Finance Manager F/H
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About the Role
VINCI seeks a Finance Manager to lead the finance function across 17 Business Units in 9 Middle Eastern countries. The role requires managing a geographically dispersed team, overseeing multi-entity financial reporting, and driving digital transformation.
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Responsibilities
- Lead the finance function across 17 Business Units in 9 Middle Eastern countries
- Navigate multiple regulatory, tax, banking, and compliance environments
- Ensure alignment with VINCI Group policies and governance standards
- Serve as a trusted business partner to operational leaders, providing financial insights
- Drive profitability, cash flow optimization, risk management, and informed decision making
- Manage a geographically dispersed Finance & Accounting team of 10–12 professionals
- Coordinate financial operations across multiple entities, currencies, and jurisdictions
- Support business transformation initiatives and enhance financial reporting capabilities
- Drive implementation and adoption of digital tools such as ERP systems, Salesforce, Power Query, Power BI
Requirements
- Degree in Accounting or Finance
- Minimum 15 years of experience in finance and accounting management
- At least 5 years of significant exposure to international taxation, external audit, transfer pricing, treasury, and international compliance
- Ability to manage multi entity, multi currency, and multi country financial reporting
- Strong command of IFRS, internal controls, audit processes, and group reporting standards
- Very good level in Excel, ERP software, PowerQuery and PowerBI
- Experience with digital finance transformation and reporting automation
- Proven ability to lead, develop, and coordinate multicultural finance teams across several countries
- Strong analytical, organizational, and attention to detail skills
- Experience within the construction or engineering sector would be a strong advantage
- Fluency in English and Arabic is a plus
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Role Overview
- As Financial Manager for the Middle East region, you will lead the finance function across a highly diverse and complex business environment encompassing 17 Business Units across 9 countries and three Business Lines (Freyssinet, Sixense, and Nuvia), representing approximately €50M in annual turnover
- This role goes beyond traditional financial management, requiring the ability to navigate multiple regulatory, tax, banking, and compliance environments while ensuring alignment with VINCI Group policies and governance standards.
- You will serve as a trusted business partner to operational leaders, providing financial insights that drive profitability, cash flow optimization, risk management, and informed decision making.
Key Challenges and Complexities
- Financial oversight across 17 Business Units in 9 Middle Eastern countries.
- Supporting three distinct Business Lines with varying operational and commercial requirements.
- Managing complex project accounting and cash flow considerations within the construction sector.
- Coordinating compliance, taxation, banking, and audit requirements across multiple jurisdictions.
- Leading a multicultural and geographically dispersed finance team.
- Overseeing contract management, payment terms, guarantees, joint ventures, and collections.
- Delivering meaningful business analysis and performance insights to support management decisions.
- Driving continuous improvement through digitalization and finance process enhancements.
Qualifications
- Degree in Accounting or Finance, with a minimum of 15 years’ experience in finance and accounting management, including at least 5 years of significant exposure to international taxation, external audit, transfer pricing, treasury, and international compliance matters.
- Ability to manage multi entity, multi currency, and multi country financial reporting in an international group environment.
- Strong command of IFRS, internal controls, audit processes, and group reporting standards.
- Very good level in Excel, ERP software, PowerQuery and PowerBI.
- Experience with digital finance transformation, reporting automation.
- Proven ability to lead, develop, and coordinate multicultural finance teams across several countries.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and attention to detail skills.
- Experience within the construction or engineering sector would be a strong advantage.
- Fluency in English and Arabic is a plus.
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