Senior Compliance Officer

PORTCULLIS GLOBAL SERVICES PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Portcullis Global Services Pte. Ltd. in Singapore seeks a designated compliance officer to manage MAS and ACRA obligations across licensed trust and CSP activities.

You will be the on-ground guardian of regulatory compliance and drive day-to-day AML/CFT execution locally. In this role you will collaborate with the Head of Compliance in Kuala Lumpur, ensure entities toe the legal line, and leverage AI-enabled tooling to monitor, review, and report on compliance, CDD, and governance metrics within

Responsibilities

• Trust, Fiduciary & Corporate Services Compliance: oversee private trust, corporate trust, and CSP client administration to meet regulatory standards.
• Policy & Procedure Management: assist in updating Singapore and Group policies, manual frameworks, and internal directives.
• End-to-End Customer Due Diligence: perform onboarding CDD and ongoing monitoring to ensure regulatory alignment.

Job description

About the Group

Portcullis Group is one of Asia's largest independent trust, fund, and family office service providers - 40+ years, founded by David Chong ("the Guru of Asian Family Offices"), with licensed operations across Singapore, Hong Kong, Labuan/KL, and key offshore jurisdictions. The core of the Group's Singapore business are its licensed trust company and corporate service provider (CSP) entities, delivering private client trust, corporate trust, and fiduciary administration services to high-net-worth families, entrepreneurs, and institutional clients. Fusang, our sister group, is Asia's first fully-regulated digital securities exchange (Labuan FSA) and the pioneer of the world's first institutional tokenised sukuk.

Our group compliance function is being unified into a globally connected, AI-native team, led by our Head of Compliance in Kuala Lumpur. This role is the Singapore cornerstone of that team, and the designated compliance guardian of Portcullis's core Singapore trust and fiduciary business.

The Opportunity

As the designated compliance officer on the ground, you will hold key MAS and ACRA statutory facing roles and cover every statutory compliance role across all Singapore entities, with particular emphasis on the Group's licensed trust company and corporate service provider businesses. In this hands-on, execution-focused role, you will own day-to-day regulatory and AML/CFT execution locally. While group framework and direction are established by the Head of Compliance in Kuala Lumpur, you will keep operations impeccably on-side with regulators as a full member of a unified, AI-driven global team.

Key Responsibilities

1. Trust, Fiduciary & Corporate Services Compliance

Private Trust Oversight: Support the compliance framework for private client trust structures, including settlor and beneficiary due diligence, trust-deed review support, and ongoing monitoring of trustee discretion and distributions.

Corporate Trust & Fiduciary Administration: Oversee compliance for corporate trustee and fiduciary services, including nominee directorships, resident-director obligations, corporate service provider (CSP) client administration, and directors' fiduciary-duty considerations.

ACRA & CSP Licensing: Act as a key point of contact for ACRA on Corporate Service Provider licensing conditions and registered filing-agent obligations; ensure entity administration (incorporations, annual returns, statutory registers) meets ACRA standards.

2. Policy & Procedure Management

Framework Development: Assist in reviewing, updating, and implementing Singapore and Group-wide compliance policies, manuals, frameworks, and internal directives locally.

Risk Mitigation: Design and develop appropriate compliance risk management frameworks and systems to proactively identify and address potential risks.

Vendor Compliance: Prepare, update, and review Compliance Customer Due Diligence (CDD) questionnaires for intermediaries and service providers, ensuring engagements are aligned with the regulatory guidelines for outsourcing.

Internal Advisory: Serve as a subject matter expert by providing regular, clear updates to staff on evolving AML/CFT/CDD requirements. Partner pragmatically with the Singapore business to find the compliant path to "yes" while ensuring entities exactly toe the line legally at all times.

3. End-to-End Customer Due Diligence (CDD)

Onboarding: Perform thorough CDD on potential clients using research, industry data, and verified professional networks.

Ongoing Monitoring: Conduct regular, periodic reviews of existing client documentation to ensure continuous alignment with corporate and regulatory standards.

Guidance: Provides guidance and feedback to business units on potential client engagements.

4. Financial Crime & Reporting (MLRO Support)

STR Management: Review potential red flags and efficiently prepare and file Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs) when appropriate.

Ad-Hoc Reporting: Compile periodic compliance metrics and ad-hoc reports for Management and stakeholders. Escalated and feed Singapore regulatory developments up to the Chief Compliance Officer.

AI Tooling Adoption: Use AI and agentic tooling in day-to-day work-including CDD analysis, screening, monitoring, drafting policies and filings-and help extend that operating model to Singapore.

5. Regulatory Relations & Stakeholder Communication

Regulator Liaison: Serve as a key person and designated officer on the ground managing relationships with the MAS, ACRA, and PDPC, including coordinating inspections, responding to enquiries, licence-condition adherence, and regulatory filings.

Audit Support: Collaborate effectively with auditors (internal and external) and service providers during review cycles and when necessary.

Cross-Border Collaboration: Maintain open, seamless communication channels with internal business units and regional compliance teams across other offices, operating as the Singa