Our client, a publicly listed technology innovator, is hiring a Finance Business Partner to support strategic decision-making and drive commercial performance across Asia Pacific. This role requires strong business partnering capability, commercial acumen, and proven experience managing a team within a regional, multi-market environment.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Business Partnering
- Act as a trusted advisor to business leaders across APAC, delivering insights that influence growth, profitability, and operational efficiency.
- Lead a small team of commercial/financial analysts, ensuring accurate, timely, and insight-driven reporting.
- Partner with Sales, Operations, Marketing, and Product teams to support business cases, pricing decisions, and new market opportunities.
Commercial Finance & Decision Support
- Drive financial modelling, scenario planning, and ROI analyses for strategic initiatives.
- Evaluate commercial performance indicators, including pricing, margins, customer profitability, and channel economics.
- Provide forward-looking analysis to shape annual plans, market expansion, and optimisation strategies.
Regional Planning & Performance Monitoring
- Support regional budgeting, forecasting, and financial reviews across multiple APAC markets.
- Consolidate performance insights across countries, identifying trends, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
- Collaborate closely with local finance teams to ensure alignment on targets, reporting accuracy, and execution discipline.
Financial Governance & Controls
- Maintain strong financial controls, ensuring compliance with corporate policies and regulatory requirements across the region.
- Support audit, tax, and statutory processes through coordination with country teams and Group Finance.
Process Optimisation & Systems Improvement
- Champion continuous improvement initiatives across reporting, analytics, and commercial processes.
- Contribute to system enhancement projects (ERP upgrades, BI dashboards, automation initiatives).
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance; CPA/CA/ACCA preferred.
- Minimum 610 years of commercial finance or business partnering experience in a multinational company.
- Mandatory team management experience, with demonstrated ability to lead analysts or commercial finance teams.
- Strong regional APAC exposure, comfortable supporting multiple markets simultaneously.
- Excellent analytical, modelling, and communication skills.
- Ability to influence non-finance stakeholders and support strategic decisions.
- Proficiency with ERP (SAP/Oracle/Workday) and BI tools.
- Willingness to travel regionally when required.
Why Join
- Highly visible, strategic role influencing regional commercial outcomes.
- Opportunity to partner closely with C-level and senior business leaders.
- Dynamic, fast-paced environment with strong career acceleration opportunities.
