Head of Finance

Work Location :

Singapore, Singapore Hours:

40 Line of Business:

Finance Pay Details:

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Job Description:

Department

The TDGS Head of Finance will lead the finance function in providing strategic financial leadership, strong governance, and disciplined execution across the entity. The role is responsible for building and running a scalable finance operating model that supports business growth, regulatory compliance, financial integrity, and effective decision-making. This leader will partner closely with business, operations, risk, compliance, tax, legal, HR, and global finance teams to establish a high-performing finance function aligned to enterprise standards and local regulatory requirements.

Job Role/Responsibilities

• Finance leadership and strategy: Establish and lead the finance agenda for the TDGS ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy, target operating model, and growth objectives.
• Controllership and financial reporting: Oversee financial close, accounting, balance sheet integrity, statutory reporting, and management reporting with a strong focus on accuracy, completeness, and timeliness.
• Planning and performance management: Lead budgeting, forecasting, financial planning and analysis, and performance reporting to support management decision-making and resource allocation.
• Entity and regulatory governance: Ensure compliance with local statutory, tax, company law, and regulatory requirements in India, while maintaining alignment with global finance, governance, and control standards.
• Control environment: Build and maintain a robust internal control framework across finance activities, including reconciliations, approvals, segregation of duties, issue remediation, and evidence retention.
• Tax and treasury coordination: Partner with tax and treasury stakeholders on direct and indirect tax compliance, transfer pricing support, cash management, banking set-up, and repatriation considerations, as relevant.
• Business partnering: Act as a trusted advisor to the TDGS leadership team and global stakeholders on financial implications of strategic decisions, operating model choices, investments, and capacity expansion.
• Risk and compliance partnership: Work closely with risk, compliance, legal, and audit teams to ensure the TDGS finance function meets internal policy requirements and external regulatory expectations.
• Team build-out and capability development: Recruit, lead, and develop a high-calibre finance team in India, creating clear roles, strong accountability, and a culture of ownership, control, and continuous improvement.
• Process excellence and automation: Drive standardization, process efficiency, and appropriate automation across finance processes to improve scalability, control, and management insight.
• Stakeholder management: Manage relationships with external auditors, advisors, regulators, banking partners, and internal governance forums as required.
• Change and execution: Support legal entity set-up, governance implementation, policy localization, and transition to business-as-usual operations for TDGS including transfer to BOT setup to TDGS.

Job Requirements

• Qualified finance professional (e.g., CA, CPA, ACCA, CFA or equivalent) with significant progressive leadership experience in finance, controllership, FP&A, or entity finance roles (10+ years).
• Strong experience in financial services, banking, shared services, captive centres, or Global Capability Centre environments preferred.
• Deep understanding of finance governance, internal controls, financial reporting, budgeting, and performance management.
• Strong knowledge of India statutory req