Finance Director (Manufacturing Finance)

Key Responsibilities

Manufacturing Finance

• Lead finance across multiple manufacturing sites, with strong focus on costing, plant profitability, and operational performance.
• Drive improvements in standard costing, product costing, manufacturing variances, productivity, yield, scrap, and overhead efficiency.
• Partner with operations and supply chain to improve inventory management, production efficiency, and cost control.
• Provide clear visibility on product, customer, and site-level profitability.

Strategic Finance & Business Partnering

• Act as the key finance partner to the Managing Director and senior leadership team.
• Drive profitability, gross margin improvement, cost efficiency, cash generation, and working capital performance.
• Provide financial insights for pricing, investment, capacity expansion, and strategic business decisions.
• Lead treasury, cash-flow forecasting, liquidity planning, banking relationships, and financing activities.

Working Capital & Financial Discipline

• Drive improvements in inventory turns, receivables, payables, and cash conversion cycle.
• Strengthen cash-flow management and financial discipline across the organization.
• Ensure business decisions balance profitability, cash generation, and long-term financial sustainability.

Regional Finance Leadership

• Lead a regional finance team
• Drive standardization, centralization, process improvement, and a strong One Finance Team culture.
• Lead finance transformation, systems implementation, reporting improvements, and internal controls.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Finance Director, Head of Finance, or Financial Controller in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong background in precision engineering, industrial, or component manufacturing.
• Deep expertise in manufacturing costing, plant finance, gross margin, inventory, working capital, and cash management.
• Experience leading regional finance teams and finance transformation initiatives.
• Strong commercial and business partnering skills with the ability to influence operational decisions.
• Hands-on, commercially minded, and results-oriented leadership style.
• Mandarin proficiency required.
• Regional travel across Singapore, Malaysia, China, and Vietnam will be required.

Interested candidates please submit your resume to [Confidential Information]