1. Finance Operations Leadership & Governance
- Provide leadership across Finance Operations, translating service priorities into clear operating plans, governance routines and measurable outcomes.
- Own end-to-end service performance across multiple finance operations workstreams, ensuring delivery against SLAs, KPIs, controls, quality standards and stakeholder expectations.
- Establish operational governance forums, performance reviews and escalation channels to ensure risks, aged items, exceptions and service issues are proactively managed.
- Act as senior escalation point for complex operational issues, cross-functional dependencies and matters requiring management judgement or stakeholder alignment.
- Provide insight and recommendations to the Finance Operations Service Lead on service performance, resource priorities, risk areas and transformation opportunities.
2. Accounts Payable (AP) – Senior Oversight
- Own the AP operating model and ensure invoice processing, payment execution, vendor maintenance and exception handling are delivered with strong controls and service discipline.
- Provide oversight of payment governance, approval controls, blocked invoices, AP aging and exception management to minimize financial, operational and reputational risk.
- Partner with Procurement, Business Units, Tax, Treasury and Finance stakeholders to resolve systemic issues and improve upstream process quality.
- Drive performance conversations on invoice accuracy, payment timeliness, vendor experience and aged item reduction, with corrective actions where required.
Key Deliverables
- Sustained AP service performance and control compliance
- Reduced aged, blocked and exception items
- Effective payment governance and audit readiness
3. Travel & Expense (T&E)
- Provide senior oversight of T&E operations, ensuring employee reimbursements, corporate card activities and policy exceptions are managed consistently and transparently.
- Strengthen policy compliance, exception governance and employee experience through clear controls, communication and stakeholder engagement.
- Identify recurring claim issues, policy gaps and process inefficiencies, and drive corrective actions with relevant stakeholders.
Key Deliverables
- Improved T&E compliance and service quality
- Reduced recurring policy exceptions
- Strong employee and stakeholder experience
4. Intercompany Accounting
- Own governance over intercompany reconciliation, confirmation, settlement and aged balance resolution across relevant entities and counterparties.
- Lead senior stakeholder engagement with local, regional and global finance teams to resolve complex mismatches and recurring intercompany issues.
- Ensure intercompany activities support accurate reporting, elimination requirements, transfer pricing documentation and close timelines.
Key Deliverables
- Timely intercompany close and reconciliation completion
- Reduced aged intercompany differences
- Improved governance over recurring mismatches
5. Fixed Asset Accounting
- Provide senior oversight of fixed asset accounting, ensuring capitalization, transfers, disposals, depreciation and register integrity are governed effectively.
- Partner with Finance, Business Units and asset owners to strengthen capital expenditure governance, asset verification and financial reporting quality.
- Ensure compliance with accounting standards, company policy and audit requirements for asset-related activities.
Key Deliverables
- Accurate and complete fixed asset register
- Strong capital expenditure and asset governance
- Timely depreciation and reporting support
6. Lease Accounting
- Oversee lease accounting governance and ensure compliance with IFRS 16 / MFRS 16 requirements across lease recognition, modifications, reassessments and reporting.
- Ensure lease data completeness, accuracy and alignment with reporting, close and audit requirements.
- Provide senior review and challenge over complex lease matters, accounting judgements and recurring data quality issues.
Key Deliverables
- Lease accounting compliance and reporting accuracy
- Timely close support and reconciliations
- Resolved lease data and control exceptions
7. Bank Reconciliation
- Lead bank reconciliation governance across entities and accounts, ensuring full reconciliation coverage, timely completion and effective oversight of reconciling items.
- Ensure aged reconciling items are investigated, escalated and resolved with clear ownership, minimizing operational, financial and compliance risks.
- Strengthen reconciliation controls, audit evidence and management reporting to provide transparency over cash-related exceptions and risks.
Key Deliverables
- 100% monthly reconciliation completion within close timelines
- Clear visibility and reduction of aged reconciling items
- Robust reconciliation controls and audit readiness
8. Oracle Master Data Maintenance
- Provide senior oversight of Oracle master data maintenance activities, ensuring supplier, customer, employee, banking, and other finance master data are created, updated and maintained accurately and timely.
- Strengthen governance over master data change requests, approvals, segregation of duties, data validation, documentation and audit evidence.
- Partner with Finance, Procurement, Business Units, IT and control teams to resolve master data issues, improve upstream request quality and reduce recurring data defects.
- Monitor master data quality, aging, exceptions and control breaches, ensuring timely remediation and continuous improvement of Oracle data integrity.
