VP of International Finance
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Do you want to work with a team that believes in disrupting the normal, boring, and average?
If yes, then this is the job you are looking for ,
webook.com
is Saudi's #1 event ticketing and experience booking platform in terms of technology, features, agility, revenue serving some of the largest mega events in the Kingdom surpassing over 2 billion in sales.
Role Overview
The VP of International Finance will lead webook.com's financial strategy, planning, controls, reporting, and finance operations across its international markets.
This is a senior finance leadership role reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, responsible for ensuring webook.com has the financial structure, governance, reporting discipline, and operational capability required to scale across Europe, the UK, MENA and other international territories.
The role requires someone with deep experience managing finance across multiple international jurisdictions, including complex statutory, tax, treasury, transfer pricing, and regulatory environments.
The successful candidate will act as the senior finance partner for all international market activity, working closely with the CFO, executive leadership, regional business leaders, legal, tax advisors, and external partners.
The VP of International Finance will bring structure, commercial insight, and financial rigor to how webook.com evaluates, launches, manages, and scales international operations.
This person must be both strategic and hands-on, capable of supporting market entry decisions while also ensuring the right controls, reporting, processes, and local finance infrastructure are in place.
International Financial Strategy
- Lead the financial strategy for international markets in line with company growth objectives
- Partner with the CFO on capital allocation, market entry, investment decisions, and international expansion planning
- Build financial models and business cases for new markets, partnerships, and commercial opportunities
- Assess market viability, including revenue potential, cost structure, tax implications, cash needs, and profitability
Fp&A And Performance Management
- Own budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning for all international markets
- Develop market-level P&Ls, dashboards, KPIs, and performance reporting
- Track revenue, margin, operating costs, EBITDA impact, cash flow, and ROI by market
- Provide clear insights on financial performance, risks, opportunities, and corrective actions
International Finance Operations
- Oversee finance operations across international entities and territories
- Ensure timely month-end close, reconciliations, reporting, billing, collections, payments, and financial submissions
- Coordinate with regional finance teams, local accountants, auditors, tax advisors, and external service providers
- Build scalable finance processes to support new market launches and ongoing growth
Commercial Finance Support
- Act as the senior finance partner to international business and commercial leaders
- Support pricing, deal structuring, commercial negotiations, partnership models, and revenue-share arrangements
- Review major commercial proposals to ensure appropriate margin, payment terms, tax treatment, and financial return
- Identify opportunities to improve profitability, efficiency, cash collection, and revenue quality
Statutory, Tax and Compliance
- Ensure international entities meet local statutory, tax, accounting, and regulatory requirements
- Oversee VAT/GST, withholding tax, corporate tax, transfer pricing, payroll tax, and intercompany arrangements
- Partner with Legal, Tax, and external advisors on entity structuring, cross-border transactions, and compliance obligations
- Support audit readiness and ensure accurate documentation, controls, and financial records
Treasury & Cash Management
- Manage international cash flow, working capital, liquidity, and funding needs
- Oversee multi-currency operations, FX exposure, international banking, payment flows, and settlement processes
- Ensure appropriate controls over payments, approvals, bank access, and movement of funds across entities
Team Leadership
- Lead and develop the international finance team, setting clear direction and performance expectations
- Build strong relationships with regional finance leads and central finance functions
- Elevate the capability and influence of finance as a business partner across international markets
Requirements
- 15+ years of progressive finance experience, with significant international or multi-market finance leadership experience
- Proven experience managing finance across Europe, the UK, MENA, or other global territories
- Strong FP&A, financial modelling, budgeting, forecasting, and performance management experience
- Deep understanding of statutory reporting, tax, VAT/GST, transfer pricing, intercompany transactions, internal controls, and audit requirements
- Experience supporting international market entry, entity setup, commercial expansion, and cross-border operations
- Strong treasury, cash management, FX, and working capital experience
- Experience managing regional finance teams, local accountants, auditors, tax advisors, and external service providers
- Background in technology, e-commerce, marketplace, ticketing, entertainment, payments, or high-growth digital businesses preferred
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence at executive level
- CPA, ACCA, ACA, CIMA, CFA, or equivalent qualification preferred
- Comfortable operating in a fast-moving, scaling business with evolving structures and aggressive growth targets
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