Manager, Marketing Development Fund (MDF) Operations & Finance
AMD · Cyberjaya
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THE ROLE:
This Manager, Marketing Development Fund (MDF) Operations & Finance role is a high-visibility position within AMD, partnering closely with regional and senior leadership across key corporate functions.
This role goes beyond traditional finance. While the successful candidate will bring a strong financial foundation, the primary focus will be on MDF operations, regional stakeholder management, strategic business partnering, and translating financial insights into meaningful business actions. The role also provides oversight of significant expense areas, including marketing and sales spend, ensuring appropriate financial governance and compliance with AMD policies.
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to broaden beyond traditional finance responsibilities and develop deeper operational and business leadership capabilities.
THE PERSON:
The ideal candidate is an experienced finance and business professional who is motivated to expand beyond traditional finance into a broader business operations and leadership role.
The candidate should have a strong bias for action, commercial and operational mindset, and a high sense of partnership. This individual should be comfortable engaging senior and regional stakeholders, challenging constructively, presenting recommendations, and influencing decisions in a fast-paced environment.
The successful candidate will be a self-starter with excellent interpersonal communication, collaboration, analytical and problem-solving skills. Strong executive presence and the ability to translate financial information into clear operational and business recommendations are critical.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
MDF Operations & Strategic Partnership
- Partner closely with regional and senior business leaders to understand business priorities, operational challenges, financial implications, and opportunities.
- Develop a strong understanding of business operations and use financial and operational insights to support strategic decision-making.
- Act as a trusted business partner, providing analysis, recommendations and appropriate challenge to senior stakeholders.
- Translate complex financial information into clear business insights and actionable recommendations.
- Drive alignment across finance, operations and other functions to support overall business priorities and performance.
- Take ownership of operational initiatives and issues, working across functions to drive them through to resolution.
Regional & Executive Stakeholder Management
- Build strong relationships with regional and cross-functional stakeholders across finance and the wider business.
- Communicate and present business performance, financial insights, risks and recommendations clearly to senior and executive-level stakeholders.
- Demonstrate confidence and executive presence when influencing business decisions.
- Work effectively across functions, geographies and organizational levels.
- Serve as a key connection between financial information and operational decision-making.
Financial Management & Governance
- Provide financial oversight of significant operating expense areas, including marketing and sales spend, ensuring appropriate governance and financial discipline.
- Monitor financial performance against budget and identify key trends, risks, opportunities and areas requiring management attention.
- Partner with relevant finance teams on financial close, reporting, forecasting and other financial requirements.
- Ensure financial activities comply with AMD policies and applicable accounting and control requirements.
- Investigate significant financial variances and provide business-focused explanations and recommendations.
- Support internal and external audit requirements and ensure appropriate documentation and controls are maintained.
Importantly, this role is not intended to own the complete end-to-end finance or month-end close process. The finance responsibilities provide the foundation for broader operational and business partnering accountability.
Business Insights & Decision Support
- Provide financial and operational analysis to support business planning and management decisions.
- Identify the key operational drivers behind financial performance and communicate their business impact.
- Develop insights and recommendations that enable leadership to make informed decisions.
- Look beyond financial reporting to identify opportunities to improve overall operational effectiveness.
- Support leadership with presentations and business updates, ensuring complex information is translated into concise and relevant messages.
Process Improvement & Automation
- Identify opportunities to streamline, simplify and automate finance and business processes.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives that enhance efficiency, accuracy, scalability and stakeholder experience.
- Partner with systems, IT and transformation teams to implement automation, analytical and workflow improvements.
- Use data, reporting and analytics to improve visibility and support better business decisions.
- Establish appropriate measures to track operational and process performance.
Team Leadership & Development
- Lead, coach and develop finance and operations team members, establishing clear objectives and accountability.
- Develop team capabilities beyond traditional finance activities, building stronger business partnering and operational skills.
- Manage workloads and priorities to ensure timely and high-quality delivery.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement and integrity.
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
- Significant progressive experience across finance, business operations, FP&A, commercial finance or finance business partnering.
- Demonstrated experience working beyond traditional accounting responsibilities, with substantial exposure to business operations and strategic decision support.
- Strong experience partnering with senior business leaders and executive stakeholders.
- Regional or multi-country stakeholder management experience, preferably within a large multinational organization.
- Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting, P&L management, expense management and financial governance.
- Experience managing significant operating expenses, with exposure to sales and/or marketing spend advantageous.
- Working knowledge of US GAAP, SOX and internal control principles.
- Experience supporting internal and external audit requirements.
- Demonstrated experience leading process improvement, digitalization and/or automation initiatives.
- Strong proficiency with ERP, reporting and analytical tools such as SAP, Oracle, Excel, Power BI or similar platforms.
- Experience leading and developing teams within a complex, fast-paced organization.
KEY COMPETENCIES:
- Business & Operational Acumen: Ability to understand the broader business and connect operational drivers with financial outcomes.
- Executive Presence: Confidence and credibility when presenting to and influencing senior leadership.
- Strategic Business Partnering: Ability to move beyond reporting numbers and provide meaningful recommendations and challenge.
- Regional Stakeholder Management: Ability to navigate multiple stakeholders across countries, functions and organizational levels.
- Commercial & Financial Acumen: Strong financial foundation combined with an understanding of business priorities.
- Analytical Thinking: Ability to turn complex data into clear insights, recommendations and actions.
- Continuous Improvement: Strong interest in improving processes, automation and operational effectiveness.
- Leadership: Ability to develop teams, influence others and drive accountability.
- Ownership & Agility: Self-starter who can manage ambiguity, changing priorities and complex business situations.
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field; professional qualification (CPA, ACCA, CA, or equivalent) strongly preferred.
LOCATION:
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AMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.
AMD may use Artificial Intelligence to help screen, assess or select applicants for this position. AMD’s “Responsible AI Policy” is available here.
This posting is for an existing vacancy.
Benefits offered are described: AMD benefits at a glance.
AMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.
AMD may use Artificial Intelligence to help screen, assess or select applicants for this position. AMD’s “Responsible AI Policy” is available here.
This posting is for an existing vacancy.