Head of Finance (SG & MY)

The Country Head of Finance has an overall responsibility for strategic planning, implementation, managing and running all finance and accounting functions of all legal entities of the country, including business planning, budgeting, forecasting, risk, compliance and governance in line with Group policies and local legal requirements.

As the key member of the executive management team of a country, it holds joint responsibility along with the country management team to steer the company towards achieving set budget.

Responsibilities include (but not limited to) :

• Provides leadership, direction and management of the finance and accounting team.
• Provide functional direction / guidance on Finance matters and define functional development
• Provides recommendations and insights to country management across the business to exceed forecasts and budgets.
• Manages the processes for financial forecasting and budgets and ensures timely and accurate financial reporting
• Support product groups with regards to business planning, accounting, M&A, working capital, competitive strategy as well as performance management support
• Support Product Managers in assessing financial profitability of clients / products
• Prepare KPIs for the continuous monitoring of financial development of products
• Advice on long-term business and financial planning
• Responsible for ensuring legal compliance
• Responsible for ensuring risk, compliance and governance management is embedded in financial processes.
• Ensure tax and regulatory compliance for entities
• Initiate and lead Finance-relevant projects
• Make sure the successful implementation of Global / Regional / Country Finance System
• Proactively foster and support company country initiatives and projects

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