Finance and Administration Manager
BESIX Group
UAE
Ref: MP299-14 		BESIX Group

The Role


The Role

For a project on-site or for a region, you are responsible for the coordination, the management and follow-up of all financial and administrative aspects which are linked to the construction project(s).

Reporting to the Country Manager and/or the Project Director and functionally to the Finance and Administration Director at the Head Office, you will:

o Ensure that all financial transactions are conducted with the legal and contractual framework;
o Ensure that all internal and external reports are met;
o Ensure integrity of cash, receivables and payable management;
o Ensure stock management;
o Execute all major financial transactions;
o Enforce financial discipline/guidelines and controls within the organization;
o Efficiently manage the Treasury activities;
o Ensure the administrative management of the local staff (payroll, visa´s etc...);
o Monitor the performance of the business against the annual budget and long-term business plan;
o Develop financial models and feasibility studies with regards to expansion opportunities;
o Develop, maintain, and where necessary, improve financial systems to facilitate management decision-making;
o Develop relationships with local banks, customers, local authorities and other specific partners;
o Design and implement processes to give business managers the necessary financial data to make decisions and monitor performance;
o Redesign the budgeting process with the changing phases of the project to accurately identify the key business drivers;
o Build finance capability;
o Evaluate and develop finance personnel;
o Support effective development and performance of staff;
o Be the contact person for all HR related matters;
o Follow Group guidelines and policies.

Requirements


Requirements

- You are able to work autonomously and pro-actively;
- You are sociable and communicative;
- You are well organized and you can set priorities;
- You are result oriented and are a problem solver;
- You are able to analyze complex issues and significantly improve, change or adapt existing methods;
- You remain focused on goals; delegates, involves and motivates others to achieve common goals;
- You stimulate others to document best practices and lessons learned (standardization);
- You are influencing, a role model to other team members and able to reach consensus;
- You demonstrate ability to lead negotiations in major transactions;
- You are persevering, enthusiastic and entrepreneurial combined with a strong sense of responsibility and flexibility

- You possess a university degree as commercial engineer, or have a master degree applied economical sciences;
- You have an excellent relevant experience as Finance and Administration Manager within a multinational and complex environment (min 10 years experience);
- You have experience in a project based environment;
- Experience with ERP is an asset;

About the Company


About the Company

The BESIX Group is the largest Belgian construction group, a conglomerate of companies active in the construction, engineering, environmental, real estate and concession sectors. The Group was founded in 1909 and since then has known impressive and regular growth.

BESIX and its subsidiaries cover practically all fields of the construction industry and are operating in Western Europe, in Central and Eastern Europe, North and Central Africa, in the Middle East, in Central Asia and in the Caribbean. BESIX Sanotec is specialized in water treatment. The development of real estate projects is taken care of by BESIX Real Estate Development.

In 2009, the Group achieved a revenue of EUR 1.92 billion. BESIX Group has about 19,000 employees in 15 countries on 4 continents.

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