Job offer: Financial Controller

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.

Roles and Responsibilities

Financial Accounting & Reporting

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

Business Partnering

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

Compliance & Controls

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

Treasury & Secretarial

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

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