Head of FP&A, APAC
Finance Singapore Full-time Singapore
Job Description
The Head of FP&A, APAC leads financial planning, forecasting, performance management, and strategic financial support across the APAC region. The role is a key business partner to the APAC President and CFO, providing forward-looking insights, scenario analysis, and strategic guidance to drive growth and value creation.
The position oversees FP&A transformation and automation initiatives, supports commercial finance and distributor best practices, and leads regional FP&A teams, including the APAC FP&A Finance Transformation Manager.
Strategic Planning & Executive Support
- Lead the APAC strategic planning and long-range planning process in partnership with the President and CFO.
- Provide financial leadership on growth strategy, portfolio choices, market expansion, and resource allocation.
- Deliver clear financial narratives, scenarios, and recommendations to support executive decision-making.- Act as a trusted advisor to the President and CFO on performance outlook, risks, and opportunities.
FP&A Leadership & Performance Management
- Lead end-to-end FP&A activities across APAC, including budgeting, forecasting, rolling forecasts, and performance management.
- Ensure strong forecast accuracy, disciplined planning, and timely performance insights.
- Define the regional FP&A strategy aligned with global finance priorities and business objectives.
FP&A Transformation & Simplification
- Sponsor and oversee FP&A transformation initiatives across the region.
- Drive standardization, simplification, and automation of FP&A processes.
- Partner with Global Finance Transformation teams to implement global FP&A standards, tools, and planning models.
Commercial Finance & Distributor Management
- Provide commercial finance leadership covering pricing, margins, trade spend, and profitability management.
- Support financial performance management of distributor and indirect sales models, including demand forecasting, inventory visibility, and working capital considerations.
- Promote best practices in distributor performance management, KPIs, and financial transparency.
- Support go-to-market decisions through financial analysis and scenario modeling.
Business Partnering (Marketing, R&D & Commercial)
- Act as a senior finance partner to Marketing, R&D, Sales, and Commercial teams.
- Support marketing investment decisions, innovation pipelines, and product portfolio performance.
- Ensure alignment between strategy, financial plans, and execution.
Team Leadership & Governance
- Lead, develop, and mentor regional FP&A and commercial finance teams.
- Set clear objectives, performance expectations, and development plans.
- Ensure strong governance, controls, and compliance across FP&A and commercial finance processes.
Performance Management & Risk
- Monitor regional financial performance, key commercial risks, and opportunities.
- Ensure timely escalation and corrective actions where required.
- Maintain financial transparency and strong management discipline.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in finance and accounting
- 8 to 10 Years experience in finance and accounting
- Proven leadership experience in FP&A, commercial finance, or regional finance roles.
- Demonstrated experience partnering with senior executives (President, CFO, leadership teams).
- Strong background in strategic planning and long-range financial modeling.
- Experience supporting distributor-based and indirect sales business models.
- Track record of driving finance transformation and automation initiatives.
- Strong executive communication, influence, and leadership skills.
- Experience working across multiple geographies.
Additional Information
Company Description
Who we are?
JDE Peet’s (JDEP) is the world's largest pure-play coffee and tea company by revenue, reported at € 8.2 billion in 2023. With origins dating back to 1753, we are headquartered in the Netherlands, with a global workforce of over 21,000 associates. We unleash the possibilities of coffee and tea in more than 100 countries with a portfolio of over 50 brands that cover the entire category landscape, including L’OR, Peet’s, Jacobs, Senseo, Tassimo, Douwe Egberts, OldTown, Super, Pickwick and Moccona.
JDEP operates in APAC across four key business divisions: consumer packaged goods (CPG), an F&B cafe business under the OldTown White Coffee brand, and two out-of-home units: Food Ingredients & Food Services that delivers non-dairy creamers (NDC) and coffee products for the F&B sector, and Professional Services for B2B customers.
True to our mission of delivering “a coffee or tea for every cup”, JDE Peet’s diverse brand portfolio in Asia Pacific (APAC) includes global billion-dollar brands such as L’OR, regional heroes like Moccona, as well as local and heritage jewels that tap into the unique tastes and preferences of consumers in this diverse region. These include much-loved heritage brand OldTown, mixes pioneer SUPER, Maxwell House, Owl and Ye Ye, as well as specialty brands Hummingbird in New Zealand, and Campos in Australia.
Across APAC, we operate commercial offices in Australia, Greater China, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Singapore, and Thailand. Our regional hub for manufacturing, supply and R&D is located in Johor, Malaysia, which also roasts all coffee for Asia markets. Our manufacturing footprint also covers Ipoh, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, China, Australia, and New Zealand.
Situated in Singapore, the Singapore ADM cluster serves as a strategic base for expanding JDE Peet’s presence in the Asia region, including in Indonesia and the Philippines, as well as international export markets. Singapore also serves as the APAC Corporate headquarters, and is the hub for regional corporate functions such as Finance, Internal Controls, Marketing, Human Resources and Corporate Affairs.
Growing together to create a better future
Our belief is that together, through the power of our brands, we can unite our actions to deliver impactful change and be a ‘force for better’. The JDE Peet’s Common Grounds programme embodies our ambition to positively impact People, our Planet, and the future of coffee and tea through its three pillars: Responsible Sourcing, Minimising Footprint, and Connecting People.
Through Common Grounds, we work with farming communities, suppliers, NGOs and governments to continuously improve the social and environmental conditions in origins where coffee, tea and palm oil are grown. Since 2015, our projects have reached over 700,000 farmers to improve their productivity, profitability and sustainability.
What’s it like to work at JDE Peet’s?
We are people united by the power and possibility of tea and coffee. At JDE Peet’s, we thrive on the freedom to pursue opportunities, provoking new ideas to make an impact at scale.
We are a values-driven organization led by our core values of Discipline, Simplicity, Accountability, Solidarity and Entrepreneurship. To ensure each individual has the opportunity to make an impact in the world of coffee and tea, we offer our associates a range of learning and development programmes to support their personal growth.
At JDE Peet's, we believe it’s amazing what can happen over a cup of coffee or tea.