Chief Financial Officer

This role will entail:

• Seeking a young, dynamic portfolio company CFO who strives working in a young, entrepreneurial environment.
• The portfolio company CFO will be both strategic and operational. Unlike a Controller, whose role is to accurately report financial results, a portfolio company CFO is strategic, growth-oriented and looks at the business "through the windshield, rather than the rearview mirror".
• The CFO will need to have business/operational finance experience, which is often the most critical priority for a portfolio CFO role, given the need to provide decision support across a range of operational and strategic initiatives.
• The role will be to manage the consolidation of financials of the portfolio companies, produce monthly and quarterly management accounts and reports.
• The role will work with auditors for year-end reports.
• The role will also work with banks to help secure new or refinance existing debt, while also working with external advisors, as financial / legal / commercial advisors, as and when needed;.
• Internal communications: principals / portfolio company senior management.
• The role is based in Dubai with the need to travel to Abu Dhabi once or more a week.
• The finance staff at the portfolio company will be reporting to this position.
• Industry knowledge: Retail, technology, F&B a plus but not a must.