Head of Finance Projects (2 years' contract)

1. Finance and Procurement Transformation

• Drive the review and assessment of existing finance and procurement processes, policies, controls, and systems to identify improvement opportunities.
• Conduct gap analyses against industry best practices, regulatory requirements, and organizational objectives.
• Develop and execute transformation roadmaps to improve efficiency, effectiveness, controls, user experience, and data quality.
• Evaluate current technology landscape and identify opportunities for automation, digitalization, system enhancements, and process simplification.
• Prepare business cases and/or cost-benefit analyses for proposed transformation initiatives.
• Recommend target operating models, process redesigns, governance frameworks, and system solutions.
• Lead implementation of approved initiatives, including project planning, stakeholder management, change management, testing, training, and post-implementation reviews.
• Collaborate with finance, procurement, IT, operations, and business teams to ensure successful adoption of new processes and systems.
• Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure transformation outcomes and benefits realization.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives and foster a culture of operational excellence.

2. Strategic Investments and Corporate Finance

• Lead the financial evaluation of strategic investment, acquisition, divestment, and partnership opportunities.
• Develop, review, and challenge valuation analyses using appropriate methodologies, including Discounted Cash Flow (DCF), Precedent Transactions Analysis, Asset-based valuation approaches.
• Build and maintain detailed financial models to assess investment returns, funding requirements, sensitivities, and risks.
• Conduct financial, commercial, and strategic due diligence on potential investment or divestment opportunities.
• Prepare investment papers, financial analyses, and recommendations for management, board, parent company, and government stakeholders.
• Support negotiations relating to commercial terms, valuation, transaction structures, shareholder arrangements, and financing.
• Monitor portfolio investments and evaluate post-investment performance against approved business cases.
• Provide strategic financial insights to support corporate planning and growth initiatives.

3. CFO-Assigned Projects

• Lead and deliver any other projects or assignments as directed by the CFO.
• Provide project leadership, coordination, analysis, and recommendations to support the successful execution of key corporate initiatives.
• Manage cross-functional teams and stakeholders to ensure project objectives, timelines, and deliverables are achieved.
• Support the CFO in evaluating and prioritizing new project opportunities aligned with the organization's strategic objectives.

4. Stakeholder and Government Engagement

• Engage senior internal and external stakeholders to obtain alignment and support for key initiatives.
• Present recommendations, business cases, project updates, and investment proposals to senior management and governance committees.
• Manage external advisors, consultants, valuation experts, auditors, and legal counsel as required.
• Serve as the primary liaison (jointly with CFO) and coordinate submissions, approvals, and reporting requirements to the parent company and relevant ministries on investment matters.

5. Governance, Risk and Compliance

• Ensure assigned projects comply with corporate governance requirements, regulatory obligations, and internal policies.
• Identify and mitigate project, operational, financial, and implementation risks.
• Strengthen internal controls and governance frameworks across finance and procurement functions.
• Ensure transparency, accountability, and robustness in investment evaluation and decision-making processes.

The Requirements

• Bachelor’s in Finance/Accounting/Economics/Business; professional qualification preferred; MBA advantageous.
• More than 10 years in finance, corporate finance, investments, transformation, consulting, procurement, strategy or project leadership.
• Business transformation, process improvement, financial modelling & valuation, investment/M&A analysis, finance & procurement processes, ERP (SAP/Oracle).
• Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional projects and engage senior stakeholders, government agencies and large corporates.
• Strategic thinking, commercial acumen, business case development, benefits realisation, project/change management, strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong stakeholder influence, communication/presentation, execution focus, integrity and professionalism.