Senior Finance Manager

Role Purpose

The Senior Manager – Finance will be responsible for driving financial operations, ensuring compliance, and supporting business growth initiatives at RNS Technology. This role requires a strong balance of hands-on execution, financial control, and business partnering to enable effective decision-making.

This role also requires a highly organized and commercially aware professional capable of driving execution across departments, ensuring operational discipline, supporting leadership decision-making, and coordinating complex day-to-day business activities in a fast-paced technology environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Financial Operations Control
• Oversee end-to-end accounting and finance operations across RNS entities.
• Ensure accuracy in financial statements, reporting, and consolidations.
• Manage monthly, quarterly, and annual closures in a timely manner.
• Monitor receivables, payables, and cash flow cycles to ensure healthy working capital.
• Budgeting, Forecasting MIS
• Support preparation and tracking of annual budgets and rolling forecasts.
• Develop and manage MIS reports and dashboards for leadership.
• Provide insights on variance analysis and cost optimization opportunities.
• Compliance Governance
• Ensure adherence to all statutory and regulatory requirements:
• VAT, Corporate Tax, Transfer Pricing, UBO
• Coordinate with auditors, tax consultants, and legal advisors
• Business Partnering
• Work closely with business teams to:
• Track project profitability and performance
• Improve financial discipline across functions
• Support decision-making with data-driven financial insights.
• Operational Analytics Resource Efficiency
• Monitor operational productivity, resource allocation, and utilization across teams.
• Analyze engineer working hours, idle time, billability, deployment efficiency, and project allocation trends.
• Work with project managers and department heads to improve operational productivity and resource planning.
• Develop operational dashboards, utilization reports, and business performance metrics.
• Provide management with actionable operational insights for strategic decision-making.
• Support leadership in resolving operational inefficiencies and cross-functional issues
• Ensure smooth coordination between technical, sales, finance, procurement, legal, HR, and support functions
• Ensure timely closure of operational and commercial tasks
• Commercial Contracts Legal Coordination
• Review and coordinate commercial agreements, customer contracts, vendor agreements, NDAs, partnership agreements, and procurement documentation with support of our Legal counsel.
• Work closely with external legal counsel on contract review, negotiations, and risk assessment wherever needed.
• Provide commercial and operational inputs on legal agreements before management approval.
• Evaluate commercial exposure, operational feasibility, payment terms, liabilities, service obligations, penalties, and execution risks within contracts.
• Ensure contract execution aligns with business objectives and operational capabilities.
• Expansion Strategic Support
• Assist in new entity setup, branch expansion, and financial structuring.
• Support CFO in M A analysis, due diligence, and integration activities.
• Contribute to fund-raising preparation and financial modelling.
• Vendor Customer Management
• Maintain strong relationships with vendors, customers, and distributors.
• Monitor and improve collections and payment cycles.
• Team Management
• Lead and mentor the finance, operations and accounts team.
• Ensure adherence to processes, controls, and timelines.
• Build a culture of accuracy, accountability, responsiveness, and operational excellence..
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across business functions.
  

• Chartered Accountant (CA) preferred
• 10+ years of post-qualification relevant experience in finance and accounting
• Strong knowledge of accounting principles and financial reporting
• Experience in MIS, budgeting, and financial analysis
• Working knowledge of MENA compliance landscape (VAT, Corporate Tax, etc.)
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills
• Strong attention to detail and problem-solving ability
• commercially sharp and operationally strong
• proactive, accountable, and solutions-oriented
• Effective communication and stakeholder management skills
  
  

• Accurate and timely financial reporting
• Strong control over cash flow and working capital
• Zero compliance gaps
• Improved visibility through MIS and financial insights
• Effective support to business growth and expansion initiatives
• Improved operational discipline and execution across departments
• Stronger visibility and tracking of organizational activities
• Improved utilization and operational efficiency
• Stronger cross-functional coordination
• Enhanced management decision-making support
  
  

• Strong in execution but evolving into a strategic thinker
• Comfortable working in a fast-growing, dynamic environment
• Able to own outcomes, not just processes
• Keen to grow into a future finance leadership role