Seeking an experienced Compliance Director with a buyside background to run the Singapore compliance function for a growing global fund.

Overview
Seeking an experienced Director of Compliance for the Asia region. As the Director of Compliance, the employee will report to the firm’s Head of APAC Compliance and would be responsible for development, implementation, management, and oversight of the firm’s Compliance program in relation to its’ business in the Asia region. The responsibilities will include providing compliance counsel to investment staff on research and trading related matters and regulations adopted by the SFC, JFSA, KFB, MAS and others, maintain a strong compliance presence within, and provide compliance oversight for, the regional offices, assist with the review of marketing materials, complete and submit regulatory filings and conduct compliance training for local HK and Singapore staffs.
 
In the role of Director, Compliance, the employee will be responsible for, among others, the following:

• Provide direct support to the Head of APAC Compliance to manage the compliance priorities for the APAC region;
• Maintain a strong compliance presence within, and provide compliance oversight for all regional offices in Asia;
• Provide research and trading related compliance counsel to the investment staff in relation to day to day business matters;
• Assist with enforcing compliance policies as it applies to the firm’s Asia business on a day to day basis;
• Monitor regulatory developments and stay ahead of them to update compliance policies and procedures as required
• Educate investment and non-investment staff with regard to trading related compliance requirements on an ongoing basis;
• Assist with surveillance, testing and other key parts of the compliance program and forensic testing to satisfy ongoing compliance obligations;
• Keep track of industry leading compliance practices and adopt and implement such practices to continually enhance the firm’s compliance program;
• Complete and submit regulatory filings with local regulators in a timely and high quality manner;
• Escalate matters to the global Compliance leaders and the regional Business leaders as necessary

 
Qualifications & Requirements:
In order to effectively represent the Company and communicate with clients, the employee must be someone who has:

• Minimum 10 years of relevant compliance experience working for Fund Managers and/or Regulatory Bodies in Asia.
• Within this, minimum 3 years of compliance experience working at a multi-strategy hedge fund.
• Broad set of responsibilities spanning investment compliance, business compliance, regulatory compliance and employee compliance.
• Strong familiarity with regulations related to insider trading, market manipulation and other forms of market misconduct.
• Experience communicating with regulators on behalf of the firm.
• Experience working on a variety of compliance software spanning employee requests, surveillance, archiving, analytics etc.
• Experience working closely with regional and global management teams.
• Experience managing a regional team of compliance officers.
• Bachelors Degree is a must. Masters Degree or CFA or other industry certifications are a plus.