Regional Finance Director

**Location**
- Singapore, Central Singapore**Job Type**
- Permanent**Salary**
- $17,633 - $25,194 Per Month**Date Posted**
- 7 minutes agoAdditional Details

**Job ID**
- 104140**Job Views**
- 1Roles & Responsibilities

**Role Purpose**:
The Regional Finance Director will have responsibility for all aspects of strategic and operational finance across the region, acting as the principal finance partner to the Regional Director and Regional Management Team.

S/he will be responsible for ensuring the regional finance strategy delivers regional growth through new business operating models, conforms to our financial control environment and CFO

standards and objectives and the broader corporate objectives.

The post holder will be a key member of the Regional Executive team and work collaboratively with the UK Senior Finance Team, who will actively contribute to the design and implementation of financial strategy.

The person will head and mentor the wider finance community across the region.

He/she will need to be comfortable with a highly visible senior role, during a period of significant

organisational change.

He/she will have a broad base of finance experience and have previously led multilocation finance teams in an international setting. The post holder must also display an understanding of the organisations aims and the ability to connect with operational colleagues.

**Main opportunities/challenges for this role**:
The role will be accountable for the effective operation of all aspects of finance including financial control and management, financial planning, and delivery, following up and reviewing.

This comprises:

- Provision of financial information which supports the Regional Director and Country Directors in
- making business decisions in line with regional strategy, which grow the business in a profitable and controlled manner
- Assessment of financial risk and return on market opportunities and investments in new products and services
- Leading on ensuring all financial aspects of setting up new products, projects, investments and
- services e.g., tax and accounting compliance, as well as pricing and costing are addressed
- Effective financial control and risk management environment
- Overall control of all aspects of statutory accounting and reporting across the region and for global consolidation purposes
- Cash flow management, FX reporting and liaison with central Treasury team
- Management of relation with the Service Shared Centre, making sure regional needs and
- expectations are met.
- Lead and develop a fit for purpose regional finance team
- Coordinate advice on financial and legal aspects of commercial negotiations

**Key Result Areas**:

- Improvement on the strategic decision-making process at regional level, as a result of provision of
- forward-looking information.
- Good audit results and excellent control systems that proactively provide information on key areas of attention.
- Good financial results against plans and forecasts.
- Total reliability on financial information that evaluates financial performance and highlights key risk areas.
- Well managed and effective regional team. Efficient use of resources, at a level of cost that is
- comparable with sector.
- Successful implementation of change, including the creation of new subsidiaries/branches in the region, with full involvement of all key stakeholders.
- Effective communications across stakeholders and key relationships

**Role specific knowledge and experience**:
**Expertise**:
a. Finance leadership, including leading in a matrix structure and with dispersed teams

b. Change management, leading medium and large-scale change programmes

c. Group set up and consolidation. Setting up of subsidiaries and branches.

d. Creation and implementation of new/revised business models in international organisations.

e. Commercial experience, including analysis of business operations, investment appraisal

f. feasibility analysis.

**Experience**:
a. Operating in international and multi-cultural organisations

b. Extensive project Management

c. Member of a governance team or Board

d. Essential experience in commercial and (desirable) ‘not for profit ‘organisations

**Further Information**:
**Department**: Finance

**Contract type**: Standard - Full Time: Indefinite Contract

**Location of Post**: East Asia with occasional travel to UK

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