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Job Title: Director, Finance Operations
Posting Start Date: 9/30/26
Job Description:
About our group:
The Finance organization partners with Global Procurement, Commodity Management, and Supply Chain Operations to support strategic decision-making and deliver sustainable business results. The team provides financial planning, performance management, cost and working-capital insights, and decision support across a complex global operating environment.
We also advance the use of analytics, automation, digital tools, and artificial intelligence to modernize finance processes and enable scalable, data-driven ways of working.
About the role - you will:
- Serve as a strategic finance leader and trusted advisor to senior leaders across Global Procurement, Commodity Management, and Supply Chain Operations.
- Shape financial strategy and lead annual planning, forecasting, and long-range planning activities.
- Develop business cases, scenario analyses, and actionable recommendations that support sound business decisions.
- Analyze cost structures, commodity and supplier dynamics, sourcing alternatives, contracts, pricing, and total cost of ownership.
- Provide financial support for supplier negotiations, product-cost optimization, supplier transitions, working-capital improvements, and supply chain initiatives.
- Manage budgets and forecasts, monitor performance against targets, identify risks and opportunities, and recommend corrective actions.
- Champion decision-ready data and expand the use of dashboards, self-service analytics, automation, predictive analytics, and generative AI.
- Apply digital and AI capabilities to planning, forecasting, reporting, performance management, and decision-making.
- Lead cross-functional transformation initiatives that simplify, standardize, and modernize finance processes.
- Define measurable transformation outcomes and drive the adoption of digital solutions and new ways of working.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a global finance team.
- Build team capabilities in finance business partnership, analytics, data literacy, digital tools, and AI.
- Support talent development and succession planning across the organization.
About you:
- Strategic and commercial finance leadership, with the ability to translate complex financial and operational information into clear, actionable business recommendations.
- Proven ability to build trusted relationships and influence decisions across functions, organizational levels, and geographies.
- Demonstrated effectiveness in navigating complex global organizations and leading teams through change.
- Strong financial expertise combined with a demonstrated commitment to analytics, technology, automation, and continuous improvement.
- Excellent executive communication and presentation skills, including the ability to convey data through compelling business narratives.
- Proven capability to develop high-performing teams and foster collaboration, accountability, learning, and innovation.
- Results-oriented approach, with the ability to balance long-term strategy and operational execution.
Your experience includes:
- A bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Data Analytics, or a related field.
- At least 12 years of progressive finance experience, including experience in leadership roles.
- Significant experience supporting Procurement, Supply Chain, Operations, Manufacturing, or related functions.
- Experience in financial planning and analysis, cost analysis, working-capital management, and operational finance.
- Demonstrated success influencing senior leaders and leading cross-functional transformation in a complex global organization.
- Practical experience applying AI, including generative AI, to finance or operational planning, forecasting, reporting, analytics, decision-making, or productivity.
- Advanced capability in analytics, data visualization, and business intelligence.
- Strong executive communication and presentation skills.
Preferred experience includes:
- An MBA, CPA, CMA, or equivalent qualification.
- An industry-recognized certification or formal credential in AI, generative AI, machine learning, data science, data analytics, or a related discipline.
- Experience in technology, manufacturing, data storage, semiconductor, or global supply chain environments.
- Experience leading enterprise-scale transformation.
- Proficiency with Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Power Platform, Microsoft Copilot, Azure AI, or comparable platforms.
Location:
Location: Shugart, Singapore
Travel: None
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