
Assistant Finance Controller – Financial Services
- Kuwait City
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Ensure and assess timely preparation and review of monthly MIS, P/L, BS, KPI and other operational activities including Cash Management, CAPEX & Working Capital Management
- Collaborate closely with finance and operations team for financial control, cash management and other relevant operational aspects on a daily basis.
- Ensure timely and accurate financial reporting that is compliant with statutory regulations and is free of financial irregularities.
- Review of Bank guarantees, payables, fixed assets, internal audit and compliance reports and ensure budget and overheads control with coordination with operations team.
- Identify, Escalate and mitigate Financial Risks.
- Contribute to all the modernization of finance processes, controls reporting team and organization.
- Develop or recommend practical solutions to address financial challenges or issues.
- Strive to improve revenue and profits of all departments by focusing on topline growth as well as scouting for various cost saving initiatives.
- Prepare monthly budgets and financial statements within timelines.
- Ensure that all Insurance claims and related liabilities are settled in a timely and effective manner.
- Oversee Accounts payables and Accounts receivables by verifying all vendor payments and manage/follow-ups to ensure collections within due date.
- Continuously review and recommend changes to policies and procedures to exercise effective financial controls.
- Ensure compliance with the same by the Operating Management.
- Collect and analyze, review financial statements for meaningful comparison (trend analysis, variance analysis, benchmarking, KPIs, etc.)
- Expert working knowledge of IFRS 17
- Hands on experience in submission of data/ information/ reports to Central Bank
- Familiar with compliances of Industry related regulatory bodies (ie., IRU & CBK)
- Closely work with the team to resolve any discrepancies.
- Review financial implications and payouts of incentive schemes and provide feedback on their feasibility and effectiveness.
- Maintain audit trails and implement audit report recommendations issued by internal and external auditors.
- Liaise with external auditors to ensure that financial results are reported on time.
- Perform routine activities in accordance with agreed deadlines, standards and discharge any other task assigned by superiors in a timely and effective manner.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to foster teamwork while handling sensitive and confidential information with discretion.
- Manage and handle grievances raised by subordinates in a prompt and effective manner and escalate as required.
- Monitor performance of finance personnel on financial and non-financial parameters such as cost savings achieved, internal customer responsiveness, teamwork, and technical acumen
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