Our client, a global logistics company is currently seeking to recruit Regional Finance Manager
Area of responsibility:
• Provide financial information and services as enablers to effective business management
• Member of the regional leadership team
• Lead, manage and develop the finance organization
Essential job tasks:
• Ensure that the commercial organisation receives necessary support and is challenged by the function.
• Ensure that local finance and control are complete, accurate and timely in line with global guidelines and local laws and regulations
• Ensure that the cooperation between the team and the cluster is smooth and effective.
• In cooperation with hq and the other functions to optimize opportunities for the working capital
• Report financial figures timely and correctly
• Develop an efficient, competent, integrated and motivated finance organisation
• Establish and maintain an appropriate control environment across functions
Objectives of the position:
• Achieve targets as defined yearly
• Ensure at all times that financial activities meet global requirements and local regulations
• Develop a financial organisation capable of delivering the targets
Learning opportunities:
Financial management
Development of leadership skills
The position will require the candidate to perform as a leader in the following role:
- Optimize the organization
- Align objectives with business strategy
- Delegate and follow up
- Assess and hold direct reports accountable for both their leadership and functional roles
- Manage boundaries and allocate resources between teams
- Overlook management of the team and ensure support to commercial KPI's
Functional Capabilities:
Operational mindset
- Ensure reliable and efficient performance
- Constant and sustainable delivery
- Maintain focus, prioritise and deselect tasks
- Identify opportunities and risks and act upon
Functional Mindset and Expertise
- More than knowledge and experience
- Manage and act in complexity
- Understand the totality of the system including sub processes
- Identify key change factors
- Drive Finance functional excellence
- Ensure standardisation and best practice within Finance
- Develop the local finance organisation
Contingency Management
- Anticipate and identify bottlenecks and mitigate risk
- Contingency Planning
- Scenario building
- Not afraid of hands on approach
Give Authority
- Drive accountability
- Set the targets
- Ensure support
- Identify and coach talent
- Delegate and empower
- Drive accountability through the 7 questions
Job Details
| Date Posted: | 2013-01-20 |
| Job Location: | Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
| Job Role: | Accounting/Banking/Finance |
| Company Industry: | Transportation; Distributions and Logistics |
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