About Bridgewater
Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for the most sophisticated global institutional investors.
Our investment process is driven by a tireless pursuit to understand how the world’s markets and economies work — using cutting edge technology to validate and execute on timeless and universal investment principles.
Founded in 1975, we are a community of independent thinkers who share a commitment for excellence. By fostering a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion, we strive to unlock the most complex questions in investment strategy, management, and corporate culture.
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Our Culture
Bridgewater’s unique success is the direct result of our unique way of being. We want an idea meritocracy in which meaningful work and meaningful relationships are pursued through radical truth and radical transparency. We require people to be extremely open, air disagreements, test each other’s logic, and view discovering mistakes and weaknesses as a good thing that leads to improvement and innovation. It is by continually striving together for the highest levels of truth and excellence that we create meaningful work and meaningful relationships. Within this culture, Diversity and Inclusion is a top priority because it is essential to finding the best talent in the world, enabling our idea meritocracy, and creating an environment where all types of people can thrive. We have a full-time team as well as affinity networks that work on these issues - If you would like to learn more, please let your Bridgewater recruiter know.
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About Bridgewater’s Singapore Office
As part of our ongoing partnership in the Asia Pacific region, we opened a Bridgewater office in Singapore in Q1 2022. The initial focus of that office will be to deepen our ability to partner with our clients and prospective clients in the region. In line with Bridgewater’s overall mission to grow and diversify our business, our strategic goal is to capitalize on growing commercial opportunities in Asia and further deepen our ability to partner with existing institutional clients and drive new market development with prospective advisory and distribution relationships in the region.
This is an exciting new entrepreneurial effort at Bridgewater. The current size of the Singapore team is around 20 people, and, as with any new initiative, involves strong cross-functional collaboration from teams around the firm.
About the Finance Department
Finance is the guardian of Bridgewater’s financial resources. We seek to drive sustainable shareholder value by controlling, safeguarding, and optimizing use of the firm’s financial resources. This responsibility is fulfilled by providing strategic partnership, insights and independent challenge along with the delivery of high-quality financial reporting, forecasting and analysis while maintaining effective and efficient operational control. To further Finance’s impact, the department has launched an aggressive transformation platform to enrich insights, improve reporting, risk and control operations and ultimately develop more intimate, influential relationships with business leaders.
About the Role:
The Senior Finance Associate will be responsible for the financial operations of Bridgewater’s Singapore office. This role will work closely with the Singapore leadership team, the broader finance team as well as 3rd party vendors to support Bridgewater’s growth in the region. This will entail ensuring the financials are complete and accurate, driving operations including payroll and source to pay as well as the ability to translate the strategic direction in the region to financial implications. The ideal candidate will be highly motivated, able to act independently and have an equal background in accounting and operations.
You will drive the following responsibilities:
- Produce timely and reliable financial statements for management reporting and statutory/regulatory purposes. Leverage experts to generate financials for both US GAAP and Singapore Financial Reporting Standards and project manage annual audits.
- Prepare quarterly and annual regulatory filings.
- Own Source to Pay activities to meet business needs within the financial constraints and control framework.
- Support payroll practices by being the local liaison for questions or issue resolution.
- Drive the financial planning process including preparing budgets, performing actual analysis and maintaining forecasts throughout the year. Ultimately serving as an independent financial control ensuring Bridgewater’s resources are optimized and spend is within budget.
Minimum Qualifications:
- 3-6 years of analytical work experience in a field such as corporate finance, FP&A, accounting, business planning and analysis, including financial modeling
- Experience with Adaptive, Coupa, Workday, Power BI is a plus
- Proactive in nature – ask questions and take initiative to improve current processes and metrics
- Experience forming well synthesized, structured recommendations from financial information to help drive informed and quality decisions
- Highly organized individual with keen attention to detail, including ability to meet deadlines
- Bachelor’s degree ideally in Finance or Accounting with a strong academic track record
- Language requirement: This role communicates regularly with our Westport, CT, US office. Fluency in English and strong written communication skills are required.
- Language preferences: Our clients communicate in Mandarin and Malay. The ability to read and converse in Mandarin is preferred. Conversational Malay is a plus.
Physical Requirements:
- For most of our roles, Bridgewater offers remote work flexibility, with most employees required to work on campus as their principal work location, a minimum of two days (and in some cases three days) per week with the option to work offsite on other days. Bridgewater’s Singapore Office is located in the Central Business District.
- This role will require occasional communication with our Westport, CT office, which may require you to take calls and/or be responsive to email outside of standard work hours. This may include early morning (7am SGT) or late evening (8-10pm SGT) due to time differences. Flexibility of working hours is required.
Compensation:
The wage range for this role is S$165,000 - S$235,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 80-90% of this wage range.
Why Choose Bridgewater?
It takes all types to make Bridgewater great. We seek a diverse group of innovative thinkers and push them to engage in rigorous and thoughtful inquiry. We develop people through an honest examination of their abilities and performance, enabling personal growth and professional development. We strive to provide you opportunities that will challenge you and unlock your potential.
In this role, you will grow with us by:
- Taking ownership of team operations processes and cadences
- Taking on mentorship and leadership responsibilities to grow talent as you gain experience
- Opportunities to grow your career across Bridgewater depending on your strengths, weaknesses, and experience
One of our core priorities at Bridgewater is to enable our employees to build a great life and career, and we believe our benefits are an important extension of that philosophy. As such, currently Bridgewater offers a competitive suite of benefits including:
- Health insurance, including vision and dental coverage, with 100% of premiums paid for by Bridgewater
- Global telemedicine access (24/7 access to licensed doctors)
- Paid time off, including fully paid parental leave and a competitive PTO package
- An engaged and active community that includes many company events, affinity networks, and extracurricular interest groups
Bridgewater reserves the right to change its current benefits program at any time, in a manner that is consistent with applicable federal and state regulations.
This job description is not a contract and confers no contractual rights, privileges, or benefits on any applicant or potential applicant. Bridgewater has the right to change any and all terms of this job description, including, but not limited to, job responsibilities, qualifications and benefits. Nothing in this job description constitutes an offer or guarantee of employment.
Please note that we do not provide immigration sponsorship for this position. Only Singaporeans and Permanent Residents will be considered for this role.
Bridgewater Associates is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
