HEAD OF FINANCE
Dubai, UAE
About the Company
A leading Global Insurance Company is looking for a qualified and experienced Senior Finance Professional to head up their finance operations in Dubai.
About the Role
Regulatory & Management Reporting
- Ensuring all forms of financial and regulatory reporting are timely and accurate
- Establish and implement the regulations on and procedures of financial management, cost management, budget management, accounting, accounting supervision and audit;
- Supervise the implementation of above-mentioned regulations and procedures;
- Represent the Company to the regulator regarding all financial matters when required;
- Managing capital to meet regulatory requirements, dividend commitments and investment requirements; optimizing deployment of and returns on capital within those constraints;
- Overseeing the investment management activities of the company;
- Embedding the use of key performance metrics within the organization to drive actions and improve performance;
- Delivering well-supported budgets, plans and forecasts in line with the Company’s timelines, along with regular progress updates and action recommendations as appropriate
Business Partnership & Leadership
- Engage with executive management as a strategic partner, influencing the future direction of the company and aligning business and finance strategy to achieve profitable and sustainable growth.
- Instill a financial approach and mind set throughout the organization as a catalyst to help other parts of the business perform better.
- Designing and implementing change to organizational design, processes and systems to meet current and future reporting obligations;
- Improving efficiency whilst maintaining control standards consistent with the Company’s policies and regulatory requirements;
- Leading in a global, highly matrixed organization going through significant change
Team Management & Development
- Leading, mentoring and professionally developing people, making best and highest use of talent including exporting to benefit the wider Group, managing succession plans, fostering a culture of collaboration and promoting and delivering the benefits of working collaboratively to deliver the Company’s strategic objectives
- Aligning activity of Finance in country with Group;
About the Individual
- Fully qualified professional accountancy qualification with minimum of 10 Years Post Qualified Experience;
- Industry relevant experience
- Proven experience in people management with experience of managing remote teams an advantage;
- Ability to develop strong key stakeholder relationships with demonstrable influencing and presentation skills;
- Strong interpersonal and excellent communication skills;
- Ability to manage multi-function, multi-location cross border teams; flexible and adaptable;
- Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills with the ability to interact with stakeholders and effectively including at Executive level;
- Highly Proficient in use of Excel and PowerPoint;
- Strong System Skills;
- Strong analytical abilities with ability to analyze drivers and trends, and actively challenge components with key stakeholders across the organization;
- Excellent problem solving abilities;
- Ability to multi-task and manage multiple people and projects; excellent time management and organization skills
Salary
Salary commensurate based on Candidates’ experience
Benefits
An excellent bonus scheme and other benefits

Akshaya Ananth
Recruitment Associate