Finance & Operations Manager

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Lead financial planning, cash flow management, and cost control.
• Implement and optimize operational processes and SOPs across departments.
• Drive process automation, efficiency, and compliance, including VAT and audit readiness.
• Manage receivables, payables, working capital cycles, and recording of sales, purchases, expenses, and payroll.
• Align finance with business operations and coordinate with sales, supply chain, and regulatory teams.
• Maintain books for both entities in accounting software and complete month-end closing by the seventh of the following month, including reconciliations.
• Maintain the fixed-asset register, including demo and loaner equipment at hospitals.
• Track inventory valuation, consignment stock, and stock held at hospitals or sub-distributors.

Requirements and qualifications

• Proven finance and operations experience; UAE experience is preferred.
• Strong background in process implementation and business structuring; experience with cash flow challenges, credit cycles, and vendor management.
• Knowledge of UAE VAT, audit, and compliance; a hands-on, execution-focused approach is expected.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field, and at least five years of relevant accounting experience.
• CPA, CMA, or ACCA certification is preferred.
• Medical device or healthcare distribution experience is a strong advantage; inventory accounting and warehouse reconciliation experience is strongly preferred.

Accounting systems

• Maintain company books in Tally, Zoho, or similar accounting software.