Finance chiefs from Huawei, ByteDance, Sony and major banks across Asia have been recognised in Fortune’s 2026 Most Powerful Women Asia list, which features 100 influential business leaders from 14 markets across the Asia-Pacific region.
DBS Group chief executive Tan Su Shan retains the top position in the ranking. She became the first woman to lead Southeast Asia’s largest bank when she was appointed in March 2025.
The list includes 24 newcomers and assesses candidates on the scale and performance of their organisations, career progression, influence, innovation and wider societal impact.
Finance leaders on Fortune’s Asia list
Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s deputy chairwoman, rotating chairwoman and chief financial officer, is ranked fourth. The Chinese technology group, which makes telecommunications equipment, smartphones and smart devices, reported revenue of 881 billion yuan (£96 billion) in 2025 – its second-highest annual total – and regained the leading position in China’s smartphone market.
Julie Gao, ByteDance’s chief financial officer, is ranked 15th. She spent more than a decade as a capital markets partner at law firm Skadden before joining the Chinese technology company in 2022. ByteDance is the parent company of short-video platform TikTok.
Lin Tao is ranked 20th after becoming Sony Group’s first female CFO in April 2025. She is responsible for finance, strategy, corporate planning and investor relations at the Japanese entertainment group.
Arundhati Chakraborty, Accenture’s global lead for finance and global capability centres, appears at 39th. She heads the company’s Finance Reinvention Partner unit, which was created as part of a services reorganisation in March 2026 and works with clients on financial performance and the CFO agenda.
Thailand’s energy sector has three representatives among the finance leaders highlighted. Phatpuree Chinkulkitnivat, ranked 56th, became Bangchak’s first female finance chief when she formally took the CFO role in November 2023, having held senior accounting and finance positions at the group since 2022.
Susanna Hui Hon Hing, executive director, group managing director and group CFO at Hong Kong-based PCCW, is ranked 59th. She joined Cable & Wireless HKT in 1999, before its acquisition by PCCW, and has served as the group’s CFO since April 2007.
Arisara Sakulkarawek, Banpu’s CFO since 2019, takes 65th place. She oversees the finances of the Thai energy group, whose operations extend across nine countries.
Duangdao Wongpanitkrit, chief finance and strategy officer at Bank of Ayudhya, known as Krungsri, is ranked 66th. She has spent 18 years at Thailand’s fifth-largest financial group, including 13 years as CFO, and became its first chief finance and strategy officer on 1 January 2026.
Malaysia’s Affin Bank group CFO Joanne Rodrigues is ranked 99th. A banking veteran, she spent 18 years at CIMB and AmBank before joining Affin in June 2020, having previously worked in AmBank’s wholesale banking arm.
Yik Sook Ling, CFO of Malaysia’s Public Bank, completes the finance leaders featured, at 100th. She has held the role at the country’s third-largest bank by assets since July 2012.
