CFO

Job description / Role

Duties & Responsibilities:
• Provide accurate, transparent and timely financial records
• Define a structural process to set pricing.
• Monitor macroeconomic developments and their impact on business performance
• Ensure the existence of effective internal controls, including robust planning systems.
• Keep work processes and systems up to date and efficient to support value creation.
• Improve financial performance through profit forecasts, benchmarking & controlling spending on product cost & new initiatives.
• Provide investment recommendation for product initiatives & performing project evaluation.
• Show actual cost and cost trend analysis of all business processes. Also identify the action to reduce costs across all processes in the company
• Initiate financial success criteria for new initiatives and markets.
• Maintain sufficient sources of capital to fund short and long-term cash requirements whilst
• minimizing any funding costs
• Provide effective inter-functional co-ordination as a member of the leadership team
• Provide assistance, guidance and counsel to General and Operating management
• Increase financial knowledge and expertise in those who need it in the team.

Qualification & Requirements:
• Professional Degree or higher in Accounting or Finance.
• Minimum 10 – 15 years of expertise in all financial functions & procedures. Possesses an accounting professional qualification.
• Ability to set Key Performance Indicators.
• Strong Leadership Capability with short and long term planning.
• Excellent knowledge of company and country policies related to financial procedures.
• Excellent knowledge of competition and trade prices and margin structure.
• Advanced level of skills in using the financial integrated system.
• Ability to work independently with a high level of initiative and self-motivation.
• Ability to collaborate and work in a team.
• Ability to manage organization and people.
• Ability in collaborating with functional leaders and give them necessary support to deliver on their business objectives.
• Ability to manage priorities.
• Effective reading, writing and communicating in English.
• Ability to develop, train and coach employees.
• Ability to read and evaluate market business trends.

About the Company

Propel Consult delivers a service in step with the needs of both our client companies and candidates. Our ability to add value to all levels of recruitment stems from our wholehearted belief in providing a professional service to both parties.

We have built relationships with many leading indigenous and mulitnational organisations throughout the Middle East and internationally in countries such as UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, Egypt and many more.

Concentrating our resources has created 5 distinct specialist divisions:

• Banking & Finance
• Human Resources
• Oil & Gas
• Construction
• Architecture & Engineering