Finance Business Partner Director

Overview

Role Purpose

The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is a core member of the executive leadership team, accountable for shaping and stewarding the financial strategy across multiple markets within a complex, matrixed organization. The CFO partners closely with the GM, business leaders, and global finance counterparts to drive sustainable growth, disciplined value creation, and strong governance, while building a high‑performing, future‑ready finance organization.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Financial Leadership

• Act as a strategic thought partner to the GM and leadership team, providing forward‑looking financial insights that influence key business, portfolio, and investment decisions across markets.
• Translate enterprise strategy into clear financial priorities, trade‑offs, and execution plans at market and cluster levels.
• Lead enterprise‑wide performance management, ensuring consistent financial rigor, transparency, and accountability across geographies.
  
  

Strategy, Growth & Value Creation

• Shape and execute multi‑year financial strategies that balance growth, profitability, cash flow, and risk across diverse markets.
• Evaluate and guide strategic initiatives including market expansion, M&A, restructuring, and capital deployment, ensuring alignment with long‑term value creation.
• Proactively identify growth opportunities, productivity levers, and margin enhancement initiatives across markets.
  
  

Planning, Budgeting & Performance Management

• Lead integrated annual and long‑range planning processes across markets, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy and external realities.
• Drive disciplined forecasting, scenario planning, and performance reviews, translating insights into decisive actions.
• Establish strong KPI frameworks and dashboards to enable fact‑based decision‑making at all leadership levels.
  
  

Risk Management, Governance & Compliance

• Ensure robust financial controls, governance, and compliance across all markets, in line with regulatory, statutory, and corporate requirements.
• Anticipate and manage financial, operational, and geopolitical risks inherent in a multi‑market environment.
• Uphold the highest standards of ethics, integrity, and transparency in all financial matters.
  
  

Finance Transformation & Digital Enablement

• Lead continuous improvement and finance transformation initiatives, including process simplification, automation, and digital analytics.
• Elevate the finance function from transactional reporting to insight‑driven, business‑embedded partnership.
• Leverage data, technology, and advanced analytics to improve speed, accuracy, and decision quality.
  
  

People & Organization Leadership

• Build, lead, and inspire a diverse, geographically dispersed finance organization.
• Develop strong finance leaders and successors, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, inclusion, and learning.
• Operate effectively within a matrix organization, balancing enterprise standards with local market needs.
  
  

Qualifications

Education & Credentials

• Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Professional certification (CPA, CA, CIMA, or equivalent) strongly preferred.
  
  

Experience

• 20+ years of progressive finance experience, including significant time in senior finance leadership roles.
• Proven CFO or equivalent leadership experience in a multi‑market, multinational, matrixed organization, preferably within FMCG or a similarly complex operating environment.
• Demonstrated success in strategic financial leadership, transformation, value creation, and enterprise decision‑making.
• Strong experience partnering with senior executives and boards in high‑stakes, fast‑paced environments.
  
  

Critical Capabilities

• Strategic & Commercial Acumen: Ability to connect financial outcomes to business strategy and market dynamics.
• Executive Influence: Trusted advisor who can challenge, influence, and align leaders across markets and functions.
• Analytical Rigor: Exceptional ability to synthesize complexity into clear insights and recommendations.
• Leadership & Talent Development: Track record of building strong teams and future leaders.
• Global & Cultural Agility: Effectiveness across cultures, markets, and regulatory environments.
• Resilience & Adaptability: Comfort operating amid ambiguity, change, and competing priorities.
• Integrity & Courage: Acts with unwavering ethics and speaks up with conviction.
• Enterprise Mindset: Thinks beyond individual markets to what is best for the whole.
• Learning Orientation: Continuously evolves with the business, technology, and external environment.