Finance Director, Southeast Asia - Life Sciences Platform

About the role

Cytiva, a Danaher group company offering services in Singapore, is hiring a Finance Director for its Southeast Asia Life Sciences (LSIG / Omics) businesses. The role leads financial responsibilities for the SEA portfolio, works alongside finance and business partners to accelerate growth and profitable expansion, and reports to the CFO of Danaher SEA ANZ. It sits in the Danaher High Growth Markets regional leadership team in Singapore and is an on-site position.

Key responsibilities

• Establish and lead the financial operating infrastructure, including forecasting, budgeting, monthly and quarterly reporting, close calendars, commercial finance processes, delegated authority standards and governance frameworks.
• Own the Commercial FP&A function and act as a strategic finance partner to the commercial GM and leadership team, providing insights, performance analysis and decision support.
• Drive performance management through daily management and operating reviews, monitoring orders, revenue, funnel health, pricing, margins and key metrics.
• Build financial planning, reporting and analytics capabilities, including templates, tools, forecasting and budgeting processes, business cases, customer deal evaluations and investment assessments.
• Partner with commercial, platform and OpCo leaders to support growth initiatives and go-to-market execution.
• Ensure financial controls, compliance and operational excellence with OpCo Finance, outsourced providers, Corporate Accounting and Tax teams, covering transfer pricing, intercompany charges and SOX controls.
• Lead capability building and transformation, including finance presence at the point of impact, scalable finance support models, DBS Kaizens, workshops, legal entity implementations, SOPs, RACI frameworks and standard work.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting or a related discipline; MBA, CPA or equivalent preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, commercial finance and business partnering, in complex, matrixed, multi-country environments.
• Experience in life sciences, medical devices, diagnostics, IVD or other regulated healthcare sectors is highly desirable.
• Limited travel expected outside the immersion period, concentrated in Southeast Asia countries.

Required skills

• Financial planning, modeling, analysis, forecasting, budgeting and reporting.
• Proficiency with financial systems and analytics tools.
• Strong commercial and strategic acumen, leadership, stakeholder management and influence.
• Previous experience using AI tools such as CoPilot in Excel or PowerPoint is a strong selling point.