Senior Finance Manager

1 Month ago • 7-9 Years • Finance

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Finance Manager at Aspire, you will be responsible for making key financial decisions and ensuring budgets are met for US business operations. This role requires strong analytical, communication, and leadership skills, involving financial regulatory reporting, and includes preparing financial statements, ensuring compliance with US GAAP and local regulations, overseeing accounting operations, managing cash flow, and presenting financial reports to stakeholders. You will collaborate with executives to create budgets, implement internal controls, and review product flows. This role is crucial for driving the company's financial strategy and success in the US market, requires working as per US time zone.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification.
  • 7-9+ years of relevant work experience, preferably in financial services.
  • Experience managing Finance and Accounting teams.
Good to have:
  • Flexible mindset for supporting a new business.
  • Project management and IT skills.
Perks:
  • Uncapped flexible annual leave.
  • Hybrid work arrangement.
  • Training subsidy for professional growth.
  • Wellness benefit.
  • Team bonding budget.
  • Flexibility to work from anywhere (for up to 90 days per annum).

Job Details

At Aspire, we’re more than just a FinTech company—we’re the leading all-in-one financial operating system built to empower the world’s innovators and entrepreneurs. We are on a mission to reinvent business finance, empowering startups and businesses to realise their full potential.

Founded in 2018, Aspire has raised over USD 300M+ across equity and debt from world-class investors. In 2023, we successfully closed an oversubscribed USD 100 million Series C equity round led by Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Ventures with participation of Tencent, Paypal Ventures, LGT Capital Partners, Picus Capital and MassMutual Ventures. To power our solutions, we have partnered with some of the best companies in the world such as Visa and Wise and empowered more than 50,000 businesses using our suite of products.

Aspire has consistently been recognized for excellence, earning Best Employer and Startup of the Year by the Asia FinTech Awards in 2022 and 2023, ranked as LinkedIn’s Top Startup in Singapore, and listed on CB Insights’ Top 100 Global Fintech in 2023 and 2024.

You will be amazed by the energy and experience of our team! Aspire serves as an environment for you to innovate and drive change with our team of ex-entrepreneurs, ex-founders, and high-achievers with international and diverse backgrounds.

Are you a top talent who is passionate about entrepreneurship? Join our rapidly growing team to make an impact in the fintech space! 

About the team

At Aspire, Finance plays a strategic role in driving our business forward. Our Finance team consists of a wide range of crucial functions across 5 verticals: (i) Financial Controlling with Financial reporting, Audit support, Cost Management, Compliance and Risk Management and Tax planning, Reporting, (ii) Treasury, which is a core function for a Fintech with Cash flow and Liquidity Risk, Treasury Product, FX Risk Management, Treasury Operation and Treasury Risk Management, (iii) Data including Business Intelligence, Data Analytics and Data Engineering, (iv) Strategy & Planning, which covers strategic road map, long term planning, fundraising and FP&A and (v) Credit Risk including risk modelling and scoring, portfolio monitoring and credit control. Our Finance team engages in frequent strategic data analysis, research, and modeling to provide the best financial insights for critical business decisions, helping Aspire navigate the competitive landscape and capitalize on emerging opportunities. The team also plays a key part as the first user of our Aspire software, pioneer in Finance transformation, reengineering our internal process to stay agile while maintaining the internal control in a hyper fast growing environment.

About the role

As a Senior Finance Manager, you are responsible for making key financial, business related decisions and ensuring that budgets are met for Aspire’s business operations in the US. The candidate will be an experienced Senior Finance member within the financial services industry with strong analytical skills, excellent communication skills, leadership ability and strategic thinking. As the Senior Finance Manager for the US region you will be responsible for all regional financial matters & financial performance and includes all aspects of financial regulatory reporting.

Responsibilities include but not limited to:

  • Co-develop and execute the regional finance strategy.
  • Partner with leadership teams to guide financial planning, capital strategy, and investment decisions.
  • Own the preparation and timely delivery of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements for Aspire US entities.
  • Ensure compliance with US GAAP and/or IFRS, and local financial regulatory requirements.
  • Supervise day-to-day accounting operations including payroll, taxation, audits, and internal controls
  • Oversee cash flow management, bank reconciliations, and client fund reporting in coordination with partner banks.
  • Presents financial reports to executives, board members, investors, and other stakeholders.
  • Collaborates with the executives and directors to create budgets and track key performance indicators.
  • Implement internal controls to ensure that the company complies with all financial and statutory regulations.
  • Review product flows from a finance perspective ensuring controls around invoicing, revenue recognition, funding requirements, documentation.
  • Work as per US time zone 

Minimum Qualifications: 

  • Bachelor's degree, qualified with Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) or American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)
  • Minimum 7–9+ years of work experience, preferably in financial services (banking, payments, or fintech)
  • Have managed Finance and Accounting team successfully at an evolving business
  • Passion to establish & scale a startup in the fintech industry
  • Strategic thinking with excellent communication & negotiation skills

Preferred Qualifications: 

  • Flexible mindset and attitude to support a new business and its establishment in the market
  • Project management & IT skills with a keen eye for detail & time conscious

What we offer

  • Uncapped flexible annual leave.
  • Hybrid work arrangement. 
  • Training subsidy for your professional growth.
  • Wellness benefit.
  • Team bonding budget to foster collaboration and sense of belonging.
  • Flexibility to work from anywhere (for up to 90 days per annum).
  • Culture is Key: We always strive to cultivate a special culture that brings special talents together - You can learn more about our culture on our careers site and LinkedIn Life page.

Equal Opportunity Statement 

Aspire is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by applicable laws. 

Please note: by submitting your application, you acknowledge that you have read and understood Aspire’s Data Protection Policy for Employees, Freelancers, Contractors and Job Applicants (the “Policy”), and consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal data by Aspire for the purposes set out in the Policy. You may withdraw consent for such collection, use and disclosure, and make an access or correction request in respect of your personal data, in accordance with the Policy by emailing people@aspireapp.com

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About The Company

Aspire is the all-in-one finance software for growing businesses. The company serves over 15,000 companies in Asia and beyond, helping them save time and money with multi-currency accounts and cards, expense management, payable management, and receivable management solutions. Headquartered in Singapore, Aspire has over 500 employees across four countries and is backed by global top tier VCs, including Sequoia, Lightspeed, Tencent, Paypal and Y-Combinator.



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