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The Finance Director, LS Southeast Asia is responsible for leading designated financial responsibilities for the SEA LSIG / Omics businesses, working alongside established finance and business partners, to accelerate growth and drive profitable expansion across a dynamic multi-country portfolio. This position reports to the CFO, Danaher SEA ANZ and is part of the Danaher High Growth Markets (HGM) and LSIG regional leadership team located in Singapore and will be an on-site role.
This position is being offered through Cytiva, a Danaher group company providing services in Singapore to beneficiary Danaher.
What you will do:
- Establish and lead the financial operating infrastructure for the SEA LSIG/Omics business, including forecasting, budgeting, monthly and quarterly reporting, close calendars, commercial finance processes, delegated authority (DOA) standard work, and governance frameworks to support the new Hornbill organization.
- Own the Commercial FP&A function and serve as a strategic finance partner to the LSIG/Omics Commercial GM and leadership team, providing financial insights, performance analysis, decision support, and recommendations to drive business growth, profitability, and achievement of ROIC objectives.
- Drive business performance management through daily management and operating reviews, monitoring orders, revenue, funnel health, pricing, margins, and key operating metrics to identify risks and opportunities early, prioritize actions, and keep performance aligned with business plans.
- Develop and maintain robust financial planning, reporting, and analytics capabilities, including standardized templates, reporting tools, forecasting and budgeting processes, commercial analytics, business cases, customer deal evaluations, investment assessments, and actionable insights for senior leadership.
- Partner closely with commercial, platform, and OpCo leaders to support growth initiatives and go-to-market execution, translating financial performance into market-specific actions, enabling margin expansion, and supporting strategic priorities across the multi-country portfolio.
- Ensure strong financial controls, compliance, and operational excellence by collaborating with OpCo Finance teams, outsourced service providers, Corporate Accounting, and Tax teams to uphold internal policies, statutory requirements, transfer pricing, intercompany cross-charges, SOX controls, and other governance requirements.
- Lead organizational capability building and business transformation initiatives, including strengthening finance presence at the point of impact, developing scalable finance support models, and leading or participating in DBS Kaizens, workshops, legal entity implementations, organizational design, process improvements, SOP development, RACI frameworks, and standard work deployment to support the evolving GTM structure and enabling-function infrastructure.
Who you are:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related discipline; MBA, CPA, or equivalent professional qualification preferred.
- 10+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, commercial finance, and business partnering roles, with demonstrated success operating in complex, matrixed, and multi-country environments.
- Strong industry experience within life sciences, medical devices, diagnostics, IVD, or other regulated healthcare sectors is highly desirable.
- Deep expertise in financial planning, modeling, analysis, forecasting, budgeting, and reporting, with proficiency in leveraging financial systems and analytics tools to drive business performance.
- Strong commercial and strategic acumen, with the ability to connect business priorities to financial outcomes, governance requirements, risk management, and operational controls.
- Proven ability to thrive in fast-paced, evolving environments, demonstrating adaptability, resilience, sound judgment, and a pragmatic, results-oriented mindset that balances speed with quality execution.
- Exceptional leadership, stakeholder management, and influencing skills, with a track record of building high-performing teams, driving cross-functional collaboration, and partnering effectively with senior leaders to deliver business outcomes.
Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements: if applicable for role
- Limited travel expected outside of immersion period – if any, travel will be concentrated within Southeast Asia countries only.
It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:
- Existing experience utilizing AI (CoPilot in Excel or PPT) will be a strong selling point.
