Head of Finance – Banking recruitment
As Finance Business Partner to the Managing Director in MENA, based in Dubai, you will help drive our clients business performance in MENA through the provision of financial data and analysis to inform key business decisions.
Your main responsibilities will include:
- Bringing insight and focus to the MENA Leadership team regarding financial performance.
- Providing analysis and understanding to the forecast for sales, cancels, installations and revenue
- Bringing discipline to the operations in MENA through intelligent use of reporting metrics to drive actions
- Supporting major strategic initiatives for sustained exceptional growth in MENA, both organic and inorganic
- Developing and maintaining a strong control environment with sufficient control processes that are known and complied with by the MENA staff.
- Interacting with the Business Operations Group, Accounting Services, Tax, Legal, and other Finance colleagues in the achievement of these objectives.
- Managing, preparing, administering, and directing the control of the budget.
Qualifications
Requirements:
- At least 8 years of experience in a Finance role. Experience in a large financial organisation would be a distinct advantage
- Proven ability to interact with senior management and influence outcomes
- Demonstrated ability to provide strategic business support
- Tenacious and driven by delivering results
- Strong leadership and management skills
- Enjoys working in teams. Shows ability to work effectively across all functions of the business
- Excellent analytical, organisational and communication skills
- Customer focus, proactive and has good understanding of our clients strategy and business model
- Fluent in English, Arabic language is an advantage
- Previous experience working overseas is an advantage
- CPA or equivalent is an advantage
- MBA or equivalent is an advantage