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Hiring from Singapore
Recruitment for Singapore companies. India teams, and regional finance hires.
Singapore is where the regional CFO sits and India is where the team gets built. We hire finance, analytics and AI talent in India for Singapore-headquartered businesses.
Who this is for
Why Singapore teams hire in India.
Local hiring is tight and head-office budgets rarely stretch to a full regional finance team. India gives depth at a cost that works, provided someone senior does the filtering.
- Regional CFOs and finance directors a controller, a consolidation manager and an FP&A team in India reporting into Singapore.
- Fintech, trading and commodity firms product control, treasury operations and regulatory reporting talent.
- Heads of data and engineering analytics and AI hires in Bengaluru or Hyderabad who can work a full Singapore day.
Roles we hire
The roles we fill most often.
Specialist hiring for Singapore-headquartered teams, from a single search to a full team build.
| Function | Typical roles | Seniority |
|---|---|---|
| Finance & accounting | Financial controller, consolidation manager, R2R lead, chartered accountants | Manager to Director |
| FP&A | FP&A manager, regional business partner, management reporting lead | Analyst to Senior Manager |
| Treasury & product control | Treasury operations, product control, reconciliations, regulatory reporting | Analyst to Head |
| Data & analytics | Analytics manager, data engineer, BI lead, data scientist | Senior IC to Head |
| AI & ML | ML engineer, applied scientist, data platform engineer | Senior IC to Lead |
| Leadership | India site head, regional finance head, shared services director | Director to VP |
How we work
One recruiter, from brief to joining day.
You will not be handed to an account manager after the kick-off call.
The person who takes your brief runs the search, interviews the candidates and stays on the offer. If the brief is unwinnable at the approved band, we say so in week one.
How we run a searchSetting it up
Employment, payroll and the rules that matter.
Two sets of rules: Singapore's for passes, India's for employment.
Employment Pass and S Pass
The pass framework sits with your HR team, and we will say plainly when a role is unlikely to clear the qualifying salary.
India hiring, no entity needed
Early hires go through an employer of record or our payroll; the statutory items are provident fund and gratuity, not CPF.
Shared services build-out
For a full India centre we hire in waves: leadership first, then process owners, then the analyst layer.
Working hours
A full working afternoon in common.
Singapore is 2.5 hours ahead of India. Most teams settle on an 11am to 8pm IST day, which covers the whole Singapore afternoon and month-end close.
SG 9am = 6.30am ISTSG 2pm = 11.30am ISTSG 6pm = 3.30pm ISTHybrid 11am to 8pm IST
Related
Singapore hiring questions
Questions Singapore clients ask.
Yes. An employer of record or our staffing payroll covers the first hires, and we move people onto your Indian entity when it is ready.
Singapore if it needs a local licence or a regulator relationship; India for reporting, controllership or engineering, where the same cost buys a more experienced person.
Provident fund, plus gratuity after five years of service, both included in the cost-to-company figure on every shortlist.
Four to six weeks from brief to signed offer for specialist roles, six to ten for leadership, plus a 60 to 90 day notice period for senior staff.
A percentage of annual fixed pay for contingency, a staged fee for retained leadership search, and a monthly rate for dedicated team hiring, all agreed in writing before the search starts.
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