Head of Finance SGMY

Purpose of the job:

The Head of Finance Singapore and Malaysia is responsible of all financial activities of his/her perimeter. He/She manages the Singapore and Malaysia financial teams and is the key finance point of contact for the operations & commercial teams of both countries.

Key accountabilities:

• Assists and advises for all financial matters relative to the countries and monitor the country objectives through performance monitoring. Ensures that all operational managers in the countries get the adequate support from the finance organization.
• Management – Directly manages the finance population in his/her perimeter.
• Support to Business & act as Business Partner:
• Tender Controlling: Follow project controlling from tendering to cash collection, including support, challenge and validation.
• Meetings: Presents the country results to the Cluster and/or Region VP, Region Management Committee, the SVP Finance and Executive Committee where necessary.
• Financing & Treasury: Drives the process in his/her perimeter. Ensures cash optimisation and project financing.
• M&A: Supports Group M&A activities in his/her perimeter.

• Controlling Role:
• Manage Controlling in a complex industrial environment, especially on tenders and risks on long term contract.
• Reporting: Ensure reporting compliance to group guidelines.
• Project Controlling: Challenges projects financial data in order to help cluster/country Management to keep projects under control, optimize profit and cash.
• Industrial/OH Controlling: Drives optimisation actions in order to achieve competitiveness target.

• Budget / CL / Rolling forecasts: Challenge country/sites in order to propose a consolidated financial situation in line with management expectations.
• Manage Treasury at Country level. Includes cash pooling, hedging, bonding and project funding.
• Compliance Role:
• Accounting : ensure all Group legal entities operating in the Country are included and reported in Group accounts perimeter; align all units in the country on accounting standards applicable within the Group; check that reported information reconcile with local statutory account.
• Closing: Supervises closing process at country level. Drive the management cycle and ensure proper reporting compliance.
• Taxes: Manage Tax at country level. Includes transfer pricing, VAT, indirect tax, customs, project tax architecture.
• Internal Control: Ensures the countries’ compliance. Ensure that the units establish a sound internal system of controlling so that the activities results are detected, performances monitored and reported free from bias, transparently.
• Efficiency Role:

Optimizes processes, drives the changes towards group core model.

Ensures the effective promotion of Group Tools and Methodologies.