AVP, Financial Controller - Deal & Asset Finance

GIC Private Limited; Singapore; On-site; SGD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global investment firm is seeking an Assistant Vice President for their Investment Finance & Controllers team in Singapore. The role involves overseeing deal finance, asset finance, and implementing finance improvement initiatives. Candidates should have a strong academic background in Accounting or Finance, along with 6-8 years of relevant experience, preferably in Private Markets Investment Finance. This position offers an opportunity to work closely with various internal and external stakeholders while actively contributing to the financial operations of investments.

Qualifications

• 6-8 years of relevant working experience in Investment Finance or Asset Management.
• Preference for experience in Private Markets.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with teams for investment activities.
• Manage financial due diligence and review findings.
• Evaluate financial controls for investments.

Skills

Accounting skills

Finance expertise

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

IT skills

Education

Strong academic background in Accounting or Finance

Certified Public Accountant

Job description

GIC is one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds. With over 2,000 employees across 11 offices around the world, we invest in more than 40 countries globally across asset classes and businesses. Working at GIC gives you exposure to an extraordinary network of the world’s industry leaders. As a leading global long-term investor, we Work at the Point of Impact for Singapore’s financial future, and the communities we invest in worldwide.

Investment Services Private Markets

We manage deal structuring, due diligence and closing. We provide financial operations to GIC’s private equity, infrastructure, and real estate assets, as well as tax structuring, corporate holding structures, valuations, and financial reporting.

Investment Finance & Controllers

You will be part of a broader Investment Finance & Controllers team that provide financial deal due diligence, financial controllership, treasury and funding, valuation management, investment operations, accounting, financial reporting, and special purpose vehicle management for GIC’s investments.

What impact can you make in this role?

You will be part of a team that provides investment services on private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and cross-strategy investments.

We are looking for a suitable candidate to join the Investment Finance & Controllers team as an Assistant Vice President, in a Financial Controller role, to support Asia’s Private Markets portfolio.

This role covers primarily the finance, accounting, and reporting aspects of deal support, as well as on-going monitoring of the investment structure and valuations across the Asia private market investment teams. The incumbent is expected to work closely with various internal and external stakeholders throughout the investment lifecycle. The individual is also expected to support the Team Lead in various finance transformation initiatives.

What will you do as a Financial Controller?

Deal Finance

• Collaborate closely with Investment Teams, Transaction Managers, Tax, Legal, Capital Markets Team and external advisors to provide finance expertise during investment, divestment, restructuring and loan financing activities
• Manage financial due diligence and review findings / purchase price adjustments during investment, divestment, and restructuring
• Establish financial operations and controls for wholly owned investments
• Evaluate financial controls and onboard non-wholly owned investee companies / assets
• Provide financial and operational inputs on holding structures, funding and cash repatriation mechanisms, and accounting / valuations considerations
• Provide oversight on the organizing and maintenance of investment holding platform, including corporate secretarial and financial reporting
• Partner with operations team to fulfill all operational requirements, including liaising with banks on funding requirements

Asset Finance

• Monitor key financial controls for asset operations - including cash controls and review of investee financials - and liaising with external auditors
• Analyze surplus cash of investments and drive cash repatriation solutions in partnership with Investment Teams, Treasury, and investee companies
• Prepare and review market valuation for private investments within corporate policy and provide value-added insights on market value movements and returns analysis

Others

• Work closely with the Team Lead to design and implement various finance improvement initiatives and analytics as part of Finance Transformation

What qualifications or skills should you possess in this role?

• Strong academic background in Accounting, Finance, or equivalent
• Certified Public Accountant preferred, ideally Big 4 trained
• At least 6-8 years of relevant working experience, with a preference for experience in Private Markets Investment Finance or Investment / Asset Management.
• Good understanding of deal closing mechanism, investment structuring and controls
• Strong team player with excellent interpersonal, communication, analytical and IT skills.
• Keen to learn and take on new challenges in a dynamic and fast paced environment
• A driven self-starter with strong initiative; hands-on and comfortable to manage multiple tasks, confident in engaging different stakeholders, and able to work independently to deliver outcomes