Manager, Finance & Corporate

ABOUT TAU BY TAYLOR'S
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.
ABOUT TAYLOR'S EDUCATION GROUP
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.
EMPLOYMENT ARRANGEMENT
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.
JOB PURPOSE
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.
RESPONSIBILITIES
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