Financial Controller

Job description / Role

Looking to identify a talented individual who will play a pivotal role in our client's organization's growth and development. The role focuses on business partnering, accounting, reporting, budgeting, forecasting, internal controls, compliance, audit, tax and treasury functions.

Client Details:
- Our Client is a global, independent market leader in the manufacturing space. The client has manufacturing facilities across Europe, America, and Asia, with over 2000 employees. They are looking to hire a Financial Controller to join their leadership team.

Roles and Responsibilities

Financial Accounting & Reporting:
- Lead the Finance team to deliver accurate and timely accounting and reporting
- Ensure compliance with local regulations, IFRS and Group policies
- Lead annual budgeting and periodic forecasting processes
- Provide stakeholders with reports and response to information requests.

Business Partnering:
- Be a strong business partner to the site management team, working closely to grow the business, increase profitability and cash and achieve the Group's business objectives.
- Support the General Manager in analyzing business results and drivers, preparing slides for business reviews with local management team and Group.
- Support the Commercial team in securing business including fast turnaround for quotations, new customer set up, having efficient processes as well as collections.
- Support the Operations team with analysis and valuable insights, cost and variance reports.

Compliance & Controls:
- Ensure compliance with local regulations and Group's policies and procedures such as Code of Ethics, Know Your Customer/Supplier, trade compliance regulations with a high level of integrity
- Implement key controls in accordance with the Group's standards
- Evaluate business processes for efficiency and internal control improvement
- Ability to identify risk and work with stakeholders to mitigate them
- Work with external and internal auditors to deliver desired outcomes

Treasury & Secretarial:
- Compliance with the Group's Treasury policy
- Provide accurate cash-flow forecasting
- Monitor and manage working capital, capex and cash
- Oversee banking, insurance and company secretarial matters

Job Offer:
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Join a big team based in UAE.
- Opportunity to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

- Degree in Accounting and a professional qualification (CA, CPA, ACCA, etc.)
- More than 15 years of experience with recent years as a Financial Controller in a manufacturing MNC
- Hands on experience in costing and manufacturing finance,
- Strong working knowledge of accounting, reporting, budgeting, forecasting, internal controls, compliance, audit, tax and treasury functions.
- Familiarity with IFRS and UAE regulations
- Hands on experience reporting in Hyperion/Cognos
- Strong business partner to General Manager, Operations Manager and other functional heads
- Strong leadership, influencing and communication skills, strong drive for results, analytical, good organization and with the ability to work with different cultures and all levels of an organization.

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.