Finance Consultant

Job Description Roles & Responsibilities Role & responsibilities Understand the client's business model, revenue streams, cost structure and operational-finance linkages. Map as-is finance processes and identify accounting, control, reporting, working-capital and system gaps. Design to-be finance processes covering order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, inventory-to-costing, project-to-billing and record-to-report. Develop chart of accounts, cost centres, profit centres, project codes, dimensions, approval matrices and financial controls. Design manufacturing costing, project-costing, revenue-recognition and inventory-valuation frameworks. Structure P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow, schedules, MIS, budgets, forecasts and management dashboards. Define AR, collections, credit-control, reconciliation, AP and payment-control processes. Prepare BRDs, functional requirements, report logic, test scenarios and acceptance criteria for finance-related ERP workflows. Coordinate with operational teams and developers to ensure financial controls are embedded in sales, purchase, inventory, production and project processes. Prepare and validate finance master data, opening balances, migration files and reconciliation reports. Plan and execute finance UAT, defect closure, cutover, user training, go-live and stabilization. Take ownership of both design and execution at client site under guidance within a live operational environment. Maintain action trackers, decisions, risks, reconciliations and timely escalation to the Project Manager. Desired Candidate Profile Required Qualifications and Skills: Qualified CA / CMA / ACCA. MBA Finance may be considered only with strong hands-on finance transformation and industry experience. Minimum 8 years of experience ipractical finance experience, including financial consulting, controllership, finance transformation, manufacturing finance, project finance or ERP-led finance improvement. Minimum 3 years in hands-on client-facing or cross-functional finance transformation work. Industry Experience mainly within Manufacturing and project-based SMEs requiring costing, inventory, cash-flow, revenue recognition and ERP finance structuring. Financial consulting / finance transformation / controllership experience with practical exposure to manufacturing, projects, contracting, trading or distribution businesses. Hands-on experience with leading ERP/accounting systems; advanced MS Excel; PowerPoint; financial modelling; budgeting and reporting tools; exposure to BI dashboards and project tracking tools. Key Skills: End-to-end finance structuring across accounting, controls, reporting, budgeting, cash flow and governance Strong understanding of linkages between Sales, Purchase, Inventory, Production, Projects, Delivery, HR and Finance Manufacturing costing, standard/actual costing, BOM or batch cost, overhead allocation and variance analysis Project costing, committed cost, work-in-progress, milestone billing and revenue recognition IFRS concepts and practical application in financial reporting Accounts receivable, collections, ageing, credit control and customer reconciliation Accounts payable, supplier reconciliation, three-way matching and payment controls Inventory valuation, provisions, slow-moving stock, write-offs and stock reconciliation P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow structuring, schedules and management reporting Budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and rolling cash-flow planning Financial controls, approval matrices, segregation of duties and system locks ERP finance-process design, chart of accounts, dimensions, masters, workflows and integration testing BRD, functional requirement, report logic and acceptance-criteria preparation Data migration, opening balance validation, reconciliation and cutover support Strong analytical, communication, ownership and client-handling skills Language Skills Fluent at English (written and spoken) Arabic or 2nd Languages will be considered a plus Company Industry ConsultingManagement ConsultingAdvisory Services Department / Functional Area FinanceTreasury Keywords Finance Consultant Get real-time job updates only on our App