REGIONAL FINANCE

Job Description : REGIONAL FINANCE HEAD SINGAPORE A leading organisation in the Asia Pacific region is seeking a Regional Finance Head to join their dynamic team based in Singapore. This newly created position offers you the opportunity to play a pivotal role in shaping the financial future of the business, driving long-range planning and annual budgeting across multiple markets. You will be at the heart of strategic decision-making, collaborating closely with senior management and cross-functional teams to deliver accurate forecasts and insightful analysis. The role provides exposure to diverse business operations, including finance, accounting, taxation, and office administration, ensuring every day brings new challenges and rewarding experiences. If you are passionate about making an impact in a fast-evolving environment and thrive on building strong relationships within a multicultural setting, this is your chance to step into a key leadership role. This role offers significant influence over regional financial strategy and business planning, allowing you to shape processes and drive results across Asia Pacific. This role allows you to be a finance business partner in an entrepreneurial environment The role provides broad exposure to both finance and office management responsibilities, giving you the chance to collaborate with diverse teams and external partners while developing your skills in a highly inclusive environment. What you'll do: As Regional Finance Head based in Singapore, you will be entrusted with overseeing all aspects of finance, accounting, taxation, and office administration for the Asia Pacific region. Your daily activities will involve preparing consolidated financial reports that inform strategic decisions at the highest level. You will manage complex regional planning cycles—organising deadlines, issuing instructions across countries, consolidating data—and submit comprehensive plans to senior management. By collaborating with cross-functional teams both internally and externally (including outsourced agencies), you will refine cost models for new business opportunities while ensuring expense management remains robust through regular monitoring. Your expertise will be called upon to align business assumptions for accurate profit projections. Additionally, you will supervise office administration tasks ranging from insurance management to IT liaison duties. Success in this role requires you to foster dependable relationships across teams, maintain high standards of compliance with corporate guidelines, continuously seek improvements in processes, and provide supportive leadership that enables others to perform at their best. Drive the long-range plan and annual budget process by integrating key business drivers to forecast full profit and loss statements for multiple markets. Prepare accurate and timely consolidation of various financial reports for affiliates covered, providing key performance indicators for value-added analysis. Manage and deliver regional planning and budgeting processes by understanding global requirements, organising deadlines, issuing instructions and templates to countries, consolidating plans, and submitting them to senior management. Collaborate independently with different functions to analyse underlying business and cost assumptions, refining cost models for new business opportunities. Take responsibility for expense management by monitoring costs monthly against forecasts, plans, and prior year figures. Collate and align business assumptions to create coherent profit and loss projections for new ventures within the region. Work closely with headquarters controlling teams and external accounting firms to ensure alignment on processes and account balances. Constantly improve finance and accounting processes to minimise administrative work while maintaining compliance with corporate systems. Partner with lines-of-business units to support specific projects by providing accounting advice and financial management support. Supervise office administration duties such as insurances, leases, landlord management, IT liaison, ensuring efficient running of the business. What you bring: To excel as Regional Finance Head in Singapore, your extensive experience within FMCG finance roles will be invaluable as you navigate complex regional operations. You bring an entrepreneurial mindset that enables you to design bespoke processes or reports responding directly to business needs. As someone who is self-motivated yet deeply committed to teamwork, your analytical thinking helps solve intricate problems while maintaining accuracy even under tight deadlines. Minimum 10 years’ experience in senior finance roles within FMCG environments focused on business partnering across Asia Pacific. Graduate degree in Business Administration, Finance or Accounting; CA qualification is considered an advantage. Proven track record managing accounting operations with third-party agencies; familiarity with ERP systems (SAP) from setup through daily operation is essential. Expertise using reporting tools such as Power BI for data flow analysis; ability to produce commercially sound judgements from complex issues. Demonstrated entrepreneurial spirit enabling you to build processes or reports tailored to evolving business needs. Self-motivated achiever who works independently yet thrives as a supportive member of collaborative teams. Analytical thinker capable of disciplined problem-solving; detail-oriented approach ensures accuracy under pressure when managing significant workloads. Results-oriented mindset combined with sensitivity towards deadlines; able to prioritise tasks effectively while maintaining high quality standards. Experience supervising office administration functions including insurance management, lease negotiations, landlord relations, IT liaison.

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