Senior Business Partner - Arabic Speaker

Job description / Role

Inspire Selection is searching for a Senior Finance Business Partner (Arabic speaker) for our client in the bespoke manufacturing industry.

The role acts as a business partner to the GM with a dotted reporting line to the FD, ensuring clarity of business performance, KPIs, meaningful reporting and analysis.

Previous experience of working in manufacturing is essential.

• Provide input and advice to business leaders on decisions and strategy
• Direct financial planning and budget management functions.
• Establish and implement short - and long-term departmental goals, objectives, policies, and operating procedures
• Provide daily, weekly and monthly financial performance reports
• Preparation of all financial reports and analysis
• Responsible for ensuring strong financial controls including month-end checklists, balance sheet reconciliations, and all other analysis supporting appropriate financial accruals
• Management of Capital expenditure
• Preparation of standard cost assumptions and management of all related transactions
• Full responsibility for all month end closing activities
• Responsible for achieving all working capital metrics
• Overseeing the credit function, working with supply chain management on inventory controls, and also seeing that payment terms are reviewed
• In charge of the annual strategic and profit plan for the Middle East Region

Salary:
AED 45,000 to 55,000 per month inclusive of fixed allowances.

Requirements

• Excellent communication skills, both written & verbal are essential in both English & Arabic
• Fully qualified accountant: ACCA, CMA, CPA, CIMA
• 12-15 Years + of Finance and Accounting experience
• Dynamic, ambitious, confident personality
• Previous cost accounting experience
• MNC experience in a manufacturing company at an onsite / plant facility
• Strong IFRS experience

Thank you for your interest. All applications are viewed and evaluated according to the role requirements. We aim to contact shortlisted candidates within 2 weeks. As we often receive a high volume of applications, we are unable to reply to everyone. If you have not heard back from us within 2 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.

About the Company

Inspire Selection is an award winning recruitment agency, headquartered in Dubai which recruits across the Middle East region. We employ highly knowledgeable, professional consultants who are experts in connecting the right people with the right opportunities. Our reputation has been built upon our honesty, integrity and our ability to source candidates of the highest calibre right across our specialist sectors. As a result, we are recruitment partners to a wide spectrum of organisations - from leading blue chip companies to smaller, local businesses. Sectors we cover include HR, Administration, Finance & Accounting, Legal, Sales & Marketing including Digital Marketing, IT, Oil/Gas/Energy, Engineering, Procurement, Manufacturing, Higher Education.