Manager, Finance & Corporate

Tau is a member of the Taylor’s Education Group, one of Southeast Asia’s largest and most established education groups. We equip Southeast Asian organisations with the leadership and technology skills and talent to succeed. Our learning and talent solutions are tailored, experiential, and designed for real world impact. We are backed by the scale, credibility, and shared infrastructure of a group, and we operate with the pace and experimental instinct of a young business.Tau is small, growing quickly, and still experimenting. That combination creates a specific need: we have to run a tidy, well-governed business while spending most of our energy on figuring out what works.Group provides our transactional finance, HR and legal services. This role is the single point of ownership inside Tau for making that relationship work — ensuring the transactional engine runs reliably, and building the processes, systems and reporting that Tau needs on top of it. It is also the role that gives management the numbers and the analysis to make better decisions.You will not be processing transactions yourself. You will be making sure they happen, on time and correctly, by working effectively with colleagues you don't manage — and building the structure that makes that repeatable rather than a monthly scramble.This is the first dedicated corporate role in Tau. Much of what you need does not yet exist. You will create it.RESPONSIBILITIES1. Make the Group relationship workAct as Tau's single point of contact with Group Finance, HR and Legal, and own the quality and timeliness of what Tau receivesDefine clearly what Tau needs from each function — deliverables, cadence, standards — and agree it in writing rather than renegotiating it every monthPrepare and coordinate the inputs Group requires from Tau so nothing stalls on our sideEscalate early and constructively when something isn't working, and help find the fix rather than logging the problem2. Build artefacts that lastDocument how things work at Tau: month-end, approvals, contracting, procurement, onboarding, expense policyBuild and maintain a management reporting pack that the leadership team actually usesCreate and own the underlying financial and operational models, structured so someone else can pick them upEstablish the file, data and record-keeping discipline that a growing, multi-market business will depend on3. Give the business a clear view of itselfPrepare monthly management reporting, variance analysis and commentary that explains what happened and whySupport the CEO with analysis on pricing, margin, cost and investment decisionsHelp build and maintain budgets, forecasts and cash visibilityTrack how our products, channels and clients perform commercially, and improve that picture over time4. Keep the business well run and compliantCoordinate statutory, tax, audit and secretarial requirements with Group and external advisorsManage the administration of commercial contracts - tracking, renewals, routing to Group Legal for reviewOwn procurement and vendor administration, and the operational side of IT and office needsSupport HR for Tau, especially on recruitment, onboarding, and performance management, with Group People & Culture delivering5. Support our expansionAssist with the corporate and administrative build-out of Tau's Vietnam (and potentially other international) operations, coordinating with Group, other subsidiaries,and external advisorsPROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION/EXPERIENCEWe are looking for capability and trajectory rather than years served. This role is deliberately scoped to grow: as Tau scales, the remit will broaden into strategic finance, corporate services and regional expansion, and we would like the person in this seat to grow with it.RequiredDegree in finance, accounting, business or a related field; part or full professional qualification (ACCA, CPA, CIMA, MICPA) is an advantageAround 4–8 years of experience in finance, covering both financial reporting and some element of analysis or business partneringDemonstrable experience improving or documenting a process, not only following oneComfortable and credible in Excel or Google Sheets; familiar with an ERP or accounting systemValued, not requiredExperience within a larger group, shared services or parent company structureB2B services, education, professional services or a similarly project-based businessExposure to HR, legal, procurement or company secretarial mattersExperience in a small or early-stage business where you covered ground beyond your job titleExplicitly not requiredPrior management of a teamTechnical legal or HR expertise — you will coordinate the expertise, not provide itCOMPETENCIES (KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES)KnowledgeSound grounding in financial and management accounting, month-end process and management reportingPractical understanding of how corporate functions — finance, HR, legal, procurement — fit together in a small businessSkillsAnalytical: you can build a useful picture from imperfect data and explain what it means in plain languageOrganisational: you track many small commitments across several parties without dropping them, and you are the reason things close on timeInfluence without authority: you can get reliable delivery from people who do not report to you, and keep the relationship good while doing itDocumentation: you write things down clearly enough that someone else can follow themCommunication: you can hold a conversation with a CEO, a Group controller and an external auditor and be useful in all threeAttributes and dispositionA builder's instinct — drawn to the thing that does not yet exist, and content to make version one simpleCareful, deliberate and systematic, with a genuine dislike of loose endsA learner's reflex: when you meet an unfamiliar idea, your first move is to understand it and look for the version that could work, not to explain why it cannotOwnership: you treat a problem as yours until it is solved, even when the work sits with someone elseComfortable with ambiguity and breadth, and able to prioritise when everything looks urgentStraightforward. You raise problems early rather than presenting them once they are unfixableREPORTING & STRUCTUREReports to the President of TauSUCCESS MEASURESSuccess measures in the first year are as follows:A management reporting pack exists, is trusted, and informs decisionsRegular reporting happens on time and without the need for chasingTau's core processes are documented, understood and followedThe working relationship with Group functions is defined, calm and productiveThe President and other team members spend materially less time on administrative and corporate matters