Senior People Business Partner (6-Month Maternity Cover) at Endowus

About Endowus

Endowus is an award-winning independent fee-only wealth & fund platform. Licensed in and Hong Kong (SFC BQR225) and Singapore (MAS 101051), Endowus proudly serves as a fund investment platform and fiduciary advisor to over 250,000 individuals, family offices, charities, endowments, and institutions with over US$10billion assets under advice.

Today, we work with 100+ global leading asset managers across major asset classes – public markets, private markets, hedge funds and alternatives – and make it our job to assess and access their Best-in-Class funds, and advise clients on how to invest in these funds to reach their goals.

Our mission is clear: help people invest better so they can live easier today, and better tomorrow.

The team has deep domain knowledge in finance and technology, bringing together decades of experience from various banks and tech companies. We treasure our diversity in background and experience, and we look for people who share these beliefs in our mission.

We're looking for a seasoned HR professional to step in for a 6-month maternity cover, supporting our teams across Singapore, Hong Kong, India, and Malaysia.

This role demands someone who can hit the ground running—bringing both strategic perspective and hands-on execution from day one. You'll partner with leaders across four markets, navigating different employment contexts while maintaining a consistent, high-quality People experience.

In our scaling Fintech environment, the People function sits at the heart of business decision-making. We need a trusted partner to our leadership team: someone with the gravitas to advise senior stakeholders across geographies, the program management discipline to drive complex regional initiatives, and the pragmatism to keep operations running smoothly.

This isn't about keeping a seat warm. It's about making a meaningful impact in a defined timeframe.

What You'll Own

What you’ll be doing

• Strategic Business Partnering: Act as the primary People Partner for key teams. You'll advise leaders on workforce planning, organizational design, talent strategy, and sensitive employee relations matters—adapting your approach to local contexts while maintaining consistency. Your counsel should be grounded in commercial reality—not HR theory.
• End-to-End Program Management: Drive cross-functional People initiatives with rigor. This means clear scoping, stakeholder alignment, milestone tracking, and disciplined execution. We value delivery over activity.
• Manager Enablement & Coaching: Design and deliver targeted interventions to build manager capability—performance coaching, difficult conversations, team dynamics, and feedback culture. You'll work with existing frameworks while identifying gaps and opportunities.
• Operational Excellence: Ensure continuity across core People operations in all four markets: HRIS integrity, employee lifecycle management, compliance reporting, and vendor relationships. You'll navigate different regulatory requirements while keeping processes efficient and consistent

What Success Looks Like

• Business leaders see you as indispensable—a thought partner they actively seek out for strategic and operational challenges.
• Engagement insights drive real change—not slide decks that gather dust, but concrete action plans with visible progress.
• Managers are more capable—they leave interactions with you better equipped to lead their teams.
• Nothing falls through the cracks—operations run seamlessly; stakeholders experience zero disruption.
• A seamless transition—comprehensive documentation and a handover that sets up the returning team member for success.

What We're Looking For

Experience & Background

• 5–7+ years in HR, with substantive experience as an HR Business Partner (not just generalist or specialist roles)
• Proven track record in Tech, Fintech, or similarly fast-paced environments
• Multi-country APAC experience essential—you understand the nuances of operating across Singapore, Hong Kong, India, and Malaysia
• Comfortable working across time zones and managing stakeholders remotely

Skills & Capabilities

• Strong program and project management discipline—you bring structure to ambiguity
• Sharp analytical skills with the ability to synthesize data into actionable insights
• Confident facilitator who can hold a room and drive productive conversations
• Clear, persuasive communicator—both written and verbal

Presence & Approach

• Executive presence and credibility with senior stakeholders
• Sound judgment on sensitive matters; you know when to push and when to hold back
• High autonomy; you don't wait to be told what to do
• Pragmatic and outcome-oriented; allergic to HR theatre

Availability

• Immediate or short-notice start (2–3 weeks maximum) strongly preferred

Contract Details

Our Investors, recognition, licensing

Founded in 2017, Endowus has raised a total of over US$130 million in funding from investors including UBS, EDBI, Prosus Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Citi Ventures, MUFG Innovation Partners, Singtel Innov8, Samsung Ventures, SBVA, Illuminate Financial, OSK Ventures, Z Venture Capital, and ACF - a joint venture between JLIN LLC and The Wells Investments. Endowus also has some of the largest billionaire family offices in Asia, as well as the founders and employees of Endowus.

Endowus continues to push the boundaries on innovation and democratising access, as it partners with 1000+ global fund managers across public markets, private markets, hedge funds and alternatives to provide world-class solutions to its clients at a fair and transparent cost, delivered through Endowus’ fee-only business model. Endowus Private Wealth clients have access to a comprehensive range of expertly curated strategies in private markets and alternatives from firms such as EQT, Carlyle, Partners Group, KKR, Ares, Brookfield Oaktree, HarbourVest Partners, Millennium, Point72, Balyasny, Brevan Howard, Bridgewater, Schonfeld, Hudson Bay, LMR, AQR and more.

Endowus’ leadership and growth have been recognised by the industry and it has attained numerous awards including CNBC’s World’s Top FinTech Companies 2025. The firm was also ranked 45th on The Financial Times’ High-Growth Companies Asia Pacific 2025. It was also the leading WealthTech provider on the Fortune Fintech Innovators Asia 2024 list, among 60 transformative firms in the region. Endowus was also named as part of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Technology Pioneers 2023 and continues to serve as a Global Innovator within the community. The leadership sits on both the Longevity and Retail Investor steering committees.

The Endowus platform also secured several industry awards, including Asia’s Best Digital Wealth Management and Hong Kong’s Best FinTech Innovation in Asset Management (Asia Asset Management’s Best of the Best Awards 2025). Other regional accolades include Singapore’s Best Digital Wealth Management Experience (The Asset Triple A Digital Awards 2025), Best Digital Upgrade for enhancements made on the Endowus app (The Asset Triple A Digital Awards 2024), and Best WealthTech Solution 2023 (Asian Private Banker 9th Technology Awards).

The Endowus Group comprises Endowus' licensed companies in Hong Kong and Singapore, as well as Hong Kong-based multi-family office Carret Private. Endowus Group serves over a hundred thousand clients with content, advice and access. With group assets of over US$7 billion, it is one of the largest independent wealth managers in Asia. From a combination of providing 100% trailer fee rebates as direct cashback to clients, and fund fee savings from access to institutional share classes and exclusive funds, Endowus is estimated to help its clients save more than US$50 million in fees per year.