Manager, Finance & Corporate (Tau by Taylor’s)

Taylor’s Education Group (TEG) is one of Southeast Asia’s leading private education groups, with a diverse portfolio of higher education institutions, schools and lifelong learning businesses operating across the region.

Tau by Taylor’s and British University Vietnam (BUV) are both members of Taylor’s Education Group, enabling close collaboration across the Group to leverage shared expertise, resources and regional capabilities.

Tau by Taylor’s is the corporate learning and capability-building business of Taylor’s Education Group, created to help individuals and organisations build the skills needed to thrive in a rapidly changing world. We partner with organisations to understand their business priorities, workforce challenges and future capability needs. From leadership and professional development to emerging areas such as technology, data and artificial intelligence, we design practical learning experiences that are relevant to the workplace and focused on real-world application.

Our ambition is to go beyond traditional training. We believe meaningful learning should strengthen performance, build confidence and create lasting impact for both individuals and organisations. By combining Taylor’s established educational expertise with an agile, innovative and commercially focused approach, Tau develops learning solutions that respond to the evolving needs of businesses and their people across the region.

This position is based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

The successful candidate will be employed by British University Vietnam (BUV) under a Vietnamese employment contract. As a member of Taylor’s Education Group, BUV supports selected regional initiatives across the Group by employing locally based professionals who contribute to regional businesses and projects.

In this role, the successful candidate will be assigned to support Tau by Taylor’s regional business while remaining an employee of BUV throughout the assignment. BUV will remain the legal employer and will be responsible for all employment matters, including the employment contract, payroll, statutory benefits, leave administration and compliance with Vietnamese labour regulations.

Operationally, the role will work as part of Tau by Taylor’s regional team and collaborate closely with colleagues, clients and stakeholders across Taylor’s Education Group. Day-to-day work priorities and business objectives will be directed by Tau’s leadership team, while employment-related matters will continue to be managed by BUV.

This arrangement reflects the collaborative operating model within Taylor’s Education Group and provides employees with the opportunity to contribute to regional initiatives while benefiting from local employment and HR support in Vietnam.

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.

1. Make the Group relationship work

   Act as Tau’s single point of contact with Group Finance, HR and Legal, and own the quality and timeliness of what Tau receives
   Define clearly what Tau needs from each function — deliverables, cadence, standards — and agree it in writing rather than renegotiating it every month
   Prepare and coordinate the inputs Group requires from Tau so nothing stalls on our side
   Escalate early and constructively when something isn’t working, and help find the fix rather than logging the problem
    

2. Build artefacts that last
   Document how things work at Tau: month-end, approvals, contracting, procurement, onboarding, expense policy
   Build and maintain a management reporting pack that the leadership team actually uses
   Create and own the underlying financial and operational models, structured so someone else can pick them up
   Establish the file, data and record-keeping discipline that a growing, multi-market business will depend on 
    
3. Give the business a clear view of itself
   Prepare monthly management reporting, variance analysis and commentary that explains what happened and why
   Support the CEO with analysis on pricing, margin, cost and investment decisions
   Help build and maintain budgets, forecasts and cash visibility
   Track how our products, channels and clients perform commercially, and improve that picture over time
    
4. Keep the business well run and compliant
   Coordinate statutory, tax, audit and secretarial requirements with Group and external advisors
   Manage the administration of commercial contracts – tracking, renewals, routing to Group Legal for review
   Own procurement and vendor administration, and the operational side of IT and office needs
   Support HR for Tau, especially on recruitment, onboarding, and performance management, with Group People & Culture delivering
    
5. Support our expansion
   Assist with the corporate and administrative build-out of Tau’s Vietnam (and potentially other international) operations, coordinating with Group, other subsidiaries, and external advisors

We 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.

Required

• Degree in finance, accounting, business or a related field; part or full professional qualification (ACCA, CPA, CIMA, MICPA) is an advantage
• Around 4–8 years of experience in finance, covering both financial reporting and some element of analysis or business partnering
• Demonstrable experience improving or documenting a process, not only following one
• Comfortable and credible in Excel or Google Sheets; familiar with an ERP or accounting system

Valued, not required

• Experience within a larger group, shared services or parent company structure
• B2B services, education, professional services or a similarly project-based business
• Exposure to HR, legal, procurement or company secretarial matters
• Experience in a small or early-stage business where you covered ground beyond your job title

Explicitly not required

• Prior management of a team
• Technical legal or HR expertise — you will coordinate the expertise, not provide it

Knowledge

• Sound grounding in financial and management accounting, month-end process and management reporting
• Practical understanding of how corporate functions — finance, HR, legal, procurement — fit together in a small business

Skills

• Analytical: you can build a useful picture from imperfect data and explain what it means in plain language
• Organisational: you track many small commitments across several parties without dropping them, and you are the reason things close on time
• Influence without authority: you can get reliable delivery from people who do not report to you, and keep the relationship good while doing it
• Documentation: you write things down clearly enough that someone else can follow them
• Communication: you can hold a conversation with a CEO, a Group controller and an external auditor and be useful in all three

Attributes and disposition

• A builder’s instinct — drawn to the thing that does not yet exist, and content to make version one simple
• Careful, deliberate and systematic, with a genuine dislike of loose ends
• A 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 cannot
• Ownership: you treat a problem as yours until it is solved, even when the work sits with someone else
• Comfortable with ambiguity and breadth, and able to prioritise when everything looks urgent
• You raise problems early rather than presenting them once they are unfixable

• Reports to the President of Tau