Finance Officer

Job description / Role

Key Responsibilities - will include, but not be limited to:
• Support Country Accountant in ensuring group policies are consistently applied in their territory.
• Assist Country Accountant with the financial reporting (FiFi), credit management, taxation, treasury (including banking, mandates, bonds), and internal controls in the territory.
• Assist Country Accountant with management of country working capital to ensuring prompt processing of AR invoicing; including maintenance of a billing diary, investigation, and clearance of any invoicing queries.
• Assist Country Accountant in the review / support of proposals / bids, sitting on monthly project control meetings for major, complex, and high risk projects in territory.
• Regular meetings with Country Manager / sector leaders to assist in the review of country finance issues, recognize and manage corrective actions. Provide financial information for stakeholders as required.
• Assist Country Accountant in the maintenance of the project control system and finance training to enable unit staff to understand and interpret financial information, ensuring accurate project budgeting and revenue recognition.
• Assist Country Accountant with production of annual budgets and forecasts at country level, and consolidation to regional level and monitoring actuals against budgets explaining any material variances
• Assist Country Accountant with production of statutory accounts, branch / other tax returns for entities in the Middle East Inc. coordination of any tax, statutory, and internal audits / assessments.
• Co-ordinate project and country compliance with Group Directives including insurances, trade licenses and registrations as required.
• Assisting allocated Country Manager / sector leaders with preparation and evaluation of business plans and project proposals. Assessment of the financial aspects of contracts to facilitate invoicing and payments and to identify grounds for additional fees.
• Assist with production and interpretation of monthly management accounts for the allocated Country / Sector; advising on financial performance by monitoring and improving project profitability, staff utilization, overheads control, and working capital management.
• Assist Country Accountant in reviewing monthly balance sheet reconciliations and preparing quarterly BPC statutory packs and feedback improvement opportunities to the FSC. Assisting the FSC in monitoring intercompany accounts to ensure the transactions are valid, reconciled and settled as appropriate with guidance from group Treasury.
• Identification of finance tasks that can be reallocated to lower cost centre in India. Manage the handover

Requirements

• Qualified Commerce graduate with minimum of 4 years of experience in Finance & Accounts.
• Merely Omani nationals would be considered for this opportunity
• Strong communicator with excellent relationship building skills
• Conversant in the use of Microsoft products and experience in other ERP systems
• Willingness to study for professional accountancy exams or part qualified
• Proven ability to produce accurate management reports to tight deadlines
• Strong analytical ability with effective communication and interpersonal skills
• Fluent English (both written and verbal), Arabic an advantage but not essential
• Willingness to live in region and undertake business travel as required around the GCC and India
• Flexibility to work longer hours at peak times as required

About the Company

The Mott MacDonald Group is a diverse management, engineering and development consultancy delivering solutions for public and private clients world-wide.

Mott MacDonald's uniquely diverse 1 billion global consultancy works across 12 core business areas.

As one of the world's largest employee-owned companies with over 14,000 staff, we have principal offices in nearly 50 countries and projects in 140.