Regional Head of Finance

6 hours ago

Singapore EPSON SINGAPORE PTE LTD Full time

The Regional Finance Senior Manager works closely with the Regional Finance Director to support Finance operations in the region. The role is responsible for providing commercial insights and advice, in addition to protecting and growth the business by maintaining and continually improving financial controls, systems and processes. This role involves partnering with customers and our employees to drive win-win outcomes to business challenges in an ever-changing market.
The role oversees the rollout of regional Finance strategy across country Finance teams to drive improved efficiency, effectiveness, and internal control of Finance operations. This role also oversees the country Finance operations to support business operations.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Support the implementation and communication of the Finance strategic vision to the countries
- Support the identification of strategic investment opportunities to enhance Finance Service Delivery
- Champion a strong continuous improvement culture to ensure deployment of scalable, simplified, and standardized processes
- Drive, implement and communicate all process harmonisation and digitalisation initiatives across the Finance function to deliver improved controls, operational efficiency, and cost optimisation
- Support the implementation of initiatives related to building a centralised / shared service model
- Support the team responsible for identifying risks and opportunities and work with the business to optimize working capital, maximise revenue and profitability
- Collate country insights and local regulatory information from Country Finance Leads and use it to drive decision making on financial and budgetary plans
- Manage all aspects of Finance accounting and reporting across the region, including financial and statutory reporting, budgeting, and forecasting, management reporting, taxation and cash management activities
- Prepare the annual business and budget plans, as well as monthly and quarterly reports on financial performance and business for presentation to regional stakeholders
- Coach and manage the performance of direct reports for improved overall business performance to provide reasonable service level to meet business requirements
- Lead in driving the cultural standards for the function, demonstrating the Company's values to drive employee engagement and motivation
- Cascade communications on all strategic functional initiatives for the function
- Support succession planning & leadership development for the function

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s Degree
- A qualified accountant, CA/CPA

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
- Minimum 20 years of experience with regional leadership
- Previous experience working in Japanese MNC as Head of Finance

PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS & BEHAVIOURS
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, able to present complex financial information in a clear and concise manner to top level management to inform decision-making
- Strong people management skills with an ability to drive high performing teams
- Honest, discreet and with a high level of integrity
- Analytical with attention to detail, operating to a high degree of accuracy
- High commercial and strategic acumen
- Able to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines
- Computer literate (MS-Words, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Fluent in English & Japanese (verbal and written)

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