Head of Reconciliation and Planning

Michael Page

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Ref: HP350-1417

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Reporting to a Finance Director based in Jeddah, you will be a key member of the Finance Leadership Team for a major division of a multinational business. Your primary responsibility is to enhance the financial reporting environment through the improvement of operational processes, systems and the training and development of your team. Your role also requires you to perform the following tasks:

- Management of a Financial Reporting and Reconciliations team, who underpin revenue streams for this major division,
- Management of internal systems, and overseeing reconciliations to ensure data integrity and process efficiency,
- Drive initiatives that ensure compliance with operational processes, as well as driving business improvements,
- Liaise with various internal and external stakeholders, collaborating and motivating them to achieve common goals ,
- Drive process improvements, documentation upgrading and staff development, to ensure more accurate and efficient processing,
- Leadership across the entire Finance Function, and relationship building with all external stakeholders.

Requirements

Our client is looking for an experienced candidate, that meets the following requirements:

- Fluent Arabic speaker, this is mandatory,
- Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting or a related business degree,
- Membership in a recognized professional accounting body (CPA, CMA, ACCA),
- Previous experience within a Big-4 Audit environment preferred,
- You must have strong technical accounting experience from a large and complex organisation,
- You will possesses strong governance and procedural knowledge in order to develop internal systems and processes,
- Significant staff management experience, and the ability to influence and motivate people at all levels,
- Strong communication skills and the ability to deliver presentations to the senior management team.

About the Company

Michael Page is one of the world's leading professional recruitment consultancies, specializing in the placement of candidates in permanent, contract, temporary and interim positions with clients around the world.

The Group has operations in the UK, Continental Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. In the Middle East we focus on the areas of:

Finance & Accounting Banking & Financial Services Procurement Property & Construction Engineering & Supply Chain Oil & Gas Technical and Engineering Human Resources Sales Marketing Technology Secretarial Executive Search Legal

The Group operates through 161 offices in 33 countries and employs over 5,000 employees worldwide.

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