Head of Regional Treasury Centre - Asia

Sanofi; Singapore; On-site; SGD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A multinational healthcare firm is seeking a Head of the Regional Treasury Center in Singapore. This strategic leadership role involves overseeing treasury operations across Asia, managing financial strategies, and ensuring compliance with corporate policies. The ideal candidate should possess over 10 years of experience in Corporate Finance, exceptional leadership abilities, and strong analytical skills. This position offers the opportunity to shape treasury processes and lead a team in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Corporate Finance and Treasury activities in multinational companies.
• Proven management skills and experience in senior finance roles.
• Capacity to build partnerships with external and internal stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the setup of the Regional Treasury Center in Singapore.
• Manage staffing, training, and operational excellence of the RTC.
• Oversee daily cash management and optimize cash flow.

Skills

Leadership

Analytical skills

Financial acumen

Project management

Team collaboration

Education

Master’s degree in business administration, finance, accounting or economics

Tools

S4/SAP

Excel

TREMA

Job description

About the Job

The Head of the Regional Treasury Center – Asia (“RTC – A”) will be responsible for the establishment and management of the RTC‑A, overseeing all operational treasury operations across diverse Asian markets. This strategic leadership role requires deep regional expertise to drive process standardization, build high‑performing teams, and ensure compliance with both local regulations and global treasury frameworks.

This will involve several key responsibilities to ensure its successful establishment and operations such as a detailed treasury process review, staffing, training and coordinating with local treasurers, the knowledge transfer process and overall supervision of the RTC.

The Head of RTC‑A will be responsible to oversee and manage the financial operations and main treasury process for all Sanofi entities within the Asia region and promote adherence to the Treasury Core Model (TCM) and treasury corporate policies.

Main responsibilities

• Lead the end‑to‑end set up of the Regional Treasury Center – Asia in Singapore, addressing unique regulatory and operational requirements across Asian markets. The timeline would be in 2026 and 2027.
• Manage the RTC staffing and training with the Regional Treasurer and Treasury Excellence support, ensuring that the team will have the required skills and competencies to fulfil their roles.
• Perform a detailed treasury process review aiming at simplification and harmonization.
• Manage the knowledge transfer process from countries to the RTC.
• People management and partnering: recruit, lead, motivate the team, develop capabilities, and support the development of talents.
• Ensure operational excellence of the Regional Treasury Center with KPIs, offering best‑in‑class services.
• Build trust and ensure effective cooperation with cross‑functional and external partners (other treasury teams at corporate and regional levels, SBS, CFO, FBP, tax, legal, banks, …) and provide treasury support for local business and finance teams.
• Daily cash management: oversee the cashiering function with responsibility for all aspects of the physical cash flows; ensure that the affiliates have sufficient liquidity to meet their obligations and optimize cash flow within the region; manage the ICO AIS current account with DFT (Paris), including supervision of the Captive center posting of entries and reconciliation with SAP ledgers intercompany ‘netting’ process, including loading and releasing files, and intercompany loans and posting of interests.
• Cash flow and working capital optimisation: monitor free cash flow generation and working capital KPIs (DSO, payment terms, overdue, DPO) through cash reviews and action plans; oversee and review the monthly cash flow reporting and forecasting for the Corporate Treasury team, providing informed commentary of variances to annual forecast and updating as necessary; partner with business functions to raise awareness and spread a cash‑oriented mindset; ensure timely and accurate cash flow reporting including cash forecast (yearly budget /monthly 3 M rolling); ensure timely and accurate Financing/Net Debt reporting and forecasting.
• Manage and review trade finance instruments such as deposits, bank guarantees, letters of credit, performance bonds, etc.
• Oversight of cash situation for country A & B across applicable operations.
• In connection with the Corporate Treasury, manage bank relationship: act as senior point of contact with the bank, participate in contract review when applicable (overdraft, credit facilities…), manage the daily operational bank relationship, and supervise that bank fees are in line with agreed pricing.
• Manage foreign currency exposure in line with Corporate Treasury guidelines: hedging FX exposure, revaluations at month‑end, FX exposure forecast accuracy, currency of invoicing for new flows, control of FX gains & losses.
• Provide support regarding intercompany reconciliations – IC S, transfer‑price adjustments, royalties, dividends, central cost charges, etc.
• In connection with corporate Treasury, manage financial and operational lease agreements (real estate, car fleet, etc.).
• Insurance related activities and company credit‑card procedures.
• Actively participate in projects (investments, legal restructuring, projects that impact business model).

Other activities

• Support/liaise with Global Treasury Operations on legal/Tax activities including dividends, legal restructurings, intercompany loan issuance and interest settlement.
• Support Global Treasury Operations in M&A, business development and divestment execution.
• Review investments and Capex projects on an ad‑hoc basis.
• Where applicable, support pension funds financing and daily operations.
• Contribute to develop, maintain and implement a robust business continuity plan (BCP) in collaboration with neighbouring functions and local CFOs.
• Compliance and internal control: understand local banking regulations and ensure compliance with relevant financial reporting requirements, Treasury policies and internal control requirements; maintain bank account documentation and signatories; ensure Treasury is compliant with Sanofi Corporate Treasury policies and Internal Control Framework.
• Project management: involved in Corporate Treasury projects as determined by Corporate Treasury or CFO; leverage knowledge of treasury technology & systems to automate and improve current operations and decision‑making; lead working‑capital projects, for example debt or invoice factoring, payment‑terms enhancement, etc.; assist the business through the preparation of accurate cash flow models to help evaluate major projects.

Information Systems

• S4 / SAP, FxNet (Hedging), TREMA (Cash flow reporting) and Office (Excel, Power Point)

About you

• 10+ years experience in Corporate Finance and Treasury activities in multinational companies and/or banking.
• Other experience in senior finance roles within an international environment is a plus.
• Proven management skills.
• Leadership: guiding teams, fostering collaboration and driving results.
• Advanced analytical skills, financial acumen and strategic thinking.
• Experience in collaborating with senior management, business and functional leaders.
• Capacity to build partnership with external and internal partners and banks.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, work effectively with cross‑functional partners.
• Proven presentation skills, ability to communicate, assertiveness.
• Team player, proactive and solution‑oriented.
• Good background in accounting (IFRS) and/or financial analysis.
• Strong capabilities in MS Excel.
• Knowledge of Treasury Management Systems; S/4HANA Treasury System is a plus.
• Education: Master’s degree in business administration, finance, accounting or economics.
• Languages: fluent written and spoken English; French and other Asian languages are a plus.