Careers

Operations Intern (Custody)

Responsibilities

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  • Check and ensure timely recording/process of all investment transactions and scrutinize daily trades submitted by financial advisory firms and financial institutions
    
  • Follow up in resolution of trade discrepancy to ensure accuracy and completeness of daily transactional and settlement
    
  • Handle transactional process and trades placement with Fund Managers
    
  • Provide general administration and support to Operations departments.
    
  • Additional/ ad-hoc duties may be assigned by Team Manager when required
    

Requirements:

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  • Possess a Diploma or currently pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree
    
  • Knowledge of MS Word and Excel is a must
    
  • Detailed, meticulous and able to work well in a fast pace environment
    
  • Ability to collaborate with cross-functional, interdisciplinary teams to achieve tasks under tight schedule
    
  • Strong sense of responsibility with strong analytical and organizational skills
    
  • No prior experience is needed
    
  • Available and able to commit for a duration of 3 months
    
  • Internship allowance ranges from $900 - $1,200
    
  • Suitable for students on school vacation or waiting to enrol into schools
    

Operations Intern (Corporate Action)

Responsibilities

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  • Handling and processing of corporate action events
    
  • Reconciliation of shareholdings against external custodians and administrator’s records for stocks product
    
  • Provide general administration and support to Operations departments
    
  • Additional/ ad-hoc duties may be assigned by Team Manager when required
    

Requirements:

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  • Possess or currently pursuing a Diploma/ Bachelor’s Degree
    
  • Independent, driven, resourceful and meticulous
    
  • No prior experience is needed
    
  • Available and able to commit for a duration of 3 months
    
  • Internship allowance ranges from $900 - $1,200
    
  • Suitable for students on school vacation or waiting to enrol into schools
    

Settlements Operations Analyst

Responsibilities

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  Problem-solving is in your blood? You are wanted!
  As a Settlements Operations Analyst, you will support and assist the Settlements Assistant Director with evaluating and developing changes that improves efficiency and effectiveness across the team.
  
  
  • Identifying and solving issues relating to the performance of Settlement Operations
    
  • Finding elegant solutions to daily operational processes’ challenges to ease any possible roadblocks
    
  • Cash management support
    
  • Bank reconciliation support
    
  • Partake in end to end Project management for team – project scoping, planning, attending meetings right up to UAT and Live deployments.
    
  • Understand the business drivers and ensure projects deliver real business value.
    
  • Actively manage stakeholder relationships.
    
  • Proactive in taking ownership and is accountable for the full project lifecycle.
    
  • Ensures quality assurance on system enhancements
    
  • Timely reporting to all relevant stake holders
    
  • Any other assignments as delegated
    
    

Requirements:

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  • Degree in Banking & Finance, Business Information System, Business Management or equivalent
    
  • Proficient in Microsoft Excel preferred
    
  • Demonstrated eye for details and strong numerical competency
    
  • Strong communication skills both oral and written
    
  • Strong analytical and investigative skills
    
  • Excellent time management and enjoys finding solutions to problems
    
  • Possesses good sense of urgency and initiative
    
  • Good team player yet able to work independently
    
  • Candidates without working experience or less than 1 year of working experience are also welcomed to apply.
    
    

Corporate Communications Executive / Senior Executive

Responsibilities

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  • Job scope covers corporate communication, investor relations and sustainability
    
  • Assist in the preparation of quarterly results announcements and production of Annual Reports and Sustainability Reports
    
  • Organise and support investors/shareholders/media meetings and briefings, including quarterly results announcement briefing, General Meetings (AGM, EGM), conferences, roadshows and other adhoc meetings
    
  • Provide support for sustainability reporting matters, including data tracking and stakeholder engagement initiatives
    
  • Maintain the corporate website and social media account (LinkedIn, Youtube and etc.)
    
  • Provide support for Internal Communications tasks and activities, such as CSR initiatives and other internal events
    
  • Assist in any other external communications or investor relations related projects or tasks assigned
    

Requirements:

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  • Minimum Bachelor Degree in Communications, Finance, Business or other related discipline with 1-3 years’ experience
    
  • Prior experience in corporate communications or investor relations with listed companies or agencies preferred but not necessary
    
  • Strong command of spoken and written English, good writing, editing and copywriting skills; ability to write and conversant in Chinese language to liaise with Chinese speaking associates
    
  • Possess effective communication and interpersonal skills to build effective relationships with both internal and external stakeholders
    
  • Meticulous, ability to multi-task, while still being able to pay attention to details
    
  • Proficient in Microsoft Applications (Word, Excel, Powerpoint etc), knowledge of design or other video editing software will be a plus
    

Legal Counsel

Responsibilities

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  • Provide advisory to various business units and functions, such as in areas relating to contracts, intellectual property rights, trust law, employment law, SGX listing rules, etc.
    
