Head of Finance

ABAgri; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

ABAgri is seeking a strategic Head of Finance to lead finance operations in Vietnam. This role offers a chance to align local operations with global financial objectives, ensuring compliance and delivering critical insights for decision-making. The successful candidate will have a background in financial leadership and robust experience in the manufacturing sector, contributing to the company's mission of feeding the world responsibly.

Benefits

Annual salary reviews

Incentive bonuses

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of finance experience, including 3 years in leadership roles.
• Proven success in managing complex financial processes.
• Fluency in English and Vietnamese.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial strategy and compliance in Vietnam.
• Oversee financial reporting and risk management.
• Partner with teams for financial insights supporting strategic initiatives.

Skills

Strategic Financial Leadership

Analytical Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Education

Recognized professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

Tools

Financial systems (ERP platforms such as D365)

Excel

Job description

The Role & Key Responsibilities

Job Title: Head of Finance

Location: Ho Chi Minh

Contract and Shift details: Normal working - Mon to Fri, 8:30 - 17:30

We are seeking an experienced and strategic Head of Finance to lead our finance operations in Vietnam. As a senior member of the local leadership team and the key finance liaison to our global headquarters, you will be responsible for driving financial strategy, ensuring compliance, delivering insights for business decision-making, and leading a high-performing finance team. This role plays a pivotal part in aligning local operations with global financial objectives and reporting standards.

What you'll be doing:

Strategic Financial Leadership

• Act as a financial advisor to the leadership team in Vietnam.
• Drive financial planning, forecasting, and budgeting processes in alignment with global timelines and expectations.
• Ensure robust business cases and ROI analyses support investment and strategic initiatives.

Financial Operations & Reporting

• Oversee all accounting, tax, treasury, and financial reporting functions in Vietnam.
• Ensure compliance with both Vietnamese Accounting Standards (VAS) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
• Deliver timely and accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports to global finance.

Compliance, Controls & Risk Management

• Maintain a strong internal control environment aligned with global governance frameworks.
• Liaise with external auditors, tax authorities, and regulatory bodies.
• Monitor financial risks and implement mitigation strategies.

Business Partnering

• Partner with commercial, operations, and supply chain teams to provide financial insights and support strategic initiatives.
• Lead pricing, profitability, and margin analysis to support business growth.

Systems & Transformation

• Champion continuous improvement and digital finance transformation initiatives (e.g., ERP rollouts, automation).
• Drive process standardization and best practice sharing across the region.

Team Leadership & Development

• Lead, mentor, and develop the local finance team.
• Foster a culture of high performance, accountability, and professional growth.

Key Stakeholders

Finance Director (Direct Line Manager)

• Strategic guidance, performance reporting, budgeting oversight, and alignment with broader financial goals. Local Finance Team
• Coordination on reporting, compliance, budgeting, and standardization of processes across geographies.

Executive Leadership Team (indirectly)

• Provide accurate financial insights and analysis that inform top-level decision-making.

Operations / Supply Chain

• Support cost control, working capital efficiency, and financial input for global logistics and procurement decisions.

Commercial / Sales Teams

• Collaborate on revenue planning, margin analysis, and financial impact of market strategies.

HR / People Teams

• Align on headcount planning, compensation forecasting, and payroll budget management.

IT / Systems

• Work closely to install, maintain and improve financial systems (e.g., ERP implementation, reporting tools).

Legal & Compliance

• Ensure financial processes and decisions are compliant with local and international laws.

What you'll bring:

• Recognized professional accounting qualification such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent local designation.
• Minimum 7 years of progressive experience in finance roles, with at least 3 years in a leadership or international capacity.
• Solid understanding of IFRS and local GAAP requirements, tax structures, and compliance frameworks.
• Experience managing or working within manufacturing business.
• Proficiency in financial systems and tools (e.g., Excel, ERP platforms such as D365).
• Strong analytical, interpersonal, and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across cultures and departments
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills in languages used across the region and in business English.
• Fluent in English and Vietnamese
• Thorough knowledge of the animal nutrition feed market as well as market changes and forces that will influence the business in the region.
• Proven success of managing complex European Financial entities in the B2B space with Animal Nutrition Industry an additional benefit.

Key Behaviors

• Personal alignment to ABF ways of working.
• Strategic approach with pragmatism to deliver.
• Solution focused.
• Strong leadership skills, ability to use logic and evidence to make key decisions.
• Strong influencer, inspiring others
• Resilient
• Confident with ambiguity
• Shows an active interest in own continuous development.
• Curious and questioning

About The Company

Rewarding your passion

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.

About us

We’re AB Agri, part of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.

Application Notes

We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.

When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.

Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.

Agencies and media sales

AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.