Director Finance

Your Role in Our Story: The APAC Finance Director is the senior financial leader for ACT's Asia Pacific business and a key member of the APAC leadership team. You also have a fiduciary role alongside the VP APAC in the running of the business. Partnering closely with the VP APAC and regional business leaders, you will help shape the commercial and lead the financial direction of the region. You are financially accountable with the business for the value-cash-risk delivery and with that integrate finance, risk, legal, compliance activity for the APAC business: you make the judgment and set the priorities towards business delivery and performance within the boundaries set by the Group. You identify and assess risk and opportunities, also on behalf of Legal, Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Risk, Compliance (provided minimal external regulatory obligations are met) This is a broad leadership role spanning commercial finance, financial planning and performance, controllership, cash and working capital, risk and governance, and finance team leadership. You will act as the bridge between APAC and ACT's global Finance and specialist functions to support informed and timely business decisions. You set the finance agenda, shape and challenge strategy, and integrate specialist inputs to ensure decisions are fact-based, timely, and compliant. With APAC being in a scale up phase, a key success factor will be for you to establish and bring together a positive learning environment so that the APAC Delivery accelerates together. The role requires someone who can move comfortably between the boardroom and the detail: challenging commercial decisions, being curious and driving new ideas, understanding the economics and risks and opportunities of transactions, while ensuring that the fundamentals of Finance remain strong. What You Will Do Partner the business and shape APAC strategy Work closely with the VP APAC and regional leadership team to translate ACT's strategy into financial priorities, resource allocation and measurable business outcomes. Provide independent financial challenge and insight on commercial opportunities, investments, new products, market expansion and other strategic decisions. The FD acts as the functional coordinator and decision partner to the VP, safeguarding appropriate SoD and the 4-eyes principle and with that provide independent functional support and involving relevant experts or LoD2 where the FD considers appropriate. For activity requiring group approvals, the FD coordinates the required LoD2 review and support and therefore provides assurance that the appropriate LoD2 involvement has taken placed. Evaluate opportunities through a value, cash and risk lens, balancing growth ambitions with appropriate financial discipline and protection of the balance sheet. Support leadership with high-quality analysis, scenario modelling and recommendations that enable faster and better-informed decisions. Drive financial performance Own the financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and performance management cycle for APAC. Provide leadership with clear visibility into revenue, profitability, costs, cash generation and key business drivers. Identify performance gaps, risks and opportunities early and translate them into actionable recommendations. Partner with commercial teams to improve margins, capital efficiency and overall financial performance. Build meaningful KPIs and management information that connect financial outcomes to operational and commercial drivers. Own regional Finance delivery and controllership Ensure a pragmatic and risk-based control environment that drives integrated delivery, capturing business o