Chief Financial Officer

Summary

Join PIPECARE Group of Companies as their Chief Financial Officer (CFO)! As a key member of the Executive Leadership Team, you will ensure financial compliance, enforce corporate governance, and optimize operational efficiency. You will be responsible for budget preparation, achieving target margins, and ensuring adherence to best financial practices. This role requires international exposure and may be located in the UAE or Europe with remote work options and regular travel. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in financial management, accounting, and related fields, along with strong leadership and communication skills. PIPECARE offers a challenging and rewarding opportunity to contribute to a leading provider of inline inspection services in the Oil & Gas industry.

Requirements

• Education: Chartered Accountant with advanced qualifications e.g. CMA, CPA, MBA/EMBA
• Previous experience: Must have senior finance experience in financial management, accounting, tax, banking, IT/ERP and legal [optional] with at least 10 years of working or overseeing those functions
• International/Global remit experience is an essential requirement
• Ability to travel without any major visa restrictions
• Readiness for frequent business trips around the world
• Lifting and Carrying: Ability to lift and carry up to 50 pounds
• Mobility: Must be able to walk and climb to perform duties, including maneuvering within a refinery or plant environment and accessing elevated platforms via ladders and stairwells
• Communication: Sufficient clarity of speech and hearing, or other communication capabilities, to communicate effectively
• Focus and Multitasking: Ability to maintain focus and multitask effectively
• Safety Equipment: Must be able to wear safety equipment as required by the safety department for personal protection, if/where needed in manufacturing environments
• Personal Mobility and Reflexes: Sufficient personal mobility and physical reflexes, with or without reasonable accommodations, to perform office duties and travel to off-site locations when necessary

Responsibilities

• Provide timely and accurate financial reporting to the Board of Directors
• Ensure financial health of the group by providing timely and accurate analysis of budgets, financial trends and forecasts
• Ensure standard financial statements, cash flow, budget, branch performance and variance analysis, and related statements are prepared on time
• Develop, recommend and direct all short term and long-range financial plans consistent with corporate philosophy and strategies
• Provide direction to all financial operations (company, project and subsidiary) to ensure corporate financial data is as accurate and timely as possible, cash and return on assets are maximized and accounting systems are reliable and efficiently implemented
• Implement operational infrastructure of systems, processes and personnel to accommodate the growth objectives of the company
• Ensure legal and commercial compliance in all entities of the Group
• Oversee the development of and monitor adherence to operational and capital budgets, and develop cost containment strategies as required. Suggest and implement ideas for savings and additional revenue generation
• Analyze financial information provided by project management teams and identify trends in financial performance
• Provide recommendations to strategically enhance financial performance and business opportunities
• Evaluates and advises on the impact of long-range planning, introduction of new programs/ strategies and regulatory action
• Coordinate external audits performed by corporate auditors and third-party entities ensuring timely, accurate and professional representation of all information provided
• Optimize the handling of bank and deposit relationships and initiate appropriate strategies to enhance cash position and cash management
• Identify potential business opportunities or improvements
• Assists the Board of Directors as required, in raising additional capital at appropriate valuations to enable the company to meet sales, growth and market share objectives
• Performs other duties as assigned by the Group CEO

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as a Group CFO in a similar sized organization [50 to 100m USD business size] or has been a divisional CFO of a larger company, this is an advantage
• Private Equity Experience would be an advantage
• Ideally, the candidate has worked on the implementation of a new Finance ERP system, and has experience in evaluating design and operational effectiveness of Internal Controls
• Industry: Preferably oil field services [but not mandatory], however it is required that the candidate worked for an international organization that provided services to various end users across different countries and geographies

Benefits

The job location could be in UAE or Europe with remote work and regular travel