Group Head - Int Finance CoE

Job Description Summary
About the role:

The Group Head, International Finance Center of Excellence, leads a high-performing finance team providing strategic business planning, financial analytics and decision support to Head BPA of country. The role serves as a key finance business partner to BPA, CFO in driving financial transparency, operational excellence, data-driven decision-making, and continuous process innovation across geographies.
This position is responsible for establishing best-in-class financial planning and analysis capabilities, delivering actionable insights, enabling resource allocation decisions, and advancing digital transformation initiatives that improve forecasting accuracy, efficiency, and business outcomes.

Job Description

Key Requirements:

- Strategic Business Partnership:  Partner with country BPA team to support strategy execution and business priorities. Provide financial insights and recommendations to optimize investments, resource allocation, and profitability.
- Financial Planning & Analysis : Support budgeting, forecasting, latest outlooks, strategic plans, and month-end reviews. Deliver comprehensive analyses of actuals versus plan, forecast, and prior year performance. Drive understanding of key business drivers, risks, opportunities, and performance trends.
- Performance Management & Reporting : Establish standardized KPI frameworks and business performance dashboards. Provide insightful management reporting to leadership teams.
- CoE Leadership & Capability Building : Lead, coach, and develop a diverse team of finance professionals and foster a culture of accountability, continuous learning, and innovation. Drive standardization, simplification, and harmonization of finance processes across markets. Build organizational capabilities in analytics, automation, and business partnering.
- Data, Analytics & Digital Transformation : Champion automation and AI-enabled solutions to improve finance processes and decision support. Drive development of self-service reporting and advanced analytics capabilities.
- Ensure high-quality master data governance and scalable reporting solutions. Leverage technologies such as Power BI, Power Query, Power Apps, GenAI, and digital finance tools to enhance productivity and insights.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration : Collaborate closely with Data & Digital, and Global BPA teams. Align regional and local financial processes with global standards.
- Support organizational transformation and change management initiatives. Facilitate knowledge sharing and best-practice adoption across the international organization.

Essential Requirements:

- Professional qualification required (ACCA/CIMA/CPA/CA/MBA Finance, or equivalent).
- 10 + years of experience in FP&A, BPA, Finance Business Partnering, or Commercial Finance.
- Proven leadership experience managing global or regional finance teams. Experience supporting Global functions within a complex multinational environment.
- Strong track record in strategic planning, forecasting, performance management, and business partnering.
- Strong knowledge of financial planning and reporting processes with expertise in Excel, Power BI, Power Query, and reporting technologies. Knowledge of SAP, BPC is a plus.
- Experience with automation, digital finance solutions, and AI-enabled analytics. Strong understanding of resource allocation and investment governance methodologies.

Desirable Requirements:

- Influence strategic decisions through data-driven financial insights.
- Build a best-in-class BPA CoE delivering scalable and efficient finance services.
- Drive operational excellence through standardization and automation.
- Develop a highly engaged, high-performing finance organization that supports International growth and transformation.

Skills Desired
Capital Allocation, Critical Thinking, Data Visualization, Insight Generation, Managing Ambiguity, Market Understanding, Process Optimization