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Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Singapore, we bring e-commerce, point-of-sale and B2B payments (cards, PayNow, QR, digital wallets and local rails) into one platform, so merchants can accept, send and reconcile money across the region from a single account.\nMore than 15,000 businesses use HitPay. We are regulated in six markets and backed by Tiger Global, Y Combinator, Global Founders Capital and HOF Capital.\nAbout the role\nAs Financial Controller, you will be the most senior finance person at HitPay. You own the finance function end to end across our group entities: the books and close, merchant reconciliation, safeguarding, regulatory submissions and audit. You lead two Finance Operations Executives.\nThis is a hands-on role. You will be in the reconciliations, the ledger and the numbers yourself, not reviewing from a distance.\nYou will also work closely with the CEO as a genuine business partner. When a question comes up about unit economics, take rate, cost to serve or the margin on a payment method, you are the person who knows the answer and can show the working.\nWhat you'll own\nBooks and close\nRun the monthly and annual close across all group entities: accurate books, closed on time, every month.\nMaintain the general ledger, intercompany positions, FX translation, revenue recognition and accruals.\nProduce management accounts and the reporting pack for the CEO, board and investors.\nMerchant reconciliation and settlement\nOwn daily and monthly reconciliation across acquirer and scheme settlement, our internal ledger, merchant payouts and the bank.\nOwn the merchant payable position: know what we owe merchants at any point in time, and be able to prove it.\nRoot-cause and clear breaks at source rather than carrying them forward.\nWork with Engineering and Operations to fix the upstream causes of recurring breaks.\nSafeguarding and regulatory\nOwn safeguarding of customer funds in every market where we hold a licence, including under the MAS Payment Services Act in Singapore: daily computation, segregation, safeguarding arrangements, and reconciliation of safeguarded balances against merchant liability.\nPrepare and file all regulatory submissions accurately and on time in every jurisdiction we operate in.\nOwn the safeguarding audits in each jurisdiction, and any regulator queries or inspections that touch finance.\nMaintain the controls and evidence trail that make all of the above defensible.\nAudit, tax and entity management\nOwn the annual statutory audit for the group and each subsidiary, in every jurisdiction.\nOwn the group's reporting calendar across every jurisdiction: financial statement filings, annual returns, tax filings and regulatory returns, each with a tracked deadline that is met.\nBe the auditors' primary contact: set the timeline, prepare PBC schedules, answer queries directly and close them out.\nManage local auditors, tax agents and corporate secretarial providers across subsidiaries.\nDeliver signed accounts on time, without routine extensions.\nBusiness partnering and unit economics\nBuild and maintain a clear view of unit economics: revenue per merchant, take rate by product and payment method, processing cost, gross margin, cost to serve, and contribution by cohort and market.\nBring findings to the CEO with a point of view: where margin is leaking, which products or merchants are unprofitable, and what should change.\nSupport pricing, market entry, budgeting and fundraising with numbers you can stand behind.\nVendors and cost\nNegotiate commercial terms with acquirers, banks, processors, auditors and other vendors.\nTrack spend against contracts and challenge cost that isn't earning its keep.\nTeam and systems\nLead, coach and develop two Finance Operations Executives.\nSet the standard for accuracy and timeliness.\nBuild the processes, documentation and automation that let the function scale without adding headcount in step with volume.\nWhat success looks like\nIn your first 90 days\nYou have taken over the monthly close and run at least two closes yourself.\nYou can state the merchant payable and safeguarded balance on any given day, and reconcile one to the other.\nYou have mapped every entity's audit, tax and regulatory calendar, with owners and dates.\nYou have shared your first view of where margin is leaking, with a recommendation.\nIn your first 12 months\nThe group closes on a fixed, predictable timetable every month.\nRecurring reconciliation breaks have been fixed upstream, not just cleared.\nEvery statutory audit and regulatory filing has landed on time, with no significant findings.\nThe CEO and board use a unit economics view you built to make pricing and investment decisions.\nYour team runs day-to-day operations from documented processes, freeing you for higher-value work.\nWhat we're looking for\nRequired\n6+ years in finance, starting in Big 4 audit or an equivalent assurance practice.\nQualified accountant: CA (Singapore), ACCA, CPA or equivalent.\nAccountable ownership of a full-cycle close and a statutory audit, not just contribution to one.\nExperience managing auditors across multiple legal entities or jurisdictions.\nPeople management experience, or clear evidence you're ready for it.\nGenuinely hands-on: comfortable in a reconciliation of tens of thousands of transactions, and you'd rather open the file than ask for a summary.\nStrong Excel or Google Sheets skills with large transaction datasets.\nBased in Singapore with existing right to work.\nStrongly preferred\nPayments, fintech, e-money or financial services experience, especially merchant settlement, float management or safeguarding.\nWorking knowledge of payments licensing and safeguarding requirements across APAC, such as the MAS Payment Services Act in Singapore.\nSQL, or a willingness to learn it quickly. Much of what you need lives in our data warehouse.\nExperience in a startup or high-growth company where you built the finance function rather than inherited it.\nHow you work\nDeadlines are commitments. Close, filing and audit dates do not slip.\nYou go to the root cause. A break that reappears next month wasn't fixed.\nYou are direct with the CEO: you flag problems early and bring a recommendation with them.\nYou are comfortable with ambiguity and build process where none exists.\nWhy this role\nYou will own the entire finance function of a regulated, multi-entity payments business. You will have direct access to the CEO and real influence over pricing, cost structure and where the business invests. 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