Finance Director
Role Overview
The client is a large, diversified construction and manufacturing group based in Abu Dhabi, serving the construction industry.
The Finance Director leads financial management, planning, and governance across the business.
The role drives performance, compliance, cash flow, project controls, executive decision-making, growth, and profitability.
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Client and role
The client is a large, diversified construction and manufacturing group based in Abu Dhabi, serving the construction industry.
The Finance Director leads financial management, planning, and governance across the business.
The role drives performance, compliance, cash flow, project controls, executive decision-making, growth, and profitability.
Strategy and financial planning
- Develop financial strategies aligned with corporate objectives and provide insights to executive management and the Board.
- Support growth through financial planning and performance management, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and expansion initiatives.
- Lead annual budgets, forecasts, and long-term financial plans; monitor profitability, cash flow, and financial performance.
- Conduct feasibility studies, scenario analysis, and investment evaluations; establish KPIs across projects and business units.
Project finance and treasury
- Oversee project cost control, budgets, revenue recognition, cash flows, variations, claims, and contract profitability.
- Track work in progress, project margins, and cost-to-complete analyses; support project teams in improving performance and minimizing overruns.
- Manage treasury, banking relationships, working capital, liquidity, receivables, and project-related cash requirements.
- Lead funding and financing activities when required.
Reporting, risk and leadership
- Ensure accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual statements and compliance with IFRS, local accounting standards, tax regulations, and statutory requirements.
- Coordinate external audits and regulatory reporting; strengthen controls, governance frameworks, and financial policies.
- Identify financial risks in projects, contracts, and operations and recommend mitigation; support legal and commercial risk assessments.
- Lead, mentor, and develop the finance team; promote accountability, continuous improvement, automation, and digital transformation.
Required experience and qualifications
- Bachelor's degree and professional certification such as CPA, ACCA, CMA, or CA; a bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Commerce, or a related field is specified.
- More than 15 years of progressive finance experience, including at least seven years in a senior leadership role.
- Extensive construction, infrastructure, engineering, or contracting experience, managing multi-million-dollar projects and complex financial operations.
- Expertise in project accounting, cost control, profitability analysis, IFRS, budgeting, forecasting, treasury, cash flow, contracts, commercial finance, risk, controls, tax, and compliance.
- Experience with SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, IFS, EPROMISS, or similar ERP systems; advanced Excel and financial modeling.
- Business intelligence and reporting tools such as Power BI and Tableau.
- Master's degree in Business Administration or Finance is preferred.
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