Chief Financial Officer - Muscat- Oman

WOW Softech; Muscat; Sur place; OMR 41 000 - 50 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

WOW Softech is seeking a strategic finance leader to partner with Top Management and the board to steer business planning, capital allocation, and profitable growth across construction and manufacturing sectors.

You will oversee budgeting, MIS development, variance analysis, and project profitability, while ensuring robust internal controls, governance, and compliance with IFRS and tax laws. This role also manages treasury, cash flow and relationships with banks and lenders.

Responsabilités

• Serve as a core financial advisor to Top Management and executive stakeholders on business planning, capital allocation, and group-wide strategic initiatives.
• Prepare and deliver high-level financial presentations, strategic commentary, and decision-support analytics for executive committee and board meetings.
• Evaluate financial risk, business models, and investment opportunities to support profitable growth in the construction and manufacturing sectors.
• Direct the group-wide annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, and strategic long-term financial planning processes.
• Develop, enhance, and manage robust Management Information Systems (MIS) to deliver accurate, actionable, and timely financial insights to executive leadership.
• Drive detailed variance analysis, project profitability tracking, and operational cost controls across all business units.
• Oversee the end-to-end financial operations and ensure rigorous bookkeeping standards across operating divisions.
• Maintain complete oversight over general ledger accuracy, job-cost accounting (WIP), inventory valuation, and month-end/year-end closure processes tailored to manufacturing and construction environments.
• Enforce robust internal financial controls, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and governance frameworks.
• Lead group treasury operations, including cash flow planning, working capital management, and liquidity forecasting.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with commercial banks, financial institutions, and lending partners to manage credit facilities, bank guarantees, trade finance, and treasury lines.
• Optimize working capital cycles, managing receivables, payables, and project cash flows effectively.
• Drive and manage the end-to-end statutory audit processes, interfacing effectively with external and internal auditors to ensure timely, unqualified financial reports.
• Ensure full compliance with relevant statutory regulations, IFRS, corporate governance policies, and tax laws.
• Identify, monitor, and mitigate operational, credit, and financial risks across business divisions.

Description du poste

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Top Management Engagement

• Serve as a core financial advisor to Top Management and executive stakeholders on business planning, capital allocation, and group-wide strategic initiatives.
• Prepare and deliver high-level financial presentations, strategic commentary, and decision-support analytics for executive committee and board meetings.
• Evaluate financial risk, business models, and investment opportunities to support profitable growth in the construction and manufacturing sectors.

Financial Planning, Budgeting & MIS

• Direct the group-wide annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, and strategic long-term financial planning processes.
• Develop, enhance, and manage robust Management Information Systems (MIS) to deliver accurate, actionable, and timely financial insights to executive leadership.
• Drive detailed variance analysis, project profitability tracking, and operational cost controls across all business units.

Core Accounting, Bookkeeping & Internal Controls

• Oversee the end-to-end financial operations and ensure rigorous bookkeeping standards across operating divisions.
• Maintain complete oversight over general ledger accuracy, job-cost accounting (WIP), inventory valuation, and month-end/year-end closure processes tailored to manufacturing and construction environments.
• Enforce robust internal financial controls, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and governance frameworks.

Treasury & Cash Flow Management

• Lead group treasury operations, including cash flow planning, working capital management, and liquidity forecasting.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with commercial banks, financial institutions, and lending partners to manage credit facilities, bank guarantees, trade finance, and treasury lines.
• Optimize working capital cycles, managing receivables, payables, and project cash flows effectively.

Statutory Audits, Risk & Compliance

• Drive and manage the end-to-end statutory audit processes, interfacing effectively with external and internal auditors to ensure timely, unqualified financial reports.
• Ensure full compliance with relevant statutory regulations, International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), corporate governance policies, and tax laws.
• Identify, monitor, and mitigate operational, credit, and financial risks across business divisions.