Director, CSAME Segment FP&A

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.