Finance Manager

The Finance Manager is responsible for providing senior financial leadership, commercial insight, and governance support across the business. The role acts as a strategic finance partner to Operations, Supply Chain, Sales, Customer Success, and senior management, translating financial and operational data into actionable recommendations that improve profitability, strengthen controls, support sustainable growth, and enable informed decision-making.

Key Accountabilities

• Strategic Finance Leadership

Lead finance support for the business, ensuring financial plans, forecasts, and performance reviews are aligned with strategic priorities.
Advise senior management on commercial risks, investment decisions, pricing strategies, and operational trade-offs.
Translate financial results into clear executive-level insights and recommended actions.

• Financial Planning & Performance Management

Own budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and long-range financial planning.
Develop robust financial models covering revenue, gross margin, cost-to-serve, working capital, and scenario analysis.
Prepare monthly business reviews, management reports, executive presentations, and board-level financial packs.

• Commercial Business Partnering

Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, Sales, and Customer Success teams to improve financial outcomes and strengthen decision-making.
Support RFQs, tenders, renewals, and customer negotiations through pricing analysis, margin assessment, and benchmarking.
Challenge assumptions constructively and promote accountability for revenue, costs, profitability, and service performance.

• Governance, Controls & Compliance

Ensure timely, accurate, and policy-compliant financial reporting, including revenue recognition, billing validation, accruals, and margin analysis.
Strengthen internal controls, governance processes, and compliance with applicable accounting, tax, and regulatory requirements.
Coordinate with external auditors, tax consultants, and regulatory stakeholders as required.

• Cost Optimisation & Operational Excellence

Identify and drive initiatives to reduce transportation, labour, fleet, warehousing, fulfilment, and overhead costs.
Monitor operational KPIs including cost per shipment, cost per unit, delivery productivity, warehouse productivity, utilisation, and customer contribution margin.
Promote automation, process improvement, and revenue leakage controls to improve profitability and billing accuracy.

Key Performance Indicators

• Financial Performance
• Revenue
• Gross margin
• EBITDA contribution
• Customer profitability
• Cost-to-serve
• Budget variance
• Planning Accuracy
• Forecast accuracy
• Timely budget submission
• Quality of financial assumptions
• Quality of variance analysis and explanations
• Governance & Control
• Reporting timeliness
• Audit findings
• Billing accuracy
• Revenue leakage reduction
• Adherence to financial policies and controls
• Business Partnering
• Quality of decision support
• Stakeholder satisfaction
• Effectiveness of commercial challenge
• Implementation of agreed actions

Decision Rights & Stakeholder Relationships

Decision Rights

May recommend pricing strategies, cost optimisation initiatives, provisioning, budget reallocations, and control improvements within approved authority limits. Material financial, contractual, or compliance risks should be escalated to senior finance leadership.

Internal Stakeholders

• Finance Leadership
• Operations
• Supply Chain
• Sales
• Customer Success
• Procurement
• Human Resources
• Legal
• Information Technology
• Business Unit Leadership

External Stakeholders

• External Auditors
• Tax Advisors
• Regulatory Bodies
• Key Customers
• Selected Vendors and Business Partners

Role Requirements
Education

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related discipline — Required
• Master's degree or MBA with a finance concentration — Preferred

Professional Certification

• CMA, CIMA, CPA, ACCA, SOCPA, or equivalent professional finance qualification — Preferred

Experience

• 8–12 years of progressive finance experience, including FP&A, business partnering, commercial finance, financial reporting, and governance — Required
• Experience in logistics, fulfilment, warehousing, transportation, supply chain, e-commerce, or other high-volume operational environments — Preferred

Languages

• English — Fluent business communication — Required
• Arabic — Working knowledge — Preferred

Competencies & Leadership Behaviours

• Strategic financial leadership, commercial judgement, and executive-level decision support — Advanced
• IFRS, accounting standards, tax requirements, regulatory compliance, and internal control frameworks — Full Understanding
• Financial modelling, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and performance reporting — Advanced
• ERP systems, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, data visualisation, and automation-enabled reporting — Proficient