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Job Description Summary About the role:
The Group Head, International Finance Center of Excellence, leads a high-performing finance team providing strategic business planning, financial analytics and decision support to Head BPA of country. The role serves as a key finance business partner to BPA, CFO in driving financial transparency, operational excellence, data-driven decision-making, and continuous process innovation across geographies. This position is responsible for establishing best-in-class financial planning and analysis capabilities, delivering actionable insights, enabling resource allocation decisions, and advancing digital transformation initiatives that improve forecasting accuracy, efficiency, and business outcomes. Job Description Key Requirements:
• Strategic Business Partnership: Partner with country BPA team to support strategy execution and business priorities. Provide financial insights and recommendations to optimize investments, resource allocation, and profitability. • Financial Planning & Analysis: Support budgeting, forecasting, latest outlooks, strategic plans, and month-end reviews. Deliver comprehensive analyses of actuals versus plan, forecast, and prior year performance. Drive understanding of key business drivers, risks, opportunities, and performance trends. • Performance Management & Reporting: Establish standardized KPI frameworks and business performance dashboards. Provide insightful management reporting to leadership teams. • CoE Leadership & Capability Building: Lead, coach, and develop a diverse team of finance professionals and foster a culture of accountability, continuous learning, and innovation. Drive standardization, simplification, and harmonization of finance processes across markets. Build organizational capabilities in analytics, automation, and business partnering. • Data, Analytics & Digital Transformation: Champion automation and AI-enabled solutions to improve finance processes and decision support. Drive development of self-service reporting and advanced analytics capabilities. • Ensure high-quality master data governance and scalable reporting solutions. Leverage technologies such as Power BI, Power Query, Power Apps, GenAI, and digital finance tools to enhance productivity and insights. • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with Data & Digital, and Global BPA teams. Align regional and local financial processes with global standards. • Support organizational transformation and change management initiatives. Facilitate knowledge sharing and best-practice adoption across the international organization. Essential Requirements:
• Professional qualification required (ACCA/CIMA/CPA/CA/MBA Finance, or equivalent). • 10 + years of experience in FP&A, BPA, Finance Business Partnering, or Commercial Finance. • Proven leadership experience managing global or regional finance teams. Experience supporting Global functions within a complex multinational environment. • Strong track record in strategic planning, forecasting, performance management, and business partnering. • Strong knowledge of financial planning and reporting processes with expertise in Excel, Power BI, Power Query, and reporting technologies. Knowledge of SAP, BPC is a plus. • Experience with automation, digital finance solutions, and AI-enabled analytics. Strong understanding of resource allocation and investment governance methodologies.
Desirable Requirements:
• Influence strategic decisions through data-driven financial insights. • Build a best-in-class BPA CoE delivering scalable and efficient finance services. • Drive operational excellence through standardization and automation. • Develop a highly engaged, high-performing finance organization that supports International growth and transformation.
Skills Desired Capital Allocation, Critical Thinking, Data Visualization, Insight Generation, Managing Ambiguity, Market Understanding, Process Optimization