Head of Finance and Strategy, PCAOB readiness

About ScaleUp.SG

ScaleUp is a PE-backed, institutionally backed financial platform building a category-defining alpha generation yield business powered by regime-aware AI. The company has processed $3.2bn+ for 50+ blue-chip clients (including global fintechs, listcos) and is now entering the next phase of growth, with a focus on application of ASC 606, PCAOB readiness and IPO-quality financial reporting.

The role

ScaleUp is hiring a senior finance professional to lead the reporting and execution workstreams for its proposed spin-off and future IPO. The mandate is clear: define the reporting perimeter, prepare supportable historical financial information for the ScaleUp business, strengthen audit readiness, and help position the company for institutional investors and capital markets.

We are looking for a commercially minded, execution-oriented finance leader who can build supportable spin-off and IPO reporting in a complex multi-entity environment.

This is not a role for someone who only flags technical risk; it is a role for someone who can structure, document, defend, and deliver a workable reporting solution.

What you will do

• Lead finance workstreams linked to spin-off execution, restructuring and IPO readiness.
• Define the historical reporting perimeter for the ScaleUp business and prepare supportable financial information for that perimeter.
• Prepare basis-of-preparation papers, reconciliations, supporting schedules and other audit-ready documentation.
• Lead the PCAOB-quality audit process, working alongside the Company's existing Big 4 auditors , with a specific focus on the application of ASC 606 — including principal vs. agent determinations, identification of performance obligations, variable consideration constraint, and transaction price allocation.
• Draft and defend technical accounting memos on complex revenue recognition issues, providing audit-ready support for external auditors.
• Build pro forma financial information for the post-reorganisation structure.
• Strengthen reporting processes, controls, close discipline and finance governance across a scaling multi-entity platform.
• Coordinate across finance, legal, tax and management to keep restructuring and reporting workstreams aligned.

What we arelooking for

• 8–15+ years of progressive experience in Big 4 public accounting, transaction advisory, or senior finance roles within complex, multi-entity organizations . Candidates with direct experience working on historically Big 4-audited entities are strongly preferred, as they understand the rigour and expectations of a PCAOB-quality audit.
• A proven track record of translating multi-entity complexity into clear, supportable, investor-grade financial information that withstands audit and regulatory scrutiny .
• Deep expertise in spin-offs, reorganisations, IPO readiness, and reporting perimeter design —with a demonstrated ability to exercise judgment, impose structure, and deliver execution in high-stakes situations .
• Technical accounting authority , particularly in ASC 606 . This includes demonstrable, hands-on experience with p rincipal vs. agent determinations, identifying performance obligations, applying the variable consideration constraint, and allocating transaction prices . The ideal candidate will have a proven ability to draft and defend technical accounting memos for external Big 4 auditors
• Familiarity with PCAOB audit requirements and the ability to interface credibly with external auditors on complex, judgmental accounting areas.
• Commercially minded and solutions-oriented, with the ability to identify issues, frame practical options, and drive a workable path forward rather than stopping at technical objections.
• More builder than risk-focused auditor; comfortable creating first-time reporting frameworks, basis-of-preparation papers, allocation methodologies, and audit support from incomplete starting points.
• Strong technical accounting judgment, combined with practical instincts on materiality, presentation, sequencing, and execution.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and working directly with founders, investors, legal counsel, tax advisers, and auditors in a fast-moving environment.
• Experience in fintech, asset management, wealthtech, treasury, or other regulated, multi-entity business models is highly relevant.

Why this role

This is a high-impact role at a pivotal stage of ScaleUp's development. You will help build the reporting backbone for a PE-backed, institutionally oriented platform preparing for spin-off execution, audit scrutiny and eventual public-market readiness.

To apply

Please send your CV and a short note highlighting relevant experience in spin-offs,restructurings, audit readiness, IPO preparation or other complex reporting assignments.

ScaleUp is an AI-powered platform that generates alpha on institutional idle cash by dynamically allocating across branded money market funds and low-risk alternatives — Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, JPMorgan etc — on a custody-free, performance-only basis. Clients never lose access to their capital; we only earn a fee on the yield we generate above their benchmark.

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Most wealthtech picks products. ScaleUp generate alpha— because Brinson proved 91% of portfolio return is driven by allocation policy, not selection. We earn only on yield delivered above the client's quoted net target. If we don't outperform, we don't earn more. That's structurally different from every AUM fee and fixed SaaS subscription in the market.

Since 2022, we have achieved:

✅ $3.2B+ in transaction volume

✅ 60% revenue CAGR

✅ 50+ blue-chip clients,including China’s largest card network, SEA’s top banks, and global fintech leaders

✅ A growing team of 80+ top-tier professionals driving innovation, led by ex-Goldman Sachs Mgt

Cash is one of the largest under-monetized assets ($42T) on institutional balance sheets.The winners will not market yield louder — they will embed cash monetization deeper into treasury stacks and partner platforms. That is the shift ScaleUp isbuilding toward: - —through modular components, a single governed connection, and institutional-grade control, auditability, and scale.

? In a higher-rate, more volatile environment, cash is no longer passive.Institutions need better ways to monetize balances while preserving liquidityand control, and ScaleUp is helping drive that shift from parked cash to programmed cash.