APAC Finance Strategist – Value Creation Lead

Arbex; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Arbex, a global tissue and hygiene innovator, seeks an APAC Value Creation Finance Lead to drive financial leadership across multiple workstreams, partnering with Mills, Supply Chain and Commercial teams to accelerate initiatives in APAC. You will oversee planning, forecasting, and strategic analysis to exceed EBITDA targets and strengthen business cases across regions.

You will collaborate with the Transformation Office and FP&A to ensure accurate forecasts and timely performance reviews, while

Qualifications

• Experienced finance leader with strong commercial, operational and technical finance capability.
• Professional accounting qualification, MBA or equivalent senior finance experience. Typically, ten years of progressive finance experience, including P&L ownership, commercial analysis, business planning, manufacturing and supply chain finance.
• Strong strategic and analytical capability, with the courage to constructively challenge assumptions and influence senior leaders.
• Strong enterprise mindset and ability to work across diverse cultures, functions and geographies.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, including the ability to explain complex financial matters clearly to finance and non-finance stakeholders.
• Strong English communication skills are critical for this role to analyse, interpret complex documents, respond effectively to sensitive enquiries or issues, and make clear, persuasive presentations to senior management.

Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic partner to the ABU President and APAC Leadership Team, shaping the Value Creation plans, ensuring robust analysis, bringing challenge and insight to strengthen execution, tracking and forecasting performance.
• Lead the preparation and delivery of monthly performance reporting and presentations, translating financial results and KPI’s into clear insight, highlighting variances and trends.
• Own and drive the financial performance of the VC agenda, including delivery of short- and long-term plans, forecast accuracy, risks and opportunities, and clear mitigation actions.
• Ensure disciplined investment choices supported by robust analysis and business cases.
• Provide robust challenge and decision support to Commercial, Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Marketing, ensuring major decisions are financially sound and aligned with CFIs.
• Build, coach and develop analytical capability within the mills and supply chain finance teams to step change the quality of cost analysis and enable bolder and faster decision-making.
• Partner effectively with the Transformation Office, APAC Value Creation Lead, PMO, FP&A and wider workstream teams.

Skills

Finance leadership

Strategic thinking

Analytical capability

Communication skills

Cross-cultural collaboration

Education

Professional accounting qualification

MBA or equivalent

Job description

Arbex, a global tissue and hygiene innovator, seeks an APAC Value Creation Finance Lead to drive financial leadership across multiple workstreams, partnering with Mills, Supply Chain and Commercial teams to accelerate initiatives in APAC. You will oversee planning, forecasting, and strategic analysis to exceed EBITDA targets and strengthen business cases across regions.

You will collaborate with the Transformation Office and FP&A to ensure accurate forecasts and timely performance reviews, while