• Continuously builds an intimate knowledge of businesses, competitors, customers, and profit drivers, and thinks through how external competitive and market drivers will affect strategy and operating results.
• Knows our investors, and manages effective relationships with financial institutions, advisors and suppliers
• Demonstrates outstanding judgment in weighing near term and medium term risks and opportunities in resource allocation and risk management within the business.
• Drives external shareholder perspective into critical decision-making.
• Establishes clear "tone at the top" related ethics and the law, and financial controls.
• Ensures the financial control infrastructure is effective, efficient and changes in response to the business requirements and developments in the external environment.
• Ensure full utilization of ERP automated controls to create preventive and detective control environments.
• Maintains independence in view and assessment of the business control environment, and raises all issues of significant risk and non-compliance to the CFO NLT.
• Ensures delegated levels of authority are understood and followed in accordance with policy.
• Sets finance function strategy for the region and ensures the effective allocation of resources across businesses and financial processes.
• Ensures ongoing and effective communication to business segments in the region, corporate leadership, and other supporting functions.
• Drives finance function performance and teamwork in order to accomplish company goals and objectives, and at the same time supporting the individual businesses within AP to achieve their goals.
• Acts a role model for the financial employees in the AP region and is accountable for driving robust growth and development plans to provide for career growth, talent planning and succession.
• Ensures financial acumen and concepts are applied to decision making at every level of the business.
• Contributes to the development of the BU strategy, and analyzes the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to the business segment.
• Provides financial evaluation of the various strategy options including net present value analysis and potential impact to customers.
• Partners closely with the BU LT to execute and measure progress against the BU strategy.
  Develops and executes annual operating plans consistent with near-term requirements for financial and non-financial performance and long-term strategic requirements.
• Ensures finance support and effective reporting and analysis to enable productive business management reviews as well as responsiveness to changing market opportunities and conditions.
• Designs the finance organizations to create "complete" jobs with strong accountability and growth.
• Creates an environment where talent is developed through effective performance and talent management.
• Effectively builds a diverse team with competent people using the appropriate mix of internal promotion and external recruitment to satisfy near-term performance, longer-term succession needs and to ensure the organization has the necessary outstanding talent.
• Is fully engaged in personal development as a major engine for personal growth
• Invests in the growth and development of their direct reports and other identified talent in their organization

Experience:

• 15+ years of financial leadership in a variety of financial disciplines with global companies
• Working in a manufacturing environment
• Working for an American-based corporation with its specific reporting requirements
• Functioning in a highly-matrixed structure across functional, business, geographic and cultural boundaries
• Leading teams across national boundaries and cultures
• Leading change to enable rapid continuous improvement in an organization
• Has led strategic planning, operations planning, investment analysis and executive-level (including board) business reviews, has participated in M&A due diligence and integration
• Has an undergraduate degree in finance or related business discipline, advanced degree preferred

Knowledge and Skills:

• Strong financial acumen with demonstrated analytical ability accompanied by knowledge of corporate finance and manufacturing costing principles-understands P&L and balance sheet dynamics
• Teach and communicate in simple, impactful terms
• Manage and control costs-effectively develops business cases and enroll leaders at all levels in taking appropriate action
• Develop and intimate knowledge of customers, competition, and the market and uses this knowledge to drive customer and product profitability decisions
• Think strategically and execute strategic directions
• Knows and reads audiences, can tell the story of the business to all levels of the organization
• Can successfully form and then share candid and sometimes unpopular messages

Personal Characteristics:

• Conduct himself/herself with the highest ethical and moral standards
• Highly motivated and results driven with a high energy level-has a bias for proactive action
• Broad operating style, ability to adapt across cultures, environments and style
• Forward thinking leadership abilities, including the ability to motivate, lead by example, and encourage teamwork and effective communication
• Passionate and charismatic personality, articulate, approachable and friendly
• Makes decisions and commits to a course of action with appropriate information and recognizes uncertainty of success; weighs and manages risk in decision making; able to make decisions detrimental to a few but helpful to many
• Behaves in a mature and appropriate manner; shows good judgment, does not allow feeling or biases to distract reasoning, does not rationalize failures
• Freely states opinions and feelings; expresses him/her self directly and candidly
• Show appreciation for and understanding of the feelings from others; aware of personal impact on others; expresses opinions without offending or creating defensiveness