Job Posting

General Analyst (Operations) Intern

Location: Singapore

Deadline: 2025-05-31


Overview

Koru Partners is a thematically driven alternative investment firm identifying attractive investment opportunities that are backed by macro-holistic themes encompassing forward-looking social, economic, demographic, and technological changes.

We are inspired to be the world’s leading business partner for unique insights, understanding and decision making. It is our mission to understand the challenges facing humanity and to empower people and companies, working to transform such challenges into opportunities through allocation of capital.

We are looking for a General Analyst (Operations) Intern who is looking to grow with us. You will gain broad exposure across the various functions of a fund management firm and the opportunity to drive projects through its entire lifecycle. We welcome all prospective applicants so long as they can commit for at least two months for full-time.

What You Can Expect

Salary: SGD 1,200 per month

Company Culture:

  • Strong emphasis on company core values to guide you in your day-to-day work and life
  • Dynamic and fun team who will challenge and support you
  • Flexible and transparent work culture
  • Training to allow you to grow and improve your knowledge and skills

Responsibilities

  • Create templates and/or automation to streamline existing business processes.
  • Actively participate in the ongoing updates and enhancements of existing processes and internal controls.
  • Assist with the preparation and filing of annual regulatory documents for various fund entities.
  • Assist to document internal fund operations processes to ensure consistency and compliance.
  • Support the Fund Operations team in researching and designing an in-house portfolio tracking system.
  • Assist with the annual and ad-hoc Client-Vendor Review Exercise in accordance with Koru’s Compliance Policy, ensuring thorough due diligence.
  • Compile data for compliance and cyber hygiene dashboards to support regulatory adherence.
  • Work closely with various departments to ensure ongoing compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
  • Contribute to the management of the employee lifecycle, from recruitment to retention, supporting HR initiatives.
  • Formulate and voice independent views regardless of experience.

Ideal Requirements

  • Strong interest to learn about the fund management business.
  • Independent learner and worker requiring minimal supervision.
  • Intensely detail oriented.
  • Logical problem solver.

About You

We are a firm expecting collaborators to be highly aligned with our core values. Therefore, you should be:
  • Dedicated and Driven. You are a self-starter who is able to work effectively with low levels of supervision or minimum direction while under pressure in a fast-paced environment. You are energetic, resourceful, and a hands-on individual who pursues goals with sense of urgency. You readily cope with changing priorities, take initiative, and able to follow through with assigned tasks.
  • Integrity and Ethics. You have a strong, ingrained sense of professional integrity and ethics.
  • Entrepreneurial and Effective Team Member. You have the ability to see the commercial angle, while being mindful of associated risks. You have strong leadership qualities and can assume responsibilities, while being a team player within a high-performance group.
  • Agile Thinker. You enjoy solving complex problems and able to see the big picture while mapping out the details to achieve your goals. You are creative about providing innovative solutions (new processes, technologies, and approaches).

To Apply

Please kindly prepare the following information:
  • Resume
  • Academic Transcript
  • 500-word or less response to "What matters to you the most? And why?" (An email will be sent to you requesting this essay the next working day after the job application is submitted)
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis and all applications with missing information and no justifiable reason will be considered incomplete and will not be processed.

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