Why work with Assurant?
At Assurant, our people are united by a shared commitment to integrity, innovation, and delivering exceptional value for our customers and clients around the world. With more than a century of expertise and over 300 million consumers supported globally, we play a pivotal role in enabling a more connected, accessible, and sustainable technology ecosystem.
When you join Assurant, you become part of a global community that values curiosity, collaboration, and bold thinking. Our culture empowers individuals to challenge convention, elevate performance, and make meaningful contributions to our clients, partners, and one another. You’ll be supported by a diverse, inclusive environment, world‑class development programs, and benefits designed to help you thrive personally and professionally.
What's the role about?
The APAC Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is a senior strategic leader and trusted advisor responsible for shaping and executing the financial vision of the APAC business. Reporting to the International CFO, the APAC CFO partners closely with the APAC President and regional executive leaders to drive financial strategy, optimise performance, and enable sustainable growth.
This role leads all aspects of financial strategy, planning, governance, and business performance across a complex, multi‑market region. Through deep commercial insight, disciplined financial management, and strong executive influence, the APAC CFO will help steer the region’s strategic direction and ensure alignment with enterprise‑wide objectives. The role may be based in Sydney or Melbourne.
Some of the duties and responsibilities include:
- Lead, shape, and execute APAC’s financial strategy, ensuring effective implementation in line with enterprise and regional objectives.
- Own financial planning, forecasting, target setting, and performance management processes, including oversight of liquidity, capital, and solvency management.
- Partner with the business to support strategy development and execution, enabling APAC’s vision and the creation of sustainable customer, client, and enterprise value.
- Serve as a strategic business partner to the senior executive leadership team, providing insight, challenge, and decision support on complex business matters.
- Provide the Board and Executive Leadership with accurate, timely, and insightful financial reporting, ensuring transparency, integrity, and clarity of results.
- Monitor, analyze, and report on APAC’s overall business and enterprise profitability, identifying trends, risks, and opportunities.
- Ensure adherence to the “Business Process,” embedding strong governance across investment and commercial decisions. Support the evaluation and execution of new business initiatives, partnerships, and commercial opportunities through robust financial analysis and governance.
- Actively challenge the Executive team to drive optimal business performance, including revenue growth, cost discipline, and capital efficiency.
- Establish, maintain, and continuously enhance financial and operational controls, ensuring compliance with legal, regulatory, and internal governance requirements.
Does this sound like you?
Desired Qualifications & Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field; MBA or relevant Master’s degree preferred.
- Professional certification strongly preferred: CPA/CA, CMA, and/or CFA.
- Ongoing executive education in strategy, analytics, or digital transformation is a plus.
Experience
- 15+ years of progressive finance leadership experience, including 8–10 years in regional or multi-country leadership roles.
- Demonstrated success owning a full P&L and leading FP&A for a complex, multi-market business, ideally within the insurance/reinsurance industry.
- Significant exposure to commercial finance (pricing, contracts, partnerships), resource allocation, and capital efficiency.
- Proven track record driving value creation (margin expansion, ROIC, cash conversion) and cost/productivity programs.
Technical & Functional Expertise
- Financial strategy and planning, including long‑range planning and driver‑based forecasting.
- Deep expertise in IFRS, internal controls/SOX, statutory reporting, and governance.
- Treasury leadership across liquidity, FX, working capital, capital structure, and solvency.
- Strong understanding of regional tax environments and transfer pricing (in partnership with Tax).
- M&A evaluation, business cases, due diligence, and post‑deal integration.
- Performance management, profitability analytics, and portfolio optimisation.
- Familiarity with APAC regulatory, reporting, and data/privacy standards.
- Proven ability to build, scale, and develop high‑performing finance teams across multiple markets.
If you’re an experienced regional finance leader ready to shape the future of Assurant in APAC, we’d welcome a confidential conversation.
Submit your resume and cover letter detailing your experiences and suitability for the role. The successful applicant will be subject to relevant background checks such as reference checks and a police check.
At Assurant, we celebrate the differences that make us who we are. By assembling extraordinary teams from a variety of races, religions, sexual orientations, gender identities, ages, experiences, and abilities, we’re able to better reflect the global communities where we live and work. By working to remove barriers, we ensure equity for everyone. The pursuit of inclusion rests with each of us. Because it’s only by listening to and representing the unique voices of every individual that we can innovate for all.
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Assurant is a leading global business services company that supports, protects, and connects major consumer purchases. A Fortune 500 company with a presence in 21 countries, Assurant supports the advancement of the connected world by partnering with the world’s leading brands to develop innovative solutions and deliver an enhanced customer experience through mobile device solutions, extended service contracts, vehicle protection services, renters insurance, lender-placed insurance products, and other specialty products.
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