Chief Financial Officer

Role Overview

• Lead overall finance strategy in support of pilot launch, commercial roll-out, and long-term business growth.
• Partner with the CEO / General Manager and leadership team to shape business strategy, evaluate growth options, and ensure the financial sustainability of the JV.
• Provide financial leadership on key investment decisions including network roll-out, vehicle and battery procurement, infrastructure deployment, digital investments, channel expansion, and other growth initiatives.
• Act as a strategic advisor to the Board and shareholders on financial performance, capital requirements, risk exposure, and major investment trade-offs.
• Challenge business assumptions on pricing, BOM (Bill of Materials), battery economics, station roll-out, commercial launch readiness, and operating cost structure to improve decision quality and capital allocation discipline.
• Lead the development of AssetCo’s investment case, financial model, valuation framework, and funding strategy to support swap infrastructure roll-out and long-term capital deployment planning.
• Build, refine, and maintain integrated JV and AssetCo financial models, ensuring consistency of assumptions, reporting logic, and alignment with shareholder expectations and BP finance standards where applicable.
• Perform valuation modelling and investment return analysis, including DCF, IRR, ROIC, long-range scenario planning, sensitivity analysis, and stress-case evaluation for major strategic investments.
• Integrate key operational assumptions into financial models, including swap station deployment schedule, battery lifecycle economics, leasing revenue logic, import and landing costs, and infrastructure scaling assumptions.
• Evaluate and recommend suitable capital structure options for the JV and AssetCo, including equity, debt, shareholder funding, leasing, vendor financing, and other structured financing alternatives.
• Work with both shareholders to align on funding logic, intercompany arrangements, capital exposure, and financial implications under different investment scenarios.
• Lead annual business planning, budgeting, periodic forecasting, and long-range financial planning across the JV.
• Develop robust financial models to support strategic decision-making, including business scenarios for pricing, market expansion, operating costs, capex deployment, and profitability pathways.
• Track performance against budget, forecast, and business plan targets, highlighting variances, risks, and mitigation actions in a timely manner.
• Establish management reporting processes that provide clear visibility on P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, capex, opex, and key operating / commercial KPIs.
• Ensure financial plans are realistic, properly governed, and aligned with shareholder expectations and board-approved plans.
• Lead or oversee pricing activities, including price modelling, margin analysis, financial evaluation, and approval coordination to ensure decisions support profitability and strategic objectives.
• Evaluate commercial proposals, partnership arrangements, and investment cases to ensure they are financially sound and aligned with CGM and AssetCo targets.
• Develop and maintain costing models for products, operations, infrastructure, and services across both the JV and AssetCo.
• Monitor and manage working capital requirements, including inventory, receivables, payables, deposits, and major commitments, and provide clear forecasts and intervention recommendations.
• Support the business with data-driven financial insight to improve negotiation leverage with partners, suppliers, OEMs, and infrastructure counterparties.
• Support development of partner-facing investment materials, financial model walkthroughs, funding analyses, and business case presentations for shareholders, financial institutions, strategic partners, and potential AssetCo investors.
• Translate financial output into clear and credible business narratives suitable for Board members, senior stakeholders, banks, investors, and strategic counterparties.
• Support due diligence, Q&A, follow-up materials, MoU / commercial negotiation inputs, and other finance-related discussions with shortlisted partners and stakeholders.
• Prepare financial reports, investment papers, funding requests, and performance updates for Board and shareholder meetings.
• Serve as a credible finance representative in discussions with both shareholder groups, financiers, and senior external stakeholders.
• Ensure timely and accurate financial reporting in compliance with applicable accounting standards, statutory requirements, and shareholder reporting needs.
• Oversee accounting operations, month-end and year-end close, reconciliations, accruals, provisions, and audit readiness.
• Establish and embed strong internal controls, approval processes, and governance frameworks across the JV.
• Maintain transparency over commitments, liabilities, payment schedules, capex deployment, and working capital exposure.
• Oversee preparation of finance sections of board papers, management reports, and investment decision materials.
• Lead treasury and cash flow management to ensure sufficient liquidity for operations, launch execution, and growth investments.
• Manage funding requirements, capital calls, shareholder funding requests, banking relationships, and cash deployment priorities.
• Monitor payables, receivables, deposits, and cash commitments to ensure disciplined liquidity management and timely funding visibility.
• Establish robust cash forecasting processes to support management decision-making, investment planning, and mitigation of liquidity risks.
• Ensure payment processes are efficient, controlled, and aligned with contracts, budget approval, and available cash.
• Ensure our client operates in full compliance with local legal, tax, statutory, and regulatory requirements.
• Maintain a strong internal control environment, including delegated authority, procurement governance, contract review discipline, financial policy implementation, and audit readiness.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate key financial, commercial, operational, and compliance risks facing the JV and AssetCo agenda.
• Support management in maintaining compliance with the joint venture agreement, shareholder obligations, and other governance requirements.
• Ensure major investments and business cases are supported by sufficient financial rigor, risk analysis, and governance approval.
• Oversee governance of purchasing, vendor contracting, PO approvals, and payment controls to ensure expenditures align with approved budgets and business priorities.
• Challenge cost assumptions, vendor commercial terms, and business cases to ensure competitiveness, value for money, and disciplined use of funds.
• Ensure one-time pilot costs, recurring operational costs, and commercial launch investments are clearly tracked, justified, and appropriately approved.
• Support financial evaluation of major suppliers, service providers, infrastructure partners, and strategic counterparties.
• Drive cost discipline while enabling the business to execute effectively and at appropriate speed.
• Oversee tax planning, compliance, filings, and coordination with tax advisors and relevant service providers.
• Lead external and internal audit processes, ensuring readiness, responsiveness, and timely closure of action items.
• Manage relationships with banks, auditors, accounting firms, payroll providers, tax advisors, and other finance-related vendors.
• Lead finance requirements for ERP and systems readiness, including chart-of-accounts alignment, forecasting structures, reporting logic, and management information design to support business scale-up.
• Build a fit-for-purpose finance operating model, including processes, templates, workflows, internal controls, and outsourced resource management suitable for a lean and growing JV.
• Build and lead a lean, high-performing finance organization, including internal team members and outsourced finance resources where applicable.
• Set clear priorities, operating rhythms, accountability, and service expectations across the finance function.
• Coach business stakeholders to strengthen financial awareness, commercial discipline, and decision-support capability across the organization.
• Promote a culture of integrity, control, business partnership, transparency, and continuous improvement.
• Operate effectively in ambiguity and help build finance capability in a fast-changing, build-from-scratch environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 12–15 years of relevant finance experience, including substantial leadership experience in financial planning, controllership, business finance, treasury, governance, and compliance.
• Prior experience as CFO, Finance Director, Head of Finance, or a senior finance leadership role is strongly preferred.
• Proven experience in building finance processes and controls in a lean or newly established organization.
• Strong experience managing external accounting, tax, audit, banking, and compliance stakeholders.
• Experience working in Vietnam and strong familiarity with local finance, tax, statutory, and regulatory requirements is highly preferred.
• Strong strategic finance capability combined with hands-on execution.
• Deep understanding of financial planning, accounting, internal controls, treasury, and risk management.
• Strong commercial acumen and ability to evaluate investments, pricing, partnerships, and operating models.
• Sound judgment and ability to balance business growth with control and governance.
• Excellent stakeholder management, with confidence engaging Board members, shareholders, banks, auditors, and senior leaders.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-support capability.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to work effectively in ambiguity and in a build-from-scratch environment.
• Fluency in English is required; Vietnamese is strongly preferred.

Tech Stack

• ERP