Head of Finance Business Partner

Finance Business Partner & Collection Senior Manager is responsible for leading the Finance Business Partner and Collection functions at the corporate level to strengthen financial governance, business performance, and cash flow sustainability. This role serves as a strategic finance partner to business leaders while establishing standardized collection processes, receivable governance, and financial control across all business units.

The role is accountable for translating business strategies into financial actions through business performance analysis, financial planning, working capital optimization, and risk management. In addition, this position will lead the transformation of collection operations by developing scalable systems, policies, dashboards, and governance to improve receivable quality, collection effectiveness, and cash conversion.
 

Working closely with Business, Accounting, Treasury, Legal, Operations, and senior leadership, this role ensures financial discipline, operational excellence, and data driven decision making across the organization.

• Lead Finance Business Partner function to support business units with financial insights, profitability analysis, and strategic recommendations.
• Partner with business leaders to evaluate commercial initiatives, pricing strategies, investments, and operational decisions from a financial perspective.
• Monitor business performance, identify financial risks and opportunities, and recommend improvement initiatives to enhance profitability and productivity.
• Drive budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning processes across supported business functions.
• Develop executive dashboards and business performance reporting to improve visibility and decision making.
• Lead the corporate collection function and establish end to end Accounts Receivable (AR) governance across all business entities.
• Design and implement standardized collection policies, aging management, escalation mechanisms, write off governance, and collection operating procedures.
• Develop collection dashboards, aging analysis, and performance monitoring to improve cash collection effectiveness and reduce overdue receivables.
• Collaborate with Sales, Operations, Accounting, Treasury, and Legal to resolve collection issues and strengthen receivable management.
• Drive initiatives to improve cash conversion cycle (CCC), Days Sales Outstanding (DSO), and overall working capital efficiency.
• Ensure financial governance, spending control, and policy compliance across supported business units.
• Identify financial control gaps and implement sustainable process improvements.
• Support internal and external audit activities related to business finance and receivable management.
• Lead and develop Finance Business Partner and Collection teams by setting clear objectives, coaching team members, and driving continuous capability development.
• Establish performance metrics and governance cadence for both FBP and Collection functions.
• Lead finance transformation initiatives, including reporting automation, SSOT implementation, collection system enhancement, and dashboard development.

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field. Master's degree or professional certification (CPA, CMA, CFA) is an advantage.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in Finance Business Partnering, Commercial Finance, FP&A, Financial Controlling, or related finance functions, with at least 3 years leading finance teams.
• Strong understanding of business finance partnering, financial planning, budgeting, profitability analysis, working capital, AR management, and corporate finance governance.
• Proven experience in building or improving collection governance, AR monitoring framework, collection strategy, and receivable control.
• Experience leading cross-functional finance projects involving Accounting, Treasury, Tax, Operations, Sales, and Business teams.
• Strong analytical and financial modelling skills with the ability to translate financial data into business recommendations.
• Experience developing finance dashboards, reporting automation, or Single Source of Truth (SSOT) initiatives is highly preferred.
• Excellent stakeholder management, influencing, negotiation, and executive presentation skills.
• Strong leadership capability in coaching teams, driving accountability, and managing organizational change.

Preferred Experience

• Experience in retail, logistics, or commercial business environments.
• Experience supporting multi-business units or multi-entity organizations.