Financial Controller

Role overview

Financial planning, reporting, and analysis

• Support annual budgets, forecasts, and medium-term financial plans.
• Prepare monthly management reports, analyse financial trends, monitor budget performance, and investigate variances.
• Identify financial risks and opportunities, recommend decisions, and support corrective actions.
• Analyse manufacturing costs, materials, labour, overheads, costing assumptions, and standard-versus-actual variances.
• Review inventory valuation and work-in-progress balances with operational teams.
• Monitor productivity, capacity utilization, scrap rates, sales, margins, and operating expenditure.
• Assess financial benefits of cost-saving and continuous-improvement initiatives.
• Support period-end closing, accruals, provisions, reconciliations, and financial schedules.
• Prepare regional and group reporting submissions; support cash-flow forecasts and working-capital management.
• Track capital spending, assist with tax and regulatory compliance, and maintain effective financial controls.
• Support audits and implementation of recommendations; improve finance processes, reporting tools, ERP optimization, data quality, and automation.
• Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, and HR to improve financial visibility and accountability.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Finance, Accounting, Controlling, or a related discipline.
• At least six years of experience in Financial Controlling, FP&A, or Industrial Finance.
• Previous finance or controlling experience in the UAE is essential.
• Manufacturing, engineering, or other industrial experience is highly preferred.
• Start-up, plant launch, or ERP implementation experience is advantageous.
• ACCA, CIMA, CMA, or equivalent professional qualification is desirable.

Skills and knowledge

• Strong knowledge of UAE VAT and Corporate Tax requirements; good understanding of budgeting, forecasting, cost accounting, and financial analysis.
• Familiarity with IFRS and internal control frameworks.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience with ERP systems.
• Power BI or similar reporting tools experience is beneficial.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Opportunity

• Opportunity to support a growing, strategically important operation and influence finance processes, systems, and reporting.
• The role offers exposure to international stakeholders and long-term career development.