Director/Senior Director

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly experienced finance leader to oversee the Group's Finance & Accounting, Tax Strategy & Planning, Risk & Compliance, and Costing & Manufacturing Finance functions. This role is critical in ensuring strong financial governance, robust controls, accurate financial reporting, and an effective tax and compliance framework across multiple jurisdictions.

The ideal candidate will bring deep technical expertise in IFRS, group consolidation, multi-entity and multi-country accounting, transfer pricing, and international tax structures. A strong understanding of manufacturing costing, inventory management, internal controls, and cross-border finance operations is essential.

The successful candidate will provide strategic leadership to guide the Group's financial integrity, compliance posture, and operational excellence, while partnering closely with business units, manufacturing sites, and senior leadership. This role requires exceptional technical capabilities, hands-on execution, and strong collaboration skills within a complex and dynamic global environment.

Key Responsibilities

1. Group Finance & Accounting Leadership (40%)

• Lead the Group's financial accounting, monthly closing, consolidation, and reporting processes to ensure timely, accurate, and IFRS-compliant results.

• Establish robust accounting policies, internal controls, and governance frameworks across all subsidiaries.

• Oversee treasury accounting, fixed assets, intercompany balances, and foreign currency management.

• Strengthen the financial control environment, ensuring integrity of financial information and adherence to Group standards.

• Provide leadership and guidance to regional finance teams to ensure consistent application of accounting processes and controls.

2. Tax Strategy, Planning & Compliance (25%)

• Lead Group tax strategy, including corporate tax planning, optimization of legal entity structures, and global tax risk management.

• Oversee direct and indirect tax compliance across all jurisdictions, ensuring adherence to local regulations.

• Manage transfer pricing policies, documentation, and intercompany agreements.

• Ensure Group readiness and compliance for BEPS Pillar 2 and emerging global tax regulations.

• Work with external advisors and in-house experts to assess tax implications of business expansions, restructurings, and transactions.

3. Risk Management & Compliance Governance (20%)

• Oversee the development and execution of internal control frameworks across the Group.

• Lead enterprise risk management (ERM) initiatives, ensuring identification, assessment, and mitigation of key financial and operational risks.

• Ensure compliance with regulatory, audit, and statutory requirements across all entities.

• Coordinate annual external audits and internal audits; drive timely resolution of audit findings.

• Partner with legal, operations, and business units to strengthen governance and enhance compliance discipline.

4. Costing & Manufacturing Finance (15%)

• Oversee costing, inventory valuation, and manufacturing finance to support accurate product costing, margin analysis, and cost control.

• Enhance costing methodologies, and variance analysis across manufacturing sites.

• Collaborate with operations, supply chain, and manufacturing leaders to support productivity initiatives, cost optimization programs, and financial decision-making.

• Strengthen controls over inventory, production reporting, and factory-related financial processes.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related discipline; professional certification (CPA, CA, ACCA, CIMA) is required.

• 20+ years of progressive experience in group accounting, tax, and financial governance, preferably in a trading/manufacturing, multi-entity, multi-country environment.

• Strong technical expertise in IFRS, consolidation, accounting standards, and global tax frameworks.

• Strong knowledge of manufacturing costing, product margins, and supply chain financial processes.

• Experience managing risk, compliance, and internal control frameworks across multiple jurisdictions.

• Hands-on experience with ERP systems; strong understanding of process controls and automation.

• Self-starter, resilient and proven ability to collaborate in a complex environment

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management capabilities across senior leadership and cross-functional teams.

• Strong leadership skills with the ability to influence without authority and drive a lean, performance-based culture.

• Willingness to be open minded to taking on projects and tasks as required

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management capabilities across senior leadership and cross-functional teams.

• Strong leadership capabilities with a disciplined, structured, and hands-on approach while enabling a lean, performance-based culture.

• High integrity, professional judgment, and the ability to operate independently in a fast-moving environment.

• Willingness to be open minded to taking on projects and tasks as required

• Willingness to travel as required.