About This Role
Reporting to the VP, CSAME Finance, the FP&A Director is a senior finance leader responsible for shaping financial strategy, enabling data-driven decisions, and driving sustainable performance across Climate Solutions Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa (CSAME).
The role leads long-range planning, annual operating plans, forecasting, performance management, and monthly and quarterly business reviews, while serving as a trusted partner to regional business and finance leaders.
The Director will strengthen FP&A capabilities, improve planning disciplines and insights, and build an effective, high-performing organization across a complex, multi-country matrix.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic planning: Lead the regional FP&A agenda, including long-range planning, annual operating plans, quarterly forecasts, scenario modeling, and target setting aligned with CSAME strategic priorities.
- Performance management: Own monthly and quarterly business-review processes, delivering clear analysis of results, key drivers, risks, opportunities, and corrective actions.
- Business partnership: Serve as a trusted finance partner to regional and business leaders, providing independent challenge, commercial insight, and decision support to drive profitable growth, cash generation, and productivity.
- Decision support: Translate complex financial and operational data into concise, forward-looking insights and recommendations for senior leadership.
- Risk and opportunity management: Establish rigorous mechanisms to identify, quantify, track, and mitigate financial risks while accelerating actions to capture upside opportunities.
- FP&A transformation: Partner with the broader Carrier FP&A organization to simplify and standardize processes, strengthen governance, improve forecast accuracy, and advance automation, analytics, and centralization where appropriate.
- Financial governance: Ensure planning, reporting, and performance-management activities are timely, accurate, well controlled, and consistent with company policies and leadership expectations.
- Organizational leadership: Build and lead a high-performing regional FP&A organization, including implementation of the FP&A Center of Excellence model, capability development, succession planning, and timely performance feedback.
- Enterprise leadership: Model strong collaboration across businesses, functions, and geographies, and undertake other responsibilities aligned with the scope and seniority of the position.
Required Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related discipline; MBA, CPA, CMA, or equivalent advanced qualification preferred.
- Typically 12 or more years of progressive finance experience, including significant leadership responsibility in FP&A within a large, complex, global organization.
- Demonstrated success leading long-range planning, annual operating plans, forecasting, management reporting, and executive business reviews.
- Strong commercial and operational acumen, with the ability to connect financial performance to business drivers and influence resource-allocation decisions.
- Proven experience operating across multiple countries and cultures and leading effectively in a highly matrixed environment.
- Track record of driving FP&A transformation, process standardization, digital enablement, productivity, integration, or operational-improvement initiatives.
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving capability, with the judgment to synthesize complex information into clear insights, choices, and actions.
- Advanced financial-modeling and data-analysis skills; experience with enterprise planning, ERP, business-intelligence, and reporting platforms preferred.
- Strong executive presence and communication, negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to constructively challenge and influence at all levels.
- Demonstrated people leadership, including building diverse teams, developing talent, managing performance, and fostering an inclusive, accountable culture.
Success Measures
- Accurate, timely, and insightful plans, forecasts, and business reviews that improve management decisions and accountability.
- Improved forecast accuracy and early visibility of risks and opportunities, supported by clear actions and ownership.
- Achievement of regional financial commitments, including growth, profitability, cash flow, and productivity objectives.
- Effective strategic partnership with business leaders, reflected in the quality, speed, and commercial impact of finance support.
- Sustained simplification, standardization, and automation of FP&A processes, with strong governance and timely reporting.
- A high-performing, engaged FP&A team with stronger capabilities, clear succession plans, and effective talent development.
Carrier is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.
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