Finance Director

Finance Director – Performance & Planning Cadence Connect is exclusively partnering with a rapidly scaling, private‑equity backed global professional services organisation to appoint a newly created Finance Director – Performance & Planning. This senior role has been established to strengthen strategic financial leadership across the region and to support an ambitious growth agenda. Reporting directly to the Global Head of FP&A, with a dotted line to both the Global CFO and APAC Managing Director (Brisbane-based), this position will sit at the centre of commercial decision‑making, planning excellence and performance uplift across the region. This is a high‑visibility global role, offering the opportunity to work closely with impressive, complementary finance leaders and an APAC finance structure that is continuing to expand. The Opportunity The Finance Director – Performance & Planning will play a key role in shaping regional strategy, commercial evaluation and forward‑looking financial leadership. Key responsibilities will include: Leading performance planning, financial modelling, scenario analysis and strategic forecasting. Evaluating incentive structures, bonus frameworks, leverage models and profitability strategies across a complex professional services environment. Driving margin improvement and operational efficiency analysis to support commercial and operational leaders. Strengthening the FP&A capability across the region, with a particular focus on business partnering and forward‑looking planning disciplines. Supporting evolving board expectations, capital structure requirements and private‑equity driven value‑creation targets. Collaborating with leaders across Brisbane and Asia as the finance structure continues to scale, including working closely with peers overseeing controllership and broader APAC financial management. Contributing to the evolution of reporting, modelling and forecasting processes during a period of rapid growth and organisational transformation. You will partner with finance leaders known for their varied leadership styles; practical and pragmatic on one side; detailed, precise and structured on the other, requiring a flexible, commercially grounded, and adaptable approach. About You We are seeking a senior finance leader who brings: 12–15+ years’ experience across FP&A, commercial finance or performance planning. Strong capability in financial modelling, commercial analysis, incentive design, pricing and margin review. Experience in professional services or a similar commercially complex, people‑driven environment (highly advantageous). Demonstrated success partnering with senior stakeholders across Finance, Operations, BD and Regional Leadership. Comfort operating within a matrixed, multinational context. A balance of detail orientation with pragmatic, commercial problem‑solving. Relevant qualifications such as CA/CPA/CIMA or MBA (preferred). You will thrive in a private equity backed organisation with strong growth targets, increasing operational complexity and significant opportunity to influence the regional performance agenda. How to Apply Cadence Connect has been retained to manage this process exclusively. To be considered, please submit: A current CV, and A cover letter outlining your interest and addressing your alignment to the key selection criteria. Process & Timeline Applications are now open, with shortlisting underway. Client interviews will commence the week of Monday, 8 December. Successful candidates will be issued psychometric assessments. Second round interviews are scheduled for the week of 15 December. An appointment is expected to be finalised before the end of the year. The successful candidate will commence in the new year. All applications will be handled in the strictest confidence. #J-18808-Ljbffr