Financial Controller-Middle East (7.5 months Maternity Cover)

This role is responsible for all Financial Operations & Control related matters within Middle East and stakeholder management with Middle East Partners. **Requirements** What You'll Do: * Ensure finance control framework within Middle East. * Review Cardiff Finance Hub activity to ensure accuracy of month end results (P&L and Balance Sheet). * Review Cardiff Finance Hub operational activity to ensure items are addressed in a timely way (e.g. vendor payments, credit control, etc). * Regular review of balance sheets ensuring all balances are reconciled and substantiated. * Stakeholder management with all Middle East Partners. * Drive improvement in cash collection process within Middle East. * Reporting to EMEA Financial Controller regularly on Middle East status, as well as promptly on any ad hoc issues. * Ensuring regional alignment on policies' application and conduct of processes, to drive transparency, reliability and accuracy of financial reporting. * Ensuring that the Region complies with all statutory and regulatory reporting requirements in a timely manner and to high standard. * Oversee regional payroll operations, ensuring accurate, timely and compliant payroll processing across Middle East jurisdictions in line with local labor laws, tax regulations and social security requirements. * Providing oversight, support and advice on local and Group audits and investigations, assuring swiftness of actions. * Provide input into group tax framework where required. * Ensure compliance with all direct and indirect taxes, including timely and accurate completion of all tax returns and submissions. * Contributing to new entities' set up plans to creating optimal solutions. * Tracking and preparedness for upcoming changes within financial compliance, driven by local laws as well as Group guidance. * Oversee regional cashflow forecasts to ensure accuracy and optimization of intercompany transfers. * Striving to always understand and respond to business' needs, while remaining independent, objective and ethical. * Providing commercial advice, alongside Business Partners, on pricing (including taxes) and financial performance . * Support EMEA Financial Controller and Group Financial Controller on regional and global initiatives. Who You Are: **Requirements** * Certified chartered accountant with significant, recent and relevant experience and expertise, including: * Robust and efficient financial control policies and processes; * Technical accounting and statutory reporting; * Taxation - direct, indirect, domestic and international; * Financial compliance in a complex and dynamic environment. **Preferred** * Control Risks offers a competitively positioned compensation and benefits package that is transparent and summarised in the full job offer. * We operate a discretionary global bonus scheme that incentivises, and rewards individuals based on company and individual performance. * Control Risks supports hybrid working arrangements, wherever possible, that emphasise the value of in-person time together - in the office and with our clients - while continuing to support flexible and remote working. * As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us and are fully committed to equal treatment, free from discrimination, of all candidates throughout our recruitment process. * Candidates must have a recognised accounting or international equivalent with significant post qualification experience.