Finance Director / CFO, Public Markets

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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