AVP, Total Portfolio Implementation

GIC; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

GIC seeks an AVP, Total Portfolio Implementation to drive data-driven changes across the Total Portfolio ecosystem. You will partner with investment groups and enterprise teams to ensure robust data solutions, governance and delivery alignment with strategic goals.

Your role emphasizes stakeholder management, analytics, and scalable data services across public and private markets, leveraging modern platforms to support investment decisions.

Qualifications

• Minimum five years of work experience, with at least three in total portfolio, data management, analytics or visualization.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management to coordinate across functions.
• Solid design, data analytics capability and governance workflow understanding.

Responsibilities

• Partner with investment groups to execute top-priority changes within governance constraints.
• Coordinate interdependencies and manage enterprise-wide execution across teams.
• Shape solutions aligned with business intent, robustness and governance.
• Propose enhancements to operating models and controls to reduce risk.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

Total portfolio data knowledge

Process design

Agile / learning agility

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

SQL

Tableau

MS SQL

Snowflake

PostgreSQL

Informatica

Excel (formulas/macros)

Job description

GIC is one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds. With over 2,000 employees across 11 locations 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.

Global Investment Services

GIS provides strategic investment services and financial management across GIC’s public and private market asset classes. Leveraging data and emerging technologies, the department drives the development and execution of business infrastructure plans while shaping scalable, agile, and resilient operating models that enable growth and deliver operational excellence.

GIS provides operational expertise spanning market settlements, transaction management and execution, investment data operations, portfolio finance, valuations, accounting, and tax services, as well as portfolio administration.

Investment Enterprise Data Solutions

You will play a key role in shaping and delivering enterprise data capabilities that support investment decision-making across public and private markets. This includes designing and leading strategic data solutions, managing the investment book of record, and developing robust reference data frameworks. You will work collaboratively with stakeholders across investment, risk, technology, and other enterprise functions to implement scalable data services and solutions that enable new investment strategies and products. Through strategic partnerships and best practices in data management, you will help build a unified, resilient, and future‑ready data ecosystem for the firm.

What impact can you make in this role?

You will be central to putting GIC’s top‑of‑the‑house strategies, investment framework changes, policy updates and total portfolio rebalancing into practice, converting strategic intent into well‑governed, executable outcomes across the enterprise.

Through the implementation of the key platforms that support the Total Portfolio ecosystem, you will keep delivery aligned with business objectives, operational readiness and wider enterprise initiatives.

What will you do as an AVP, Total Portfolio Implementation?

Business Partnership & Delivery

• Partner closely with Total Portfolio investment groups to execute top‑of‑the‑house changes, balancing investment priorities with enterprise governance and operational feasibility.
• Collaborate across investment and corporate services teams to manage inter‑dependencies, assess downstream impacts, and drive coordinated enterprise execution.
• Review and shape solutions so that they hold up against business intent, operational robustness and governance requirements, particularly within the index and reference data domains.
• Surface and propose enhancements to the operating model and to processes that lower operational risk and tighten governance and controls.

Change, Governance & Stakeholder Management

• Take an active part in enterprise data and platform initiatives affecting the Total Portfolio, representing business priorities and flagging execution risk.
• Own business readiness end to end, including planning, execution and issue resolution for user acceptance testing (UAT) across both system and data changes.
• Build and sustain effective working relationships with internal teams and with external data providers and vendors.
• Contribute to the documentation of functional requirements and specifications so that delivery expectations stay clear.

What qualifications or skills should you possess in this role?

Experience & Domain Knowledge

• A degree with at least five years of working experience, of which a minimum of three years is hands‑on in total portfolio, data management, data analysis, analytics or visualisation within the investment or banking industry.
• Well‑developed interpersonal, communication and stakeholder management skills. You will act as the central point of coordination across multiple functions, enabling informed decisions, reconciling competing team priorities and holding the constructive tension between investment department priorities and central governance and enterprise requirements.
• Strong solution design, data and analytics capability.
• A sound grasp of process design, operational problem solving and governance workflows, with an instinct for streamlining and efficiency.
• High learning agility and the ability to connect the dots across topics.
• Preferred: exposure to financial markets and financial products, sufficient to engage investment professionals substantively.

Technical & Analytical Skills

• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with high attention to detail
• Familiarity with total portfolio data
• Experience with Excel formulas and macro, data extraction and visualisation tools such as SQL and Tableau and enterprise databases (e.g. MS SQL, Snowflake, PostgreSQL) and data integration tools (e.g. Informatica) is preferred.
• Experience applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) or advanced analytics to enhance data quality, analytics, or operational efficiency is preferred.

Personal & Interpersonal Skills

• A clear communicator and confident stakeholder manager, comfortable holding business priorities and enterprise governance expectations in balance.
• Self‑motivated and dependable, delivering to a high standard under time pressure and with minimal supervision.
• Able to juggle multiple priorities and a high volume of varied requests.
• Pragmatic and solution‑oriented, and receptive to feedback.
• A collaborative team player who puts collective outcomes first.
• Agile and quick to learn, with the ability to link concepts across domains.
• Meticulous, detail‑oriented and disciplined in controls and execution.

Work at the Point of Impact

We need to be forward‑looking to attract the right people to help us become the Leading Global Long‑term Investor. Join our ambitious, agile, and diverse teams – be empowered to push boundaries and pursue innovative ideas, share your views, and be heard. Be anchored on our PRIME Values: Prudence, Respect, Integrity, Merit and Excellence, which guides us in how we make our day‑to‑day decisions. We strive to inspire. To make an impact.

Flexibility at GIC

At GIC, our offices are vibrant hubs for ideation, professional growth, and interpersonal connection. At the same time, we believe that flexibility allows us to do our best work and be our best selves. Thus, our teams come into the office four days per week to harness the benefits of in‑person collaboration, but have the flexibility to choose which days they work from home and adjust this arrangement as situational needs arise.

GIC is an equal opportunity employer

GIC is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Please email [e-mail] at any point of the application or interview process if adjustments need to be made due to a disability.

Learn more about our Global Investment Services here:

https://gic.careers/departments/global-investment-services/

Our PRIME Values

GIC is a values driven organization. GIC’s PRIME Values act as our compass, enabling us to fulfil our fundamental purpose and objectives. It is the foundational bedrock which governs our behaviors, our decision making, and our focus. It informs both our long‑term strategy as a firm, and the way we relate to our Client, business partners and employees. PRIME stands for Prudence, Respect, Integrity, Merit and Excellence.