Senior Finance Manager
About Us
Maya Strategic Management Pte. Ltd. is a management services company that partners with leading packaged foods manufacturers and importers to drive strategy, growth, and operational excellence. As a core service provider, we combine deep industry expertise with supply chain management, strategic marketing, and operational capabilities to solve complex business challenges. We work across portfolio companies, bringing commercial insight and best-in-class practices to everything we do — and we're looking for talented people who want to grow with us.
A word on how we hire: we care as much about how you think as what you already know. Our interviews are built to understand how you approach a problem. The people who do well here bring a can-do attitude, put the firm ahead of themselves, have great attention to details, and treat direct feedback as something useful rather than something to defend against.
The Role
You'll own the finance function for our U.S. food import affiliates. You'll run the full function, lead the team doing it, and sit close enough to the decisions to understand why they're made.
Work You'll Do
Team & Operations
Keep the finance function running end to end, so the business always has clean, current numbers to work from.
Lead the finance team and own the full cycle — accounts payable, accounts receivable, bank reconciliations, payroll and month-end close
Own the daily transactional work, including customer invoicing and credit, account reconciliations, and inventory accounting
Reporting & Controls
Give management a reliable, real-time read on how the business is actually performing against plan.
Build the budget and forecasts, set the policies and controls that manage risk, and recommend the benchmarks and system improvements worth making
Prepare and present monthly and annual financial statements, and monitor spending against budget — flagging variances early rather than at close
Support external audits, tax filings and compliance requests
Analysis & Business Partnering
Make sure pricing, contracts and account decisions are backed by real numbers, not guesswork.
Partner with sales on account-level profitability and pricing, and build variance analysis that goes beyond the company-wide view
Analyse margin and profitability by customer and account, and build account-level P&L reviews
Pull whatever data management needs for a sharper answer
Your Role as a Leader
Hire and develop people who can do the work properly, not just clear it. Someone on your team should be able to run the close if you're on leave, and know why a number matters rather than only where it goes.
Push for the changes worth making. Anyone can flag what's broken. We're after the person who comes back with what to do about it, what it costs, and what it fixes.
Decide what actually matters this month and tell your team. If everything is urgent, nothing is.
Own the result. Problems are cheaper the earlier you find them, so go looking rather than waiting for them to surface at close.
Talk straight with management, sales and the auditors. Plain English, no jargon where it isn't needed.
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance, with a solid grasp of accounting principles. ACCA or CPA certification preferred.
Three to five years of relevant controller or finance management experience. Supply chain industry experience is a plus.
Advanced QuickBooks skills, plus strong Excel (advanced formulas, VLOOKUP, pivot tables), Adobe Acrobat and Google Drive.
ERP system experience, including system conversions, is a strong plus. Comfortable picking up new software quickly.
Strong problem-solving skills, and equally comfortable working independently or as part of a team.
Excellent written and verbal communication, with the organisational skills to run multiple deadlines at once without being chased.
A growth mindset — we want someone who treats a new system, an unfamiliar problem, or being told they're wrong as something to learn from, not something to defend against.
- Able to work hours that overlap with the U.S. West Coast — either an early-morning Singapore start (roughly 5am–9am SGT) or a late-evening one. We'll agree on a window with you, and the rest of your day flexes around it.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our workplace. The purpose of any language skills required is to facilitate communication with counterparts who do not speak English. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, origins, genetics, or disability status. To comply with various legal requirements in Singapore, we employ professionals through multiple entities depending on the immigration status of individual candidate and the workforce as a whole.