The role
Job Description – Finance Director, APAC
Are you obsessed with data, partner success, taking action, and changing the game? If you have a whole lot of hustle and a touch of nerd, come work with Pattern! We want you to use your skills to push one of the fastest-growing companies headquartered in the US to the top of the list.
Pattern accelerates brands on global ecommerce marketplaces leveraging proprietary technology and AI. Utilizing more than 66 trillion data points, sophisticated machine learning and AI models, Pattern optimizes and automates all levers of ecommerce growth for global brands, including advertising, content management, logistics and fulfillment, pricing, forecasting and customer service. Hundreds of global brands depend on Pattern’s ecommerce acceleration platform every day to drive profitable revenue growth across 60+ global marketplaces—including Amazon, Walmart, Target, eBay, Tmall, TikTok Shop, JD, and Mercado Libre. To learn more, visit pattern.com or email press@pattern.com.
Pattern has been named one of the fastest growing tech companies headquartered in North America by Deloitte and one of the best-led companies by Inc. We place employee experience at the center of our business model and have been recognized as one of Newsweek’s Global Most Loved Workplaces®.
We are looking for a commercially-minded Finance Director to own and scale Finance operations across Asia and Australia, partnering closely with senior leadership to drive growth and profitability in one of the most complex and fast-moving eCommerce environments in the world. This is a full-time role based in Guangzhou, China.
What is a day in the life of a Finance Director?
- Own the full FP&A cycle across Asia and Australia, from annual operating plan through monthly close, forecast, and variance analysis
- Business Partnering: Serve as the primary financial thought partner to the Managing Directors of Asia and Australia and their leadership teams on key business decisions
- Strategic Planning: Build and maintain long-range financial models that inform regional expansion, investment prioritization, and resource allocation
- Forecasting: Develop rolling forecasts that integrate financial and operational KPIs, with enough granularity to drive action at the region and brand level
- Reporting: Design and deliver reporting that gives leadership a clear, current view of performance vs. plan, and tells them what to do about it
- Decision Support: Lead high-impact financial projects that cut across functions and geographies, delivering the analysis and recommendations that drive the region's most consequential business decisions
What will I need to thrive in this role?
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field; CPA, CFA, or MBA a plus
- 8-15 years of progressive Finance experience in complex, matrixed, or multinational businesses
- Proven ability to lead with influence rather than headcount (expected team size of ~2-3 people)
- Commercially sharp communicator who can align stakeholders across cultures, functions, and time zones
- High tolerance for ambiguity; thrives in fast-moving environments where structure, process, and playbooks are still being built
- Hands-on operator with a bias for detail – willing to build the model and present it to leadership
- Deep FP&A skills across budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning, grounded in solid accounting fundamentals
- Fluent in data – experienced turning large, complex datasets into scalable reporting and decision-support tools
- Native AI user – integrates AI meaningfully into daily workflows and project delivery, not just as a novelty
- Proficient in cloud-based Finance platforms (Netsuite, Workday Adaptive, etc.); Excel super-user
- Mandarin and English fluency (written and spoken)
- eCommerce, Retail, or large global organization experience strongly preferred
What is the team like?
- You will partner with the Managing Directors of Asia and Australia and work with functional leaders in all areas of the business. You will report to the VP of International Finance Operations in the US and lead other Finance and Accounting team members across APAC. The team is data driven and results oriented. You will collaborate regularly with members of your team to implement and drive actionable solutions. Ideas and input are encouraged from all members.
- This is a high-visibility role with direct exposure to C-suite leadership and the chance to help shape how a publicly traded company scales internationally.
Sounds great! What’s the company culture?
We are looking for individuals who are:
- Game Changers- A game changer is someone who looks at problems with an open mind and shares new ideas with team members, regularly reassesses existing plans and attaches a realistic timeline to goals, makes profitable, productive, and innovative contributions, and actively pursues improvements to Pattern’s processes and outcomes.
- Data Fanatics- A data fanatic is someone who recognizes problems and seeks to understand them through data, draws unbiased conclusions based on data that lead to actionable solutions, and continues to track the effects of the solutions using data.
- Partner Obsessed- An individual who is partner obsessed clearly explains the status of projects to partners and relies on constructive feedback, actively listens to partner’s expectations, and delivers results that exceed them, prioritizes the needs of your partners, and takes the time to create a personable experience for those interacting with Pattern.
- Team of Doers- Someone who is a part of team of doers uplifts team members and recognizes their specific contributions, takes initiative to help in any circumstance, actively contributes to supporting improvements, and holds themselves accountable to the team as well as to partners.
How can I stand out as an applicant?
- Be prepared to talk about professional accomplishments with specific data to quantify examples
- Be ready to talk about how you can add value and be the best addition to the team
- Focus on mentioning how you would be partner obsessed
- Be prepared to talk about any side projects related to data and analytics
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