Chief Financial Officer

About the Role

Chief Financial Officer Polymer Converting for Automotive Parts & Accessories Business Location: Thailand Headquarters Reports to: EPG Deputy CEO for Automotive Parts & Accessories Business

We are seeking a strategic and commercially minded Chief Financial Officer to lead the Finance and Accounting function for a Polymer Converting for Automotive Parts & Accessories business headquartered in Thailand, with overseas subsidiaries and joint ventures. The role partners closely with the Deputy CEO to influence senior stakeholders, support customer and partner negotiations, and drive profitable growth across a complex international business environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead overall financial strategy, accounting governance, financial planning, and business performance management for the business group.
• Supervise Finance and Accounting functions across Thailand headquarters, overseas subsidiaries, and joint ventures, and strengthen subsidiary governance.
• Provide strategic financial advice to the Deputy CEO on growth, profitability, investment, pricing, capital allocation, and risk management.
• Drive budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling, business planning, and performance review across all entities.
• Strengthen financial reporting, consolidation, internal controls, compliance, audit, tax, transfer pricing, and cross-border transaction governance.
• Support automotive and OEM customer programs including quotation costing, tooling investment, contract profitability, pricing analysis, and commercial risk review.
• Lead cash flow, treasury, working capital, foreign exchange exposure management, banking relationships, and funding requirements.
• Evaluate capital expenditure, business expansion, restructuring, joint venture, M&A, and strategic partnership opportunities.
• Act as representative of the Deputy CEO in dealings with key customers, OEM customers, strategic partners, joint venture partners, banks, auditors, and external stakeholders.
• Build and develop a high-performance Finance and Accounting organization across headquarters and overseas entities.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Economics, or related field.
• Professional qualification such as CPA, ACCA, CFA, CMA, or equivalent is an advantage.
• Minimum 15 years of progressive experience in Finance and Accounting, with at least 5–7 years in a senior finance leadership role (CFO, Finance Director, Regional Finance Director, or Business Unit Finance Head).
• Strong experience in the automotive industry is required; experience in automotive parts, accessories, polymer converting, engineered materials, or manufacturing is highly relevant.
• OEM experience preferred, especially in customer programs, quotation costing, tooling investment, long-term supply contracts, and program profitability.
• Experience managing Finance and Accounting functions across overseas subsidiaries, joint ventures, or regional operations.
• Strong knowledge of financial reporting, consolidation, budgeting, forecasting, cost accounting, treasury, tax, internal control, audit, transfer pricing, and cross-border transactions.
• Experience working directly with CEO, Deputy CEO, Managing Director, Board, Executive Committee, or regional headquarters; experience in turnaround, restructuring, M&A, or joint venture governance is an advantage.
• Excellent command of English. Ability to communicate in Chinese or Japanese would be an advantage.
• Willingness and ability to travel internationally approximately 30%.

Skills

• Strategic financial leadership, business performance and profitability management, and manufacturing finance/product costing.
• Overseas subsidiary and joint venture governance, commercial negotiation and stakeholder influence.
• Treasury, cash flow, working capital and foreign exchange management.
• Internal control, audit, tax, compliance management, and finance transformation/team development.