Financial Controller – Middle East

Role Overview

• Ensure finance control framework within Middle East.
• Review Cardiff Finance Hub activity to ensure accuracy of month end results (P&L and Balance Sheet).
• Review Cardiff Finance Hub operational activity to ensure items are addressed in a timely way (e.g. vendor payments, credit control, etc).
• Regular review of balance sheets ensuring all balances are reconciled and substantiated.
• Stakeholder management with all Middle East Partners.
• Drive improvement in cash collection process within Middle East.
• Reporting to EMEA Financial Controller regularly on Middle East status, as well as promptly on any ad hoc issues.
• Ensuring regional alignment on policies' application and conduct of processes, to drive transparency, reliability and accuracy of financial reporting.
• Ensuring that the Region complies with all statutory and regulatory reporting requirements in a timely manner and to high standard.
• Oversee regional payroll operations, ensuring accurate, timely and compliant payroll processing across Middle East jurisdictions in line with local labor laws, tax regulations and social security requirements.
• Providing oversight, support and advice on local and Group audits and investigations, assuring swiftness of actions.
• Provide input into group tax framework where required.
• Ensure compliance with all direct and indirect taxes, including timely and accurate completion of all tax returns and submissions.
• Contributing to new entities' set up plans to creating optimal solutions.
• Tracking and preparedness for upcoming changes within financial compliance, driven by local laws as well as Group guidance.
• Oversee regional cashflow forecasts to ensure accuracy and optimization of intercompany transfers.
• Striving to always understand and respond to business' needs, while remaining independent, objective and ethical.
• Providing commercial advice, alongside Business Partners, on pricing (including taxes) and financial performance .
• Support EMEA Financial Controller and Group Financial Controller on regional and global initiatives.

Requirements

• Certified chartered accountant with significant, recent and relevant experience and expertise, including:
• Robust and efficient financial control policies and processes;
• Technical accounting and statutory reporting;
• Taxation
• direct, indirect, domestic and international;
• Financial compliance in a complex and dynamic environment.

Preferred

• Candidates must have a recognised accounting or international equivalent with significant post qualification experience.