Director, Finance & Operations AGM

Cochlear; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 300,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Cochlear Malaysia seeks a proven leader to guide Finance & Operations across Asia Growth Markets. The Director will partner with the GM, shape strategy, and drive governance, planning and performance across multiple functions.

You will build capability, lead a high-performing team and foster a commercially-minded culture that supports sustainable growth and customer-focused outcomes in a diverse regional business.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of finance leadership experience in complex multinationals.
• Strong commercial acumen and business partnering capability.
• Experience in financial planning, reporting, governance and operational finance.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the GM and leadership to shape strategy and plans.
• Lead forecasting, budgeting and business reviews across the region.
• Oversee financial governance, reporting, audits and controls.

Skills

Power BI

AI analytics

Stakeholder management

Business partnering

Forecasting

Job description

Change people’s lives and love what you do! Cochlear develops world-leading medical devices that help people hear. As a top 100 medical device company and market-leader in implantable hearing devices, more people choose a Cochlear-branded cochlear implant system than any other. Our employees tell us that the number one reason they enjoy working for Cochlear is the opportunity to make a difference to people’s lives.

The Opportunity

As Director, Finance & Operations, Asia Growth Markets, you'll be a trusted advisor to our General Manager and a key member of the leadership team, helping drive growth across a diverse and evolving region. You'll combine commercial insight, operational leadership and people development to help our teams make better decisions, improve customer experiences and accelerate business performance.

Most importantly, you'll help ensure more people can access Cochlear's life-changing technology.

This is a highly visible regional leadership role where you'll partner with Country Managers, Sales, Marketing, Customer Service and Operations leaders across Asia Growth Markets.

You'll lead Finance and key operational functions, providing the commercial intelligence, planning and governance needed to support sustainable growth, while building capability and confidence across the wider business.

What You'll Do

Drive business performance

• Partner with the General Manager and leadership team to shape strategy and business plans.
• Provide commercial insights that support growth, investment decisions and market opportunities.
• Lead forecasting, planning, budgeting and business reviews across the region.
• Turn complex data into clear, actionable recommendations.

Lead finance and operations

• Oversee financial governance, reporting, audits and compliance.
• Drive working capital performance, inventory management and financial controls.
• Lead continuous improvement across customer service, logistics, demand planning and order-to-cash processes.
• Support regional projects that improve efficiency, simplicity and scalability.
• Help shape lifetime customer engagement initiatives, including upgrades, accessories and service opportunities.

Develop people and capability

• Lead and develop a high-performing team.
• Coach leaders and teams to better understand financial metrics and business performance.
• Foster a collaborative, commercially minded culture built on accountability, growth and partnership.
• Create clarity, build capability and help people do their best work.

What You’ll Bring

• 10+ years' experience leading finance functions within complex multinational organisations.
• Strong commercial acumen and business partnering capability.
• Experience across financial planning, reporting, governance and operational finance.
• Demonstrated success leading and developing teams.
• Strong analytical skills and experience using Power BI and AI-enabled analytical tools.
• Exposure to customer service, logistics, supply chain or distributor management environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience in medical devices, healthcare or the broader APAC region will be highly regarded.

This is an opportunity to influence strategy, lead a talented team, improve how we work and help shape the future growth of our Asia Growth Markets business. You'll work with experienced regional leaders, gain broad organisational exposure and make a meaningful contribution to a purpose-driven organisation that changes lives.

If you're energised by combining commercial leadership, operational excellence and people development, we'd love to hear from you.

Cochlear Malaysia provides shared services to support Cochlear’s global operations. The growing team of professionals in Malaysia provides critical support in areas such as IT infrastructure and applications, development and testing, business intelligence development and support, procurement, customer service, service and repairs and returned device analysis engineering.