Position: Senior Manager – Finance Shared Services

Location: Manila

About Us

The Maples Group is a global leader in financial services, trusted by many of the world’s largest hedge fund managers, private equity firms, and international corporations.

Our side-by-side financial and legal teams consistently deliver award-winning services to a global client base, offering unrivalled learning and career opportunities to our 3,000 colleagues worldwide.

What’s it like to work here?

We are driven to excel, and collaboration is key to our continued success. We can go further for our clients because we go further for each other too. Our inclusive culture creates an environment where people can be themselves at work while doing their best work. No matter where you work in the Maples Group, you will be part of a global team. 

About Your New Role

The Senior Manager – Finance Shared Services is responsible for leading and optimizing the end-to-end finance operations delivered through the shared services model.  This role drives operational excellence, standardization, automation, compliance and service quality across finance processes, including Record-to-Report (R2R), Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Order-to-Cash (O2C), and Finance Controls.  The role act as a strategic partner to Finance leadership and business stakeholders, ensuring that service delivery is efficient, scalable, compliant, and aligned with enterprise financial objectives.

Service Delivery and Operations

• Provide end-to-end leadership for finance shared services operations.
• Ensure consistent delivery against SLAs, KPIs and customer satisfaction metrics.
• Drive standardization of processes, policies, and controls across geographies and business units.
• Ensure strong governance, risk management, and internal controls in line with regulatory and audit requirements.

Strategic Leadership

• Lead service expansion, scope migration, and transformation initiatives.
• Act as escalation point for complex operational, compliance, and stakeholder issues.
• Reporting into and collaborating with the Senior Manager – Finance Shared Service in Montreal, partner with the Global Finance Team to align and execute priorities.
• Translate enterprise finance strategy into a shared services execution roadmap for the Manila office.

People Capability Management

• Lead and develop high performing team across multiple finance operational groups.
• Build strong succession pipelines and talent development program by following the Global Finance Framework.
• Drive a culture of accountability, collaboration, and customer centricity.

Continuous Improvement and Transformation

• Champion identification of improvement opportunities and conversion of opportunities to realized savings/impacts.
• Lead automation and digital finance initiatives (RPA, workflow tools, AI-enabled solutions)
• Identify cost optimization opportunities while improving service quality and cycle times.
• Drive data driven decision making through dashboards and performance analytics.

Compliance and Risks

• Ensure adherence to regulatory, statutory, and internal control requirements.
• Partner with internal and external audit, risk teams to address findings and remediation plans.

About You

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance or Business Administration
• CPA, CMA, ACCA, or equivalent professional qualification is strongly preferred
• MBA or Master’s in Finance is an advantage
• Understanding of GAA and IFRS is preferred
• 10-15 years in Finance Operations, Shared Services of Global Business Services
• Minimum 5 years in a senior leadership role and 8 years in people management role
• Proven experience in managing large, multi-process finance operations
• Sound like you?

If so, we’d love to hear from you.

Benefits & Rewards

The most enduring professional relationships are reciprocal relationships.  The Maples Group prioritises employee health and wellbeing. Depending on your location, we offer a range of benefits, including:

• Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental and optical)
• Competitive vacation packages
• Educational assistance and professional development programmes
• Pension plan
• Life insurance
• Travel insurance
• Global mental wellness programme
• Sports clubs and social events