AVP- Regional Finance - EAMEA (Emiratised)

Company Description

Job Description

JOB PURPOSE:

• Support the EAMEA and FAB International Business with Decision Support and Performance Management expertise. Work with key business stakeholders to provide strategic financial insight and reporting to drive performance and financial management across EAMEA. This includes strategic decision support, provision of financial information, ad-hoc reporting and analysis, and financial process governance.
• Work with the EAMEA CFO and within the International Finance team to provide support for driving performance, allocating resources, shaping strategy, and ensuring decisions are based on facts.
• Effectively coordinate, communicate, and build creditable relationships with senior stakeholders across Finance and the EAMEA Businesses using in-depth knowledge of EAMEA and International businesses, products and markets
• Support Group Finance on International Finance Transformation initiatives
• Provide ad-hoc support for International Finance Control environment

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Business and country financial performance management

• Support EAMEA Regional CFO and CEO with decision support & performance management performance analysis, Flash and MI packs development, and effective coordination with EAMEA Businesses and country Finance teams
• Support Country CFOs in providing recommendations to improve risk adjusted performance with appropriate emphasis on optimizing balance sheet, diversifying revenues or controlling costs
• Monitor the financial performance and positions with reference to the budget for businesses across EAMEA
• Same as above for overall International view when required

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  Forecasting & Budgeting

• Support for the annual budgeting process for EAMEA locations
• Support the monthly forecasting process with consistent approach to enable a FY Outlook perspective on key financial metrics
• Engage Financial / Product Control teams, Funding, and Markets / Liquidity Risk Management teams to enable a holistic financial forecast and highlight key risks and opportunities to drive financial performance
• Same as above for overall International view when required

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  MI reporting process

• Produce MI for EAMEA in collaboration with Group FP&A and International Finance teams, highlighting the performance to support decision making for EAMEA CEO and leadership teams
• Review and discuss Businesses and country performance with stakeholders (internal within Finance and external to Finance) on a monthly basis and obtain appropriate explanations for material variances.
• Ensure that all management reporting requirements (including budgets, forecasts, actuals) are met with timely delivery to relevant stakeholders across EAMEA and Group
• Same as above for overall International view when required

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  Capital, Financial, Regulatory and Taxation Reporting Support

• Work closely with Country Finance teams, Group FC, Group Tax and Group Capital Management to support them where HO input is required

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  Control Environment

Rep Office Financial Controller

• Support Rep offices e.g. Swiss and Brazil with monthly financial operation and financial control processes that support the Rep office operations e.g. payments, funding, HO journals
• Prepare the annual budget and financial forecasts for the Rep offices

General Financial Control Activities

• Monitor Costs pertaining to the countries and prepare analysis on key cost drivers
• Provide ad-hoc support e.g. AOV gaps and fixes where required

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  Transformation and Continuous Improvement

• Ensure completion of activities related to project initiatives such as documentation of business requirements and finance user acceptance testing
• Seek to identify and recommend changes that improve Customer Satisfaction and Team Efficiency at all times

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification:

• Chartered Accountant or an equivalent international qualification e.g. ACA, CIMA, ACCA
• Masters in Finance / MBA desirable

Minimum Experience

• 3+ years, ideally within banking context
• 5+ years, working within Finance