FINANCE DIRECTOR

One of our clients into Real Estate is looking for a native Chinese Speaking Finance Director with minimum 5 years of relevant experience.

Responsibilities:

• Assisting in overall financial planning and control of the group - Budgeting, Forecasting, Variance analysis, etc.
• Liaising with banks and other financial institutions for arranging leverages (for investments) / long term funds / project-based finance requirements, etc.
• Managing Treasury function of the group.
• Assisting management in the formulation of its overall strategic direction.
• Budgetary preparation and implementation of financial forecasting processes.
• Key business metrics and report on them to management.
• Developing new processes, procedures, and systems to enhance the reporting, planning, and forecasting.
• Performing reviews on underperforming departments and product lines.
• Developing objectives while implementing strategies and managing plans, programs, and projects.
• Engaging in benchmarking studies to establish areas of potential operational improvement.
• Executing functional leadership to the Finance team and keeping the organization's vision at the forefront of decision-making and demonstrating change leadership.
• Formulating and developing financial policies which can significantly enhance performance and profitability.
• Interpreting the company's financial results to management and recommending improvement activities.
• Managing improvement of financial processes such as systems implementations, ensuring such systems support analytical, structured, and controlled business practices.
• Obtain full explanations on variances, consolidating the data and presenting the forecast to the management team.
• Oversee the operations of the department.
• Prepare high quality financial analysis and management information for the Division including monthly management reports and delivering presentations to the division management staff.
• Provide financial support in the development of strategic and commercial plans of the division.
• Provide financial advice to make sound business decisions recommending and implementing plans, procedures, policies, programs, and projects.
• Responsible for the financial plan and budgeting.
• Review company bottlenecks and recommend changes to improve the overall level of company output.

Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in Real Estate, out of which 3 years of experience should be within GCC.
• Strong Experience in Financial Control, Planning, Budgeting, Analysis & Real-estate Development is a must.
• Experience in Feasibility Studies, Business Planning, Financial Modelling, and Valuation is preferred.
• Strong personality who can manage others and provide inputs to management as and when required.
• Preferably someone who has worked with big real estate companies in the UAE.
• A degree holder and preferably with any of the following certifications: ACCA, CPA, ACA, or CFA.