About the Role:
As an Assistant Manager, you will take ownership of regulatory submissions and licensing workstreams, draft regulatory proposals, shape product and business descriptions, and bridge business, legal, and regulatory requirements. You will serve as a key regulatory and compliance partner for strategic projects, helping the business secure and maintain critical licenses while gaining exposure to complex transactions and senior stakeholders across the industry.
Responsibilities
Regulator Management & Engagement
- Lead the preparation of briefing materials, product and business descriptions, and responses to regulator queries across trading, clearing, custody, and payments businesses.
- Assess deal-specific regulatory considerations, including potential UBO changes, buyer introductions, source of funds and wealth, and regulatory financial resources requirements.
- Manage ongoing communications, follow-ups, commitments, and deliverables with regulators across multiple jurisdictions.
- Coordinate internal stakeholders to ensure regulatory responses are accurate, consistent, and delivered on time.
Licensing Proposals & Documentation
- Draft, review, and refine regulatory proposals, including product descriptions and flows, business rationales, risk disclosures, and governance frameworks.
- Manage licensing applications, modifications, notifications, and ongoing regulatory obligations.
- Maintain high-quality, regulator-ready documentation and ensure consistency across submissions.
- Identify regulatory gaps and proactively drive the necessary remediation or clarification.
Internal Collaboration
- Partner closely with business, trading, product, and payments teams to understand product mechanics—including options, derivatives, and payment flows—and translate them into clear regulatory submissions.
- Collaborate with Legal and Compliance on policies and controls linked to relevant licenses.
- Review documentation prepared by Legal and Compliance to ensure it remains practical and workable for business and payments teams.
- Provide regulatory guidance to project teams and senior stakeholders.
- Monitor market and regulatory developments and conduct deal-specific compliance and licensing research when required.
- Manage multiple regulatory workstreams independently and escalate key risks appropriately.
Qualifications
- At least 5 years of relevant experience within an exchange, financial regulator, derivatives desk, structured products team, payment service provider, fintech, or crypto firm. Candidates from MAS will also be considered.
- Demonstrated experience independently preparing or coordinating regulatory submissions, licensing applications, and responses to regulator queries. Experience engaging with MAS is highly preferred.
- Strong understanding of options and derivatives is an advantage, with the ability to translate complex product mechanics into clear regulatory and business language.
- Commercially minded and comfortable operating at the intersection of business, product, legal, compliance, and regulation.
- Strong analytical, drafting, and written communication skills, particularly in business plans, product descriptions, and regulator-facing materials.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to work with senior business leaders, regulators, Legal and Compliance teams, and external advisers.
- Fluency in English and Mandarin, both written and spoken, is mandatory.
- Strong ownership and project-management capabilities, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment.
- Hands-on, detail-oriented, and willing to roll up your sleeves to drive outcomes.