Regional Finance Director, APAC

3 days ago

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Palladium Full time

About Palladium

Palladium is a global company dedicated to delivering positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people worldwide. We operate in over 90 countries, employing a diverse workforce of 4,000 talented individuals from various backgrounds.

This Opportunity

The Asia Pacific (APAC) Palladium corporate team drives and delivers projects for the APAC region as part of Palladium's global strategic initiatives and purpose around 'Catalysing an enriched future for all'.

Job Summary

The Regional Finance Director will lead the APAC Finance Team and be responsible for the effective financial management and compliance of the APAC regional business and its 40+ projects located in multiple countries and jurisdictions across Asia, Africa, and the Pacific.

Key Responsibilities

  • Support and advise the Regional Leadership Team in achieving all financial strategies and goals.
  • Communicate all financial matters and issues with the Regional Managing Director, Regional Leadership Team, and the Group CFO.
  • Oversee all audits, tax filings, and reports to other regulatory agencies as designated.
  • Assist APAC's Regional Managing Director and Regional Leadership Team in implementing the strategy, including efforts to improve service quality and customer satisfaction.
  • Liaise with project leaders and oversee the financial aspects of APAC's 40+ projects to ensure agreed financial management protocols, including local entity responsibilities, are compliant with client and Palladium processes and procedures.
  • Develop, advise on, implement, and monitor appropriate systems of internal controls pertaining to processing, accounting, reporting, and safeguarding of all funds and assets.
  • Review Financial Management and Accounting processes to identify strengths and weaknesses, including bottlenecks, and to the extent required, modify processes to streamline workflow and maximize efficiency in close collaboration with the Regional Managing Director, the Regional Leadership Team, and Group CFO.
  • Work closely with Global finance functions (Tax, Treasury) to ensure consistency and compliance with Global processes and procedures.

Forecasting

  • Ensure accurate forecasting and reporting on profitability.
  • Manage rolling forecasts through a collaborative bottom-up approach.
  • Ensure quality assurance over monthly forecast variance analysis.

Reporting & Audit

  • Oversee the timely and accurate monthly financial performance of the region, ensuring identification and explanation of non-conformance.
  • Ensure continuous monitoring of financial performance against forecasts for the region, to identify areas of concern and to recommend appropriate mitigating measures.
  • Effectively manage the reporting requirements of the Regional Managing Director, the Regional Leadership Team, and the Group CFO.
  • Ensure financial reports are in compliance with relevant legislation and free of material misstatements.

Taxation

  • Ensure all tax obligations are met and that filings are up to date for all entities within the region.
  • Work with the Global Finance, Global Tax team, and Tax Director to ensure tax transfer pricing documentation is in line with the region's requirements covering management expense allocation, inter-company interest charges, and foreign source attribution.

Finance Policies & Compliance

  • Ensure financial compliance with client contracting regulations and maintain awareness of changes in obligations and markets shifts in financial assessment.
  • Lead the development, implementation, and maintenance of finance policies, systems, processes, procedures, and controls covering all areas of the finance function so that all relevant procedures/legislative requirements are fulfilled, and activities are carried out in an efficient and controlled manner.
  • Ensure that systems are in place and functioning to identify and mitigate project financial risk and to track realised risks.
  • Guarantee provision of uniform guidance and expert technical advice on practices, procedures, reporting requirements, and status of activities relating to the Partnership's financial management and accounting.

Other Responsibilities

  • Provide leadership to the regional finance and accounting functions, including coaching and mentoring individual team members, setting individual KRAs, and conducting performance reviews.
  • Contribute to the development and implementation of systems to ensure adequate operation of the Palladium's financial processing, forecasting, cash management, and reporting.
  • Assist with the execution of strategic acquisitions from inception through due diligence, valuation, negotiation, closing, and integration of any transaction in the region.

Essential Criteria

  • Broad-based experience in finance positions, preferably in APAC, within both small and large organisations as well as global operations, international experience, and professional services activities.
  • People management experience, including setting clear performance objectives, managing for results, giving and receiving feedback, performance evaluation, and mentoring/coaching staff.
  • Managerial experience within corporate finance or audit.
  • Proven ability to convey financial concepts to non-financial managers (training, coaching, tool development).
  • Extensive understanding of accounting standards and relevant tax legislation.
  • Demonstrated personal and situational awareness to build stakeholder confidence and positive relationships with individuals across all levels and areas of the business.
  • High standard of written, verbal, and presentation communication skills, including public speaking.
  • Demonstrated commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion, particularly in a multi-cultural environment.

Desirable Criteria

  • Experience in a job cost accounting environment and the professional services sector.
  • Experience working in multi-currency, multi-jurisdictional regions.

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