Turner & Townsend

About Turner & Townsend

Background The Middle East Region employs circa 550 staff across the Real Estate, Infrastructure and Natural Resource sectors. The ME finance team require support to achieve the ambitious growth plans that we have for the Region. Experience is required to bring technical and reporting excellence to the Middle East, ensuring the wider business is correctly supported. The candidate will be based in our Dubai office. Job Purpose The Finance Manager will be technically strong, having responsibility for bringing technical excellence, rigour, clarity and certainty to accounting, balance sheets and all management information across the ME finance team. They will be a strong team player with experience of managing and developing staff, ensuring conflicting pressures and heavy workloads are managed appropriately. The role will report into the ME Finance Controller. Middle East experience is essential, the candidate also needs to be fully qualified. Key Selected Accountabilities Accounting Ensure accounting records are maintained up to date, accurately and reflecting the true (statutory) position, delivering balance sheet certainty. Including understanding and accounting for contractual terms Ensure accounting controls are in place, including control account and intercompany reconciliations with relevant action then being taken Focal point for annual audit Ensure compliance with accounting policies – both external reporting standards and internal policies Ensure cross-border trading risks are attended to and mitigated Reporting Deliver clear, accurate reporting to deadline Involvement in forecast and budget processes providing support to commercial finance leads as required Focus on cashflow and cash collections Critically appraise, debate and conclude quarterly WIP Tax Sound knowledge and broad experience of GCC tax laws and practices (Corporations Tax, Withholding Tax, VAT) Efficiency Drive behaviours within the business – timesheets, invoicing on time etc Identify and drive efficiency improvements within the ME finance team, reducing the lead time on key reporting Team Ensure the finance team has the appropriate skills, training and experience to deliver their roles Lead, coach and develop the finance team ensuring correct prioritisation and delegation of workload Qualifications Core Behavioural Skills: Confident individual with good interpersonal skills, able to deal with people at all levels and communicate clearly Places people (and therefore team) high on their agenda Team-player Analytically minded, able to break down and understand information Must be comfortable with working in a fast-moving, dynamic environment Good organisational skills, used to managing and prioritising both own and others workload Company Values Statement: We endeavour to create a work environment that reflects the culture of the company, and we encourage every member of our staff to embrace our commitment to be: Professional Quality Driven Goal Orientated Customer Focused Continuously Improving Flexible Open & Integrated Additional Information Company Vision: Our vision is to be the leading capital programmes professional service provider operating across property, infrastructure and natural resources. In 2010 Turner & Townsend began a journey to grow the company on a global scale across our three core sectors. Our vision to excel has seen us climb from 2,500 staff in 63 offices across 28 countries, in 2010, to 6,800 in 110 offices across 45 countries in 2020. Turner & Townsend recognise the fact that our employees are the key to our future growth. We invest heavily in the training, development and regular appraisal of our people: by managing each employee’s career aspirations and by promoting from within at every opportunity, we believe we have created a stimulating, challenging and exciting working environment for our staff. Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community. Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com

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Legal Form: LIMITED

Company Type: Private

Company Size: 10001 - 50000

Revenue: 100 - 500 million (USD)

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