Job Description

Job Title Head Financial Systems

Description

Essential responsibilities

• Mitigate legacy risks and exposures in the current Finance system and application support.
• Manage and improve the finance system, whilst transformation project is underway. Ensuring optimal scooping of projects, allocation of work and timely delivery of robust systems.
• Ownership of all post-transformation finance systems, processes, and applications.
• Modernize the financial systems and infrastructure to ensure that it is fit for purpose both now and when taking account of strategic growth and diversification plans.
• Ensure the finance systems and infrastructure enable and empower the finance function to complete all deliverables with a high-level of accuracy, insight, and efficiency, with a focus on eliminating manual work at every opportunity.
• Lead, optimize, and successfully deliver future integration/migration of businesses acquired into the company's financial systems and infrastructure.
• Develop, manage, and transform the finance systems team to deliver the highest quality support to the finance community and all business.
• Proactively look for opportunities to make incremental enhancements and improvements to current and future finance systems, reporting and data analytics capabilities.
• Drive increased efficiency and productivity across finance via overhauling and modernization of systems and processes.
• Support the commercial and operational decisions of the business, by enhancing the analysis, insight, and financial reporting capabilities of the finance team.
• Drive the continuous improvement of the group's financial systems and analytics capabilities, to make them better, simpler, and more user friendly.
• Finance business lead across all finance systems related projects.

The Successful Applicant

Requirements

• Qualified Accountant, with proven track record of career progression in a large, dynamic organisation
• At least 8 to 10 years of experience working in a relevant finance role
• Experience with system integration, improvement, and modernization
• Highly competent in writing coding languages such as SQL, VBA, and Macros.
• Extensive experience with analytics tools such as Tableau, Qlikview or Power BI.
• Display experience in interpreting, structuring, and optimising large commercial data sets (both finance and non-financial) to ensure the business can take advantage of enhancing insight.
• Have managed staff.
• Have developed business partnering relationships at a senior level within an organisation.
• Driving change, improvement, and challenge through an organisation or department.

What's on Offer

Skills and Attributes:

• Commercially astute with a high level of analytical skills and focused on adding value
• Great at building strong, effective working relationships, and stakeholder management.
• Ability to get both the big picture and the detail
• Strong technical skills and knowledge.
• Robust, with high levels of personal resilience and capable of working in a demanding, fast-paced, and dynamic environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Great at interaction at all levels, internally and externally
• Great people leadership and management skills
• Willing to see and do things differently and able to drive change
• Positive, pro-active, and hard-working

What's on offer?

The successful candidate for this role will be offered a monthly competitive salary. This is an exciting opportunity for a Head of Financial Systems to further progress their career with a growing government company.

Contact

Lena Gast

Quote job ref

JN-072022-5671981

Job summary

Sector

Finance & Accounting

Subsector

Business Analysis / Systems Analysis

Industry

Public Sector

Location

Abu Dhabi

Contract type

Permanent

Consultant name

Lena Gast

Job reference

JN-072022-5671981

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