Associate/Senior Associate, Product Accounting & Financial Control

Key Responsibilities

• Perform daily product accounting, trade validation, and reconciliations across multiple asset classes including Futures, Options, OTC Derivatives, Securities, and Fixed Income.
• Ensure accurate and timely posting of accounting entries, while investigating and resolving reconciliation breaks, exceptions, and accounting discrepancies.
• Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end financial close activities, including preparation of financial schedules and audit support.
• Assist in the preparation and submission of regulatory reports to MAS, SGX, clearing houses, and other relevant regulatory bodies.
• Maintain strong financial controls and ensure compliance with accounting standards, regulatory requirements, and internal policies.
• Leverage SQL, Python, Snowflake, and other data tools to automate reporting, reconciliations, and finance processes.
• Partner with Finance, Operations, Risk, Technology, and Front Office teams to enhance processes, controls, data quality, and system efficiency.
• Support management reporting, financial analysis, finance transformation initiatives, new product implementations, and process improvement projects.

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years of relevant experience in financial accounting, capital markets’ product accounting, regulatory reporting or financial control within the financial services industry.
• Prior experience in a bank, brokerage, futures commission merchant (FCM), clearing member, asset manager or financial institution will be highly advantageous.
• Strong understanding of accounting principles and financial reporting standards.
• Experience with statutory accounting and financial close processes.
• Experience preparing regulatory reports for MAS and/or SGX is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of Exchange Traded Derivatives (ETD), OTC Derivatives, Securities, Treasury or Capital Markets products will be a significant advantage.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with exceptional attention to detail.
• Able to converse, read and write in both English and Chinese languages.