Compliance Consultant

OPTIONALITY COMPLIANCE PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 50,000 - 78,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary: S$4,500-7,000 per month

Job summary

OPTIONALITY COMPLIANCE PTE. LTD.

seeks a regulatory operations professional in Singapore to manage ongoing compliance obligations for a portfolio of fund management clients, including MAS filings and calendar management. You will coordinate with client finance teams, fund administrators and auditors, update compliance manuals, and monitor MAS notices, with opportunities for early responsibility and direct client contact.

Qualifications

• 2–6 years of experience in one of the following: Legal/regulatory in financial services or funds; accounting/audit with financial services exposure; fund administration; in-house compliance at a fund manager, broker, or bank; regulatory or risk consulting.

Responsibilities

• Regulatory filings and notifications for MAS activities and client changes.
• Maintain compliance calendars and trackers; flag overdue items and provide status updates.
• Update client compliance manuals and adapt to MAS notices, guidelines, and FAQs.
• Monitor MAS releases and relevant regulatory developments; draft alerts and internal notes.

Job description

The role

This is a regulatory operations role, not a KYC or transaction-monitoring role. We are seeing junior and mid-level hires that 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.

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 2-6 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 Hong 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$4,500-7,000 per month, depending on experience