Head of finance (CFO Track)

About the role

Requirements

• What you bring
• •          15+ years in finance, including 5+ years in a senior leadership role (Head of Finance, Group FC, Finance Director, VP Finance or CFO)
• •          Professional qualification: CA, CPA, ACCA, CIMA or MBA (Finance)
• •          Proven project finance or structured debt experience
• •          Direct experience with banks and lenders in multiple jurisdictions
• •          Experience leading a group restructuring or reorganisation
• •          Led finance teams of 15+, including treasury
• •          Trade finance experience (LCs, guarantees, supply-chain finance)
• •          Asset or business acquisition experience, including due diligence and valuation
• •          Advanced Excel and financial modelling; working knowledge of Power BI or similar
• •          Experience in shipping/Vessel operations , commodity trading, mining or asset-heavy manufacturing (adjacent backgrounds welcome)
• •          Tax structuring, transfer pricing and entity set-up experience across multiple jurisdictions
• •          Cash flow forecasting, dashboards and board-level MIS reporting experience
• Nice-to-have
• •          Ship finance lender relationships (Nordic, Greek, Singapore, Chinese leasing, DFIs)
• •          Mining finance: offtake, streaming, royalty structures
• •          Rating agency, bond or equity-market exposure
• •          Audit committee and board reporting
• •          Manufacturing working capital and capex discipline
• •          Systems: SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Dynamics, Hyperion or OneStream, Kyriba or GTreasury
• How to apply: Submit your CV and a short application. Shortlisted candidates complete a brief video interview. We treat all applications confidentially and are an equal opportunity employer.

Responsibilities

• Lead group accounting, reporting, audit, FP&A and the finance team across entities and jurisdictions
• Run treasury: liquidity, cash pooling, FX and interest-rate risk, covenant management
• Own relationships with banks, lenders, trade-finance providers and DFIs, enlarging credit lines and building new relationships in the UAE, Hong Kong, Singapore, Switzerland, London and other hubs
• Drive capital allocation and investment appraisal for project finance vessel, mining and manufacturing opportunities, including due diligence and valuation
• Structure project, asset and trade finance (sale-and-leaseback, newbuilding finance, offtake and borrowing-base facilities)
• Lead group restructuring: entity, funding and tax structures
• Upgrade finance systems, processes and controls (ERP, consolidation, treasury and BI tools)
• Present to the CEO, board and lenders with clarity and credibility
• Lead tax planning and optimisation, and set up new entities in different jurisdictions as the group grows
• Build cash flow dashboards and predictive forecasting that give the CEO and board a clear view of liquidity
• Own the internal audit process and deliver regular MIS reporting to the board

Skills

• Group accounting
• FP&A
• treasury
• cash pooling
• FX risk management
• interest-rate risk
• covenant management
• bank and lender relationships
• trade finance (LCs, guarantees, supply-chain finance)
• project finance
• due diligence and valuation
• structured debt
• M&A / asset acquisition
• ERP systems
• Power BI
• financial modelling
• tax planning and optimisation
• external audit management