Commercial Finance Manager - Dubai, United Arab Emirates - GE Gas Power

GE Gas Power

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Dubai, United Arab Emirates

4 weeks ago

Posted by:

Ahmed Al-Mansouri

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Job Description Summary:
GE Gas Power

Welcome to tomorrow's energy—today

Access to affordable, reliable, flexible, and sustainable power is fundamental to modern life.

As the world is shifting towards a lower carbon future, GE Gas Power is ready to be your partner in leveraging the role of natural gas for powering the world today and tomorrow.

GE's foundations were laid by Thomas Edison nearly 130 years ago to provide innovative solutions for a wide range of critical problems around the world.

GE's deep-rooted culture serves as the backbone for every step we've taken at GE Gas Power.

With more than 300,000 employees and operations in over 170 countries, GE employees reflect both the local communities we serve and the people with whom we do business.

Diversity at GE

We believe diversity makes us more competitive and creates value for our customers, shareholders, and employees.

We believe in the value of each person's unique identity, background, and experiences and are committed to fostering an inclusive culture, where everyone feels empowered to do their best work because they feel accepted, respected, and that they belong.

By embracing diverse teams and perspectives, we are better equipped to build a world that works.

Our approach to diversity will be based on the following objectives:

Our employees
to continue to strive to ensure that our workforce is as diverse as the communities we serve, while always upholding the importance of merit.
Our workplace to foster an inclusive culture that recognizes employees' unique needs, helps them reach their full potential, and nurtures their diverse talents.
Our community to strive for diversity in suppliers and partners and engage with the communities in which we operate to support diversity.

Essential Responsibilities
This is a key finance role supporting the Gas Power Commercial Finance (Region name TBD) team. MENA is the fastest growing region for with orders of ~$800M+.

In this role, the Commercial Finance Manager (CFM) will assist the Sub-regional General Manager and Sales and MENA Commercial Finance expert in driving region profitability, growth, risk management and compliance.

Demonstrates strong leadership in communicating business goals/programs/processes. Provides proactive partnership to business leaders. Possesses experience and expertise in solving problems. Highly motivated for self and ability to motivate others.

Specific areas of responsibility are:

Provide business partnership and finance support to Subregion Sales General Manager & Sales Director & MENA Commercial Finance Leader to define region/country strategies and work closely with Sales Managers to build and operationalize tactical objectives.
Serve as functional owner of deal opportunities and orders/sales/CM pipeline reporting for the subregion, by P&L and by country. Track & drive active opportunities against target and estimates.
Partner with Commercial Operations, Pricing and other functions to provide effective finance support in deal negotiations and financial risk management and exercise delegated authority.
Drive commercial discipline and data quality in utilization of NEX across countries/ P&Ls.
Managing engagements across subregion, HQ Functions to provide Commercial Finance support in Policy 5 reviews.
Provide country/subregion level systematic on key financial trends (orders, sales, backlog/convertibility, and cash flow) as well as continual improvement of reporting and systematic consistent and in partnership with the global Commercial Finance organization.
Drive completion of KYC process, Rev Rec models, Cash-Flows, FX ITO hedging models, etc
Partner with functional experts in controllership, tax, legal, treasury to ensure STAT/Tax compliant deal structuring.
Work closely with variable channel team to provide finance support and controllership rigor in variable channel approval process.

Qualifications/Requirements

Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university or college.
Minimum 4 years of finance experience.
Significant experience in Commercial Finance and/or other relevant finance experience.
Execution focused, ability to set and meet aggressive goals and objectives.
Strong leadership and influencing skills.
Strong quantitative & analytical skills with good detail orientation.
Strong communication and presentation skills.
Flexible & has ability to embrace process changes and capable of managing multiple priorities.

Desired Characteristics:

Understanding of Gas Power business, including business lines (CSA, TX, MMP, & Upgrades).
Finance educational background (FMP/CAS/EFLP) will be preferred.
MENA regional experience in previous job is a plus.
Understanding the full spectrum of risks affecting the enterprise (credit, market, operating, liquidity).
Prior experience and responsibility for critical decisions of significant financial impact and complex criteria.
Ability t