Role Purpose
This role is responsible for the overall financial management, control, and governance of the private funds, ensuring high-quality, timely financial and investor reporting, robust risk and compliance oversight, effective capital management, and coordination with internal and external stakeholders.
The role supports investment and divestment activities, oversees fund lifecycle events, and reinforces a strong control, ethics, and risk culture across the platform.
Key Responsibilities
1. Fund Financial Management & Reporting
Ensure accurate, timely, and high-quality financial reporting, investor deliverables, and regulatory submissions for all assigned private funds.
Work closely with the Portfolio Managers to ensure quarterly investor reporting is completed timely.
Oversee fund accounting activities, including NAV calculations, capital accounts, and financial statements.
2. Capital Management & Fund Operations
Manage capital calls, distributions, and related investor communications for the various funds.
Manage cashflow requirements of fund and underlying investments across the portfolio.
Oversee fund liquidation processes, including the liquidation of legacy funds and corresponding GP entities, ensuring orderly wind-down and compliance with all obligations.
Review funding structures, monitor and manage interest rates and FX hedging exposures across the portfolio.
3. Investment, Divestment & Transaction Support
Provide financial and structuring support for investment and divestment transactions across funds.
Assist in refinancing processes for portfolio assets, including coordination with lenders, advisors, and internal stakeholders.
4. Risk Management & Controls
Review and enhance risk management reporting and assessments, including updating hedging strategies for funds as required.
Reinforce a strong risk, ethics, and governance culture across the team and outsourced service providers.
Ensure adequate insurance coverage is maintained for funds and underlying assets.
5. Compliance & Governance
Work closely with the Risk and Compliance to ensure all compliance requirements are performed, documented, and monitored appropriately.
Monitor the performance and service quality of outsourced service providers (e.g., fund administrators, tax agents).
Ensure tax compliance across funds by reviewing tax advice, ensuring proper documentation, and coordinating filings.
Minimum 15 years of relevant experience in fund finance, asset management, or real estate investment management.
Strong experience in fund structures, capital calls/distributions, and investor reporting.
Experience supporting transactions, refinancing, and fund lifecycle events (including liquidation) is essential.
Strong understanding of the relevant Accounting Standards and proficient in financial analysis, financial controls, tax, and regulatory requirements.
Solid knowledge of risk management, hedging strategies, and capital structures.
Proven ability to manage service providers and outsourced functions.
High attention to detail with strong control mindset.
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
Ability to work cross-functionally
Demonstrated commitment to ethics, governance, and risk culture.
Skills Required
- Minimum 15 years of relevant experience in fund finance, asset management, or real estate investment management.
- Strong experience in fund structures, capital calls/distributions, and investor reporting.
- Experience supporting transactions, refinancing, and fund lifecycle events (including liquidation).
- Strong understanding of relevant Accounting Standards and proficiency in financial analysis, financial controls, tax, and regulatory requirements.
- Solid knowledge of risk management, hedging strategies, and capital structures.
- Proven ability to manage service providers and outsourced functions.
- High attention to detail with a strong control mindset.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Ability to work cross-functionally.
- Demonstrated commitment to ethics, governance, and risk culture.
What We Do
Keppel is a global asset manager and operator with strong expertise in sustainability-related solutions spanning the areas of infrastructure, real estate and connectivity. Headquartered in Singapore, Keppel operates in more than 20 countries worldwide, providing critical infrastructure and services for renewables, clean energy, decarbonisation, sustainable urban renewal and digital connectivity. Keppel creates value for investors and stakeholders through its quality investment platforms and diverse asset portfolios, including private funds and listed real estate and business trusts, and has a total portfolio with more than S$65 billion of assets under management.
