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.

• 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.
• Strategic Support for Expansion
  • 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 modelling skills.
• Strong attention to detail and problem‑solving ability.
• Commercially sharp and operationally strong.
• Proa…