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Chief Financial Officer

Location:Irbil, Iraq, Middle East
Job Type:Permanent
Posted:16th Aug 2007
Closing Date:13th Sep 2007
Posted By:Alfagates Services Limited
Details:
Chief Financial Officer

Responsibilities

1. Treasury
• Control group cash

2. Accounting
• Recruit, train and manage Indian and Iraqi bookkeepers
• Produce the group forecasts
• Produce all the statutory accounts

3. Company Secretary
• Group structure
• Tax mitigation strategy
• Control banks and bank relationships
• Control fiduciary and relationship (if necessary)
• Control lawyers and accountants and other HQ consultants
• Shareholders adviser and mediator
• Compliance with all laws
• Contracts specialist (US gov/FAR, construction, personal services, suppliers, customers etc)
• Investor relations and reports
• Statutory reports and accounts
• Keep all registrations updated (USG/CCR/ORCA, NATO, UN, etc)

4. Human Resources
• Staffing levels
• Contracts
• Remuneration committee chairman
• Staff share/bonus scheme

5. Administration
• Head of information/databases to include its security

6. Communications and IT (optional, depends on experience)
• IT/policy
• Communications/policy

Management team member for the following functions:

7. Commercial
• Aggressive growth strategy advice
• Bidding/proposals/new business – discovery, evaluation, drafting and costing
• Evaluating corporate activity
• Market and competition analysis
• Conflict resolution/negotiator and litigation controller

8. General management/support
• set and police the reporting structure
• develop key management ratios/indicators

Erbil level

9. Head of HQ staff

10. Chief accountant for the OSB project

11. Chief accountant for non-OSB business/projects

Seniority:
board member elect

Attributes:
Strategic thinker
Sufficient common sense to put massive inefficiencies into perspective
Keen to transfer knowledge to others
Capable of multi-tasking, and changing priorities
Understands investors’ mentality
Presentable to investors, and Ministers
Clear spoken English
Faultless written English
Confident person
Attention to detail
Focus on quality output
Focus on productivity
Commercial outlook
Positive person - about creating change, about possibilities, about people
Energy, focus, drive, project-orientated (“do it now”, “get the job done”)
Team player but capable of working alone
Recognises that our Human Resources mean EVERYTHING to us –they create the value, they provide our reputation.
Accepts delegated responsibility
Effective delegator
Empathy with everyone (Expats, TCN, locals) – the human touch – compassion – care.
Risk taker (many delegated tasks are to first-time Iraqis. There’s no rule book. There’s no way to predict the outcome of many delegated tasks.)
A survivor of mistakes (the racing car must occasionally crash or how else do you know whether it is being driven on the limit?)
Ability to laugh off disasters, learn from mistakes, “onwards and upwards”.
A seriously good communicator
Someone who wants to really live a life, make a difference
Someone who appreciates this is the dawn of a great company, working to grab all the great and top quality opportunities being thrown its way.
A winner who will enjoy being successful, and being with successful people.
 
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