Finance Manager

Role overview

An investment holding group based in Fujairah is looking for a Finance Manager with a strong controls mindset and solid operational finance expertise. The position also requires hands-on FP&A capability, with the ability to turn financial results into practical insights that support business decisions.

Key responsibilities

• Ensure the monthly close is completed on time and with accuracy, while maintaining a fully reconciled balance sheet and avoiding unresolved carried-forward items.
• Take full responsibility for inventory sub-ledger control, covering valuation, costing approaches such as landed and production costing, and variance reviews including shrinkage and wastage.
• Maintain tight control over revenue recognition and reconciliation between sales and the general ledger, while also overseeing receivables, ageing, credit control, and disciplined cash collection.
• Monitor SKU-level profitability and rebate or incentive arrangements, ensuring margins are reported correctly and rebates are accounted for properly.
• Handle intercompany transactions, reconciliations, and eliminations so that there are no aged differences and consolidation inputs remain clean.
• Prepare budgets and forecasts, and perform variance analysis using key operating metrics such as volume, yield, pricing, and product mix to support management decisions.
• Enforce closing timelines, standard operating procedures, and ERP process discipline to strengthen consistency and accountability across finance and operations.

Requirements

• Professional qualification as an ACCA, CPA, CA, or an equivalent chartered accounting designation is required.
• A minimum of 10 years of relevant finance experience is needed, including full ownership of the complete financial control cycle across P2P, Inventory, O2C, and R2R during month-end close.
• Proven experience in FP&A, budgeting, and reporting is essential.
• Experience working in multi-entity environments is required, ideally within Retail, FMCG, Distribution, Manufacturing, or Agriculture sectors.
• Previous people-management experience with direct reports is necessary.
• Strong working knowledge of integrated ERP systems is important.

Additional information

The employer is offering a competitive compensation package.