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Accountant-General's Department

Director (Infrastructure)

Accountant-General's Department

Contract

Closing on 22 Sep 2025

What the role is

The Director (Infrastructure) within the AGD – Finance Transformation (FT) Directorate leads the Cumulus (Infra) Finance System (CFS) project. This role involves overseeing the commissioning and implementation of a new central finance system that will serve four infrastructure-intensive statutory boards.

What you will be working on

Key Responsibilities: • Lead and manage the CFS project team as the designated Business Owner, ensuring effective governance and delivery • Provide strategic direction and oversight for the successful delivery of the CFS project, ensuring alignment with the project objectives • Oversee end-to-end project phases including the planning, tendering, implementation, and maintenance phases of the CFS project • Work with GovTech to build and develop a team with ops-tech capabilities and in-source Application Maintenance Services within AGD/FT • Engage senior stakeholders to align project outcomes with strategic, financial and operational priorities. • Reconcile statutory boards’ needs and systems’ data capabilities to ensure systems could be fully leveraged to meet statutory boards’ needs. • Drive change management initiatives to ensure smooth adoption of new financial processes, systems, and practices • Chair key committees and forums to monitor progress, resolve issues, and drive project decision-making • Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and professional excellence • Champion talent development and build a high-performing finance transformation team, providing mentorship, guidance, and support to drive successful outcomes

What we are looking for

Requirements • Tertiary qualification in Accountancy, Finance, or related disciplines • CA (Singapore) qualification is advantageous • Minimum 15 years of proven experience in leading large-scale finance transformation programmes, ideally within infrastructure or public sector domain. • Demonstrated leadership and people management capabilities, with a track record of building, guiding, and inspiring cross-functional teams.

About Accountant-General's Department

The Accountant-General’s Department (AGD) plays an important role in making Singapore a better place through Finance. At AGD, we aim to be a future-ready leader in transforming Public Sector finance by putting finance at the heart of our decision-making. We do this through building a strong foundation in providing robust financial systems and processes that serve key stakeholders including our pensioners, vendors and the public sector. Our team of accounting professionals work at AGD and are deployed to the public agencies to deliver a wide range of financial and accounting-related services to the Public Service. Together we play a critical role in helping the Government achieve its fiscal and economic objectives through sound stewardship and governance.

About your application process

This job is closing on 22 Sep 2025.

If you do not hear from us within 4 weeks of the job ad closing date, we seek your understanding that it is likely that we are not moving forward with your application for this role. We thank you for your interest and would like to assure you that this does not affect your other job applications with the Public Service. We encourage you to explore and apply for other roles within Accountant-General's Department or the wider Public Service.