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Capital Markets Assurance Director - Hong Kong

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Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong
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CharteredPartners is seeking an experienced capital markets assurance professional to join our client in Hong Kong at Director level. The successful candidate will lead transaction-related assurance on IPOs and secondary fundraisings, direct reporting accountant work, and support engagement partners through to sign-off across listed and pre-listing clients. Specific qualifications, regulatory fluency and technical breadth are detailed in the sections that follow.

Confidential Client. Applying to this position means that you are interested to have an initial confidential discussion about how we can help you to identify and join a new accounting-firm practice. With your authorisation we will exclusively run the entire application and recruitment process for you, keeping you apprised at every step. With over 30 years' combined experience of helping the most talented accounting, audit, tax and advisory professionals to make safe, well-judged moves into rewarding new roles, we have the experience, network and ability to help you.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead reporting accountant and transaction assurance engagements supporting HKEX Main Board and GEM listing applications.
  • Direct the preparation and review of accountants' reports, comfort letters and working capital and profit forecast assurance under HKSA and related standards.
  • Manage the assurance dimension of secondary fundraisings, rights issues and other corporate transactions.
  • Coordinate with sponsors, legal advisers and underwriters through the listing and due diligence timetable.
  • Conclude on complex HKFRS recognition and measurement matters arising in pre-listing financial information.
  • Support engagement partners on risk acceptance, scoping and engagement economics for capital markets work.
  • Coach managers and seniors in the specific demands of transaction assurance and reporting accountant practice.
  • Contribute to business development with sponsors, corporate finance houses and prospective issuers.

Required Qualifications and Skills:

  • Member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants, HKICPA, in good standing.
  • Substantial post-qualification experience in audit and transaction assurance, including reporting accountant work.
  • Direct experience on HKEX listing applications and a clear understanding of Main Board and GEM listing rules.
  • Strong working knowledge of HKFRS and the Hong Kong Standards on Auditing as applied to historical financial information in listing documents.
  • Familiarity with SFC and HKEX expectations for sponsors and reporting accountants.
  • Experience preparing accountants' reports, comfort letters and forecast assurance deliverables.
  • Sound understanding of independence, ethics and quality management requirements for assurance providers.
  • Ability to manage demanding transaction timetables and multiple stakeholders concurrently.
  • Excellent written and spoken English; Cantonese and Mandarin are an advantage.
  • Strong relationship and business development skills with capital markets intermediaries.

Preferred Experience:

  • Experience within a firm with an active HKEX reporting accountant practice.
  • Exposure to mainland China issuers and coordination with PRC reporting teams.
  • Familiarity with cross-border listings and dual-track processes.
  • Awareness of IRD reporting interactions relevant to pre-listing restructurings.
  • A network of relationships among sponsors, corporate finance advisers and legal counsel.
  • Track record of developing specialists in transaction assurance.

Compensation:

Competitive package commensurate with seniority and experience, including base, performance-based bonus, long-term incentives and (where applicable) partner-track participation.

Next Steps:

This opportunity is open to Hong Kong permanent residents and candidates eligible to obtain the relevant Hong Kong employment visa who match the above criteria. Please apply to receive prompt contact from an experienced and specialist accounting-firm recruitment consultant.

Chartered Partners is a trading style of Feltan Associates Pte Ltd; an international Executive Search, Recruitment and Consulting business based in Singapore, licensed and regulated by the Singapore Ministry of Manpower to conduct recruitment services for clients. UEN: 202225620G. EA Licence 23S1672. All rights reserved.

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