Jobs at CLSA

Conduct primary equity research on financial companies across ASEAN markets, especially Singapore. Analyze market, economic, financial, and company trends; build valuation models; publish research reports; and communicate investment recommendations to institutional investors. Maintain relationships with clients, corporate entities, sales and trading teams, and internal stakeholders while responding to research requests and supporting investment initiatives.

Manage and develop the client prospecting pipeline, focusing initially on corporates and hedge funds. Prepare tailored prospecting materials, support investment profiling and risk assessments, and guide clients through onboarding and regulatory information requirements. Partner with Legal, Compliance, and product specialists to ensure compliant acquisition models, particularly for complex FICC products. The role requires strong communication skills, financial-services client development experience, global AML knowledge, and fluency in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese.

Performs functional and regression testing for Calypso releases, patches, and new functionality. Develops and maintains test cases, validates business requirements, coordinates with development and business teams, supports release planning, and investigates production issues. The role also documents testing, reports progress to stakeholders, identifies process improvements, and contributes to automation initiatives.

Lead FP&A, fund finance operations, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, treasury, audits, governance, compliance, valuation, and performance analytics across private equity funds and related entities. Manage investor reporting, cash flows, service providers, regulatory obligations, financial models, and fund-level returns analysis while partnering with investment, risk, tax, legal, and external advisory teams.

Business Analyst in Execution Services IT responsible for translating global equities trading business needs into IT solutions. Duties include gathering requirements, mapping processes, coordinating stakeholders and vendors, supporting financial and CRM applications, developing project plans, conducting feasibility studies, maintaining CI/CD pipelines, troubleshooting applications, and preparing user documentation and training. Requires equities execution, compliance, and execution management expertise, along with Java, SQL, FIX, Chronicle Queue, Linux, and English and Chinese communication skills.

Prepare financial statements, support month-end close and regulatory reporting, process vendor payments, manage treasury activities, analyze expenses, support audits, ensure tax compliance, and maintain internal controls. The role requires accounting or finance qualifications, 5–7 years of experience, strong Excel skills, local tax knowledge, communication, problem-solving, and attention to detail. SAP experience is advantageous.

Provides client onboarding and KYC support for the Sales team in a financial services environment. Responsibilities include collecting and screening client documentation, creating and maintaining accounts and client files, conducting annual reviews, reconciling records, managing GDPR-related documentation, supporting frontier-market onboarding, and preparing client statistics. The role also handles ad hoc client queries, coordinates with brokers, and provides information to front-office, compliance, and audit teams.

Oversee trade bookings, confirmations, reference data, reconciliations, and operational controls across middle-office workflows. Coordinate with traders, counterparties, customers, and global support teams to resolve trade-related issues. Manage BAU activities, authorize system releases, support projects, and identify process improvements. The role requires securities operations knowledge, strong analytical and organizational skills, risk awareness, and flexibility to work Asia, EU, or US shifts.

Develop and maintain front-office equity derivatives applications supporting trading, execution, market data, pricing, hedging, and risk management. Build scalable Python and TypeScript systems, integrate trading and market-data platforms, improve performance and reliability, and support production operations. Collaborate with traders, structurers, quantitative analysts, and technology teams while contributing to architecture, testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and incident resolution.

Provides regional HR support across Singapore and Southeast Asia, including recruitment, onboarding, transfers, relocations, terminations, employee documentation, training coordination, compensation communications, reporting, and policy guidance. Maintains accurate and confidential employee records while supporting HR Business Partners and delivering timely, high-quality client service. Coordinates HR processes, audits, approvals, compliance requirements, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Gather and analyze business requirements for securities and derivatives market-making operations. Translate needs into technical specifications, coordinate with developers on workflow and front-to-back system integration, assess exchange and regulatory impacts, and conduct pre-launch testing. Maintain functional and system documentation, support audit compliance, train operational teams, and ensure accurate, sustainable business processes across global markets.

Lead coverage of Vietnamese-listed companies, publish actionable equity research, build financial models and valuations, identify investment opportunities, and present recommendations to institutional investors. Track company, industry, policy, earnings, and macro developments while developing relationships with management teams, clients, and sales and trading partners. Contribute to thematic research, corporate access, investor events, and marketing activities.

Supports a Relationship Manager with wealth management client service, account opening, trading and corporate action inquiries, KYC and regulatory compliance, transaction processing, client instructions, reporting, documentation, presentations, expense claims, and administrative tasks. Maintains client records, resolves or escalates inquiries, supports client communications, and contributes to process improvements and ad hoc projects.

Grow Asian fixed-income distribution across Southeast Asia by onboarding institutional trading accounts, generating secondary bond trading activity, supporting primary deal placements, managing client pricing and relationships, resolving post-trade issues, and providing backup Singapore FICC sales coverage. The role also requires regulatory compliance, coordination with regional coverage and trading teams, and achievement of assigned sales budgets.

Monitor client trades across Asian equity markets, originate new business, manage key client relationships, prepare transaction cost analysis reports, communicate market updates, support client onboarding, handle requests, and provide feedback for trading system and algorithm improvements.

Lead complex database administration and escalations for PostgreSQL and MySQL environments. Ensure database integrity, availability, security, performance, backup, recovery, replication, patching, capacity planning, and migrations across development, staging, and production. Automate monitoring and proactive remediation, manage access permissions, support application teams, and coordinate with vendors and IT stakeholders. Participate in morning, night, weekend, and on-call support while providing technical guidance and potentially managing team members.

Manage the firm-wide business continuity and operational resilience framework, including governance, BCP documentation, business impact analyses, disaster recovery coordination, crisis exercises, testing, remediation, and continuous improvement. Partner with global IT and security stakeholders, track risks and KPIs, prepare dashboards, and present continuity status and testing outcomes to senior management while ensuring regulatory and audit alignment.

Supports mission-critical trading applications for NSE-IX GiftCity operations, serving as an SME and stakeholder contact for traders, business heads, regulators, and development teams. Responsibilities include 24x7 production support, monitoring, incident recovery, change and release management, IT audits, governance, data-center coordination, and on-call coverage. The role also provides Middle Office support for the Dolphin application and requires relocation to Gujarat.

Provide Level 1 and Level 2 production support for FICC and EQD front-to-back systems, including Calypso, TBricks, Imagine, and in-house applications. Responsibilities include incident management, monitoring, change configuration, documentation, business continuity drills, security and audit support, and deployment projects. The role mentors junior staff, performs rotating morning and weekend shifts, and supports business users across critical trading systems.

Supports financial crime compliance across Singapore entities and business lines. Responsibilities include AML/CFT risk assessments, transaction monitoring, suspicious transaction reporting, KYC reviews, client and vendor screening, control development, staff training, regulatory updates, audit support, issue escalation, and management reporting. The role advises business and support teams on AML/CFT requirements and ensures compliance with Singapore regulations, internal policies, and industry best practices.