Finance & Business Operations Lead
Job Summary
We are looking for an entrepreneurial Finance & Business Operations Lead to manage day-to-day finance, accounting, payroll, and corporate administration. You will work closely with the leadership team to build scalable financial systems supporting rapid international growth and fundraising. This role requires a hands-on professional comfortable with ambiguity in a fast-paced 0-to-1 startup environment.
Responsibilities
- Manage bookkeeping and accounting operations using SaaS platforms
- Process monthly payroll, expenses, and reimbursements
- Handle accounts payable, receivable, and cash-flow monitoring
- Coordinate corporate secretarial matters and statutory filings
- Prepare monthly financial reporting, budgets, and forecasts
Required Skills
- Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or Economics
- 2 to 5 years of relevant professional experience
- Hands-on capability in bookkeeping, payroll, and corporate administration
- Experience with cloud-based accounting and SaaS platforms
- Excellent command of English
Job Details
The Role
We are looking for an entrepreneurial and highly hands-on Finance & Business Operations Lead partner to take ownership of the Company’s day-to-day finance, accounting, payroll, corporate administration, and related operating processes. You will work closely with the leadership team while building the systems and discipline required to support rapid international growth and related fundraising process.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage bookkeeping and accounting operations, using modern cloud-based and SaaS finance platforms.
- Process and coordinate monthly payroll, employee expenses, reimbursements, and related administration.
- Manage accounts payable and receivable, invoicing, payment processes, banking administration, and cash-flow monitoring.
- Coordinate corporate secretarial matters, statutory filings, board and shareholder documentation, and corporate records.
- Manage relationships with external accountants, auditors, payroll providers, banks, corporate secretaries, tax advisers, and other professional partners.
- Support tax, compliance, and regulatory requirements in Singapore and, as the footprint expands, other relevant jurisdictions.
- Prepare and improve monthly financial reporting, budgets, forecasts, management dashboards, and decision-support analysis.
- Establish simple, robust, and scalable finance processes, controls, policies, and administrative workflows.
- Select, implement, and optimize SaaS tools to automate finance and administrative processes wherever practical.
- Support the founder and leadership team on ad hoc financial, operational, and strategic projects.
- Contribute to fundraising processes and investor-related financial preparation, when required.
- Help build a finance and administration function capable of scaling across multiple markets and entities.
Your Profile
- Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related discipline.
- 2 to 5 years of relevant professional experience, ideally including a first experience in an international technology startup or similarly fast-paced environment.
- Exposure to an early-stage or 0-to-1 company environment is strongly preferred.
- Hands-on capability across bookkeeping, payroll, payments, corporate administration, and finance operations - not only financial analysis.
- Comfortable with cloud-based accounting, payroll, expense-management, and other SaaS platforms.
- Good understanding of Singapore finance, accounting, and corporate administration practices.
- Familiarity with venture capital, startup financing, and fundraising processes is a plus.
- Able and willing to travel frequently as required by the business.
- Excellent command of English; Mandarin is preferred, and French would be a plus.
The Person We Are Looking For
More than a traditional finance profile, we are looking for someone with an entrepreneurial mindset. You are curious, resourceful, pragmatic, and comfortable figuring things out when there is no established playbook. You create structure from ambiguity without introducing unnecessary bureaucracy.
- Entrepreneurial, proactive, and willing to take ownership.
- Curious about technology, AI, gaming, social media, entertainment, and emerging cultural trends.
- Highly organized and detail-oriented, with sound financial discipline.
- Comfortable operating at speed and switching between strategic thinking and hands-on execution.
- International in outlook and able to communicate effectively across cultures and locations.
- Discreet, reliable, and trusted with sensitive company, founder, employee, and financial information.