Chief Financial Officer

Job Description : CFO UAE Must be from Food commodity industry Responsibilities: · Strategic Finance Leadership · Lead and manage a finance team and responsible for day-to-day operations to ensure efficient functioning of the verticals Finance and Treasury departments. · Provide leadership to embed profitability, cash management culture, risk management, and excellent commercial judgement in business decision making. · Collaborate and contribute to Senior Leadership Team to drive company performance. · Develop, lead, and deliver the short- and long-term business plan, reflecting the company vision, including the identification of opportunities and risks and cash requirements. · Define key performance indicators for the company, through analysis, to drive business decisions and solutions to growth, costs, profitability, and cash management. · Monitor and execute financial strategy by providing commercial insights, strategic analysis, and leadership on financial reporting. · Proactively advise the CEO and Senior Leadership Team on key business decisions through sound commercial judgement, including highlighting options, trade-offs, risks, and opportunities. · Provide guidance to the CEO and Senior Leadership Team on the preparation of the annual budget planning and the preparation of forecasts, trends, and financial reports. · Partner with the Senior Leadership Team in preparing business KPIs, board packages, investor reports, and reporting dashboards. · Build a strong finance team culture of integrity, collaboration, data-driven and proactiveness. · Strong risk management approach, helping the company identify business risks and implementing appropriate responses to the same · Ensure that business controls and finance SOPs on credit collections, purchasing functions etc. are adequate and regularly updated as might be required Requirements · CA + other relevant senior finance qualifications · At least 15+ years of work experience, of which 5+ in a commodity trading industry( Preferable food ingredients / edible nuts), 5+ in Africa and 5 at a senior level. · Experience : treasury / consolidations / financial institute liaisons / joint ventures and mergers & acquisitions. · A people leader with excellent communication skills. · Ability to manage complex matrix structures and environments. · Agile, resilient personality who has experience dealing with multiple stakeholders at senior level.

---

Back