Ref: LP199-05

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Reporting to the Finance Director, the Finance Manager's role is to establish and maintain financial and management procedures in accordance with local laws and regulations, company policies and procedures and IFRS.

They are tasked with establishing and enhancing preventive internal controls, ensuring ongoing process improvement to maintain a well-controlled environment and supporting business growth through implementing and adhering to financial best practice at all times.
- Supervise all routine financial accounting functions up to finalization of management, statutory reporting and inter-company accounting.
- Daily review of working capital utilization and cash flow management, continuous monitoring of customers credit worthiness.
- Financial reporting per GroupMs Financial Calendar.
- Compliance with Procurement policy, Schedule of Authority and signatory authority limits.
- Ensure monthly reconciliations & clearance of issues including clients, suppliers, banks and inter-company accounts review.
- Help in identifying cost saving opportunities and assist in establishing and maintaining overheads KPIs reporting framework.
- Prepare and review detailed budgets, expenditure and any variations from budgets.
- Maintain policies and procedures file accessible to the department employees for reference.
- Conduct test of SOX and internal controls to sustain a well-controlled environment.
- Coordinate with legal counsel, treasury and tax advisors as needed.
- Facilitate, coordinate and provide all necessary financial information to external auditors to ensure that the financial statements of Mindshare conform to international accounting standards.
- Maintain and ensure efficient internal financial procedures are followed including purchasing, maintenance and servicing for all equipment and supplies including company Capex to ensure the smooth & efficient operations of Mindshare.
- Maintain effective procedures for the internal authorisation, verification and administration of all personnel information, including leave requests, travel, holidays, sick leave, appraisals, salary details, contracts and all other similar legal documentation in line with local labour law.

Requirements

- B.Sc. In Finance and Accounting. CPA/CMA is a plus
- Knowledge of financial best practice, IFRS and financial reporting
- Minimum 7 years of relevant experience
- Knowledge of financial operating systems
- Fluency in English and Arabic, French is a plus
- Ability to lead and to contribute to the team, coach, supervise and develop team members
- Build solid working relationships with everyone that works on the business and others who are in a position to support and contribute to the success of the business
- Results oriented, takes initiatives to get things done
- Team player, adapts well in a diverse environment
- Analytical skills, organisation, attention to detail, decision-making and problem solving are particular characteristics required, as is absolute honesty and integrity

About the Company

We are Mindshare. The global media network. We are nearly 6,000 people in 82 countries with one aim: to make our clients' brands more famous and more profitable

Our network is always on, always live. Our people are acutely aware of what's happening in their city, their country, their specialist area of expertise. We understand brands, markets and media. Most of all, we understand other people. The people we live with. The people we work with. The people we are.

We are thinkers and doers, relentless in the pursuit of success for our clients. We do this by continually seeking - and usually finding - the perfect connection between their products and potential customers. As our name suggests, we help them gain a greater share of consumers' minds.

In the past, we did this by using our skill and clout to plan and negotiate great deals with broadcasters and publishing houses. In the liberated, unpredictable, spectacular media world of the 21st century, we use our analysis and creativity to commission a group of specialists to create a stream of brilliant ideas and control them as we distribute them around the world.

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Systems Administrator salaries in Kuwait

Average monthly compensation
KWD 600

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