Ref: GP186-5744

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Charterhouse are currently managing a search to identify a Head of Finance for one of our clients within the e-commerce and distribution sector.

This role will take ownership and oversight of all areas of financial management, commercial support and treasury-related activities whilst also ensuring strong financial accounting and governance controllership.

This role will be heavily geared towards a consolidation function, along with the development of strong management reporting capabilities, for the purpose of budgeting & forecasting, plus the development of stringent controls linking to collections and cash flow management.

The Head of Finance shall also act as a critical operational support and business partner whilst also being the external interface, to manage areas of customer support, audit, external reporting (stakeholders and investors) along with any banking and/or financing activities.

Requirements

The client will look to recruit a qualified Chartered Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or CPA) whom has a background from a “top tier” accounting firm. This will be coupled with a preference of exposure to a start-up and/or scaling-up phase of an operation; whereby accounting controls, reporting structures and business policy can be defined, developed and implemented to achieve best practice.

The role will also demand a candidate whom can demonstrate areas of staff management and development with an ability to have oversight across a broad range of accounting and finance functional areas; allowing all aspects of the finance team responsibility to be managed successfully and optimised in terms of coverage and capability.

In conjunction, the client will look for strong and clear communication and presentation skills; to ensure accurate, dynamic and robust reporting mechanisms along with an understanding of working within a broad-ranging role within an SME business environment.

About the Company

The Charterhouse brand and business was launched in Dubai and the Middle East in April 2004 by a team of international recruiters and management consultants, after its inception in Sydney, Australia in September 2003. Charterhouse Middle East is now positioned as the leading regional recruiter within its area of disciplines and functional markets.

Charterhouse offers professional and bespoke contingency and retained search services to all sectors of the market. Service quality is guaranteed, thanks to a particular focus on flexibility. Charterhouse was the first international search and selection business to establish Dubai as its base. The growth in the Middle East region has been mirrored by Charterhouse globally, with offices now in Qatar, Hong Kong, Singapore, Melbourne and Sydney.

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Head Of Finance salaries in UAE

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AED 41,500

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