Finance Manager (Hindi speaker)

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with the Group CFO and senior leadership on strategic, financial, commercial, and governance matters.
• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-term business planning across group entities.
• Deliver monthly management accounts, consolidated reporting, executive dashboards, and board presentations.
• Analyse performance against budgets and forecasts and identify corrective actions.
• Develop financial models, feasibility studies, scenario analyses, and investment appraisals.
• Oversee cash flow, liquidity, working capital, collections, and payment cycles.
• Support banking, funding, investment, and shareholder-related financial decisions.

Governance and Compliance

• Strengthen financial governance, internal controls, delegation-of-authority processes, and approval frameworks.
• Ensure compliance with IFRS, UAE Corporate Tax, VAT, transfer pricing, and other applicable requirements.
• Coordinate external audits, tax filings, and responses to auditor or regulatory queries.
• Review contracts, pricing proposals, investments, partnerships, and expansion plans from a financial and risk perspective.

Systems and Team Leadership

• Drive improvements across ERP systems, reporting tools, financial processes, data quality, and automation.
• Lead, mentor, and develop finance teams across the Group.

Qualifications and Experience

• A chartered qualification such as CA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA, or CMA is mandatory.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related discipline.
• At least 10 years of progressive finance experience, including at least five years in a finance leadership role.
• Experience working with a CFO, CEO, board, shareholders, or business owners.
• Strong exposure to multi-entity, diversified, or group-level operations.
• Hands-on experience across reporting, FP&A, treasury, audit, taxation, controls, and commercial finance.

Required Skills

• Strong knowledge of IFRS, consolidation, budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling, and investment appraisal.
• Advanced Excel skills with exposure to ERP systems, business-intelligence tools, and finance automation.
• Strong commercial acumen and confidence to challenge assumptions and business decisions.
• Excellent English and Hindi communication and board-level presentation skills.

Preferred Experience

• Practical UAE or GCC experience, including UAE Corporate Tax and VAT knowledge, is highly preferred.