Senior Finance Business Partner- APAC

Koch Engineered Solutions; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leader in industrial process solutions seeks an experienced APAC Senior Finance Business Partner in Singapore. This role involves strategic partnerships, financial leadership, and enhancing decision-making processes across business functions. Ideal candidates will possess substantial business analysis and finance experience, strong communication skills, and the ability to lead in ambiguous environments. The position offers a unique opportunity to influence financial strategies and help shape long-term profitability.

Qualifications

• Meaningful experience in business analysis and finance.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional initiatives.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills including storytelling.

Responsibilities

• Build strategic partnerships throughout the organization.
• Partner with finance and accounting to provide expertise.
• Drive application of PBM frameworks to improve decision making.

Skills

Business analysis

Financial performance improvement

Cross-functional leadership

Ambiguous business analysis

Communication skills

Education

Experience in finance, accounting, or business strategy

Job description

Your Job

Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) is seeking an experienced Asia Pacific (APAC) SeniorFinance Business Partner - ET&S. This position will be based in Singapore and will report to the ET&S VP of Finance. If you are an ambitious business leader with interest and capability in business finance, along with a passion to engage with all areas of the business, including sales, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, planning, strategy, point of view, market analysis, etc., this could be an excellent role for you. This role can further prepare you for additional responsibility within finance or advance your journey to lead a business or capability.

As a valued member of the ET&S APAC leadership team you will work directly with the APAC regional leaders as a thought-partner / strategic advisor to advance the business vision. You will bring the necessary economic and financial knowledge to the leadership team, improve decision making, and maximize value creation for customers, suppliers, shareholders and other constituents. A successful candidate will be a Principled Entrepreneur™ who provides creativity and a contribution mindset to vision development and long-range planning processes and assists in the development of clear strategies and priorities to capture opportunities that increase long-term profitability. This will be accomplished by the personal application of our management framework, Principle Based Management (PBM) and by influencing its application throughout the business.

What You Will Do

• Build strategic partnerships throughout the organization to align priorities, improve decision making, act, and hold others accountable to outcomes
• Partner with the broader finance and accounting organization to provide financial domain expertise
• Apply your knowledge from other industries and business models to analyze current business performance, to develop vision and strategies and to originate ideas
• Understand and be able to effectively articulate business objectives, insights and market drivers
• Drive application of PBM frameworks, dimensions, principles, economic tools (marginal analysis, DMF, opportunity cost, risk optimization etc.) and key financial metrics (EVA, NPV, ROCC, NIAT etc.) to improve decision making and results throughout the business. Examples include pricing, project acceptance, capital investments, manufacturing, supply chain, SG&A and operating cost benchmarking and management, etc. Develop usable economic models that improve the day-to-day decision making of the team
• Promote the integrated business team concept by connecting business leaders to the key drivers of current performance and the levers to improve future outcomes
• Provide economic and financial leadership and challenge that increases the speed and quality of business decisions, informs strategies, and drives prioritization and execution

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Meaningful experience in business analysis, finance, accounting, commercial development, business strategy, sales, procurement, planning, engineering, manufacturing or other business capability roles with responsibilities that included improving the financial performance of the business
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional initiatives as well as partnering with senior leaders in a business team environment to communicate business strategy, articulate economic value of alternative options, and / or seek investment authority from senior leadership
• Experience, passion and capability in analyzing and communicating periodic financial performance (monthly, quarterly, annual results), near-term financial forecasts (next year), long-range strategic planning (3–5-year outlooks), and key financial improvement bets throughout these timeframes
• Strong written and verbal communication skills (storytelling) including using effective charts and graphs that can connect to all levels of the organization
• Comfort with highly ambiguous business analysis with demonstrated experience simplifying and advancing decision making despite the ambiguity

What Will Put You Ahead

• Applicable experience in business capabilities outside of Finance & Accounting will help you better partner with and lead cross-functional business teams
• Three statement financial modeling experience
• Experience in discreet manufacturing, custom engineering, and / or long‑lead time engineered‑to‑order industrial equipment

Who We Are

As a Koch company, Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) specializes in process and pollution control equipment and digital technologies to help industries reduce emissions, save energy and get the most from their resources. From pollution control to advanced filtration, we’re focused on providing customers with products and solutions to help them optimize, transform and succeed. Industries we serve include refineries, chemicals, municipalities, pharmaceutical, pulp and paper, food and dairy, utilities and automotive.

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