Manager - Financial Services

Flint is a leading advisory firm, serving clients who are managing issues around regulation, policy and politics. We are looking for a Manager with experience in financial services public policy to support the delivery of client work and business development across our fast-growing Asia-Pacific team based in our Singapore office.

This will involve working closely with senior team members across Flint to advise clients on public policy, politics, regulation, and commercial strategy. Flint’s clients want to understand, in detail, how they can build a long-term strategy to thrive commercially in a changing and increasingly uncertain policy environment across the region. 

You will have scope to engage with clients at the most senior levels – including Executive teams and, at times, Board members – and across a wide range of firm types within the sector, from traditional asset managers and banks to data providers and digital finance platforms. The role will provide an unparalleled opportunity to research and analyse the complex policy challenges our clients face and develop options and approaches to address those challenges, backing up recommendations with wider strategic and political analysis. 

Flint provides an excellent professional and educational environment for people to accelerate their personal and career development. There will be space to engage in discussion and debates on substantive policy and political challenges, as well as significant scope for progression through the company. 

Working in Singapore, you will join a growing regional team, with the opportunity to take ownership of tasks and contribute to the company’s rapid growth in the region.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR 

We are looking for candidates who have particular experience in the financial services sector. We welcome any candidates with experience working for government institutions or regulators. We are also open to candidates from commercial backgrounds, including major consulting houses, with a keen interest in politics, policy and regulation. For manager-level roles, we are looking for candidates with 3-6 years’ work experience. 

Our ideal candidate will have:

• Strong experience in financial services policy fields such as pensions, payments, fintech, crypto, investment management, banking, market access and development with a demonstrated ability to advise on complex regulatory and policy challenges in these areas
  

• A professional background in government, a regulator, consultancy, think tank, or industry body in managerial positions
  

• Excellent analytical, research and problem-solving skills - the ability to quickly dive into new topics and draw out the implications of complex evidence and analysis to give clear strategy and policy advice
  

• A proven track record of managing projects in a fast-paced, delivery-focused environments
  

• Good organisational skills including the capacity to prioritise, plan and schedule complex tasks proactively, and to comfortably work under pressure and to tight deadlines
  

• Commercial acumen, with the ability to identify new business opportunities and deliver commercially viable solutions to clients
  

• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to provide clear, concise advice to stakeholders, both in written and verbal forms
  

• A collaborative style, with a desire to work in teams to deliver the best outcomes for our clients.
  


• Fluency in English is . Aptitude in other regional languages is desirable but not (in particular, Mandarin, Korean, Japanese or Bahasa). 
  

TO APPLY 

To be successful, please submit your CV with a short cover letter (max 600 words) by Sunday 8 June, setting out:

• Why you would like to join Flint
  

• How your experience aligns with the requirements of this role
  

• Specific financial services policy areas you are knowledgeable in and have experience with
  

• Your possible start date and salary expectations.
  

We will review applications as they arrive and may invite candidates to interview before the closing date.

ABOUT FLINT 

Flint is a leading global strategy consultancy. We are advisers to some of the largest corporates, financial institutions, and investors in Europe and the Asia-Pacific. We work at the point where government and business meet, drawing on our blend of international expertise and experience to offer an authoritative perspective on both.

We work with organisations affected by political, policy, or regulatory change. Our clients are senior executives looking to improve the trajectory of their business, or to achieve commercial outcomes through policy or regulatory change. Flint helps them to drive their businesses forward. We have offices in London, Brussels, Hong Kong, and Singapore, as well as in a number of European capitals. We have also established a network of senior advisers across key Asia-Pacific markets. We offer successful candidates the opportunity to advance within the company.

Flint takes care of its people. We enjoy challenging each other’s thinking and working hard on a wide variety of interesting and stimulating projects, while simultaneously respecting life outside Flint. We offer a flexible working environment with global health insurance coverage and 25 days of holiday accrued from your start date. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.