Finance Director / CFO - Public Markets Asset Management

Selby Jennings; Singapore; On-site; SGD 250,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

Selby Jennings is recruiting a Finance Director / CFO - Public Markets to lead the APAC finance function from Singapore, covering Singapore, Hong Kong, and China. You will partner with senior stakeholders across fund finance, reporting, governance, controls, and business partnering.

This newly created senior leadership role seeks a hands-on, commercially minded finance leader who can scale the platform across APAC while partnering with investors, auditors, and service providers to ensure timely,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics or a related field.
• Around 9 to 12 years of relevant finance experience in asset management, hedge funds, family offices, public markets platforms or investment environments.
• Strong hands-on finance background across fund finance, controllership, financial reporting, audits, controls, and external service provider management.
• Experience with fund administrators, auditors, advisors, investors, and senior internal stakeholders.
• Exposure to public markets, open-ended fund structures, equities, multi-asset strategies or investment platforms would be preferred.
• Experience operating across APAC or multi-jurisdictional environments would be advantageous.
• Big 4 to buy-side backgrounds, or finance professionals from investment platforms with strong operational finance exposure, would be well aligned.
• Mandarin capability would be beneficial but is not essential.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage confidently with senior stakeholders and investment teams.
• Hands-on, pragmatic, adaptable, and comfortable operating in a lean environment with broad ownership.
• Commercially minded, detail-oriented, and motivated by long-term platform building rather than title alone.

Responsibilities

• Lead and own the finance function for the APAC public markets business, covering Singapore, Hong Kong, and China.
• Act as the senior finance partner locally, supporting senior stakeholders and the investment team across finance, reporting, governance, and business planning matters.
• Manage and develop a lean finance team, with scope to build out the function as the platform continues to grow.
• Oversee fund finance operations, including NAV oversight, valuation governance, investor reporting, management reporting, and financial controls.
• Coordinate closely with fund administrators, auditors, advisors, and external service providers to ensure timely and accurate reporting.
• Oversee audits, regulatory reporting, compliance-related finance processes, and internal control frameworks.
• Strengthen finance processes, documentation, and governance standards as the business scales across the region.
• Partner with senior stakeholders across the investment platform to support portfolio oversight, operational execution, and longer-term planning.
• Provide commercial input on fund structures, scalability, operational improvements, and finance-related business decisions.
• Communicate financial matters clearly to both finance and non-finance stakeholders in a senior, practical, and commercially relevant manner.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Hands-on finance

Commercial mindset

Detail oriented

Lean environment

APAC experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance or related field

Job description

Our client is a global investment platform with a growing public markets asset management business across APAC. They are hiring a Finance Director / CFO, Public Markets to lead the regional finance function from Singapore, supporting senior stakeholders across fund finance, reporting, governance, controls, and business partnering.

This is a newly created senior finance leadership role within a lean and growing platform. The role would suit someone hands-on, commercially minded, and looking to step into broader regional ownership across Singapore, Hong Kong, and China.

Responsibilities for the Finance Director / CFO - Public Markets:

• Lead and own the finance function for the APAC public markets business, covering Singapore, Hong Kong, and China
• Act as the senior finance partner locally, supporting senior stakeholders and the investment team across finance, reporting, governance, and business planning matters
• Manage and develop a lean finance team, with scope to build out the function as the platform continues to grow
• Oversee fund finance operations, including NAV oversight, valuation governance, investor reporting, management reporting, and financial controls
• Coordinate closely with fund administrators, auditors, advisors, and external service providers to ensure timely and accurate reporting
• Oversee audits, regulatory reporting, compliance-related finance processes, and internal control frameworks
• Strengthen finance processes, documentation, and governance standards as the business scales across the region
• Partner with senior stakeholders across the investment platform to support portfolio oversight, operational execution, and longer-term planning
• Provide commercial input on fund structures, scalability, operational improvements, and finance-related business decisions
• Communicate financial matters clearly to both finance and non-finance stakeholders in a senior, practical, and commercially relevant manner

Requirements for the Finance Director / CFO - Public Markets:

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics or a related field
• Around 9 to 12 years of relevant finance experience, ideally within asset management, hedge funds, family offices, public markets platforms or investment environments
• Strong hands-on finance background across fund finance, controllership, financial reporting, audits, controls, and external service provider management
• Prior experience working with fund administrators, auditors, advisors, investors, and senior internal stakeholders
• Exposure to public markets, open-ended fund structures, equities, multi-asset strategies or investment platforms would be preferred
• Experience operating across APAC or multi-jurisdictional environments would be advantageous
• Big 4 to buy-side backgrounds, or finance professionals from investment platforms with strong operational finance exposure, would be well aligned
• Mandarin capability would be beneficial but is not essential
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage confidently with senior stakeholders and investment teams
• Hands-on, pragmatic, adaptable, and comfortable operating in a lean environment with broad ownership
• Commercially minded, detail-oriented, and motivated by long-term platform building rather than title alone

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