Finance Director, Business Performance and Internal Controls

Clermont Group; Singapore; On-site; SGD 192,000 - 294,000; Full time

Job summary

Clermont Group, headquartered in Singapore, seeks an experienced Finance leader for its largest operating company, Hoan My, in Vietnam. The role requires driving robust financial controls, policy development, and transparent reporting across healthcare operations and affiliated entities.

The ideal candidate is an International Chartered Accountant with 10+ years in finance, capable of strategic collaboration with Hoan My CFO and the Clermont finance team to optimise costs and ensure regulatory

Qualifications

• International Chartered Accountant with minimum 10 years of relevant working experience.
• Healthcare industry experience highly preferred; managing financial operations in hospital networks is an advantage.
• Strategic thinker with excellent relational skills to represent the company with operating units and external parties.
• International business background, able to work across cultures and geographies.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Strong stakeholder management, capable of engaging C-Suite leaders.
• Ability to synthesize financial data into meaningful insights and executive summaries.
• Meticulous, proactive, well-organised, and able to work under pressure to meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Implement and uphold Clermont's financial principles, policies, and internal controls.
• Review and strengthen internal control framework to safeguard assets and ensure compliant reporting.
• Create policies, SOPs and control checklists for hospital units (procurement, billing, payroll, inventory).
• Perform periodic internal control reviews and coordinate corrective actions.
• Strengthen governance over cash management and identify transaction anomalies.
• Ensure timely, high-quality reporting to stakeholders.
• Oversee budget management, cost control, cash flow and risk management.
• Undertake cost analyses and identify opportunities for cost optimization.
• Perform due diligence on contractual terms, identify risks and non-compliance.
• Collaborate with Hoan My CFO and finance team across functions.
• Support strategy, business plans, capital plans and Clermont standards.
• Assist Clermont CFO with ad hoc financial analyses.

Skills

Chartered Accountant

10+ years experience

Healthcare experience

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder management

Cross-cultural skills

Communication skills

Leadership

Presentation skills

Education

CA/CPA/ACCA equivalent

Job description

The Clermont Group is an international business group with its headquarters in Singapore. Founded in 2006 by New Zealand-born entrepreneur Richard Chandler, Clermont operates across four sectors - healthcare, financial services, aerospace, and investment. These businesses employ over 9,000 people globally.

Rooted in excellence, innovation, and integrity, we bring together the art and science of building champion businesses, using our unique approach to create iconic companies that lead industry and shape culture.

Our operating companies include

• Hoan My: The largest healthcare group in Vietnam with a mission to provide affordable, high-quality healthcare to the people of Vietnam
• SBFC: Our finance business in India, provides loans to small business owners and consumers through a network of more than 200 branches
• magniX: Our U.S.-based aerospace business, produces the industry's leading fully-integrated electric powertrains for helicopters and airplanes

We are searching for an entrepreneurial, driven individual to apply their finance, accounting, leadership and operations skills at our largest operating company.

Key responsibilities

• Ensure Clermont's financial principles, policies, internal controls and processes are implemented and adhered to
• Review, improve and maintain a robust internal control framework to safeguard assets, ensure accurate reporting, and promote compliance with regulatory requirements
• Establish clear financial policies, SOPs, and control checklists for all hospital units (procurement, billing, payroll, inventory, etc.)
• Conduct periodic internal control reviews and coordinate corrective actions for any weaknesses identified
• Strengthen governance over cash management practices by identifying any anomalies and inconsistencies in transactions
• Ensure timely and high-quality reporting to stakeholders
• Provide financial oversight over budget management, cost control and efficiency, cash flow management and risk management
• Undertake independent reviews of costs, identify opportunities for cost optimisation
• Undertake due diligence of contract commercial terms, identify areas of risks and non-compliance
• Able to work collaboratively and effectively with the Hoan My CFO, Finance team and different functional key stakeholders across Hoan My
• Assist on strategy, business plans, capital management plans, project plans and alignment to Clermont standards
• Support Clermont CFO and Clermont Finance Director with ad hoc financial analyses

Requirements

The successful candidate will ideally possess the following traits:

• International Chartered Accountant with minimum 10 years of relevant working experience
• Proven experience in the healthcare industry is highly preferred. Experienced in managing financial operations within a hospital, clinic network or healthcare organisation is an advantage
• Strategic thinker with exceptional relational skills, able to represent the company well when interacting with operating companies or other external parties
• International business background, able to work easily across cultures and geographies
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to manage C-Suite leaders
• Proven ability to synthesise financial data to produce meaningful insights and executive summaries
• Openness to experience
• Highly motivated and well organised, able to work independently and effectively under pressure to meet strict deadlines
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Proactive mindset with an ability to thrive in a team