Senior Expansion Associate (Senior / Associate)

MOBIVERSA PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Mobiversa pte. ltd. in Singapore is seeking a Senior Expansion Associate to help stand up new corridors across Southeast Asia.

You will work directly with the Head of Expansion to conduct market research, evaluate opportunities, and coordinate regulatory, licensing, and entity-setup workstreams with internal and external stakeholders. This role emphasizes turning unstructured inputs into clear, decision-ready recommendations.

Qualifications

• 2-6 years of experience in market-entry, regulatory, or partnerships/BD, analyst or consulting backgrounds.
• Structured: turns unstructured inputs into decision-ready recommendations.
• Problem solver: curious and resourceful, with the ability to independently research topics.
• Comfortable operating in fast-changing environments.
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional work.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Payments, fintech, or Southeast Asia market experience preferred.
• Willingness to travel occasionally.

Responsibilities

• Conduct market, competitor, and host research to evaluate new opportunities.
• Support partner sourcing, evaluation, onboarding, and activation across new markets.
• Coordinate regulatory, licensing, and entity-setup workstreams with internal and external stakeholders.
• Compare and structure inputs such as legal opinions, consultant proposals, commercial terms, and market assessments into clear, decision-ready recommendations.
• Work with Legal & Compliance, Finance, Product, external counsel, and other relevant teams to drive market-entry initiatives.
• Coordinate contracts, documentation, and operational readiness activities while tracking multiple workstreams and stakeholder dependencies.
• Support the Head of Expansion on strategic projects, identifying risks, blockers, and opportunities as they arise.

Skills

Market analysis

Regulatory navigation

Stakeholder management

Synthesis & research

Project management

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical thinking

Travel readiness

Data tracking

Tools

AI productivity tools

Job description

About the Role

Mobi is building payments infrastructure across Southeast Asia. As a Senior Expansion Associate, you'll work directly with the Head of Expansion to help stand up new corridors across the region.
This is an expansion role: depending on the priority, you may be conducting research related to a new market, reaching out to the hosts available,comparing/sourcing for legal advisory or consultant quotes or coordinating a partner from first conversation towards live across teams. You take unstructured inputs and turn them into clear, decision-ready recommendations. This particular seat leans toward the regulatory and market-groundwork, for the expansion team, working with our entity-setup / internal and external counsel and any other cross-stakeholders.

Your responsibilities may include:

• Conduct market, competitor, and host research to evaluate new opportunities.
• Support partner sourcing, evaluation, onboarding, and activation across new markets.
• Coordinate regulatory, licensing, and entity-setup workstreams with internal and external stakeholders.
• Compare and structure inputs such as legal opinions,consultant proposals, commercial terms, and market assessments into clear, decision-ready recommendations.
• Work with Legal & Compliance, Finance, Product, external counsel, and other relevant teams to drive market-entry initiatives.
• Coordinate contracts, documentation, and operational readiness activities while tracking multiple workstreams and stakeholder dependencies.
• Support the Head of Expansion on strategic projects,identifying risks, blockers, and opportunities as they arise.

What We're Looking For:

• 2-6 years of experience in market-entry, regulatory, or partnerships/BD, analyst or consulting backgrounds.
• Structured: takes unstructured inputs (data, quotes,frameworks) and turns them into decision ready recommendations.
• Problem solver: Naturally curious and resourceful, with the ability to independently research topics and solve problems.
• Comfortable operating in fast-changing environments.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to work cross-functionally.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Payments, fintech, or Southeast Asia market experience is preferred; hunger, adaptability and problem solving are non-negotiable.
• Opportunity to travel occasionally when required

Essential Skillsets:

• Market and competitive analysis
• Regulatory & counsel navigation/coordination
• Research & synthesis
• Contract & document coordination
• Partner lifecycle management
• Project and workstream management
• Stakeholder management
• Data tracking & structured reporting
• AI productivity tools proficiency