Regional Finance Operations Manager

Overview

In this role, you will lead EMEA financial performance, coordinating forecasting, budgeting, and capex planning across the region. You’ll deliver insights and executive-ready summaries to support SLT discussions and drive cost control. You will partner with Operations, Portfolio Management, HR, and Procurement to align on headcount, spend, and efficiency initiatives. You’ll provide financial foresight and challenge stakeholders to improve performance and reduce risk. This is an opportunity to shape regional finance processes and enable data-driven decisions at scale.

Responsibilities

• Monitor regional performance against targets and identify corrective actions
• Lead forecasting and budgeting for energy expenses, opex, headcount and recurring capex
• Coordinate alignment between operations, portfolio management and HR at regional level
• Produce business insights and contribute to forecast, budget, LRP and management packs
• Analyze monthly utility and operating expenses for trends, risks, and opportunities
• Support headcount management and vacancy decisions
• Contribute to power pricing strategy and recoverability analysis
• Provide financial insight to challenge stakeholders and drive efficiency
• Collaborate with Regional Operations to ensure timely analysis and reporting against budget
• Act as Finance contact for energy and operational spend at region level
• Support development of recurring capex and expansion capex business cases
• Prepare and present performance management packs at Regional Operations meetings
• Deliver ad hoc analytics to support EMEA Procurement
• Support implementation of new finance systems, reporting tools and processes

Key requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or professional accounting/finance qualification (ACA, ACCA, CFA, CPA, MBA)
• 7+ years of progressive finance experience with at least 3+ years in a managerial/operational leadership role
• Strong FP&A and operational management background
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and optimize business processes
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with experience partnering with executive teams
• Proficiency in financial systems (Oracle, Microsoft) and advanced Excel
• Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving capabilities

• communication and interpersonal skills
• cross-functional collaboration
• problem-solving
• FP&A
• budgeting and forecasting
• Oracle

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