Finance Director

About the role

This position leads Höganäs China finance, overseeing reporting, budgeting, rolling forecast, taxation, treasury, financial analysis, and digital transformation of the finance function. The role serves as a business partner to operations, sales, and new business initiatives, and participates in China Management Meeting (CMM) for management decision-making.

Supervision: Direct reports include all Finance employees and IT specialists. The role manages the finance team, including training, coaching, and enabling digital/AI capabilities.

Working environment: Normal office environment.

Key interfaces: Internal: Member of Group Finance Control; regular reporting and meetings with Regional CFO, CMM members, local finance and other teams/managers. External: Relationships with local authorities, local auditors and advisors in partnership with relevant corporate functions.

Responsibilities

• Lead budget and forecast in HCL; monitor and evaluate actual results and forecasts
• Overall responsibility for quarterly forecasting reporting of HCL
• Strengthen data-driven decision support through BI dashboards and advanced analytics for real-time monitoring of business performance, strategic execution, and risks
• Lead digital transformation of the finance function, driving adoption of company-authorized AI and automation tools across reporting, reconciliation, forecasting, and analysis processes to improve efficiency and accuracy, while ensuring data security and compliance with group AI governance policies
• Customer credit management and AR management; work closely with sales
• Internal control and enterprise risk management, including developing and implementing effective risk management strategies across China finance functions
• Coordination with external government functions: tax, customs, bank, statistics, Industry Zone government functional departments
• Cooperation with Group corporate functions on all topics
• Responsible for IT: work closely with local outsourced team and Group IT team for all IT-related topics, including governance and adoption of AI-powered finance tools and process automation within the company's authorized framework
• Responsible for Höganäs China legal issues; work closely with other HCL functions, local lawyers, and Group legal counsel
• Work closely with HCL other functions as business partner, supporting operations, sales, new business decision-making
• China market business planning and monthly reporting
• CMM member: involved in management decision-making