Manage client engagements, allocation of work and regulatory/statutory deadlines, ensuring services are delivered accurately and within agreed timelines.
• Lead and develop the team, provide technical guidance and maintain appropriate quality-control and review processes.
• Act as a senior point of contact for clients and resolve or escalating service delivery, technical and regulatory matters.
• Liaise with ACRA, IRAS, auditors, tax advisers and other professional service providers, as required.
• Support Singapore corporate tax matters, including corporate income tax and GST. Practical tax experience would be a strong advantage.
• Support prospect meetings, proposals, fee quotations, engagement letters and opportunities to expand services with existing clients.
• Monitor regulatory and industry developments relevant to corporate secretarial, accounting and corporate services.
• Work with Singapore, regional and global Waystone teams on operational improvements and other projects as required.
• Support the continued growth of the Corporate and Compliance Solutions business while maintaining high standards of client service and regulatory compliance.
• Practical Singapore tax experience, particularly corporate income tax and GST would be a strong advantage.

REQUIREMENTS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education:

• An internationally recognized professional qualification.
• Must have qualifications and/or experience to support the Qualified Individual (QI) requirements applicable for to the corporate secretarial business.

Experience:

• Minimum of 7-10 years of relevant experience in, governance, accounting/finance, corporate secretarial services in the financial services sector.
• Strong working knowledge of the Singapore Companies Act, ACRA requirements and statutory filing obligations.
• Practical accounting experience is required, with the ability to review accounting records, financial statements, GST filings and related client deliverables.
• Experience managing a portfolio of corporate services clients and supervising/reviewing the work of team members.
• Singapore tax experience, particularly corporate income tax and GST, would be an advantage.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Proficient in English.
• Strong leadership and organizational skills.