Chief Financial Officer, APAC

Overall Responsibility:

• Part of the 5 key leaders for the region (CEO, CPO, COO, CFO and Chief of Staff), play a key role in both setting and delivering the strategy for profitable growth in APAC. 
• Lead a strong and diverse finance team across APAC, working in close collaboration with colleagues across the world as part of the global finance community. 

Business Partnership & Management Information

• Form and maintain strong and healthy relationships with internal and external stakeholders.  Be known for fairness, transparency, a high level of integrity, active listening to understand the context behind a question and open collaboration on agreed ways forward. 
• Oversee annual budgeting and monthly forecast processes in line with the strategy, highlighting and flexing approaches to minimize risks and maximise opportunities. 
• Provide regular, timely financial insights to support key management decisions and business performance, including commentary and insights to drive positive change.  Present what can be complex financial information in a simple and effective way to land the key messages and drive any necessary next steps or change. 
• Look for opportunities to address (potential) conflicts or change processes to make it easier for us to do business in a complex, matrix organization.   

Leadership & Team Management:

• Lead a team of 60-70 finance team members with 10 direct reports.  Motive, coach and train the team. 
• Actively support and manage career development of direct reports and their teams, looking for opportunities for the team to learn and grow.   
• Proactively identify, understand and address tough and challenging situations with honest and fair conversations. 
• Encourage a collaborative team culture, living the Edelman values.

Client Pricing Legal & Negotiation:

• Strengthen commercial financial literacy of the business consultants to enable healthy, profitable client relationships. 
• Enable the finance team to work in partnership with client leads to accurately price out projects at appropriate contribution margin levels, being personally involved in pricing strategy and negotiations on larger and more complex assignments where required. 
• Prepare for and take part in client and procurement negotiations to build relationships and agree mutually acceptable terms in line with global direction. 

Financial Reporting, Audit & Compliance:

• Support the finance team to manage the month-end close adhering to global timelines and requirements.   
• Active engagement with controllership function and internal audit team.
• Remain closely connected to global Treasury and Tax teams to help highlight issues, mitigate risks and support changes to behaviour or processes where required.