Executive Director, Global Finance

• Lead the global finance strategy and operating model for entry into new countries and jurisdictions, from initial planning through operational launch and stabilization.
• Serve as the U.S.-based interim finance leader for newly incorporated international entities until the appropriate local, regional, or outsourced finance structure is established.
• Define finance readiness priorities, investment requirements, milestones, risk mitigation strategies, and success measures across a portfolio of international markets.
• Lead complex strategic change initiatives across finance functions, regions, and business units, ensuring stakeholder alignment, accountability, adoption, and sustainable execution.
• Own and continuously enhance the global finance launch playbook, including workplans, timelines, dependencies, RACI frameworks, control points, templates, escalation processes, and lessons learned.
• Determine and implement the appropriate steady-state finance operating model for each international market.
• Lead transitions from interim U.S.-based support to local finance leadership, regional structures, or approved third-party service providers.
• Design, implement, and govern global finance policies, process standards, control frameworks, decision rights, and escalation mechanisms for international operations.
• Establish clear distinctions between global, regional, local, and outsourced finance responsibilities, including ownership and control expectations.
• Develop and lead scalable international business review processes covering financial reporting packages, key metrics, variance analysis, meeting cadences, action plans, and follow-up.
• Lead quarterly business certifications and sub-certification processes as required.
• Maintain close relationships with international business partners to identify significant transactions, unusual contracts, regulatory changes, evolving business activities, and emerging finance or accounting requirements.
• Manage a rolling portfolio of newly launched international entities, ensuring each market has compliant, efficient, and sustainable finance operations throughout its transition to steady state.
• Partner with Technical Accounting, Corporate Accounting, SEC Reporting, SOX, Tax, Treasury, Legal, HR/Payroll, FP&A, and business leadership to resolve complex cross-functional matters.
• Represent Global Finance in strategic negotiations and decision-making with executives, auditors, advisors, service providers, regulators, and other external stakeholders.
• Establish scalable frameworks, transition criteria, and governance practices that support continued international expansion and operational maturity.
• Balance global consistency with local-market requirements while ensuring controls remain practical, effective, and aligned with public-company expectations.

Requirements

• Experience: 15+ years of progressive finance leadership experience, including responsibility for strategy development and complex global, multi-entity, or multifunctional finance operations.
• Professional qualification: CPA, ACCA, or an equivalent accounting or finance qualification.
• Demonstrated experience working within a public company and SOX-controlled environment, with a strong understanding of financial governance and internal controls.
• Proven ability to establish strategy and lead complex transformation or change initiatives across multiple finance functions, regions, or business units.
• Strong global finance perspective, with the ability to balance standardization, scalability, operational efficiency, and local regulatory requirements.
• Demonstrated experience designing finance operating models and transitioning between interim, local, regional, and outsourced structures.
• Strong business-partnering skills, including the ability to identify risks and opportunities by staying closely connected to local teams and business stakeholders.
• Ability to determine when issues should be resolved directly and when specialized support is required from accounting, SEC reporting, SOX, tax, treasury, legal, FP&A, or other functions.
• Excellent project and program management capabilities, including managing dependencies, establishing accountability, driving timelines, and creating structure in ambiguous environments.
• Demonstrated ability to influence executive-level stakeholders and build effective relationships with external service providers, auditors, advisors, and regulators.
• Hands-on leadership style with a willingness to execute directly when local resources, processes, or systems are not yet fully developed.
• Practical and commercially minded approach to internal controls, with the ability to meet public-company requirements without unnecessary complexity.
• Strong communication, influencing, negotiation, decision-making, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, evolving international environment with multiple simultaneous priorities.
• Experience in the biotechnology or pharmaceutical industry is preferred.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with sound judgment when addressing complex financial, operational, and regulatory matters.

Benefits

• Base salary: $252,000–$315,000 USD, with the applicable range adjusted according to the candidate’s work location and local market conditions.
• Competitive overall total rewards package combining cash compensation, equity opportunities, benefits, and professional development.
• Equity awards as part of the broader compensation package.
• Comprehensive employee benefits designed to support health, wellbeing, and financial security.
• Significant learning and development opportunities to support continued professional growth.
• Remote U.S.-based opportunity with substantial international scope and cross-functional executive exposure.
• Opportunity to build and shape global finance infrastructure during a period of international expansion.
• High-impact leadership role with direct influence over finance strategy, governance, operational readiness, and global growth.
• Collaborative environment working with senior finance leaders and multidisciplinary teams across accounting, tax, treasury, legal, HR, FP&A, and other functions.