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About the Role
This senior role will own financial control, statutory reporting, and tax outcomes across Susquehanna’s Asia Pacific entities. You will provide leadership to the broader APAC accounting team, act as a key point of contact for auditors, tax authorities, and regulators, and partner directly with trading desks and business leaders on budgeting, forecasting, and financial performance. This is an opportunity to take broad ownership across a multi-jurisdictional finance function while helping shape its evolution as the APAC business scales.
Responsibilities
- Own financial control, statutory reporting and tax outcomes across Susquehanna’s APAC entities.
- Lead and develop the broader APAC accounting team, supporting capability development and effective delivery across the region.
- Oversee statutory financial reporting and tax compliance requirements across multiple APAC jurisdictions.
- Act as a key point of contact for external auditors, tax advisers, tax authorities and regulators.
- Partner with trading desks and regional business leaders on budgeting, forecasting and financial performance.
- Maintain effective financial controls and identify opportunities to strengthen processes, reporting and governance.
- Lead complex, cross-border finance initiatives across multiple entities and time zones.
- Drive automation and continuous improvement across finance systems, reporting tools and accounting processes.
- Work closely with regional and global finance stakeholders to ensure local requirements are delivered within the broader finance framework.
Requirements
- Degree and postgraduate professional qualification, such as CPA or CA, in a relevant field such as Finance or Accounting.
- 10–15 years’ post-qualification experience, ideally gained across the APAC region, including demonstrated experience managing or leading a finance or accounting team.
- Proven ownership of statutory financial reporting, tax compliance and external audit relationships across multiple jurisdictions.
- Financial services experience is essential, for example within proprietary trading, banking, broker-dealer, asset management or a similar environment. Direct trading firm experience is advantageous.
- Knowledge of securities products, including equities, futures, options and other OTC instruments, and an understanding of how they are priced and flow through financial and management accounts.
- Working knowledge of IFRS and local reporting standards across the APAC region, including relevant exposure to AASB, SFRS, HKFRS, Japan GAAP, Taiwan IFRS, Ind AS, PRC GAAP and US GAAP.
- Demonstrated experience managing senior stakeholder relationships, both internally with trading desks, business leaders and global finance teams, and externally with auditors, tax advisers and regulators.
- Experience or a strong interest in using AI tools to improve finance processes and analysis. Exposure to automation or coding, such as Python, VBA or similar, is highly desirable.
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills, with experience driving improvements to finance systems and reporting tools.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-border projects and manage competing deadlines across multiple entities and time zones.
Skills
- AI tools
- Automation
- Coding
- Python
- VBA
- Microsoft Excel
Location
- APAC
Work Type
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Senior
- 10-15 years post-qualification experience
Education Level
- Degree
- Postgraduate professional qualification (CPA or CA)
Benefits
- Private healthcare
- Gym allowances
- Wellness initiatives
- Additional leave entitlements (marriage leave, 2 bonus days annually)
- Fully stocked kitchen (daily breakfast and lunch)
- Regular social, sporting and community events
- Matched donations
- Corporate discounts
About the Company
- Susquehanna is a global quantitative trading firm powered by scientific rigor, curiosity, and innovation. Our culture is intellectually driven and highly collaborative, bringing together researchers, engineers, and traders to design and deploy impactful strategies in our systematic trading environment. To meet the unique challenges of global markets, Susquehanna applies machine learning and advanced quantitative research to vast datasets in order to uncover actionable insights and build effective strategies. By uniting deep market expertise with cutting-edge technology, we excel in solving complex problems and pushing boundaries together.
- Susquehanna’s deep integration of trading, technology and quant research makes us experts in trading essentially all listed financial products and asset classes, with a focus on derivatives. We handle millions of trading transactions around the world every day as both a market maker and market taker. Our efforts provide liquidity and ensure competitive prices for buyers and sellers. While our presence in the market is broad, our trading desks are highly specialized to allow for a deep understanding of the unique drivers of each asset class.
Equal Opportunity
- We encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds, and we welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure that you can best demonstrate your abilities.