Overview
Work History
Education
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Certification
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Computer Literacy
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DAOWEN LIM

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Client Service and Business Delivery Team

AIA Investment Management (Singapore)
04.2025 - Current
  • Support macro-driven asset allocation changes by coordinating investment implementation across systems, mandates, and service providers
  • Assist in the management and operational readiness of portfolios governed by Strategic Asset Allocation (SAA) and Tactical Asset Allocation (TAA) mandates, ensuring alignment with investment objectives and infrastructure readiness
  • Collaborate with asset managers, risk, and capital management teams to align portfolio structure with investment objectives and regulatory requirements
  • Facilitate asset transfers and funding activities in accordance with client-defined execution strategies for mandate go-live, ensuring accurate and timely delivery across internal and external stakeholders
  • Support business development and product teams in preparing investment commentaries, portfolio reviews, and RFP responses
  • Act as a point of escalation for client service issues, working cross-functionally to deliver resolutions aligned with SLAs.

Transition Management Team

Eastspring Investments (Singapore) Limited
11.2021 - 04.2025
  • End to end management and execution of changes to assets within portfolios including client onboarding and offboarding process
  • Perform detailed planning and accountable for overseeing delivery, tracking and reporting on each transition activity such as Fund launches and Termination, SAA changes, Benchmark implementation
  • Coordination of new share class launches
  • Ensures any changes to assets are coordinated across Eastspring and its Service Providers
  • Knowledge and implementation of a range of instruments and markets such as ETFs, derivatives, FX, rates, equities or structured products.
  • Coordination of various legal documentations (ISDA, CDEA, IMA)
  • Implementation of operating model to support UMR regulatory requirement
  • Work with IT, risk management, data and platform teams to drive operational improvements and participate in overall systems, investment and trading process enhancements.
  • Coordination of internal and external meetings to source requirements and driving request/query/change outcomes

Investment Services, Operations Team

Temasek Holdings
06.2021 - 11.2021
  • Support the Deal/Investment teams in the growth of new business in Broker and Bank (cash and custody) account opening/on-boarding and market access opening
  • Act as single point of contact for external stakeholders during onboarding stage while facing-off internally across internal support groups and business partners from obtain their respective onboarding sign offs to opertaional setups
  • Perform daily matching on reconciliations, ensuring accuracy and integrity in the reconciliations
  • Perform daily cash breaks by conducting investigation on differences, and monitoring through timely resolution with processing teams
  • Preparation of mark to market values using external financial information for the fund and direct investments.

Funds and Product Onboarding Team

Barclays
07.2018 - 03.2021
  • Be point of contact with regards to subaccount opening, new product onboarding, due diligence and account queries.
  • Review of account opening documentations to ensure completeness including supporting KYC/Constitutional documents for new and existing accounts
  • Conduct various regulatory, legal and KYC document checks for products (i.e. FX, Derivatives, Fix Income) and ensure the bank's process and controls are in place before trading.
  • Coordinating with internal stakeholders (Legal, KYC, Credit and Compliance) to facilitate new product or funds Onboarding.
  • Understanding various legal documents (i.e. GMRA, GMSLA, ISDA) when conducting the legal onboarding process.
  • Identify and implement process improvement of the to optimize existing workflows of onboarding process
  • Work closely with technology team in the execution of automation projects to enhance the CDD/KYC platform
  • Retrenched due to company restructuring

Corporate and private banking client due diligence consultant

Deloitte
03.2018 - 06.2018
  • Provide expertise on CDD /AML expertise to private and corporate banking clients
  • To identify gaps within the onboarding procedures of our banking clients with regards to KYC/AML/CDD
  • Implementing systems, procedures, and policies; completing projects in support of our bank clients
  • Exercise high level of judgment in evaluating the client's' business operations and service, determining and recommending areas of improvement, and determining how to best communicate findings and recommendations
  • Provide guidance and advisory support regarding the onboarding of new clients
  • Review and analyze daily AML Cases to ensure that investigations are accomplished to address transactions that contravene the banks or regulatory policy. Ensure these occurrences are documented in the case for regulatory/audit level reviews

Global Banking and Markets - Client Manager

HSBC Bank Singapore Branch
06.2017 - 03.2018
  • Experience in dealing with clients directly (e.g. MNC, FI and NBFI)
  • Coordinating with clients to obtain required customer documentation to facilitate Onboarding and updates.
  • Supporting relationship managers in facilitate Onboarding process, credit and loan documentations and approvals.
  • Maintaining the overview of the documentation status, review due dates (for CDD amongst others); and monitoring the progress of client due diligence review within the portfolio.
  • Understanding banking operations such as being a conduit between clients, and support functions such as product teams, KYC teams, Compliance and back office operation

Business Banking Customer Due Diligence Analyst

Standard Chartered Bank
01.2017 - 06.2017
  • Handle different SME clients from various industries with regards to KYC/AML
  • Perform follow ups with business clients directly to complete the periodic reviews
  • Perform process controls including, monitoring transactions, data integrity and document tracking etc.
  • Perform minor client servicing for SME clients

Client Onboarding Analyst

JPMorgan Chase
02.2016 - 01.2017
  • Coordinate with Front Office, Credit, Compliance and AML Compliance teams to understand client/deal structure and agree requirements/responsibilities.
  • Perform process controls including, but not limited to, exceptions monitoring, data integrity, key performance and risk indicator, document tracking etc.
  • Provide subject matter expertise and knowledge in support process and improvements
  • Perform quality assurance reviews and approve due diligence reviews completed by staff
  • Perform AML/KYC due diligence client reviews on complex clients or transactions, including cross-border
  • Interface with local and global process owners to understand process and policy requirements and operating environment

Education

MSc - Quantitative Finance

Singapore Management University
08.2026

Bachelors - Economics and Finance

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
11.2015

Diploma - Mechanical Engineering

Ngee Ann Polytechnic
04.2011

Personal Information

  • Gender: MALE
  • Nationality: SINGAPOREAN

Certification

CMFAS RES 3

Languages

  • English, Spoken & Written
  • Mandarin, Spoken & Written

Computer Literacy

  • Microsoft Office, Highly Proficient, Microsoft Excel (array formula, pivot tables, charts, VBA)
  • Programming Languages, Python (Data manipulation, basic scripting)
  • Trading Platforms, Experience with Blackrock Aladdin systems, Bloomberg and various trading platforms such as Tradeweb and Marketaxess

Timeline

Client Service and Business Delivery Team

AIA Investment Management (Singapore)
04.2025 - Current

Transition Management Team

Eastspring Investments (Singapore) Limited
11.2021 - 04.2025

Investment Services, Operations Team

Temasek Holdings
06.2021 - 11.2021

Funds and Product Onboarding Team

Barclays
07.2018 - 03.2021

Corporate and private banking client due diligence consultant

Deloitte
03.2018 - 06.2018

Global Banking and Markets - Client Manager

HSBC Bank Singapore Branch
06.2017 - 03.2018

Business Banking Customer Due Diligence Analyst

Standard Chartered Bank
01.2017 - 06.2017

Client Onboarding Analyst

JPMorgan Chase
02.2016 - 01.2017

MSc - Quantitative Finance

Singapore Management University

Bachelors - Economics and Finance

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Diploma - Mechanical Engineering

Ngee Ann Polytechnic
DAOWEN LIM