Compliance Consultant

OPTIONALITY COMPLIANCE PTE. LTD.; Singapore; Sur place; SGD 45 000 - 61 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

OPTIONALITY COMPLIANCE PTE. LTD. seeks a junior regulatory operations professional to manage ongoing compliance obligations for a portfolio of fund management clients in Singapore.

You will handle filings with MAS, keep compliance manuals current, manage annual calendars and monitor regulatory changes published by MAS and US authorities. This is a near-entry role focused on regulatory operations, not KYC or transaction monitoring.

Qualifications

• 0–4 years experience in legal, regulatory, funds, or compliance roles.
• Exposure to financial services regulatory frameworks is a plus.
• Knowledge of MAS/FAA/SFA and related guidelines is advantageous.

Responsabilités

• Prepare, review and submit MAS filings and notifications.
• Coordinate with client finance teams, fund administrators and auditors for accurate filings.
• Update compliance manuals and track changes, versions and sign-offs.
• Maintain client compliance calendars and risk flags; provide periodic updates to clients.

Connaissances

Regulatory compliance

Fund administration

Formation

Bachelor-like qualification in law/finance (optional)

Description du poste

The role

We are seeking a junior hire who can manage ongoing compliance obligations of a portfolio of fund management clients. This includes ensuring timely filings with government regulators, keeping compliance manuals current, managing clients' annual regulatory calendars, and analysing regulatory changes published by the MAS and the US government. This is a regulatory operations role, not a KYC or transaction-monitoring role.

Key responsibilities

Regulatory filings and notifications

• Prepare, review and submit client filings through MAS-Tx, including periodic returns, annual submissions, auditor-related filings and change notifications (representatives, key officers, shareholdings, business changes).
• Coordinate inputs with client finance teams, fund administrators and auditors, and check submissions for accuracy and consistency before filing.
• Keep a filing record and audit trail for each client.

Compliance manual and policy updates

• Update client compliance manuals, policies and procedures to reflect new or amended MAS Notices, Guidelines, Regulations and FAQs.
• Draft redlines and change summaries for client review, and track sign-off and version history.
• Run gap reviews of existing client documentation against current requirements.

Compliance calendar and tracker maintenance

• Maintain compliance calendars for each client and across the portfolio: filing deadlines, attestations, training, reviews and board reporting.
• Keep obligation trackers and status reporting current, and flag at-risk or overdue items early.
• Prepare periodic status updates for clients and internal review.

Regulatory horizon scanning

• Monitor MAS releases: consultation papers, responses to feedback, new and amended Notices and Guidelines, circulars, enforcement actions and speeches.
• Assess each release's relevance to fund manager clients by licence type and business model.
• Draft client alerts and internal briefing notes, and feed changes into manuals and calendars.

General
Support licensing applications, MAS inspection preparation and ad hoc advisory work as needed.Contribute to refining the firm's templates, trackers and AI-assisted workflows.

Background. You have 0-4 years' experience in one of the following:

• Legal: law firm, legal executive or paralegal work in financial services regulatory or funds, or in-house legal at a financial institution.
• Accounting or audit: external or internal audit, or financial reporting, ideally with exposure to financial services clients.
• Fund administration: fund accounting, investor services, transfer agency or client onboarding at a fund administrator.
• In-house compliance: a compliance or legal and compliance executive role at a fund manager, broker or bank.
• Consulting: regulatory, risk or compliance consulting.

Advantageous

• Familiarity with the SFA, the FAA, and MAS requirements for fund management companies (licensing and ongoing obligations, AML/CFT Notices, technology risk and outsourcing Guidelines).
• Exposure to HUS ong Kong (SFC) or Australian regulatory frameworks.
• Mandarin proficiency.
• A relevant professional qualification or progress towards one (ICA certification, CA/ACCA/CPA, or admission as an advocate and solicitor).

What we offer

• Broad exposure to a varied portfolio of fund managers, across the full compliance lifecycle.
• Direct work with clients and senior leaders, and early responsibility.
• Modern, AI-enabled tooling in place of manual processes.
• Salary: S$4,000–5500 per month, depending on experience