Senior Director - Accounting

CATERPILLAR ASIA PTE LTD; Singapore; On-site; SGD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction machinery company in Singapore is seeking a Senior Director of Finance to support its Excavation Division's global operations. The ideal candidate will provide financial leadership and strategic direction, overseeing financial performance and guiding a diverse team. Strong analytical skills and global leadership experience are essential. This position requires onsite work five days a week.

Qualifications

• Experience leading global teams.
• Strong business acumen with analytical skills.
• Knowledge of finance practice and tools.

Responsibilities

• Ensure timely completion of financial reporting.
• Support annual budgeting process.
• Track and manage financial performance.

Skills

Business Acumen

Finance and Accounting

Risk Management

Organization Structuring

Strategic Thinking

Leadership

Financial Analysis

Financial Forecasting and Modeling

Job description

Job Summary

Senior Director of Finance supporting Excavation Division’s (EXD) Global Operations by developing deep expertise and leading a globally diverse team of leaders and team members to create and sustain a high-performing global operations network. This role is responsible for providing financial leadership and strategic direction to the EXD Operations organization which manages prime-product, fabrications, and WorkTools facilities for the division. This role requires a long-range focus on business strategy and positive results achieved by delivering sizable programs and projects through completion on time and in alignment with goals leveraging a robust governance structure. Strong business acumen and analytical skills are required to bring forth actionable insight serving as a strategic partner to the business. Previous global team leadership experience and excellent interpersonal skills are required to deal with sensitive issues, develop others, and persuade others inside and outside the department to take specific action.

What You Will Do

• Ensuring the timely completion and submission of financial and statistical reporting for management and regulatory agencies.
• Supporting the annual budgeting process including analysis and review of financial information and its impact on the business.
• Tracking, reporting on and managing the overall financial performance of the organization.
• Overseeing and evaluating the activities of the finance staff, and providing guidance for their professional development.

What You Have

Business Acumen: Knowledge of business concepts, tools, and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.

• Influences the manner in which business decisions are made in the organization.
• Participates in creating organizational strategy; shows how own function contributes to results.
• Explains the organization's business model and competitive position in the marketplace.
• Utilizes economic, financial, and organizational data to build business cases for major initiatives.
• Lectures on how key decisions impact P&L, short and long-term.
• Analyzes business performance or trends of any organization: competitors, customers, or partners.

Finance and Accounting: Knowledge of finance and accounting practices, financial analysis, and reporting; ability to apply finance knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.

• Monitors marketplace for developments in tools or approaches to financial management.
• Ensures adherence to organization's and industry's financial requirements and practices.
• Designs and implements customer and product profitability systems and practice.
• Coaches others in the use of financial management practices and tools.
• Designs financial analysis approaches and modeling specific to the business.
• Reviews key financial and performance indicators used by the corporation.

Risk Management: Knowledge of processes, tools and techniques for assessing and controlling an organization's exposure to risks of various kinds; ability to apply knowledge of risk management appropriately to diverse situations.

• Produces and interprets common risk assessment and management reports.
• Identifies common technology, security, or financial risks relevant to own function or unit.
• Implements or manages risk management for own area.
• Documents the key steps of a unit-specific risk management process and associated procedures.
• Evaluates risk assessment models and techniques relevant to a specific line of business.

Organization Structuring: Understanding of the value of aligning team capabilities with business goals and ability to develop staff, processes and operational relationships that support optimal performance.

• Clarifies core capabilities of the organization that differentiate it from competitors.
• Oversees restructuring programs or components of restructuring programs that affect the group.
• Identifies the core processes required to leverage capabilities.
• Defines the talent, organization structures, and reporting relationships needed to support core capabilities and processes.
• Collaborates to establish an optimal technological infrastructure for the organization as designed.
• Guides organizational transitions so as to achieve new capabilities and performance levels quickly.

Strategic Thinking: Knowledge of the importance of "big picture" thinking and planning; ability to apply organizational acumen and competitiveness to identify and maintain focus on key success factors for the organization.

• Directs strategic alliances and partnerships for mutual benefit.
• Makes sound business decisions on behalf of the group when faced with complex and contradictory alternatives.
• Builds the strategic thinking capability of the group.
• Interprets available data and analyses when creating business plans.
• Recommends ways to position the organization for long-term competitiveness.
• Prepares the group's response to key marketplace trends, opportunities, and vulnerabilities.

Leadership: Knowledge of leadership practices and processes; ability to use strategies and skills to enlist others in setting, embracing and achieving objectives while having a long-term perspective of the future state of things and how to get there.

• Evaluates leader performance based on efficacy, advancement and emergence.
• Coaches others in leadership concepts and techniques, such as contingency & transactional.
• Champions behaviors that inspire cohesiveness and move the organization to reach a vision.
• Monitors industry for leadership programs; implements programs within organization.
• Leverages diverse leadership styles: autocratic for speed, democratic for co-operation, etc.
• Uses modeling & role-playing to improve the ability of leaders to manage own behaviors.

Financial Analysis: Knowledge of tools and approaches of financial analysis; ability to read, interpret and draw accurate conclusions from financial and numerical material.

• Leads others on the full spectrum of financial analyses.
• Consults on all major financial analysis approaches, quantitative and qualitative measures.
• Adapts financial analysis methods to support organizational goals.
• Directs others in interpreting and drawing reliable conclusions from industry financial data.
• Predicts industry trends and their potential impact on the organization.
• Champions the use of new technologies and tools for analyzing financial data.

Financial Forecasting and Modeling: Knowledge of processes, tools and techniques of financial forecasting and modeling; ability to explore and evaluate alternative financial scenarios and results.

• Determines and finalizes modeling and forecasting techniques to apply in complex situations.
• Provides leadership in selecting and implementing forecasting strategies and practices.
• Consults on the effective use of quality forecasting models to achieve positive outcomes of business decisions.
• Coaches others on sound theoretical knowledge of financial and modeling techniques.
• Directs others on advanced features of financial forecasting and modeling.
• Designs updated processes to improve the accuracy and predictive validity of existing models.

Additional Information

• This position requires working onsite five days a week