Associate Director - Finance
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About the Role
Red Sea Global's subsidiary Coastal Transportation Services seeks an Associate Director of Finance to lead financial planning, budgeting, and business partnering for the Mobility Team.
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Responsibilities
- Establish business partnering through analysis of current activity and building insight into performance against budgets and business cases
- Provide regular insightful reporting to executive leadership within Mobility and Operations
- Drive budgeting, forecasting, and long term planning processes in alignment with company goals
- Develop and manage dynamic financial models, dashboards, and KPIs to track and evaluate business performance
- Deliver high quality financial insights, variance analyses, and scenario planning to support decision making
- Work closely with operational and commercial teams to improve cost efficiency, productivity, and profitability
- Partner with Accounting to ensure alignment between management reporting and statutory accounts
- Play a key role in strategic initiatives including business expansion, cost transformation, and investment analysis
- Mentor and develop a team of finance professionals
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field; Master’s degree or MBA is a plus
- Professional accounting qualification (e.g., CA, CPA, ACCA, CIMA, SOCPA)
- Minimum 10+ years of experience in finance, with at least 3 years in a leadership role
- Strong experience in operational or industrial sectors
- Proven ability to translate data into actionable business insights
- Demonstrated experience with budget ownership, cost control, and business partnering
- Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills; proficiency in ERP and planning tools (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Hyperion, Anaplan, Power BI)
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and presentation skills
- Ability to work effectively in a dynamic, fast paced, and multicultural environment
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Job Purpose
- We are seeking a highly experienced and commercially astute Associate Director of Finance to join our Mobility Team.
- The role requires a solid accounting and FP&A background to drive business partnership with operations.
- The ideal candidate will bring more than 10 years of progressive finance leadership experience, preferably within operationally intensive environments.
Job Responsibilities
- Establish business partnering through analysis of current activity and building insight into performance against budgets and business cases.
- Provide regular insightful reporting to executive leadership within Mobility and Operations.
- Drive budgeting, forecasting, and long term planning processes in alignment with company goals.
- Develop and manage dynamic financial models, dashboards, and KPIs to track and evaluate business performance.
- Deliver high quality financial insights, variance analyses, and scenario planning to support informed decision making.
- Work closely with operational and commercial teams to improve cost efficiency, productivity, and profitability.
- Partner with Accounting to ensure alignment between management reporting and statutory accounts.
- Play a key role in strategic initiatives including business expansion, cost transformation, and investment analysis.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field; Master’s degree or MBA is a plus.
- Professional accounting qualification (e.g., CA, CPA, ACCA, CIMA, SOCPA).
- Minimum 10+ years of experience in finance, with at least 3 years in a leadership role.
- Strong experience in operational or industrial sectors.
- Proven ability to translate data into actionable business insights that drive performance.
- Demonstrated experience with budget ownership, cost control, and business partnering.
- Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills; proficiency in ERP and planning tools (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Hyperion, Anaplan, Power BI).
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and presentation skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a dynamic, fast paced, and multicultural environment.
Skills
- Strong desire to establish and learn in a new environment and to shape the future of financial reporting.
- Excellent communicator with ability to interact with various management levels.
- Proven track record of establishing best practice in a finance function.
- Advanced Excel skills; Modelling, Power BI, Power Queries and Data skills an advantage.
- Superior attention to detail and ability to handle multiple competing priorities.
- Ability to analyze, interpret and scrutinize financial information.
- Organizing capability and a pleasing, get going personality.
Policies, Systems, Processes, Procedures, Standards, Reports & Compliance
- Follow all relevant functional policies, processes, standard operating procedures, and instructions.
- Ensure adherence to internal financial policies, procedures, and controls.
- Conduct periodic internal audits to assess effectiveness of financial controls.
- Consult with external auditors during annual audits.
- Support activities required to satisfy internal audit requirements.
Continuous Improvement
- Contribute to identification of opportunities for continuous improvement of department’s systems, processes and practices.
Team Leadership & Development
- Mentor and develop a team of finance professionals.
- Foster a culture of collaboration and efficiency within the finance department and across other business functions.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Collaborate with other departments (e.g., procurement, HR and operations) to ensure financial alignment.
- Communicate financial results and KPIs to stakeholders in a clear and concise manner.
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