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Financial Controller
HAREKET
Dubai, UAE
Full Time
Senior
2 days ago
Financial analysisCost controlProfitability analysisFinancial modelingBudgetingForecasting
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About the Role
Hareket is seeking a Financial Controller to act as a strategic business partner to Operations, Commercial, and Project teams. The role involves financial analysis, cost control, profitability analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting.
Key Skills for This Role
Financial analysisCost controlProfitability analysisFinancial modelingBudgetingForecasting
Responsibilities
- Act as strategic finance business partner to Operations, Commercial, and Project teams, supporting improvement of financial performance and project profitability
- Provide robust financial analysis, cost analysis, and scenario modelling to support effective business decision making
- Evaluate pricing, margins, contractual risks, and financial implications within commercial processes and negotiations
- Conduct profitability analyses by project, customer, equipment, business unit, and legal entity
- Monitor gross profit, EBITDA, operating margins, and overall project financial performance
- Identify profit leakage, cost overruns, margin erosion, and financial risk areas, and recommend corrective actions
- Analyze direct and indirect operating costs, including equipment operating costs, fleet utilization, personnel expenses, transportation and logistics costs, subcontracting, yard and workshop costs, and administrative overheads
- Contribute to cost optimization, efficiency improvement, and financial performance enhancement initiatives
- Lead monthly forecasting processes and support annual budgeting and budget versus actual analysis activities
- Prepare monthly management reports, KPI reports, financial dashboards, and insightful performance commentary for senior management
- Monitor revenue recognition, billing, unbilled revenue, claims, collections, and receivables in close coordination with Accounting team
- Support preparation of weekly and monthly rolling cash flow projections
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or related discipline
- 8–10 years of experience in FP&A, commercial finance, business partnering, controlling, or similar finance role
- CPA, ACCA, CMA, ACA, CIMA, or equivalent professional qualification is preferred
- Prior experience in heavy lifting, construction, logistics, engineering, energy, oil & gas, or project based industries is highly desirable
- Strong expertise in financial analysis, cost control, profitability analysis, and financial modelling
- Solid commercial acumen with ability to translate financial data into actionable business insights
- Proven ability to collaborate effectively with operational, commercial, and project teams
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, presentation, and influencing skills
- Advanced proficiency in Excel and ERP systems
- Experience with IFS is considered an asset
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About Hareket
- Hareket is a well established company specializing in heavy lifting, project transportation, heavy and oversized cargo transportation, crane rental, and engineered lifting solutions.
- Delivers high value solutions for complex and mission critical projects across various industries and geographies.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as a strategic finance business partner to Operations, Commercial, and Project teams, supporting the improvement of financial performance and project profitability.
- Provide robust financial analysis, cost analysis, and scenario modelling to support effective business decision making.
- Evaluate pricing, margins, contractual risks, and financial implications within commercial processes and negotiations.
- Conduct profitability analyses by project, customer, equipment, business unit, and legal entity.
- Monitor gross profit, EBITDA, operating margins, and overall project financial performance.
- Identify profit leakage, cost overruns, margin erosion, and financial risk areas, and recommend corrective actions.
- Analyze direct and indirect operating costs, including equipment operating costs, fleet utilization, personnel expenses, transportation and logistics costs, subcontracting, yard and workshop costs, and administrative overheads.
- Contribute to cost optimization, efficiency improvement, and financial performance enhancement initiatives.
- Lead monthly forecasting processes and support annual budgeting and budget versus actual analysis activities.
- Prepare monthly management reports, KPI reports, financial dashboards, and insightful performance commentary for senior management.
- Monitor revenue recognition, billing, unbilled revenue, claims, collections, and receivables in close coordination with the Accounting team.
- Support the preparation of weekly and monthly rolling cash flow projections.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
- 8–10 years of experience in FP&A, commercial finance, business partnering, controlling, or a similar finance role.
- CPA, ACCA, CMA, ACA, CIMA, or an equivalent professional qualification is preferred.
- Prior experience in heavy lifting, construction, logistics, engineering, energy, oil & gas, or project based industries is highly desirable.
- Strong expertise in financial analysis, cost control, profitability analysis, and financial modelling.
- Solid commercial acumen with the ability to translate financial data into actionable business insights.
- Proven ability to collaborate effectively with operational, commercial, and project teams.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, presentation, and influencing skills.
- Ability to influence stakeholders without direct authority.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel and ERP systems.
- Experience with IFS is considered an asset.
- Analytical, proactive, result oriented, and solution driven mindset.
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