Finance Manager
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Commercial Finance Manager
As a Commercial Finance Manager, you will play a critical role in driving profitable growth by partnering with senior leaders to shape and execute commercial strategy. You will lead the finance workstream for Asia and Emerging Markets Go-to-Market planning and execution, translating strategic priorities into clear financial plans, performance insights, and decision-ready recommendations.
This is a highly visible role that blends strategic planning with rigorous financial governance. You will own core planning and forecasting cycles, lead the finance narrative for business reviews, and collaborate effectively across a matrix organization with stakeholders in the APAC region and beyond.
This role will be based in Sydney.
About the Role
In this opportunity as Commercial Finance Manager, you will:
- Strategic business partnering: Partner with the Senior Leadership Team to deliver commercial outcomes, providing financial insight and decision support and influence commercial priorities through scenario analysis, investment cases, and performance tracking
- GTM planning and execution: Lead and own the financial component of AEM GTM planning, ensuring alignment between commercial strategy, operating plans, and financial targets
- Planning, forecasting, and performance management: Own the annual operating plan, including budgeting, target setting, and cross-functional alignment and lead quarterly forecasting cycles, ensuring accuracy, transparency, and timely delivery
- Business reviews and executive reporting: Serve as the finance lead for monthly and quarterly business reviews, including preparation of materials, storytelling, and executive-ready commentary and maintain reporting cadence and dashboards to support performance management and stakeholder visibility
- Cross-functional and cross-cultural collaboration: Work effectively with cross-cultural teams across APAC in a matrix environment by building strong relationships across Sales, Marketing, Operations, and Finance to ensure consistent assumptions and alignment
About You
You’re a fit for the role of Commercial Finance Manager if you have the following required qualifications:
- 10+ years’ experience as a finance manager within a complex matrix organization and experience working with cross-cultural teams in the APAC region
- 5+ years' in people management for teams across the APAC region required
- Demonstrated experience in annual planning, budgeting, forecasting, and performance management
- Strong capabilities in financial analysis and management reporting, including variance analysis and executive-level insights
- Hands-on experience with SAP and OLAP tools (e.g., planning/reporting cubes, multidimensional analysis) and familiarity with GSI
- Extensive business partnering skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive outcomes through collaboration
- Solid technical accounting knowledge and ability to apply accounting principles to commercial decision-making and reporting integrity
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