Director - Finance - Real Estate/Media Firm

Position based with a Billion Dollar Group in Dubai

Responsibility :

- Overseeing accounting function and ensuring timely accounting closures and preparation of financial statements

- Ensuring financial controls, compliance and governance within the organisation

- Keeping an eye on the business fiscal performance through MIS, analytics and driving course correction as required

- Advise on the financial perspective, cash flows and cost controls of new businesses and contracts

- Responsible for setting up processes and controls to support business growth

- Capex Assurance & Revenue Assurance

- Preparation of consolidated financial statements and statutory audit.

- Coordinate and direct the preparation of annual budget with various departments, financial forecasts, and report variances. To develop the MIS structure (dashboards) as may be required by the management

- Strategy: Assess organizational performance against both the annual budget and long-term business strategy. Develop tools and systems to provide critical financial and operational information and make actionable recommendations on both strategy and execution plans.

- Strategic planning, budgeting and reporting - ensure preparation of strategic plans, budgets and forecasts, ensure financial viabilities of business transactions, and ensure robust management information systems are in place.

- Engage the audit, and investment committees around issues, trends, and changes in the operating model(s) and operational delivery.

Treasury Management:

- Fund Raising : Spearheading the fund raising efforts, good relationship with global/domestic Private Equity funds/Banks

- Leading the fund raising initiative of the Company to ensure clear visibility of funds/credit limit for ensuring the AUM growth and Cash Flows.

- Representing company to Institutional Investors, PE firms, Mutual Funds, Banks, FI, FIIs, Rating Agencies, Debenture Trustees, Registrars, Brokers/intermediaries to ensure that the adequate credit limits are available which has in turn led to development of extensive relationships

- Financial Management and control