About the Group
Portcullis Group is one of Asia's largest independent trust, fund, and family office service providers — 40+ years, founded by David Chong (the Guru of Asian Family Offices), with licensed operations across Singapore, Hong Kong, Labuan/KL, and key offshore jurisdictions. The core of the Group's Singapore business are its licensed trust company and corporate service provider (CSP) entities, delivering private client trust, corporate trust, and fiduciary administration services to high-net-worth families, entrepreneurs, and institutional clients. Fusang, our sister group, is Asia's first fully-regulated digital securities exchange (Labuan FSA) and the pioneer of the world's first institutional tokenised sukuk.
Our group compliance function is being unified into a globally connected, AI-native team, led by our Chief Compliance Officer in Kuala Lumpur. This role is the Singapore cornerstone of that team, and the designated compliance guardian of Portcullis's core Singapore trust and fiduciary business.
The Opportunity
As the designated compliance officer on the ground, you will hold key MAS and ACRA statutory facing roles and cover every statutory compliance role across all Singapore entities, with particular emphasis on the Group's licensed trust company and corporate service provider businesses. In this hands-on, execution-focused role, you will own day-to-day regulatory and AML/CFT execution locally. While group framework and direction are established by the Chief Compliance Officer in Kuala Lumpur, you will keep operations impeccably on-side with regulators as a full member of a unified, AI-driven global team.
Key Responsibilities
1. Trust, Fiduciary & Corporate Services Compliance
- Private Trust Oversight: Support the compliance framework for private client trust structures, including settlor and beneficiary due diligence, trust-deed review support, and ongoing monitoring of trustee discretion and distributions.
- Corporate Trust & Fiduciary Administration: Oversee compliance for corporate trustee and fiduciary services, including nominee directorships, resident-director obligations, corporate service provider (CSP) client administration, and directors fiduciary-duty considerations.
- ACRA & CSP Licensing: Act as a key point of contact for ACRA on Corporate Service Provider licensing conditions and registered filing-agent obligations; ensure entity administration (incorporations, annual returns, statutory registers) meets ACRA standards.
2. Policy & Procedure Management
- Framework Development: Assist in reviewing, updating, and implementing Singapore and Group-wide compliance policies, manuals, frameworks, and internal directives locally.
- Risk Mitigation: Design and develop appropriate compliance risk management frameworks and systems to proactively identify and address potential risks.
- Vendor Compliance: Prepare, update, and review Compliance Customer Due Diligence (CDD) questionnaires for intermediaries and service providers, ensuring engagements are aligned with the regulatory guidelines for outsourcing.
- Internal Advisory: Serve as a subject matter expert by providing regular, clear updates to staff on evolving AML/CFT/CDD requirements. Partner pragmatically with the Singapore business to find the compliant path to yes while ensuring entities exactly toe the line legally at all times.
3. End-to-End Customer Due Diligence (CDD)
- Onboarding: Perform thorough CDD on potential clients using research, industry data, and verified professional networks.
- Ongoing Monitoring: Conduct regular, periodic reviews of existing client documentation to ensure continuous alignment with corporate and regulatory standards.
- Guidance: Provides guidance and feedback to business units on potential client engagements.
4. Financial Crime & Reporting (MLRO Support)
- STR Management: Review potential red flags and efficiently prepare and file Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs) when appropriate.
- Ad-Hoc Reporting: Compile periodic compliance metrics and ad-hoc reports for Management and stakeholders. Escalated and feed Singapore regulatory developments up to the Chief Compliance Officer.
- AI Tooling Adoption: Use AI and agentic tooling in day-to-day work—including CDD analysis, screening, monitoring, drafting policies and filings—and help extend that operating model to Singapore.
5. Regulatory Relations & Stakeholder Communication
- Regulator Liaison: Serve as a key person and designated officer on the ground managing relationships with the MAS, ACRA, and PDPC, including coordinating inspections, responding to enquiries, licence-condition adherence, and regulatory filings.
- Audit Support: Collaborate effectively with auditors (internal and external) and service providers during review cycles and when necessary.
- Cross-Border Collaboration: Maintain open, seamless communication channels with internal business units and regional compliance teams across other offices, operating as the Singapore node of one unified global compliance team.
- Statutory Appointments: Serve as the designated Compliance Officer, Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO), and Data Protection Officer (DPO) for all Singapore entities, and serve as an MAS-approved Resident Manager for PTSL as required.
Job Requirements
- Experience: At least 5 years of Singapore financial-services compliance, including hands-on experience in MAS-regulated entities, with proven experience in a trust company, corporate service provider company, fiduciary-services compliance role, capital markets, funds, or financial services compliance role within Singapore.
- Regulations & Frameworks: Strong depth and knowledge of MAS and ACRA regulations, specifically including Trust Companies Act requirements and ACRA's regulatory regime for Corporate Service Providers and filing agents, AML/CFT/CDD frameworks, sanctions, and CDD/EDD (specifically MAS Notices TCA-N03 and/or SFA04-N02).
- Statutory Readiness: Experience serving as—or clear readiness to be appointed—a designated Compliance Officer / MLRO / DPO; fit-and-proper and MAS-approvable with a clean regulatory and disciplinary record.
- Technical Fluency: Hands-on AI and technical fluency, with a track record of personally using AI tools to automate or improve compliance work.
- Communication & Mindset: Excellent communication skills with the ability to build rapport and provide compliance advice across regional offices and business units. Possess an analytical mind with attention to detail, a proactive approach to problem-solving, and a compliance-first, then maximise the business operating mindset.
Nice-to-have:
- Approved CIS trustee / custodial-services experience; private-client / family-office exposure.
- ACRA Corporate Service Provider / filing-agent knowledge.
- Digital-asset / VASP or fund-management compliance exposure; Islamic finance awareness.
- ICA Diploma in Compliance / AML, CAMS / ACAMS.
- Legal qualifications, experience, or expertise (a law degree, qualification/practice as a lawyer, or substantial hands-on legal experience) — a strong plus given the legal, regulatory nature of the role.
How to Apply
Please submit your application containing CV and a brief cover note describing:
- your Singapore MAS and ACRA facing compliance experience, specifically any trust, corporate trustee, fiduciary-services or CSP-related work, and any designated-officer roles held;
- how you have used AI or automation in compliance work