  • Draft, review and/or negotiate a broad range of commercial agreements, particularly in the area of banking and financial services
    
  • Manage any litigation or contentious matters that may arise from time to time
    
  • Monitor and advise stakeholders on possible legal risk and provide mitigation strategies
    
  • Instruct and manage the work of external legal counsel as needed
    
  • Trust drafting and vetting
    
  • Work closely with other in-house counsels within the Group based overseas on matters of common / related interest
    
  • Covers mainly Singapore, Hong Kong and United Kingdom businesses
    
  • Additional/ ad-hoc duties may be assigned when required
    

Requirements:

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  • Bachelor of Laws (Second Upper / First Class)
    
  • A practicing lawyer (called to Singapore Bar) with 3 to 5 years of experience
    
  • Banking & finance and M&A experience will be an added advantage
    
  • Keen interest in banking and financial products and services
    
  • Driven, hands-on, self-motivated and not afraid to take on new and more challenges
    
  • Proficient in Chinese language, as the group has business activities in Mainland China as well
    

Operations Executive (Corporate Action)

Responsibilities

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  • Handling and processing of corporate action events which include drafting of correspondences to our end clients & business partners.
    
  • Assess and prioritize the daily assigned workload to ensure accurate and timely completion of work.
    
  • Review and process new issue eligibility requests for all sub issue types as well as all other operational tasks supported by the department.
    
  • Understand the policies, procedures, systems, and controls that govern and support the department.
    
  • Ensures strict adherence to procedures and critical time frames in order to meet departmental benchmarks and processing deadlines.
    
  • Contributes to activities outside the day-to-day operational processing which may include audits and other types of initiatives and exercises.
    

Requirements:

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  • Degree with 1-2 years experience, preferably in the financial services industry
    
  • Good knowledge of MS Word and Excel is a must
    
  • Detailed, meticulous and able to work well in a fast pace environment
    
  • Possess the ability to aligns risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately
    
  • Availability to work early and late shifts as well as weekends and Singapore Holidays as needed
    

Senior Executive, Compliance

Responsibilities

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  • Perform compliance reviews and assessments on targeted compliance issues, investigations or potential problems
    
  • Keep abreast of developments and changes in regulations governing the capital market and financial advisory industry
    
  • Plan, develop, monitor, revise and implement the Company’s compliance initiatives in response to such changes
    
  • Preparation of various reports for submission to regulators/authorities, internal and external parties
    
  • Facilitate compliance-related training for staff and directors and promote compliance culture within the Company
    
  • Additional/ ad-hoc duties may be assigned when required, such as user acceptance testing for compliance-related projects, etc
    

Requirements:

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  • A good degree in Accountancy, Business, Banking & Finance or Law
    
  • Minimum 2-3 years of compliance experience in the asset/fund management sector
    
  • Strong understanding of regulations affecting business operations, which include but are not limited to the Securities and Futures Act (SFA), Financial Advisers Act (FAA) and Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA)
    
  • Good command of English and communication skills
    
  • Independent, driven, resourceful and meticulous
    
  • High sense of responsibility and integrity
    
  • Strong interpersonal and analytical skills
    

Operations Executive (Custody)

Responsibilities

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  • Check and ensure timely recording/process of all investment transactions and scrutinize daily trades submitted by financial advisory firms and financial institutions
    
  • Comfortable with liaising with external counterparties, including Banks and Fund Managers
    
  • Follow up in resolution of trade discrepancy to ensure accuracy and completeness of daily transactional and settlement
    
  • Coordinate with various parties to ensure compliance in all operational areas
    
  • Reconciliations processing, data population and identifying irregularities during project testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
    
  • Provide general administration and support to operations department
    
  • Assisting Team manager in adhoc duties
    

Requirements:

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  • Degree with 1-2 years experience, preferably in the financial services industry
    
  • Knowledge of MS Word and Excel is a must
    
  • Detailed, meticulous and able to work well in a fast pace environment
    
  • Ability to collaborate with cross-functional, interdisciplinary teams to achieve tasks under tight schedule
    
  • Strong sense of responsibility with strong analytical and -organizational skills
    
  • Must be willing to work on overtime when required
    
  • Candidates without working experience are encouraged to apply
    

iGM Investment Adviser

Responsibilities

• Many people avoid adviser-assisted financial planning due to a lack of trust. iFAST Global Markets (iGM) is an investment advisory business launched to tackle this issue head-on – by giving clients full commission transparency in insurance and investment products. Advisers on iGM share a common goal – to provide transparent, ethical and suitable advice to benefit their clients. With us, you will be empowered with FinTech to provide personalised wealth management solutions and develop a personal wealth management hub.
  
