Financial Controller

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.

Description

Roles and Responsibilities

Financial Accounting & Reporting

1. Lead the Finance team to deliver accurate and timely accounting and reporting.
2. Ensure compliance with local regulations, IFRS, and Group policies.
3. Lead annual budgeting and periodic forecasting processes.
4. Provide stakeholders with reports and responses to information requests.

Business Partnering

1. 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.
2. Support the General Manager in analyzing business results and drivers, preparing slides for business reviews with local management team and Group.
3. Support the Commercial team in securing business, including fast turnaround for quotations, new customer setup, having efficient processes, as well as collections.
4. Support the Operations team with analysis and valuable insights, cost, and variance reports.

Compliance & Controls

1. 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.
2. Implement key controls in accordance with the Group's standards.
3. Evaluate business processes for efficiency and internal control improvement.
4. Ability to identify risk and work with stakeholders to mitigate them.
5. Work with external and internal auditors to deliver desired outcomes.

Treasury & Secretarial

1. Compliance with the Group's Treasury policy.
2. Provide accurate cash-flow forecasting.
3. Monitor and manage working capital, capex, and cash.
4. Oversee banking, insurance, and company secretarial matters.

Profile

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

Job Offer

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

Skills

business partnering, accounting, financial reporting, IFRS, internal controls and compliance, tax and treasury, audit.