Legal and Compliance Manager for fast-growing International Asset Management Business recruitment

This is an exciting opportunity with a fast-growing Asset Manager in Asia to manage and oversee their Legal and Compliance area in Singapore. The business is well-known in the Asia region, with several offices and presences throughout Asia but the business is also international with a strong global footprint.

 The business is a dynamic fund manager with plans to make Singapore it’s regional hub, so although the role will start out as a stand-alone position, within a couple of years you will have other direct reports with the first one likely to happen within 18 months. You need to be someone who can handle both the complex regulatory work as well as being someone who can roll up your sleeves and get involved with compliance matters such as AML and KYC.

The Assets will range from more highly regulated Equities and Fixed Income Assets to less regulated Alternatives, but you are a flexible and adaptable character able to take on both and turn your hand to new things. You can quickly analyse what the law requires and are able to interpret this into how to fit this to the business, to ensure the business is fully-compliant with local and regional requirements.

You must be a hands-on personality with a can do, positive approach to problem solving with regard to new regulations, setting up policy, implementing new processes and procedures and complex legal work relating the set up and management of Assets and Products within a fast changing and dynamic environment.

Key Skills and Knowledge required:

-          Excellent knowledge of MAS and CPs Regulation

-          Full grasp of Local Legal and Regulatory Framework on a range of Fund Products within an Asset Management business

-          Excellent knowledge of KYC and AML requirements, FCPA Policies, including: anti-bribery, money-laundering, and so on

-          Fully versant in the control, risk and compliance function within an asset management business

Ideal Candidate Profile:

-          3-6 years’ experience in a Legal or Compliance function

-          Qualified Lawyer ideally, but would consider a super Compliance Profile of someone who has been involved in Regulatory work and can best advise on Fund Products

-          Strong can-do attitude, mature and flexible character and someone keen to progress, ability to talk to people at all levels

-          Excellent English plus other regional languages a clear bonus