Chief Financial Officer- (Steel/Aluminium Fabrication/Signage/Powder Coating/Oil&Gas/Realestate Development Industries)
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About the Role
Group of Factories Abduljalil Mahdi Mohd Alasmawi LLC seeks an experienced CFO to lead financial strategy, budgeting, reporting, and compliance across multiple entities. The role requires a seasoned leader with expertise in ERP implementation, multi-entity finance, and UAE regulations.
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Responsibilities
- Develop and implement financial strategy aligned with the company’s long term goals
- Lead budgeting, forecasting, cash flow, and financial planning processes
- Manage financial reporting, compliance, and risk management
- Oversee project accounting, cost control, and financial performance tracking
- Collaborate with project directors to optimize profitability and resource allocation
- Liaise with external stakeholders, including banks, auditors, and legal advisors
- Provide clear financial insight to support strategic decision making
- Oversee full accounting cycle: GL, AP/AR, payroll, treasury, reconciliations
- Lead month end, quarter end, and year end close across multiple entities
- Prepare consolidated financials and management reporting
- Implement and enforce financial controls, approval matrices, and reporting standards
- Ensure compliance with UAE VAT, corporate tax, ESR, and IFRS
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field; CA / ACCA / CIPFA / CIMA preferred
- 10–15 years of multi entity finance experience, ideally within FMCG/Manufacturing/Oil & Gas/Fabrication/Steel/Aluminium
- Strong experience in department setup, ERP implementation, and pre opening finance
- Deep understanding of UAE VAT, corporate tax, IFRS, WPS, and governance frameworks
- Proven leadership experience managing finance teams and cross functional stakeholders
- High proficiency in Excel and financial modelling
- Ability to work in fast paced environments with strong ownership and accuracy
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Overview
- We need a leader who can guide the financial systems that empower us. We’re searching for an experienced Chief Financial Officer to join our team of high performing professionals and keep our finances positioned for continued success.
- The CFO will have a day to day, ongoing impact on company operations, helping us to analyze, strategize, and grow our financial position.
- This seasoned strategist not only will understand current accounting practices and trends, but also will have experience raising capital and adapting to change.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and implement financial strategy aligned with the company’s long term goals
- Lead budgeting, forecasting, depreciations, cash flow, and financial planning processes
- Manage financial reporting, compliance, and risk management
- Oversee project accounting, cost control, and financial performance tracking
- Collaborate with project directors to optimize profitability and resource allocation
- Liaise with external stakeholders, including banks, auditors, and legal advisors
- Provide clear financial insight to support strategic decision making
General Accounting Responsibilities
- Perform financial management duties including generating financial data, compiling and submitting reports, analyzing industry trends and assessing the financial health of the company.
- Oversee operations of the finance department, set goals and objectives, and design a framework for these to be met.
- Supervise the preparation of quarterly and annual account reconciliations, monitor, and enforce compliance with tax and financial reporting standards and assist with cash flow forecasting.
- Supervise the documentation of the company’s financial status and forecasts.
- Mediate between the company, employees, stakeholders, and investors on financial issues for amicable resolution of differences.
- Analyze costs, pricing, variable contributions, sales results and the company’s actual performance compared to the business plans.
- Conduct reviews and evaluations for cost reduction opportunities.
- Monitor customer accounts for details of non payment, delayed payment, and other irregularities.
- Establish a schedule of deadlines for general accounting function, payroll, release of supplier payment as well as generating customer invoices at the end of the month on time to financial reporting date to the management.
- Verify disbursements before the final approval Senior Management.
- Issue invoices according to schedule, they are dispatched to the clients by driver to collect receipt acknowledgement signature from the client.
- Prepare monthly Bank Reconciliation Report. Making it sure that there are no outstanding matters left unreconciled for a period longer than one month.
Financial Reporting & Budgeting
- Prepare, analyze, and finalize weekly, monthly, and quarterly financial statements such as income statements and balance sheet with corresponding analyses of actual against budgeted amount.
- Highlight material variances and explain in related schedules for justification for discussion with the management, accordingly budget may be adjusted, or suggested actions may be implemented to avoid further discrepancies or losses or increase profitability.
- Implement time sheet financial analysis and reporting system in company in coordination with time sheet software application. Provide monthly report of financial health of individual projects.
- Initiate budget for the year to be finalized with the management, accordingly, financial reports are compared against cost efficiency and profitability.
- Develop and implement the financial accounting policies, procedures, and system/software (ERP); continuously improving the control while complementing the general office policies and procedures and keeping updated on the accounting system software according to the company’s requirements.
Finance Operations & Control
- Oversee full accounting cycle: GL, AP/AR, payroll, treasury, reconciliations
- Lead month end, quarter end, and year end close across multiple entities
- Prepare consolidated financials and management reporting
- Implement and enforce financial controls, approval matrices, and reporting standards
Budgeting, Planning & Commercial Support
- Lead budgeting, forecasting, and reforecast cycles
- Develop financial models, feasibility studies, and scenario planning for new concepts
- Conduct variance analysis and provide actionable insights
- Support pricing, menu engineering, and cost optimization across F&B operations
Tax, Compliance & Governance
- Ensure compliance with UAE VAT, corporate tax, ESR, and IFRS
- Manage audits, filings, and regulatory requirements
- Establish internal controls, SOPs, and governance frameworks across all entities
Cash Flow, Treasury & Banking
- Oversee group wide cash flow planning and working capital management
- Lead setup and management of bank accounts across multiple entities
- Establish payment processes, signatory structures, and banking mandates
- Manage relationships with banks, lenders, and financial institutions
- Implement robust cash control and liquidity frameworks
ERP, POS & Financial Systems
- Lead implementation and optimization of ERP and financial systems
- Ensure full integration across POS, inventory, procurement, and accounting systems
- Develop scalable reporting tools and dashboards
- Train teams on systems and financial processes
Procurement, Purchasing & Cost Control Oversight
- Oversee governance across procurement and purchasing functions
- Implement supplier onboarding, approval hierarchies, and purchasing controls
- Ensure integration between procurement, inventory, and finance systems
- Monitor supplier terms, pricing, and cost efficiency across all units
- Support margin optimization and operational cost control
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