Finance Director Middle East

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Finance Director – Middle East

KBR is a global provider of differentiated, professional services and technologies delivered across a wide government, defense and industrial base. Drawing from its rich 100-year history and culture of innovation and mission focus, KBR creates sustainable value by combining engineering, technical and scientific expertise with its full life cycle capabilities to help our clients meet their most pressing challenges today and into the future.

We deliver science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 37,000 people worldwide with customers in more than 80 countries and operations in over 29 countries. KBR is proud to work with its customers across the globe to provide technology, value-added services, and long-term operations and maintenance services to ensure consistent delivery with predictable results. At KBR, We Deliver.

The Finance Director – Middle East is responsible for the financial operations, forecasting and reporting of the Middle East region. The focus of which is partnering closely with the Vice President Middle East to provide valuable insight into the decision-making process as the portfolio of engineering projects executed in region expand across a broad geographical footprint.

KBR are seeking an individual who ideally has experience of working with a projects-based business, familiarity with US GAAP, and experience implementing change in the form of improved end-to-end cycle times.

This individual will work cross-functionally to challenge, understand and provide foresight of risks and opportunities to project performance. A deep understanding of project billing and accounting process will be developed as well as system structures and inter-dependencies. Through this understanding they will provide valuable business insight around delivered and forecast performance.

The right individual will have the ability to set-up Joint Ventures and work with local partners.

Qualifications

Skills and abilities

• Experience working within the day-to-day financial operations of an organisation, including technical, practical and leadership experience.
• Ability to build-out appropriate supporting team structures
• Excellent engagement and influencing skills, with the ability to gain the confidence and trust of the senior management team and the clients with whom we work.
• Flourishes in a fast paced, dynamic environment
• High level of curiosity with a desire to drive continuous improvement
• Excellent commercial acumen
• Highly organised and drives projects to completion
• Strong knowledge and understanding of planning and ERP systems and data.
• Embraces technology-led solutions.
• Ability to extract relevant data and interpret for analysis and communication succinctly.
  
  

Responsibilities

• Support operational monitoring and improvements including the management of working capital of the business units through an excellent understanding of the order to cash process, and the management of utilisation of staff
• Installs and maintains sound technical accounting practices, including proactive identification, evaluation, escalation, and conclusion/documentation of complex and/or judgmental areas in compliance with US GAAP.
• Successful development, enhancement, and maintenance of all internal controls. Drive compliance and governance in day-to-day activities and ensure compliance with SOX and anti-corruption requirements.
• Close coordination, partnership and alignment with leadership and functions of projects, including commercial, project controls (specifically EAC production) and supply chain to enable project objectives to be achieved.
• Ownership of the business unit balance sheet; understanding the drivers, timing and predictability with which they will impact the P&L
• Oversight of reconciliations, integrations and disclosures for the business unit; influences key Stakeholders where there are critical dependencies
  
  

Credentials

• Bachelors degree required
• Accounting qualification required
• A relevant number of years experience in accounting, finance, or FP&A; project accounting experience desirable; public accounting experience preferred
  
  

KBR Company Information

When you become part of the KBR team, your opportunities are endless. Through collaboration with our customers, we’re defining tomorrow’s challenges, then providing the solutions and services to overcome those challenges, always maintaining our commitment to total safety and reliability.

At KBR, we partner with government and industry clients to provide purposeful and comprehensive solutions with an emphasis on efficiency and safety. With a full portfolio of services, proprietary technologies and expertise, our employees are ready to handle projects and missions throughout their entire lifecycle, from planning and design to sustainability and maintenance. Whether at the bottom of the ocean or in outer space, our clients trust us to deliver the impossible on a daily basis.

Working at KBR means being rewarded for your contributions. In addition to competitive benefits and professional development, our people are empowered to use all their potential, creating meaningful change for themselves and our clients. We attract the best minds in the world because our expertise thrives on creativity, resourcefulness and collaboration. That is how we supply our clients with cutting-edge solutions and services.

As the needs of the world change, we’re ready to respond and guide the way forward with strategic, sustainable, and technological advancements grounded in more than a century of practical application and execution.

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