Job Title: Vice President Financial Planning & Controlling
Job Location: Dubai
Lead the development and preparation of the annual budget and periodic rolling forecasts. Develop and implement strategic controlling by partnering with functions outside of the financial area, to define ways to measure business performance based on key indicators rolled up into meaningful business metrics. Work with all functions on target setting for KPIs and reporting of strategic metrics against budget and targets. Identify, document and track cost saving opportunities and efficiency gains and make recommendations for corrective action in case of deviations. Drive continuous system development to ensure effective, structured and timely Management Reporting and to provide detailed analyses on business performance and recommendations on improvement potential to enable the Executive Management to make appropriate decisions.
Management Reporting:
- Prepare, analyse and comment on the financial and management accounts and provide regular, relevant, reliable, effective, structured and timely Management Reporting on the Company's performance against actual and budget as well as an assessment of key business and financial risks faced by the Company
Forecasting:
- Enhance, streamline, restructure and standardize current forecasting systems to provide regular financial forecasts of a minimum of four and maximum of six rolling quarters on the market and competitive environment as well as UASC's business and financial performance to support management's decision making
- Produce interim financial statements including cash flow and balance sheet for the forecasting horizon
Budget:
- Prepare the annual budget of the Company based on detailed, structured and optimized interactions with each contributing department. - Enhance existing systems in place to reduce the time and the number of versions needed to finalize budget.
Controlling:
- Develop and implement controlling processes including cyclic review of metric definition, data collection, aggregation and reporting
- Understand intent of long-term corporate strategic planning and reflect that in controlling mechanisms
- Work with all functions to understand business at hand and define metrics to measure functional performance in line with overall corporate strategic direction
- Roll up low level functional metrics into meaningful functional or cross functional business performance indicators, and manage KPI input cycle- Define targets at strategic corporate level and with individual functions
- Support all functions with regular data collection and reporting on defined performance metrics
- Document and track cost saving opportunities and efficiency gains and make recommendations for corrective action in case of deviations
Financial Policies:
- Develop and enforce overall financial policies to govern project financing and monitor project funds allocation and spending
Skills
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor degree in finance-related subject
- Masters in a related field and/or logistics is preferred
Minimum Experience:
- 10-15 or more years of experience in a similar role
- At least 8-10 years in a leadership role
- 3-5 years shipping line experience a strong plus
Job-Specific Skills:
- Financial statements analysis
- Development of relevant and reliable reporting to management
- In-depth knowledge of financial and business planning
- Knowledge of enterprise maritime shipping systems
- Detailed knowledge of relevant financial accounting and reporting standards
Competencies:
- Leadership
- Interpersonal skills
- Advanced stakeholder management skills
- Strong analytical capabilities
- Time management
- Communication skills
Deadline: 06/09/2013
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