Fintonia Group is building a tech-enabled digital assets financial services platform, with offices in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, combining a strong background in traditional finance with disruptive technology.
You will be joining a fun and fast-paced environment and will be working with a small team of seasoned industry professionals with experience working at top tier global investment banks and industry leaders.
Fintonia Group has launched the first Bitcoin tracker fund managed by a Monetary Authority of Singapore licensed fund manager.
The Role:
This is a senior, internally-focused leadership role responsible for driving Fintonia's financial planning, enterprise performance management, operating rhythm, and business decision support.
The role acts as a strategic partner to the CEO, ensuring the organisation has the financial insight, operational discipline, and systems infrastructure required to scale. It also provides leadership across FP&A, budgeting, internal reporting, enterprise IT governance, and finance operations through the Finance Manager and Analyst.
This role is suited to a hands-on leader who is highly analytical, structured, and comfortable operating in a dynamic, high-change environment. It combines FP&A excellence, business partnering, operational leadership, and oversight of enterprise systems.
Key Responsibilities
Financial Planning, Analysis & Decision Support
- Lead Fintonia's budgeting and forecasting processes, including development of the full-year 2026 budget and multi-year financial plans.
- Maintain rolling forecasts with scenario analysis for revenues, expenses, headcount, cash, and runway.
- Build and maintain financial models to support key business decisions, including product economics, pricing, fundraising, and capital allocation.
- Partner with the Client Solutions team to analyse sales pipeline, conversion metrics, and revenue forecasts.
- Develop management dashboards that clearly track performance vs targets, drivers of variance, and forward indicators.
Performance Management & Organisational Rhythm
- Own the monthly and quarterly management reporting cycle, ensuring high-quality analysis of financial and operational performance.
- Drive the preparation, facilitation and follow-up of FEXCO meetings, ensuring clarity of actions, owners, and timelines.
- Co-lead the Gazelles (Scaling Up) planning and execution rhythm with Fintonia's external coach, including:
a. Annual and quarterly KPI/Rock planning
b. Progress tracking and reporting
c. Supporting leaders to deliver commitments
Enterprise Systems, IT Governance & Operational Enablement
- Oversee enterprise IT governance across Google Workspace, device security, access controls, and key enterprise systems.
- Work with the outsourced IT vendor to implement and monitor security standards, including endpoint protection, identity controls, and incident response processes.
- Partner with business stakeholders to enhance enterprise applications (e.g., CRM/Pipedrive, HRIS, finance systems), ensuring data quality, access controls and auditability.
- Lead improvement projects to streamline internal processes and strengthen operational resilience.
Finance Leadership & Oversight
- Lead the Finance Manager and Finance Analyst in delivering financial operations, including:
a. Month-end close and reconciliations
b. Accounts payable/receivable
c. Expense management
d. Payroll coordination
e. Tax compliance
f. Intercompany accounting
- Oversee financial controls, accounting policies, and transfer pricing documentation.
- Ensure banking relationships, mandates, and account controls are properly maintained.
- Provide support to Fund Operations on finance/accounting matters related to the funds.
Strategic Business Partner to the CEO
- Act as a 2IC to the CEO on internally-focused matters, helping drive clarity, structure, and accountability across the organisation.
- Translate strategy into operational plans, KPIs, dashboards and tracking mechanisms.
- Coordinate cross-functional initiatives that require alignment across Finance, Fund Operations, Investments, Compliance, and Client Solutions.
Qualifications & Experience
Technical & Functional Background
- 812+ years experience in FP&A, finance business partnering, strategic finance or similar analytical leadership roles.
- Strong financial modelling capability, including scenario planning and driver-based forecasting.
- Proven experience leading budgeting, forecasting and organisational performance cycles.
- Experience coordinating enterprise planning frameworks (e.g., OKRs, Gazelles, or similar).
- Prior oversight of financial operations teams preferred.
- Experience interacting with or managing enterprise IT governance is beneficial (no need to be technical).
Industry Experience
- Financial services experience beneficial (banking, asset management, payments, fintech), but not mandatory if FP&A and operational leadership capabilities are strong.
- Experience in high-growth or entrepreneurial environments desirable.
Leadership & Behavioural Attributes
- Highly structured, analytical, organised and detail-oriented.
- Strong communicator who can influence cross-functionally.
- Comfortable operating independently and partnering closely with the CEO.
- Hands-on leader able to guide and uplift a developing finance team.
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability.
Education
- Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business or related discipline.
- Professional qualification (CA/CPA/CFA or equivalent) is an advantage.
