The Global Director, FP&A plays a key role in driving business performance through the provision of timely, relevant, and accurate financial and data-driven insights to support the Commercial and Operations functions. The role combines financial planning, performance management, and business intelligence leadership to support both strategic decision-making and short-term execution.
This position leads financial planning activities across the Group, delivering robust executable plans, budgets, and forecasts, while ensuring strong visibility and understanding of financial and operational performance. In addition, the role is accountable for advancing the company's data and reporting capabilities, analytical speed including BI tools, data governance and AI.
The role also leads key financial and strategic initiatives, including Group-wide P&L analysis, M&A, investments, and customer strategy, while managing a team of finance business partners and BI resources, developing future leaders who are comfortable challenging the status quo.
We are also open to this position being based in Dubai.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and foster strong cross-functional relationships across business constituencies and stakeholders, strengthening partnerships and influencing capabilities to drive performance and growth.
- Partner with senior leadership and the CFO to develop multi-year operating plans, financial objectives, and key business metrics.
- Lead the annual budgeting and periodic forecasting processes, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities.
- Develop and maintain robust long-term financial models, incorporating scenario planning across different economic and business conditions.
- Develop and lead the BI application function to deliver accurate, timely, and business-relevant reporting, while providing proactive forward-looking insights on risks and opportunities to support and enhance decision-making across the organization.
Performance Management & Reporting
- Prepare and present financial performance reporting packages, including investor, lender, and Board materials, with clear insights on key drivers, trends, risks and opportunities.
- Lead the evaluation of profitability and KPI performance across departments, with clear focus on relevant KPIs for the business.
- Manage the monthly Site Business Review (SBR) process, challenging performance and presenting a consolidated view to the Executive Leadership Team.
- Survey and report on key financial, risk and opportunities developments across the company's competitive landscape to advise on opportunities and threats facing the industry.
Strategic Projects & Corporate Development
- Support and lead key financial and strategic projects of varying complexity, including M&A, investments, and corporate initiatives, together with the PMO office.
- Conduct financial analysis and scenario evaluation to inform strategic decision-making.
Finance & Process Excellence
- Partner with the CFO / ELT to optimize financial workflows, systems, and reporting processes, driving efficiency and cost benefits.
- Drive continuous improvement in management reporting, analytics, and automation / AI capabilities across finance and the broader organization, leveraging SAP and integrated BI platforms.
- Actively contribute as a member of the Finance Leadership Team (FLT), supporting the delivery of the Finance function's strategic vision and finance excellence agenda.
- Support and drive the ongoing evolution and value realization of SAP across the organization, ensuring strong adoption, data integrity, and effective integration with financial planning, reporting, and business processes.
Business Intelligence & Data Analytics
- Lead the development and execution of the Group's Business Intelligence (BI) and data strategy, ensuring alignment with finance and business priorities.
- Drive the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of BI platforms (e.g., Power BI) and reporting tools to enhance data accessibility, visualization, and decision-making.
- Oversee the centralization, standardization, and governance of financial and operational data to ensure consistency, accuracy, and integrity across reporting systems.
- Partner with IT and business stakeholders to define data architecture, data models, and automation opportunities across finance and wider business functions.
- Lead initiatives to automate reporting processes, eliminate manual effort, and enhance efficiency in finance and operational reporting, leveraging AI to enable greater focus on value-adding business insights and opportunities.
Team Leadership
- Lead and develop a high-performing team of Finance Business Partners and Business Intelligence professionals.
- Build strong analytical, digital/AI, and business partnering capabilities within the team.
- Foster a culture of curiosity, continuous improvement, and data-driven decision-making.
What we are looking for
Qualifications and Education Requirements
- At least 15 years of Finance experience, with a minimum of 10 years in leadership roles managing regional or global teams.
- Proven experience in financial planning & analysis, management reporting, and business intelligence or data analytics.
- Strong experience in a multinational manufacturing environment with in-depth knowledge of standard costing
- Experience working at corporate/head office level with exposure to investors and external stakeholders.
- Experience leading teams in fast-paced, high-pressure environments.
- Professional accounting qualification.
Preferred skills
- Strong business acumen with a track record of delivering value-added financial and data-driven insights.
- Demonstrated ability to synthesize complex financial and operational data into clear executive-level insights.
- Strong understanding of BI tools (e.g., Power BI), data models, and data visualization best practices.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and reporting/analytics tools.
- SAP expertise and ability to drive system-enabled business insights
About Filtrona
Filtrona is the only global, independent market leader in the design, testing and manufacturing of specialist filter solutions and related scientific services. With a head office in Singapore, Filtrona has 9 manufacturing facilities across Europe, America, and Asia, together with 2 innovation centres, an accredited laboratory and a centre of excellence focused on sustainability. The Company has over 2000 employees serving customers across 120 countries.
Our purpose is to support partners to transform and benefit from business growth; we succeed when they succeed. Our mission is to be a responsible, customer-focused innovation leader creating excellence in sustainable solutions for today and tomorrow.
For more information, please visit https://filtrona.com.
