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Finance Manager – FP&A & MIS
Geenwich Food Ingredients
Dubai, UAE
Full Time
Manager
Onsite
AED 15,000/month / month
3 days ago
Microsoft ExcelERP SystemsFinancial ModelingManagement ReportingCash Flow ForecastingBudgeting & Forecasting
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About the Role
Geenwich Food Ingredients seeks a Finance Manager to own management reporting, financial planning, and day-to-day accounting operations for a UAE-based food commodity trading business.
Key Skills for This Role
Microsoft ExcelERP SystemsFinancial ModelingManagement ReportingCash Flow ForecastingBudgeting & Forecasting
Responsibilities
- Supervise the bookkeeping team: daily transaction recording, AP/AR, inventory accounting, and intercompany entries
- Run the month end close process to the Controller's calendar
- Maintain clean, audit ready books across trading, processing, and in transit inventory positions
- Produce the monthly MIS pack: P&L, balance sheet, working capital bridge, margin analysis by product and origin, and KPI dashboard
- Develop landed cost and gross margin models covering multi origin sourcing and third party processing arrangements
- Own the consolidated bank reporting pack as the single source of numbers presented to lenders
- Build and maintain the rolling 13 week cash flow forecast, reconciled weekly to actuals
- Integrate facility positions, maturities, and utilization data provided by the Treasury & Banking function
- Report the cash conversion cycle across procurement, in transit, processing, and receivables stages
- Lead the annual budget and quarterly reforecasts
- Model scenarios for supply, pricing, and FX exposure in commodity procurement
- Support capex evaluation and financing analysis for expansion projects
Requirements
- 7–10 years in finance, including experience managing a small accounting team through month end close
- Background in a commodity trading, food/agri, or import distribution business strongly preferred
- Working familiarity with trade finance instruments (trust receipts, LCs, invoice financing) sufficient to report on them accurately
- Proven experience producing management and bank reporting packs
- Strong Excel based financial modeling; hands on ERP experience (any major system)
- Qualified or part qualified accountant (CA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA)
- UAE experience strongly preferred; comfort operating in a family owned business environment
- Fluent English; Turkish or Farsi a plus given supply chain geography
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Job Description
- Finance Manager – FP&A & MIS
- Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Reports to: Financial Controller
- Direct reports: Accounting / bookkeeping team
- Level: Senior manager, below Controller (peer to Treasury & Banking function)
- Purpose: Own management reporting, financial planning, and day to day accounting operations for a growing UAE based food commodity trading and processing business with international supply chains (US, Türkiye, GCC). The role supervises the bookkeeping team, produces the monthly MIS, owns the consoli
Key Responsibilities Accounting Operations & Bookkeeping
- Supervise the bookkeeping team: daily transaction recording, AP/AR, inventory accounting, and intercompany entries
- Run the month end close process to the Controller's calendar; the Controller retains final sign off on the close, reconciliations, and accounting judgments
- Maintain clean, audit ready books across trading, processing, and in transit inventory positions
MIS & Management Reporting
- Produce the monthly MIS pack: P&L, balance sheet, working capital bridge, margin analysis by product and origin, and KPI dashboard
- Develop landed cost and gross margin models covering multi origin sourcing and third party processing arrangements
- Own the consolidated bank reporting pack as the single source of numbers presented to lenders, incorporating facility data supplied by Treasury
Cash Flow Forecasting
- Build and maintain the rolling 13 week cash flow forecast, reconciled weekly to actuals
- Integrate facility positions, maturities, and utilization data provided by the Treasury & Banking function on a fixed weekly cycle
- Report the cash conversion cycle across procurement, in transit, processing, and receivables stages
Planning & Analysis
- Lead the annual budget and quarterly reforecasts
- Model scenarios for supply, pricing, and FX exposure in commodity procurement
- Support capex evaluation and financing analysis for expansion projects
- Define and maintain finance team requirements per geography (UAE, Türkiye, US) — sizing, phasing, and gaps — reviewed quarterly with the Controller and CFO
Scope Boundaries
- Facility execution — drawdowns, trust receipt settlements, LC issuance, and bank negotiations — sits with the Treasury & Banking function, not this role
- Final close sign off, accounting policy, and the audit relationship remain with the Financial Controller
Requirements
- 7–10 years in finance, including experience managing a small accounting team through month end close
- Background in a commodity trading, food/agri, or import distribution business strongly preferred
- Working familiarity with trade finance instruments (trust receipts, LCs, invoice financing) sufficient to report on them accurately — execution experience not required
- Proven experience producing management and bank reporting packs
- Strong Excel based financial modeling; hands on ERP experience (any major system)
- Qualified or part qualified accountant (CA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA)
- UAE experience strongly preferred; comfort operating in a family owned business environment
- Fluent English; Turkish or Farsi a plus given supply chain geography
What This Role Is Not
- This is not a reporting only or analyst position, nor a treasury role. The successful candidate combines hands on accounting supervision with analytical ownership of the numbers the business presents internally and to its banks.
Pay
- From AED 15,000.00 per month
Work Location
- In person
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