Group Finance Manager

Job description / Role

• Maintain total ownership and oversee the standalone and consolidation accounting books of the subsidiaries and investments.
• Monthly closing for management books after performing all checks, reconciliations and in compliance with all policies.
• Ensure timeliness and accuracy of financial and management reporting data.
• Oversee the month-end close process, constantly reviewing procedures while eliminating inefficiencies through gap analysis exercises.
• Oversee preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements, including cost and overhead allocations, all according to IFRS.
• Provide financial guidance and support to maintain financial health of the Group.
• Produce advanced financial analysis to determine present and forecasted financial health of the Group
• Involve in strategic planning by producing reports and research on the company’s financial situation, as well as set short- and long-term financial goals
• Apply Financial Modeling to stimulate financial scenarios and present potential scenarios and outcomes to management team.
• Collaborate with management on development and execution of funding and budgeting strategies.
• Examine financial and legal documents to verify accuracy and adherence to financial regulations and acceptable financial principles
• Ensure the business meets all its statutory and compliance obligations, including statutory accounting and tax issues
• Look for cost-reduction opportunities. Manage the overall cost base of the group, with particular focus on identifying opportunities for intra-group synergies across different functions that can result in meaningful improvement to the bottom line of the Group.
• Drive a disciplined cost culture with cost intelligence that allows the management team to tightly manage controllable costs.
• Develop relationships with external contacts such as auditors, lawyers, consultants, stakeholders, etc.
• Developing strong banking relationships facility negotiations with major banks
• Collaborate and coordinate monthly reporting, budgeting, and reforecast processes.
• Establish risk assessments and evaluation policies and processes.
• Forecast treasury, monitoring the organization's liquidity Management and forecasting the funding requirement for medium and long term.
• Manage cash flow planning process and ensure funds availability; bring this topic of treasury optimization in fund request meeting.
• Responsible for tax management.
• Follow up on Corporate Tax matters Oversee the preparation and timely filing of all tax returns and optimization of tax position.
• Establishing and implement internal control disciplines throughout the organization to maintain integrity & accuracy of reports
• Oversee and implement the financial control framework, policies and procedures and ensure the Company’s Finance Department is in full compliance.
• Conducting the business transformation, change management, streamlining business functions, minimize process.
• Providing monthly/Quarterly/Annually report to Board, management, business on financial performance of business. Review and ensure application of appropriate internal controls, compliance and financial procedures.
• Lead the statutory audit. Remain current on audit best practices as well as all laws regarding Company’s operations.
• Reinforce and drive a culture of transparency within the Company.
• Recruit, interview and hire finance, accounting, and payroll staff (if required).
• Guide, mentor and develop the finance departments of Group companies.
• Keep track of market trends

Requirements

• Must be either CPA(US), CA or CFA qualified.
• 7 years’ experience as a Group Finance Manager within a diverse Group Holding organization and minimum 15 years of experience.
• Arabic Speaker.
• International experience is an advantage.
• Analytical Skills
• Ready to work in a challenging environment with high growth capable to handle work pressure and big teams.
• Transformational leadership.
• Results-driven
• Strong leadership for leading and mentoring cross-functional teams by applying pro-active leadership approaches to meet organizational bottom-line objectives.

About the Company

A leading holding company in UAE.