Vice President, Finance
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What you'll do
- Leadership: Lead a team across Financial Control, Financial Operations and Financial Planning & Analysis.
- CFO partnership: Serve as the CFO’s deputy and act on the CFO’s behalf during periods of leave.
- Lead and oversee outsourced and offshore finance teams, ensuring the effective delivery of finance activities and alignment with Group requirements.
- Lead the financial elements of due diligence, REIT, asset monetisation and capital recycling initiatives, including valuation, financial modelling, transaction structuring and execution.
- Lead the annual statutory reporting and audit process.
- Manage information undertakings and other requirements under financing arrangements.
- Lead financial internal controls, delegations, policies and procedures, including the ongoing development of controls appropriate for a growing business across the APAC region.
- Monitor changes in the operating environment and business developments, and advise on appropriate risk management practices.
- Oversee the Group’s financial operations across Asia Pacific, including accounts receivable and accounts payable.
- Own the company's financial systems, including the ERP and Integrated Business Planning system.
- Lead the development and continuous improvement of operational best practices in accounting and finance.
- Lead the budgeting and forecasting processes alongside the CFO and in partnership with the leadership and management team.
What they're looking for
- Previous experience as Deputy CFO or second-in-command to the CFO of a large company, or as CFO of a medium-sized company.
- Experience helping organisations scale rapidly through better processes, technology and outsourced capability, without unnecessary headcount growth.
- Collaborative, pragmatic and commercially minded, with a strong focus on outcomes and creating value for the business.
- Builds strong, trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and partners confidently and effectively with Blackstone, exercising sound judgement.
- A strong people leader who brings out the best in others, builds capability and develops future talent.
- An enterprise-minded leader who looks beyond Finance and understands the broader business and its strategic priorities.
Nice to have
- Preferred industry experience in property, funds management or infrastructure.
- Preferred experience in private equity-backed or institutionally owned companies.
Summarised by NextRaise from the employer’s description, which follows in full below.
Full description from employer
Want to be a part of Asia Pacific & Middle East's (APME) largest, most innovative, and rapidly growing data centre company?
AirTrunk is a hyperscale data centre company with a powerful purpose - to scale and sustain the relentless growth of the region’s digital future. We do this by continuously redefining and delivering the digital infrastructure that meet the needs of our customers - the world’s most transformational companies. And we’re doing so sustainably, for today and tomorrow.
Having opened Australia’s first and largest hyperscale data centres in 2017, we set our eyes on rapid expansion and now operate a platform of hyperscale data centres across the APME region. With backing from our investors, including Blackstone, this is just the beginning…
Come join the A-Team at AirTrunk, where the cloud meets the ground.
A Snapshot
As Vice President, Finance, you will report to the Chief Financial Officer, serve as the most senior finance leader across the AirTrunk Group, and work closely with the Finance, Corporate Development, Treasury and Legal teams, as well as our shareholder partner, Blackstone.
This is a unique opportunity to shape the finance strategy of a leading global hyperscale data centre platform at a critical stage of expansion. The role provides direct exposure to a world-class infrastructure investor, influence over multi-billion-dollar capital allocation decisions, and a clear line of sight to value creation and exit.
This is a strategically critical role, central to growing and protecting enterprise value as AirTrunk scales across multiple jurisdictions. You will operate as a senior enterprise leader within the Group CFO leadership team.
We have grown at remarkable speed, and our ambition is even greater. To realise it, we need to lead the team to the next level, industrialise our operating model and make it scalable for the growth ahead.
Key accountabilities include:
- Leadership: Lead a team across Financial Control, Financial Operations and Financial Planning & Analysis.
- CFO partnership: Serve as the CFO’s deputy and act on the CFO’s behalf during periods of leave.
- Lead and oversee outsourced and offshore finance teams, ensuring the effective delivery of finance activities and alignment with Group requirements.
- Lead the financial elements of due diligence, asset monetisation and capital recycling initiatives, including valuation, financial modelling, transaction structuring and execution.
Your day to day
Financial Control:
- Lead the annual statutory reporting and audit process.
- Manage information undertakings and other requirements under financing arrangements.
- Lead financial internal controls, delegations, policies and procedures, including the ongoing development of controls appropriate for a growing business across the APAC region.
- Monitor changes in the operating environment and business developments, and advise on appropriate risk management practices.
Financial Operations:
- Oversee the Group’s financial operations across Asia Pacific, including accounts receivable and accounts payable.
- Own the company's financial systems, including the ERP and Integrated Business Planning system.
- Lead the development and continuous improvement of operational best practices in accounting and finance.
Financial Planning & Analysis:
- Lead the budgeting and forecasting processes alongside the CFO and in partnership with the leadership and management team.
- Support the development and tracking of performance measures aligned with the company's strategic direction.
- Lead the ongoing development of financial strategies.
Requirements
- Previous experience as Deputy CFO or second-in-command to the CFO of a large company, or as CFO of a medium-sized company.
- Experience helping organisations scale rapidly through better processes, technology and outsourced capability, without unnecessary headcount growth.
- Preferred industry experience in property, funds management or infrastructure.
- Preferred experience in private equity-backed or institutionally owned companies.
- Collaborative, pragmatic and commercially minded, with a strong focus on outcomes and creating value for the business.
- Builds strong, trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and partners confidently and effectively with Blackstone, exercising sound judgement.
- A strong people leader who brings out the best in others, builds capability and develops future talent.
- An enterprise-minded leader who looks beyond Finance and understands the broader business and its strategic priorities.
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