Group Senior Finance Manager

Grant Thornton Abdulaal Bahrain is currently seeking an experienced and highly skilled Group Senior Finance Manger to join one of our highly reputable clients in the market.

Job Purpose :

Ensure accurate and timely financial and management reporting, maintain strong control over the general ledger and transactional integrity, manage working capital effectively, ensure compliance with IFRS and other relevant regulations, and develop and mentor the finance team. This role will oversee the regional finance function.

Duties and Responsibilities :

• Preparing Financial Statements for the group entities (stand-alone and on a consolidated basis)
• Budgeting / forecasting, variance analysis and creating insights for the management / BoD
• Ad-hoc analysis for different aspects of the business to find out trends, anomalies, profitability to support business decisions making / risk avoidance.
• Monitoring working capital and cash needs and reporting the same through short- and long-term cash flow Projections
• Ensuring reconciliations are timely and accurately performed (i.e. customers, vendors, employee balances, VAT, intercompany, banks etc.)
• Reviewing business propositions for profitability / cashflow profile
• Oversight and management of customer invoicing & billing process
• Analyzing profitability of the business (by business units, entities, product / service lines ~ including detailed cost analysis & allocation to support the same)
• Regulatory and tax filings as applicable
• Coordinating with customers & vendors on SoA / reconciliations
• Supporting the HR team in payroll / employee commissions, final settlement and other calculations
• Supporting various stakeholders across the business for their information needs
• Managing treasury operations & coordinating with banks on account operation and facilities set up / utilization
• Ownership of audit (internal / external) for portfolio companies
• Team leadership for finance, AR & billing teams
• Working closely with procurement to keep a tight control over costs, ensuring compliance with company policies / internal controls.
• Providing functional leadership to initiatives & projects relating to the finance function (i.e. ERP implementation / e-invoicing / billing system implementation etc.)

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