Finance Business Partner

Location

Country:
United Arab Emirates

Work Location:

Dubai

As a global leader in ship management and marine services, we add value to a vessel’s operations. Operating around the clock and around the world, V. gives every client the quality and efficiency they need in every sector. Covering crew management and recruitment, quality ship management and technical services, together with supporting management and commercial services, V. has an unrivalled industry knowledge with performance assured.

Our values, We Care, We Collaborate, We Challenge, We are Consistent, We Commit and Deliver, are at the heart of everything we do and they support our strategy of Investing in Talent. We are always interested in making contact with talented individuals – people who will demonstrate our values and deliver great service for internal and external stakeholders.

• The Finance Business Partner (FBP) is a forward-looking role, leveraging financial analysis to facilitate change and deliver profitable growth.
• Focussed on drivers of growth, retention, and customer profitability, identifying, and influencing changes that improve commercial outcomes for the Group.
• Improving the interpretation and impact of data and financial reporting. Deliver insights and analysis that can be applied by the business to ensure that targets are delivered.
• Influential in the local leadership team, as a trusted advisor to the Managing Director and Senior Management, and generating valuable relationships with colleagues across Finance, Commercial and Operations.
• As a lead representative for Finance locally, overall accountability is taken for ensuring delivery of financial requirements in accordance with local management needs, statutory and legal requirements, and Group policies.
• Proactive in utilising historic data and information to drive forward view discussions. Delivering business and commercial solutions to inform and guide the strategic decision making.

• Build strong and trusted relationships with leadership, operations and across supporting functions.
• Establish the FBP role as a “seat at the table” in all key local decisions, effectively integrating financial considerations to identify opportunities whilst effectively managing risk.
• Take a big-picture view on financial focus areas of the business, ensuring that activities are structured and delivered in line with Group strategy.
• Partner with the Managing Director in the delivery and communication of office / region performance and delivery against targets.
• Analyse customer profitability, including pricing and cost to serve contributors, across all responsible customers / vessels. Focus on both Ship Management and Marine Services contribution, understand benchmark performance, and effectively identify and drive opportunities.
• Take accountability for review and delivery of financial requirements of remit management units and appointed legal entities. Coordinate effectively with the Finance Operations and Control teams who are responsible for report production.
• Advocate data usage and improvement, and the digital adoption across the business teams. Leverage Group data resources to identify opportunities, and effectively create monitoring mechanisms to evidence metric improvement.
• Work with business, and commercial teams to develop value models appropriate for target and existing customers. Key contributor to future contracting and pricing decisions
• Effectively identify and manage financial risks, working with colleagues in Finance and other functions to mitigate.
• Attend customer and prospective customer meetings as required.
• Key Finance contributor to developing a timely and accurate rolling forecast process and to the annual budgeting cycle.

V. Group can offer you a market leading salary and benefits package, in addition to significant opportunities for career growth and personal development. This a great opportunity to join a true leader in the maritime sector - a company that has exciting plans for future growth.

• Evidenced strong soft skills, including presentation, relationship building, emotional intelligence, challenge, influencing, negotiation, and facilitation.
• Evidenced curiosity and creative thinking, leading to positive business change / outcomes.
• Proactive and solutioning mindset than reactive and fire-fighting.
• Excellent modelling and analytical capability. Ability to extract and communicate messages from numbers.
• Excellent fundamental accounting skills are expected.
• Strong work experience, focussed across financial disciplines and adequately evidencing commercial finance understanding.

• Recognised post graduate accounting qualification.

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