Singapore Accounting Manager

**A Career with Point72’s Finance Team**

The Finance team provides a broad range of timely, accurate, relevant, and objective financial information, advice, and services to its business partners, while adhering to the highest professional and ethical standards. The Finance team offers a dynamic environment where individuals can learn at a fast pace and are rewarded with challenging opportunities within Finance and across the Firm.

**What you’ll do**

As the Singapore Accounting Manager, you will be responsible for corporate accounting matters for Point72 Singapore and other Asia-based entities as needed. You’ll join a diverse and global team of problem solvers, innovators, and analytical thinkers as we maintain high standards for business service and help position the Firm for the future. Specifically, you will:

- Be responsible for all aspects of the accounting requirements for the Firm’s Singapore management company, including performing and overseeing:

- Day-to-day and month-end accounting processes
- Annual financial statement audit process
- Tax filings in coordination with the Tax team
- Regulatory and other statutory reporting, including periodic filings with the MAS in Singapore
- Compliance with regulatory capital, tax, and other requirements
- Forecasting and strategic initiatives
- Think dynamically, collaboratively, strategically, and globally to help the team manage risk, enhance processes, and solve problems
- Provide thought leadership on emerging accounting, regulatory, and tax topics
- Continuously improve processes to increase efficiencies, enhance controls, and create additional employee capacity
- Provide superior customer service through financial transparency, anticipating future requirements, proactive recommendations, and partnerships with other departments and functions which lead to successful results for the Firm
- Interact frequently and develop close relationships with senior members of the U.S. and international management teams, as well as regulators and local accounting, legal, and tax firms
- Present financial updates and strategic initiatives at board meetings for our APAC management companies and local and international management committees
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with Point72’s auditors and advisory firms in all APAC locations.

**What is required**

We’re looking for a highly motivated professional with big ideas, who wants to make an impact, and who will help drive a culture of integrity and excellence. This role requires you to serve as a strategic partner while also rolling up your sleeves and doing the work. Here’s what else you’ll need:

- 5-7 years of accounting experience including IFRS, local GAAP, and accounting policy
- Work flexibility to accommodate communication with the U.S. and European-based counterparts periodically
- Undergraduate or graduate degree in accounting
- Experience with regulatory reporting for regulated companies in Singapore
- Experience managing accounting processes in foreign currencies
- Highly proactive and organized
- Exceptional project management skills and the ability to properly prioritize and manage expectations of numerous stakeholders
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Strong data analysis skills/experience
- Strong experience with monthly close processes and process/systems re-engineering
- Ability to think “outside the box” while maintaining a high degree of internal control
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards

**We take care of our people**

We invest in our people, their careers, their health, and their well-being. When you work here, we provide:

- Health care benefits
- Generous parental and family leave policies
- Mental and physical wellness programs
- Tuition assistance
- Volunteer opportunities
- Support for employee-led affinity groups representing women, minorities and the LGBT+ community

**About Point72