Finance Department Manager

The Role

Role Overview Oversee core financial management across the countries in the region, with primary responsibility for regional tax management, treasury administration, and professional financial support. Organize, coordinate, and supervise country finance teams in completing tax filings,...

The Role
Role Overview Oversee core financial management across the countries in the region, with primary responsibility for regional tax management, treasury administration, and professional financial support. Organize, coordinate, and supervise country finance teams in completing tax filings, annual tax reconciliations and settlements, audits, accounting operations, and treasury administration. Establish consistent regional management standards, strengthen regional financial management, mitigate tax and treasury risks, and provide professional financial support for regional operations and major projects. Key Responsibilities 1. Coordinate tax filings, annual tax reconciliations and settlements, audits, and accounting operations across the region; supervise completion and follow up on corrective actions. 2. Organize research into tax policies across the region, conduct tax-risk assessments, and recommend appropriate responses. 3. Lead major regional tax matters and coordinate the implementation of tax-related matters in Saudi Arabia. 4. Participate in tax planning during the business-development and marketing stages and review the financial and tax provisions of major contracts. 5. Provide tax advice and policy training to regional management, project teams, and country finance personnel. 6. Maintain the daily cash ledger, prepare daily cash reports, and ensure daily cash records are reconciled and closed. 7. Coordinate weekly and monthly cash reporting and cash-plan preparation, and analyze variances against plan. 8. Maintain core records, including bank-account registers, bank-authorization registers, bank-guarantee registers, and letter-of-credit registers. 9. Organize reviews of bank reconciliation statements and follow up on the clearance of long-outstanding reconciling items. 10. Conduct reviews of core treasury-management practices across the region. This role does not include payment approval, financing, or bank-relationship management. 11. Provide professional financial support for regional operations, tendering, and major projects. 12. Coordinate and supervise priority finance activities in each country and consolidate them into regional management reports. 13. Follow up on the implementation of corrective actions arising from audits, tax inspections, and special reviews.

Requirements
Qualifications 1. Bachelors degree or above in Finance, Accounting, Taxation, or a related field. 2. At least eight years of financial management experience, including experience in the Middle East or with a Chinese multinational company. 3. Experience working for a tax authority or another government agency, or for a large accounting firm, is preferred. 4. Sound knowledge of tax management, treasury administration, and financial management. 5. Strong organizational, coordination, communication, execution, and risk-identification skills. 6. Preference will be given to candidates who can use Chinese proficiently for day-to-day work and professional communication. Strong English listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills are required.

About the company
Founded in 1980, China Harbour Engineering Company Ltd. (CHEC) is a subsidiary of China Communications Construction Company Ltd (CCCC), one of the Global Fortune 500 companies. CHEC has been developing and operating the oversea business on behalf of CCCC. Currently, CHEC has more than 80 oversea branch offices or subsidiaries serving clients in over 90 countries around the world. Today, our 10 billion USD worth of projects globally. Since entering Saudi market in 2007, CHEC has undertaken more than 30 ports and large-scale municipal infrastructure projects, such as Red Sea Gateway Terminal Civil Works, The Ras AL Khair Port Facilities Project with Maaden, Construction and Site Development for the Waterfront Phase Ⅲ, Jec Port Dredging And Reclamation,King Fahad Causeway Island Project A and so on. The total contract value of these projects has been more than 5 billion US dollars. CHEC has made a positive contribution to economic development of Saudi Arabia, shapes an excellent enterprise brand, and further enhance CHECs favorable Chinese corporation visualize in Saudi Arabia. Based on the enterprise principle, CHEC impresses the locals with its responsible image. CHEC acted as an important role in the MAHARAT training program and create more than 10000 local jobs. CHEC will remain committed to carrying forward the public work, and making contributions to local community as a responsible corporate citizen. Since the inception, CHEC has committed to the core values of keen responsibility, quality return, and win-win cooperation. Motivated by the morale of inclusiveness, integrity, innovation and dedication, CHEC has delivered a series of landmark projects with international reputations. CHEC actively fulfills its enterprise responsibility with due diligence, helping develop the economy and communities around the countries and regions, sharing common interest and goals, and conducting the sustainable growth together with our partners.