Key Deliverables
- Accurate and timely Oracle master data creation and maintenance
- Strong master data governance, approval controls and audit readiness
- Reduced master data defects, exceptions and recurring data quality issues
9. Controls, Risk & Compliance
- Own the Finance Operations control environment, ensuring controls are embedded, evidenced, monitored and continuously strengthened.
- Provide senior oversight of audit readiness, SOX/internal control testing, segregation of duties and remediation of control gaps.
- Identify emerging operational risks and lead mitigation plans across processes, systems, people and third-party touchpoints.
- Ensure compliance with accounting standards, company policies, tax requirements, regulatory expectations and service governance requirements.
10. Continuous Improvement, Automation & Transformation
- Set the continuous improvement agenda for Finance Operations, prioritizing initiatives that improve quality, cycle time, control effectiveness and stakeholder experience.
- Sponsor automation, standardization, workflow enhancement and knowledge management initiatives across finance operations workstreams.
- Lead root cause analysis of recurring service issues and drive sustainable corrective actions across process, system and stakeholder touchpoints.
- Support transitions, migrations, operating model changes and process transformation projects with clear governance and adoption plans.
11. Stakeholder Management & Business Partnership
- Build trusted relationships with Finance, Procurement, Business Units, regional teams, auditors and other key stakeholders to ensure service alignment and timely issue resolution.
- Represent Finance Operations in senior stakeholder discussions, service reviews, governance meetings and transformation forums.
- Communicate performance insights, risks, decisions required and improvement plans in a clear, commercially aware and action-oriented manner.
12. People Leadership & Capability Building
- Lead, coach and develop managers and finance professionals, building leadership bench strength, technical capability and service excellence mindset.
- Set clear expectations, performance standards and development priorities aligned to service outcomes and organizational goals.
- Drive succession planning, cross-skilling, workforce planning and knowledge continuity across Finance Operations.
- Create a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement and customer-focused delivery across the team.
Minimum Job Requirement
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance or related discipline.
- Professional qualification such as ACCA, CPA, ICAEW, CIMA, CA or equivalent is preferred.
Experience
- Minimum 10–12 years of relevant experience in finance operations, shared services, accounting operations or controllership support, including responsibility for multiple finance operations workstreams.
- At least 5 years of people leadership experience, including leading managers or senior team leads, developing capability and managing performance across a sizeable operations team.
- Proven experience owning service delivery outcomes, operational governance, complex escalations, audit readiness, risk mitigation and stakeholder management in a high-volume environment.
- Strong working knowledge of ERP, workflow and reporting systems such as Oracle, Coupa, Workday, OneStream or equivalent, including Oracle master data maintenance and experience supporting automation or transformation initiatives.
Technical & Leadership Competencies
- Finance operations governance and shared services leadership
- Accounts Payable, Travel & Expense, Intercompany, Fixed Asset, Lease Accounting and Bank Reconciliation oversight
- Controls, audit readiness, SOX/internal control compliance and operational risk management
- Oracle master data maintenance governance, data quality management and control compliance
- Service performance management, SLA/KPI governance and management reporting
- Senior stakeholder management, influencing and escalation leadership
- Continuous improvement, automation, transformation and change adoption
- People leadership, coaching, succession planning and workforce capability building
- Demonstrates senior ownership of service delivery outcomes, control environment, risk management and stakeholder confidence.
- Able to operate with limited supervision, make sound judgement calls, prioritize competing demands and escalate strategically when required.
- Strong ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and resolve complex issues across Finance, Procurement, Business Units, regional teams and external parties.
- Strong understanding of finance operations controls, audit evidence, segregation of duties, regulatory expectations and compliance requirements.
- Comfortable leading in a shared services environment with high transaction volumes, multiple entities, competing priorities and evolving stakeholder expectations.
- Strong executive communication, analytical thinking, problem-solving, coaching, change leadership and continuous improvement skills.
- Able to build team capability, strengthen succession pipeline and sustain a culture of accountability, service excellence and continuous improvement.
- Finance Operations services are delivered with clear senior ownership, strong governance and sustained achievement of agreed SLAs, KPIs and quality expectations.
- Operational risks, aged items, exceptions and complex escalations are proactively identified, governed and resolved with appropriate stakeholder alignment.
- AP, T&E, Intercompany, Fixed Asset, Lease Accounting, Bank Reconciliation, Oracle master data maintenance and Finance Query Management processes operate with robust controls, audit readiness and timely issue resolution.
- Stakeholders experience consistent, transparent and professional service delivery supported by actionable performance insights and clear communication.
- Continuous improvement, standardization, automation and transformation initiatives deliver measurable improvements in cycle time, quality, control effectiveness and stakeholder experience.
- Finance Operations teams demonstrate stronger capability, accountability, succession readiness and leadership depth under the Senior Manager’s direction.