  
  
  We are looking for someone:
  
  • To provide personalised wealth management solutions to clients and help them grow their assets
    
  • To recommend a range of wealth management products (unit trusts, ETFs, direct bonds, stocks, insurance) to fulfil clients’ needs
    
  • To actively source for new clients on your own initiative
    
  • To service clients acquired by the company’s lead generation capabilities
    
  • Keep abreast of customer needs and investment market trends
    
  • Deliver effective and efficient support to clients, within and beyond office hours
    
  • Additional/ ad-hoc duties may be assigned when required
    

Requirements:

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  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written
    
  • Client-oriented, pleasant, meticulous and obliging disposition
    
  • Strong interest in investment products. Candidates with the relevant experience will have an added advantage.
    
  • Holds either one of the following qualifications:
    
  • A full certificate in GCE ‘A’ Level;
    
  • An International Baccalaureate Diploma qualification;
    
  • A diploma awarded by a polytechnic in Singapore; or
    
  • Any other academic qualification equivalent to the qualifications above
    
  • Certificates or exemptions from the following CMFAS/IBF modules will be advantageous: M1A, M5, M6, M6A, M8, M8A, M9, M9A
    
  • Candidates without working experience are encouraged to apply
    
  • Solely on an attractive commission base scheme structure
    

Securities Dealer, Securities Dealing

Responsibilities

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  • Perform execution orders for fixed income and listed securities (Stocks, ETFs, DLCs, Structured Warrants) on global exchanges
    
  • Generate fixed income/ ETFs/stocks ideas
    
  • Conduct presentations and training
    
  • Service and support company's existing customers
    
  • Involve in the development of securities trading solution and enhancement of process flow
    
  • Set up new market access to global stock exchange and new counterparties
    
  • Involve in Product Development and ad-hoc duties as required
    
  • Additional/ ad-hoc duties may be assigned when required
    

Requirements:

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  • Degree with 1 or 2 years of experience in securities dealing in stockbroking industry preferred
    
  • Holder of Representative Licence with MAS and those with an existing portfolio of stock trading clients will be an advantage
    
  • Strong interest in the stock market and investment products
    
  • Highly driven and self-motivated
    
  • Able to handle clients independently, excellent interpersonal skills and resourceful
    
  • Candidates without working experience are encouraged to apply
    
  • Must be willing to work on rotational night desk support and on Singapore Public Holidays, shift allowance payable
    

Research Analyst

Responsibilities

• The Research Analyst will primarily be responsible for generating investment ideas in his/her assigned area of market coverage, and communicating these ideas to the investing public predominantly through original research articles and presentations.
  
  
  
  • Conduct fundamental research within assigned area of market coverage using publicly available information sources, including financial statements, company annual reports, published research, and online databases
    
  • Generate high-conviction investment ideas (including stocks, unit trusts, and ETFs) across various geographical markets and/or sectors. Work with other members of the research team to evaluate a comprehensive range of active and passive products
    
  • Communicate these ideas to the investing public, as well as internal stakeholders, through various channels, including original research articles and seminar presentations
    
  • Participate in discussions and contribute ideas to portfolio decision-making within the team’s disciplined investment process
    
  • Additional/ ad-hoc duties may be assigned when required
    

Requirements:

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  • Bachelor degree holder in a related discipline (accountancy, finance or business administration), preferably with at least one year of investment research experience. Fresh graduates with the right aptitude and attitude are welcomed to apply for this position.
    
  • Strong analytical skills, with a deep understanding of financial statements and equity valuation methodologies. Able to distil large amounts of information into an investable thesis
    
  • Excellent command of both spoken and written English, with a great story-telling ability
    
  • Demonstrated interest in and passion for investing
    
  • Able to multi-task and meet constant deadlines
    

Applicants are invited to email us a comprehensive resume with qualifications, skills and working experience, and expected salary to The Human Resource Manager at recruitsg@ifastfinancial.com

All applications will be treated in strict confidence. We regret that only shortlisted applicants will be notified. Applicants who have written to us earlier need not re-apply.

Note: Job responsibilities/requirements are representative and are not intended to be a detailed list. Other tasks/abilities may be required of the incumbent, relative to the specific assignment.