Head Shared Services
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About the Role
FIVE Hotels and Resorts seeks a Head of Shared Services to lead AP, AR, financial closing, and consolidation across multiple entities. The role requires strong finance operations experience, IFRS knowledge, and leadership skills.
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Responsibilities
- Lead AP, AR, financial closing, daily P&L, consolidation support, and revenue distribution processes
- Ensure strong control over finance operations across multiple entities and jurisdictions
- Drive automation, AI adoption, workflow optimization, and process simplification across finance functions
- Own MIS, dashboards, working capital visibility, and operational finance reporting
- Work closely with business, procurement, treasury, and digital analytics teams
- Support IPO readiness, finance scalability, and operational governance initiatives
- Build and manage lean, high performance finance teams
Requirements
- CA / CPA or equivalent qualification preferred
- Strong hands on experience in finance operations and controllership environments
- Experience in hospitality, real estate, retail, entertainment, or fast moving entrepreneurial businesses preferred
- Strong understanding of IFRS, consolidation, closing processes, and operational finance
- Exposure to SAP, data lakes, AI/automation tools, and finance transformation initiatives preferred
- Must be highly execution oriented, detail focused, and comfortable operating in an intense, fast moving environment
- Strong understanding of Credit Management, Cash Flow Monitoring, Vendor Management, and Treasury Coordination
- Expertise in Financial Systems such as SAP, Oracle, SUN, or similar ERP platforms
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Financial Reporting, and Data Analysis
- Excellent Communication, Stakeholder Management, and Negotiation Skills
- Strong Leadership capabilities with the ability to Mentor and Develop High Performing Teams
- Exceptional Analytical Skills and Attention to Detail
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Job Description
- An Exhilarating Opportunity: Are You Ready for a Daring Challenge with The World’s Hottest Luxury Hotel Group? Disruptive by Design, FIVE Hotels and Resorts is Redefining ‘FIVE Star’ Hospitality and Setting the Gold Standard across the Industry.
- Join the FIVE Tribe and Get Ready to Make Waves.
- The Candidate: A Driven Self Starter, you have Excellent Communication, Leadership and Organisational Skills. As an Astute Creative and Critical Thinker, you can Conceptualise and Implement Innovative Solutions in a Fast Paced Environment.
- Your Outgoing and Approachable Nature enables you to Seamlessly Connect with other ‘FIVERs’ and key Stakeholders, ensuring that Their and Your Journey at FIVE is nothing short of Sensational.
- Joining our Finance Team as Head – Shared Services will Empower you to deliver Exceptional Experiences across our award winning Lifestyle Destinations.
What We’re Looking For
- CA / CPA or equivalent qualification preferred.
- Strong hands on experience in finance operations and controllership environments.
- Experience in hospitality, real estate, retail, entertainment, or fast moving entrepreneurial businesses preferred.
- Strong understanding of IFRS, consolidation, closing processes, and operational finance.
- Exposure to SAP, data lakes, AI/automation tools, and finance transformation initiatives preferred.
- Must be highly execution oriented, detail focused, and comfortable operating in an intense, fast moving environment.
- Strong understanding of Credit Management, Cash Flow Monitoring, Vendor Management, and Treasury Coordination.
- Expertise in Financial Systems such as SAP, Oracle, SUN, or similar ERP platforms.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Financial Reporting, and Data Analysis.
- Excellent Communication, Stakeholder Management, and Negotiation Skills.
- Strong Leadership capabilities with the ability to Mentor and Develop High Performing Teams.
- Exceptional Analytical Skills and Attention to Detail, ensuring Accuracy and Compliance across all Financial Operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead AP, AR, financial closing, daily P&L, consolidation support, and revenue distribution processes.
- Ensure strong control over finance operations across multiple entities and jurisdictions.
- Drive automation, AI adoption, workflow optimization, and process simplification across finance functions.
- Own MIS, dashboards, working capital visibility, and operational finance reporting.
- Work closely with business, procurement, treasury, and digital analytics teams.
- Support IPO readiness, finance scalability, and operational governance initiatives.
- Build and manage lean, high performance finance teams.
About FIVE Hotels And Resorts
- FIVE Hotels and Resorts prides itself on being Disruptively Different and Daringly Unique.
- Our Growing Portfolio of Lavish Destinations are the epitome of Glamour and Experiential Luxury, and currently consists of FIVE Palm Jumeirah, FIVE Jumeirah Village, FIVE Zurich and FIVE LUXE.
- FIVE is a leader in Sustainable Luxury Living and Hospitality, with its UAE based Destinations being the first and only Hotels in the UAE to obtain the International Renewable Energy Certificates (I REC) for achieving 100% renewable electricity for 2022.
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