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Job Title: Chief Financial Officer

Job Type: Permanent

Location: Doha

Job Description:

Essential Duties & Responsibilities by Dimensions:

Accounting, Controls and Financial Reporting:

Manage all aspects of accounting; including but not limited to accounts payable, account receivable, banks, payroll, inventory, fixed assets.
Maintain General Ledger accounts ensuring proper and accurate journal entry preparation.
Prepare periodic reconciliations, including but not limited to, monthly bank reconciliation, general ledger reconciliation.
Establish and maintain a robust compliance framework, as well as implement and maintain robust business controls
Prepare statutory financial statements and related disclosures and procure timely filing to satisfy local compliance requirements.
Prepare financial statements and related disclosures under International Financial Reporting Standards for Partner consolidation purposes.
Manage and coordinate relationships with external auditors.
Provide support and coordinate Management responses to Internal Audit.
Act in close coordination with the Sponsors Accounting and Internal Controls Functions.

Tax:

Prepare and review tax calculations, estimates and reports
Ensure a robust tax compliance framework and timely filing of all corporate tax returns

Establish appropriate system & processes for tax risk management
Liaise with tax authorities and provide tax audit support
Manage external tax advisors
Act in close coordination with Sponsors Tax Fubnctions

Treasury and Corporate Finance

Ensure compliance to the group treasury policy and delegation of financial authority manual.
Ensure effective treasury management as well as a robust risk control environment.
Ensure proper cash flow planning with the aim of satisfying timely cash requirements of the business and ensuring at all times optimal capital structuring. Perform proper monitoring of cash flow budget.
Assume responsibility for balance sheet management by focusing on asset-liability management, liquidity management, counterparty management, interest rate and foreign exchange management.
Manage Group treasury systems and solutions aimed at supporting cash flow management effectiveness and maintaining effective controls.
Manage excess of liquidity and recommend measures to optimize returns from temporary cash investments in compliance with the Treasury policy.
Ensure compliance with treasury requirements as defined by the relevant regulatory authorities (Central and local Government, Central bank, other authorities)
Generate proper management reports for the Management Team with respect to company’s cash flow, asset and liability profile, risk exposure
Is responsible for all corporate finance activities at Country level (funded and unfunded lines of credit and working capital facilities
Maintain effective relationships with lending institutions, credit rating agencies and the wider financial community
Conduct effective analysis on current status and expected trends of the local financial markets to support effective capital structuring decisions and active management of the debt and liquidity portfolio.
Ensure the effective monitoring and proper management of key financial risks (counterparty, bank capital adequacy, liquidity, volatility of interest and forex rates)
Act in close coordination with Sponsors Heads of Trasury and Corporate Financing

Project Financing and Financial Advisory

Lead all project and structured financing activities of the business in order to meet timely the funding requirements of the project, as well as the refinancing of existing projects at the most competitive terms.
Identify the optimal debt structuring of the projects after comprehensive assessment of funding alternatives.
Ensure proper financing execution, including assessment and selection of financing counterparties, coordination of lenders’ due diligence and effective negotiation of term sheets and financing documentation
Coordinate the drawdown/repayment formalities for debt facilities and closely monitor compliance with financing covenants and obligations.
Work closely with equity partners, accounting and tax, legal, technical, market, insurance advisors.
Maintain effective relationships with lending institutions, credit rating agencies and the local financial community.
Conduct effective analysis on current status and expected trends of local financial markets to support effective capital structuring decisions and active management of project debt portfolio
Prepare recommendations, status reports, and approval requests for the Management team as requested.
Work in close coordination with the Sponsors Heads of Project Financing and Financial Advisory

Financial Planning and Analysis:

Manage long term business planning, annual budgeting and periodical forecast updates as well as lenders financial models

Lead management reporting activities in line with Sponsor Group’s guidelines and reporting methodologies. Ensure timely, reliable, transparent management information to the CEO, the Management team and the Sponsors Financial Planning and Analysis functions.
Analyze the operating and financial performance of the business and investees against targets identifying key variances and providing support for corrective actions. Coordinate periodical business review meetings.
Establish and maintain an effective performance management system: provide effective support in setting operating and financial targets for the financial year in consistency with strategy and long term business plans.
Is responsible for maintaining effective cost accounting, for monitoring margins, operating expenses, G&A, capital expenditure and cash flow against budgets. Manage and control the spending authorization process and review and execute budget change requests.
Provide ad hoc financial analysis when requested, including business valuations, post-investment performance appraisals and impairment testing. Support for internal and external benchmarking analysis and ad-hoc projects aimed at improving operational efficiency and overall value creation of the business and investees.
Manage Group adopted financial planning and management reporting systems. Provide active support in implementation and improvement of those systems.
Provide support for the successful completion of internal and external audits providing all the relevant information and analysis.
Act in close coordination with Sponsors Financial Planning and Analysis function.

Insurance Management:

Support the Project Insurance function in developing and maintaining an effective risk assessment framework for insurable risks in the Country.
Define the insurance strategy for the business with the aim to ensure optimal risk allocation to the market, compliance to regulatory and contractual arrangements while minimizing overall “cost of risk” and ensure compliance with financing documents.
Lead the procurement of insurance coverage and related services and manage the in-country relationship with the insurance market in co-ordination with the Partner Insurance functions.
Support the Project Insurance functions for the effective management of all the activities related to insurance programs and contracts, for ensuring control over insurance documents issuances and documental evidence compliance as well as coordinate the validation of the insurance contracts.
Provide support to the Sponsors Insurance Functions for the management of insurance claims,negotiations and for managing relations and communications with the insurance companies and Loss Adjusters
Provide all relevant insurance data to the Sponsors Insurance Functions to ensure an effective integrated process for data gathering, analysis, quality control and reporting related to insurable risks.
Act in close coordination with Sponsors Heads of Insurance.

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