The role supports the daily Reporting work for the Company's brokerage business, working closely with Operations, IT, Compliance, Risk, counterparties and system vendors. The successful candidate will perform daily client-money segregation, regulatory filings, month-end closing and continuous process improvement.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Perform various daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly/annual regulatory reporting to the SGX & MAS.
- Perform reconciliations of upstream counterparty statements for the brokerage business.
- Perform month-end account closing activities and prepare monthly schedules for the relevant entities, including intercompany reconciliations.
- Execute daily trust and custody computations in compliance with the Securities and Futures (Licensing and Conduct of Business) Regulations (SF(LCB)R).
- Candidate must be familiar with the rules and requirement of SGX and MAS Risk-Based Capital framework.
- Handle yearly statutory audit - collate/prepare audit schedules, draft statutory accounts and respond to auditors' queries.
- Assist in budgeting, cash-flow forecasting and financial analysis, including collating information from departments and analysing actual-vs-budget variances.
- Perform any ad-hoc tasks as assigned.
Qualifications
- Diploma or Bachelor's degree in Accountancy, Finance, Banking or a related discipline.
- 3-6 years of experience in finance, accounting, reconciliations or audit; brokerage/fintech/bank/custodian experience is a plus.
- Professional qualification (ACCA/CPA/CA) or working towards is preferred.
- Hands-on experience with client-money or general-ledger reconciliations.
- Working knowledge of SGX RBC & MAS regulatory reporting (Forms 1, 2, 7, 8, 9 and Exposure Form) is an advantage.
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills (pivots, lookups, large-volume reconciliation); hands-on SAP knowledge is an advantage.
- Analytical, meticulous, independent and a collaborative team player, able to investigate issues independently.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and written skills in both English and Chinese (required), as the role works closely with Mandarin-speaking stakeholders at HQ.