Cluster CFO, Malaysia, Thailand and Frontier Markets

AstraZeneca; Selangor; On-site; MYR 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global healthcare company seeks a Cluster CFO in Malaysia to oversee finance, partner with senior leaders, and ensure strategic financial operations. You will lead financial planning, manage audits, and establish robust financial practices. The ideal candidate will have a degree in accounting or finance and demonstrate excellence in financial management and stakeholder relations. Experience in a global organization, particularly in pharmaceuticals, is desirable. This role promotes an inclusive work culture.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in finance, accounting, budgeting, control, tax, and reporting.
• Ability to prioritize complex issues effectively.
• Experience in leading teams towards enhanced performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial planning processes to achieve strategic objectives.
• Partner with country leadership for financial decision-making.
• Ensure compliance with fiscal reporting and tax requirements.

Skills

Financial management

Analytical skills

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Education

Degree in accounting or finance

Tools

SAP

Business Intelligence software

Job description

Join a talented global team that’s powering AstraZeneca to better serve patients, every day. The fuel behind our evolving, rapidly growing enterprise, we’re here to help unlock the power of what science can do and ultimately have a big impact on patients’ lives.

As Finance, we are integrated and closely aligned with the whole enterprise, we offer our expertise, and leverage exciting new technology and digital innovations, to accelerate AstraZeneca’s evolution. We do all of it strategically, looking ahead to the new challenges we’ll face and improving the way the enterprise operates today.

The Cluster CFO oversees controlling, finance business partnering, purchasing & administration and meets regularly with team members to keep informed and to offer direction. The CCFO reports directly to the Area Finance Director (AFD).

Key Responsibilities

• Lead financial planning cycles (RBU, LTP, MTP, TA Strategy, & LBE) processes including global market/regional guidance coordination, performance targets and incentives, ROI analysis, presentation development & delivery to senior stakeholders, and short and long-term financial strategy.
• Develop and implement appropriate systems for business plan preparation and documentation, sales, cost and capital expenditure budgeting, cost control and follow up/deviation analysis and explanation.
• Partner with Country President and Senior Leadership Team to support strategic implementation and ensure effective financial decision making, particularly around P&L management, investments, and resource allocation and optimisation.
• Interact with other managers to provide consultative support to planning initiatives through financial and management information analyses, reports, and recommendations.
• Lead financial reporting including development, consolidation, and delivery of monthly reporting. Provide financial insight and foresight to support the delivery of our strategic and commercial goals.
• Review reports to analyse projections of sales and profit against actual figures, budgeted expenses against final totals, and suggest methods of improvements as appropriate.
• Own capital expenditure budgets, working capital management and cash flow optimization.
• Drive a robust cash flow management framework by optimising cash indicators such as CTT, AR improvement and taking appropriate steps to ensure markets will deliver against targets.
• Oversee the management and coordination of all fiscal and statutory reporting activities ensuring correct and timely internal and external reporting for Tax, Balance Sheet and P&L.
• Sign off, after review with global tax, on all locally prepared tax filings and build the tax, statutory risk matrix (Heat map) for the Cluster Countries and ensure remediation of the open items in a prioritised form.
• Responsible for the successful performance against internal/external audits (no material findings).
• Establish and maintain appropriate internal control processes in the frame of the company’s Financial Control Framework.
• Ensure that a culture of ethics and integrity is embedded in all business practices. Complies with the Code of Ethics, all relevant supporting policies, standards, and procedures.
• Implement and maintain appropriate business risk management strategies in accordance with AstraZeneca’s policies and oversee legal compliance requirements of AstraZeneca.
• Ensure compliance with treasury policies (e.g., single bank account use etc).
• Drive teams to focus decision support activities, initiate changes to improve working practices and processes in Finance and communicate these among the Finance Networks.
• Ensure lean and effective operations of the activities under control, drive continuous improvement and simplification for the Finance function and partner with GFS, aligned with the global finance transformation agenda.
• Deliver value added insights to key stakeholders in the Cluster and Area.
• Establish and implement short- and long-range departmental goals, objectives, policies, and operating procedures.
• Coach and develop a team of finance professionals to achieve excellent performance, creating a supportive work environment where everyone can fulfil their potential.
• Act as a member of the Country Leadership Team and Asia Area Finance Leadership Team and lead or contribute to above market initiatives as they arise.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Degree in accounting or finance
• Financial qualification or equivalent through experience
• Demonstrated excellence in managing finance, accounting, budgeting, control, tax and reporting
• Strong analytical skills and experience interpreting a strategic vision into an operational model
• Ability to prioritize and summarize complex issues and ensure the material items (‘heat mapping’) are solved for with priority
• Ability to drive a team towards increased performance and delivery
• Strong stakeholder management in a matrix organization (GFS, Country leaders, Country CBPs)

Desired

• Experience of working in a global organization, preferably within the pharmaceuticals industry
• Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team and liaising with senior leaders
• Use of/exposure to general office and financial systems, e.g. SAP, Business Intelligence software
• Fluent in relevant local languages

Date Posted 19-Dec-2025

Closing Date 15-Jan-2026

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.