About the Role
Join a dynamic team dedicated to providing investment services across private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and cross-strategy investment portfolios. This role serves as a finance controller, focusing on the finance, accounting, and reporting aspects of deal cycles, along with monitoring investment structuring and valuation for Americas private market investment teams.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with deal teams and stakeholders to assess valuation and operational considerations; coordinate financial due diligence throughout the acquisition and divestment process.
- Provide financial and operational input on holding structures and funding mechanisms; assess accounting and valuation impacts and execute implementation.
- Manage various work streams with internal stakeholders and external advisors during investment/divestment process.
- Prepare and review market valuation for private investments within corporate policies.
- Partner with the operations team to fulfill all operating requirements, liaising with banks on funding guidelines.
- Review financial controls for asset operations while liaising with external auditors.
- Oversee the organization and maintenance of the investment holding platform, including corporate secretarial and financial reporting.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accountancy or equivalent, ideally with CPA qualification.
- 6–8 years of relevant working experience, ideally gained at a Big 4 firm supporting direct private markets transactions or at an asset manager.
- Prior exposure to real estate transactions would be an advantage.
- A driven self-starter with strong initiative; hands-on and adept at managing multiple tasks.
- Confident in engaging with various stakeholders and capable of working independently to achieve results.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office applications.
- Practical working experience with accounting software systems.
Skills
- Finance
- Accounting
- Reporting
- Deal cycles
- Investment structuring
- Valuation
- Financial due diligence
- Holding structures
- Funding mechanisms
- Microsoft Office applications
- Accounting software systems
Location
- Americas
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Assistant Vice President
- 6-8 years
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accountancy or equivalent
- CPA qualification
Salary/Compensations
- $130,000 - $160,000
Benefits
- Bonus potential
About the Company
- GIC is one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds with over 2,000 employees across 11 offices globally.
- The Global Investment Services (GIS) Department provides strategic investment services and financial management for the Public and Private Markets within the GIC group.
- Leveraging data and emerging technologies, the department oversees the development and implementation of business infrastructural plans and operating models to scale GIC’s investments globally.
- We manage deal structuring, due diligence and closing, asset and portfolio monitoring, financial operations across GIC’s assets, as well as tax structuring, corporate holding structures, valuations, and financial reporting.
- Portfolio Investment Finance (PIF) provides comprehensive deal advisory, finance support, and treasury solutions across asset classes, ensuring every investment is rigorously evaluated and executed with financial discipline.
- PIF's portfolio and asset controllership capabilities encompass financial due diligence, oversight of asset-level financial operations, cash flow monitoring, and financial risk management.
- Complemented by financial analytics, PIF drives strong financial governance, effective financial management of investment entities, and delivers insights that protect and enhance investment performance.
- The treasury function within PIF manages and optimizes cash, mitigates financial risks, and provides tailored treasury solutions to enhance liquidity and optimize yields.
- We are forward-looking to attract the right people to help us become the Leading Global Long-term Investor.
- Join our ambitious, agile, and diverse teams - be empowered to push boundaries and pursue innovative ideas, share your views, and be heard.
- Anchored on our PRIME Values: Prudence, Respect, Integrity, Merit and Excellence, which guides us in how we make our day-to-day decisions.
- We strive to inspire. To make an impact.
- Our compensation philosophy reflects several principles: we strive to provide a competitive compensation package to attract and retain talent globally, and we pay for performance and reward sustainable results.
Equal Opportunity
- As an employer, we passionately believe every individual brings with them unique diversity of thought and perspectives to meaningfully enrich perspectives of GIC teams to drive competitive performance.
- An inclusive environment yields exceptional contribution.
