APAC CFO: Growth, Governance & Transformation

American President Lines; Singapore; On-site; SGD 500,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

CMA CGM Group is seeking a Regional CFO, APAC to lead finance across the region, partnering with the CEO and executive teams to drive profitability, governance, and strategic investment decisions.

You will steer budgeting, forecasting, performance management, and finance transformation while building a high-performing APAC finance organization focused on sustainable value creation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business or related discipline.
• 15+ years of senior finance leadership experience in a multinational environment.
• Proven partnership with CEOs, executive leadership and regional stakeholders.
• Track record in driving financial performance, cost optimization and value creation.
• Strong expertise in FP&A, budgeting, performance management and investment appraisal.
• Deep understanding of governance, risk, internal controls and decision support.
• Excellent influencing and stakeholder management across regional and corporate entities.
• Experience leading a geographically diverse APAC finance organization.
• Proven delivery of finance transformation, automation and data-driven performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning across APAC aligned with Group objectives.
• Translate financial insights into actions to improve profitability, margins and cash.
• Partner with leaders to identify growth opportunities and optimize investments.
• Provide strategic finance insights and challenge to sustain value creation.
• Manage cost, transparency, ownership and accountability across units.
• Drive cost savings and productivity improvements regionally.
• Ensure compliance with policies, controls and governance standards.
• Oversee risk identification, mitigation and reporting across APAC.
• Build and develop a high-performing APAC finance organization.

Skills

Senior finance leadership

Financial planning & budgeting

Investment appraisal

Profitability improvement

Cost optimization

Financial governance & controls

Stakeholder management

Finance transformation & automation

APAC regional experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business

Job description

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ID: 588771

Location:

Singapore, SG

Regional CFO, APAC

Led by Rodolphe Saadé, the CMA CGM Group, a global leader in shipping and logistics, serves more than 420 ports around the world on five continents. With its subsidiary CEVA Logistics, a world leader in logistics, and its air freight division CMA CGM AIR CARGO, the CMA CGM Group is continually innovating to offer its customers a complete and increasingly efficient range of new shipping, land, air and logistics solutions.

Committed to the energy transition in shipping, and a pioneer in the use of alternative fuels, the CMA CGM Group has set a target to become Net Zero Carbon by 2050.
Through the CMA CGM Foundation, the Group acts in humanitarian crises that require an emergency response by mobilizing the Group’s shipping and logistics expertise to bring humanitarian supplies around the world.

Present in 160 countries through its network of more than 400 offices and 750 warehouses, the Group employs more than 155,000 people worldwide, including 4,000 in Marseilles where its head office is located.

Your Role

As the Chief Financial Officer, APAC, you will be the senior finance leader for the region, acting as a trusted advisor to the CEO, APAC and a strategic partner to Group Finance.

You will play a critical role in driving business performance, profitability, cost discipline, financial planning and sustainable value creation across APAC. Balancing regional priorities with Group expectations, you will ensure strong financial governance, transparent reporting and effective execution of corporate objectives.

You will also lead and develop a high-performing finance organization that enables strategic decision-making, operational excellence and long-term business growth.

What are you going to do?

Drive Financial Performance & Profitability

• Lead the annual budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning processes across APAC, ensuring alignment with regional and Group objectives.
• Monitor financial performance and key business drivers, translating insights into clear actions to improve profitability, margins and cash generation.
• Partner with senior business leaders to identify growth opportunities and optimize resource allocation and investment decisions.
• Provide strategic financial insight and challenge to support sound business decisions and sustainable value creation.

Drive Cost Optimization & Productivity

• Lead a region-wide cost management agenda, identifying and delivering sustainable savings and productivity improvements.
• Establish clear cost transparency, ownership and accountability across business units and functions.
• Challenge spending and investment decisions to ensure resources are prioritized against the highest-value opportunities.

Strengthen Governance, Risk & Group Alignment

• Ensure compliance with Group policies, financial controls, regulatory requirements and governance standards.
• Oversee the identification, assessment and mitigation of financial and operational risks across APAC.
• Ensure high-quality, timely and transparent financial reporting to regional and Group stakeholders.
• Balance regional business needs with Group priorities and corporate objectives.

Lead Finance & Build Organizational Capability

• Lead, develop and inspire a high-performing finance organization across APAC.
• Strengthen capabilities in business partnering, financial analytics, performance management and strategic decision support.
• Drive finance transformation through process improvement, automation, digitalization and enhanced reporting.
• Build a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement and commercial focus.

Who are we looking for?

Must-have

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business or a related discipline.
• 15+ years of senior finance leadership experience, with a strong track record in finance, business performance management, strategy or commercial finance.
• Proven experience partnering with CEOs, executive leadership teams and senior regional stakeholders in a complex multinational environment.
• Demonstrated success in driving financial performance, cost optimization, productivity improvements and sustainable value creation.
• Strong expertise in financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, performance management and investment appraisal.
• Strong understanding of financial governance, risk management, internal controls and strategic decision support.
• Excellent influencing and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to align regional and corporate organizations around common objectives.
• Experience leading a geographically diverse finance organization across APAC.
• Experience delivering finance transformation, automation and data-driven performance management initiatives.
• Strong commercial acumen and the ability to translate complex financial information into clear, actionable business recommendations.
• A track record of building high-performing teams and developing finance talent in a multinational environment.

**Kindly note that only short-listed applicants will be contacted.

NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:

Please note that CMA CGM Group does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Recruitment Fee Agreement, CMA CGM Group will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement, CMA CGM Group explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of CMA CGM Group.

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