APAC Regional Finance Performance and Capital Director

The mandate

The APAC Regional Finance Performance and Capital Director will own the permanent mechanism for translating market plans into comparable performance and capital choices. The role must allow for different economic conditions without permitting definitions, risk or investment discipline to fragment by country. It is a regional decision office, not a consolidation of local commentary.

During the first 100 days, the director will establish a common bridge from operational drivers to revenue, margin, cash and capital use; identify measures that cannot be compared; and reconstruct the largest untested investment assumptions. By month six, regional reviews must conclude with choices, owners and leading indicators. By month twelve, capital recycling and corrective action should be supported by realised-outcome evidence.

The director has authority to set regional performance standards, challenge market forecasts, return incomplete investment cases and recommend capital sequence. Country finance leaders retain statutory accountability; business executives own commercial execution; the group investment forum retains final capital approval. These boundaries must be explicit when a regional recommendation conflicts with a local target.

Performance will be viewed through risk-adjusted value rather than growth alone. The director will distinguish price, volume, mix, currency, timing and one-off effects, and will test whether capital requests include execution capacity, downside triggers and exit options. A plan is not credible because its totals reconcile.

The durable agenda includes building market-finance judgement and successors. The regional team should become able to challenge assumptions early, disclose contrary evidence and transfer capital away from weak uses without depending on the director's personal intervention.

What you will own

• Establish one regional performance grammar connecting operating drivers to margin, cash, invested capital and risk.
• Introduce comparable market bridges while documenting legitimate local differences and their economic effect.
• Require investment cases to state baseline, capacity, downside, trigger, reversibility and accountable benefit owner.
• Exercise authority to return unsupported plans and recommend capital deferral, release or redeployment.
• Create monthly decision reviews that record choices and test earlier assumptions against subsequent evidence.
• Separate operational improvement from currency, timing, perimeter and non-recurring effects.
• Build country-finance capability, deputy coverage and cross-market challenge into the regional operating rhythm.
• Publish a first-year capital and performance account showing realised outcomes and unresolved exposure.

Candidate qualifications

• Show sustained regional finance leadership across materially different APAC markets and decision conditions.
• Provide an example where comparable driver analysis overturned a locally persuasive performance narrative.
• Demonstrate capital allocation challenge that led to staged funding, redesign or withdrawal.
• Evidence clear separation of regional performance authority from country statutory and commercial ownership.
• Bring command of margin, cash, capital productivity, currency and risk-adjusted scenario analysis.
• Describe successors or country leaders whose decision quality improved through your operating cadence.
• Show how realised outcomes were reconciled to original investment assumptions without hindsight rewriting.

Working terms and boundaries

• This is a full-time permanent appointment owning APAC performance standards, challenge and capital recommendations.
• Country statutory accountability, commercial execution and final investment approval remain with designated executives.
• The director may return incomplete cases but cannot bypass approved capital or legal-entity governance.
• First-year assessment covers decision quality, forecast integrity, capital recycling, realised value and succession depth.
• Long-term incentives remain subject to applicable plan, performance and vesting conditions.

Application

Applications for this mandate are received in one way only: through the India Board Terminal's application process. It is automated end to end. Your Executive Passport travels to the mandate holder in its confidential form, your answers to the three questions below are read before anything else in your file, and every stage that follows is recorded on your applications page.

There is no address to write to and no intermediary to call. The mandate holder reads what the Terminal delivers and nothing else, which is what keeps the process the same for every applicant and keeps your name out of it until you release it. Applications close on 5 October 2026. Mandate reference RHF-PER-2026-SGP-87.