# Senior Director, Finance Business Partner - Technology

**Company**: Prudential
**Location**: Hong Kong
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Prudential’s purpose is to be partners for every life and protectors for every future.

This is a senior finance leadership role acting as the principal Finance Business Partner to Technology, supporting the CTOO and Technology leadership.

**Key Responsibilities:**

### Strategic Financial Leadership:

- Serve as the principal financial adviser to Technology leadership, shaping and executing financial strategy aligned to Group priorities, Efficient Growth targets and enterprise transformation.

- Drive long-term value creation through strategic planning, capital allocation and investment prioritisation across Technology.

- Lead financial scenario modelling and strategic trade-off discussions for major transformation initiatives.

### Financial Planning, Analysis & Reporting:

- Oversee financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and reporting for Technology.

- Develop and maintain robust financial models to support strategic decision-making, cost optimisation, and performance management.

- Provide clear, decision-oriented insights for C‑suite, GEC and Board‑level discussions.

- Ensure alignment between Technology plans and Group financial targets.

### Cost Management, Efficiency & VCC Economics:

- Lead cost management and optimisation initiatives across Technology.

- Drive transparency of recharges to LBUs, ensuring they are explainable and defensible, avoiding cost distortions and under‑recovery.

### Technology Investment, Transformation & ROI:

- Evaluate, prioritise, and monitor technology investments, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and maximising return on investment (ROI).

- Lead financial due diligence and business case assessments for new technology initiatives, including digital transformation, IT security, Data & AI and maximising opportunities to leverage VCC.

### Financial Governance, Risk & Control:

- Ensure strong financial governance, controls and compliance across portfolio.

- Oversee financial risk management, proactively identifying and mitigating cost leakage and inefficiencies and structure issues in allocation and recharge models.

### Stakeholder Management & Business Partnering:

- Act as a trusted business partner to Technology leadership and the intersect with Group Finance and LBU CFOs.

- Provide constructive challenge, commercial insight and fact-based recommendations.

- Champion cross-functional collaboration across Finance, Technology and Transformation teams.

### Capability Building:

- Provide coaching, guidance and mentorship to finance business partner resources supporting Technology, fostering consistency in insight quality, commercial rigour and decision support.

- Foster a culture of commercial excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement.

**Core Competences & Skills:**

- Strategic financial leadership: Shapes Technology strategy through investment prioritisation, scenario modelling and long-term value creation.

- Technology investment & cost management: Leads governance of Technology spend, optimizing cost while maximizing ROI across major initiatives.

- Executive business partnering: Proven ability as a trusted adviser to senior Technology leadership, influencing key decisions and strategic direction.

- Insight & performance leadership: Oversees planning and forecasting and translates complex financial data into clear, forward-looking insights for senior forums.

- Leadership across a distributed model: Drives consistency, quality and capability across aligned finance resources through coaching and influence.

- Stakeholder navigation: Operates effectively in a complex, matrixed environment with multiple senior stakeholders.

**Education and Experience:**

- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or related discipline.

- Professional accounting qualification (CA, CPA, ACCA or equivalent).

- ~15 – 20 years’ finance experience, including time in senior leadership roles.

- Proven track record in group-level business partnering, cost transformation and investment governance.

## Skills

### Required
- strategic financial leadership
- financial planning and analysis
- cost management
- technology investment
- financial governance
- stakeholder management
- capability building

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