Job Details

Finance Director opportunity reporting to the CFO of a highly successful digital assets / cryptocurrency trading business, founded by veteran traders from global investment banks. A critical leader in driving financial analysis, performance, and process re-engineering, this role oversees a Finance team in Singapore and has potential to succeed the CFO.

Our Client

Our client is a financial services firm specializing in the digital asset market. The partners of have all spent over twenty years in traditional financial services. They entered the crypto markets as early as 2014, when they began to make markets for one of the early blockchain projects. Leveraging that experience, this firm was launched in 2018 to provide a full suite of traditional financial services to institutions in the digital asset market.

 

Overall Goal of Position:

This Director will be responsible for financial analysis, performance, and process re-engineering to drive operational efficiencies and financial performance across the group. The Director will plug-in to portfolio company leadership roles as needed and have frequent interaction with the company’s founding partners. The Director will report directly to the CFO and serve as a critical leader of the operational team’s success. This position is an opportunity to become a critical operational leader with significant potential to become the CFO.

 

Your Day-to-day will include the following:

• This individual will lead and oversee the Finance team that supports the critical day-to-day accounting operations.
• Work with the business and IT to identify and implement tactical and strategic process improvements which enhance the efficiency and quality of the company’s financials.
• Report to the CFO and serve as part of the Finance leadership team with an emphasis on strategic input on the short and long-term direction of the Finance Shared Services organization. 
• Oversee month-end, half-year, and year-end close + production of Financial Statements and GL account reconciliations, including Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets, Accruals, Cash, and other intercompany transactions.
• Establish data driven to approach to driving prioritization of work by the Finance team
• Similarly, drive cross-company effort to establish data environment to better understand business results.
• Recruit and develop the Finance team members for the purposes of creating opportunities for the staff to develop within the Finance department and the wider company.

 

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field of study; CPA preferred or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum of 10 years of related accounting or financial experience and 5 years of management or lead experience in a Banking based ‘Sales and Trading’ environment.
• Strong knowledge of US GAAP and IFRS accounting principles and internal control procedures and compliance.
• Knowledge of SQL and Python
• Comfortable with ‘rolling up his/her sleeves’  to work in detail and well as contribute to the identification and implementation of decisions to JST’s most pressing challenges.

 

Interested candidates please submit your profile to ivan.tang@tangspac.com for a confidential discussion.