Head of People Controlling (Workforce Planning)

Location: Singapore

Company

hirify.global is a local delivery platform and part of the Delivery Hero Group, operating in around 65 countries worldwide.

What you will do

• Own the integrated workforce-planning calendar, governance, and delivery across budgeting, forecasting, and multi-year planning cycles.
• Lead headcount, capacity, capability, and personnel-cost planning across more than 5,000 employees and over €200M in personnel expenditure across 15+ markets in Europe and APAC.
• Connect People and Finance by aligning workforce assumptions, planning definitions, ownership models, deadlines, and approval workflows.
• Own the Anaplan Workforce Planning process and align it with the Anaplan P&L module, including headcount, personnel costs, allocations, and phasing.
• Lead actuals-versus-plan reviews, investigate variances, and develop workforce scenarios for growth, productivity, restructuring, cost targets, and capability gaps.
• Build, develop, and mentor the Workforce Planning team while establishing controls for data quality, access, and version management.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of relevant experience in workforce planning, HR controlling, FP&A, people analytics, financial planning, or a related discipline.
• Experience leading planning processes and coordinating or managing a team in a matrix environment.
• Strong understanding of headcount management, organisational structures, personnel-cost planning, budgeting, forecasting, and P&L mechanics.
• Hands-on experience with Anaplan or comparable systems, including planning cycles, scenario management, and reconciliation.
• Strong analytical judgement, stakeholder-management skills, and experience handling sensitive employee, compensation, and organisational data.
• Professional proficiency in English is required.

Nice to have

• Experience with Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Oracle HCM, Power BI, Tableau, SQL, or comparable tools.
• Experience supporting reorganisations, restructuring, operating-model changes, or geographically distributed organisations.

Culture & Benefits

• High-profile exposure to Senior Leadership and C-Level executives, including the CEO and CFO.
• Opportunity to build workforce-planning governance, standards, and a team over the next 12–18 months.
• Collaboration across People, Finance, business units, and more than 15 markets in Europe and APAC.