Chief Financial Officer

Job Description

• Board Accountability: Accountable to the Board Finance & Investment Committee and the Board Audit & Risk Committee for financial performance, capital structure, and control environment
• Scope: The Company and its subsidiaries, including industrial and diversified business verticals
• The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is a member of the executive management team and the Company's principal steward of financial strategy, capital structure, and institutional credibility.
• The CFO owns the full finance value chain — from transaction processing and control through financial planning, treasury, tax, risk, and strategic finance — and is accountable to the Board and its committees for the integrity, performance, and st ewardship of the Company's finances.
• The CFO reports directly to the Managing Director, will be responsible for ensuring IFRS-compliant financial reporting across an increasingly complex group structure, and provide the financial architecture for the Group's diversification into industrial verticals.

Responsibilities
Financial Planning, Analysis & Business Partnering:

• Own the annual budget, rolling forecasts, and long-range (five-year) financial plan, including three-statement modelling (P&L, statement of financial position, cash flow).
• Partner with development, commercial, and industrial business unit leaders to evalua te project feasibility, GDV/TDC economics, and capital allocation decisions.
• Provide management with timely, decision-grade financial analysis and variance reporting against budget and prior periods.

Financial Reporting, Accounting & Control:

• Own the integrity of the Company's IFRS-compliant Annual Financial Statements and group consolidation, including resolution of technical accounting positions
• Maintain a robust monthly and quarterly management accounts close process across all subsidiaries and business verticals.
• Own the finance function's chart of accounts, accounting policies, and financial systems / ERP architec ture, ensuring data integrity and auditability.
• Manage the relationship with external auditors and ensure timely, unqualified audit outcomes.

Treasury & Capital Markets:

• Lead execution of the Company’s capital market strategy, pricing, and programme shelf management within SEC/FMDQ constraints.
• Own the relationship and ongoing compliance for senior secured private note facilities, including collateral and security structuring (floating charges, legal mortgages, Governor's Consent mechanics).
• Manage credit facilities, negotiating covenant, dispute-resolution, and default-trigger terms that protect the Company's capital structure.
• Own group liquidity, cash flow forecasting, banking relationships, and funding-mix optimisation across all debt and equity instruments.

Credit Rating & Investor Relations:

• Direct the national-scale credit rating process with recognised rating agencies, including peer benchmarking, scorecard management, and rating agency due diligence.
• Maintain the credit narrative and supporting metrics that evidence ratings progression (interest cover, leverage, liquidity), with rating triggers monitored and reported to the Board on a continuing basis.
• Serve as the Company's principal spokesperson to rating agencies, arrangers, note/bond holders, and prospective institutional investors.

Tax, Statutory & Regulatory Compliance:

• Own the Company's tax strategy, planning, and compliance across all applicable federal and state obligations, including corporate income tax, VAT, withholding tax, and stamp duty.
• Ensure SCUML, company secretarial, and other regulatory compliance obligations are met, with remediation plans tracked to closure.
• Maintain oversight of statutory filings and licences across the Group's operating entities.

Internal Controls, Risk & Governance:

• Design, implement, and continuously strengthen the internal control environment, including segregation of duties, delegation of authority, and financial risk policies.
• Own enterprise financial risk management, including credit, liquidity, market, and counterparty risk.
• Prepare and present financial performance, risk, and control reporting to the Board Finance & Investment Committee and the Board Audit & Risk Committee, remaining accountable to both for outcomes.
• Ensure the finance function's policies and controls are benchmarked against recognised corporate governance codes and leading real estate and industrial peers.

Procurement, Working Capital & Payroll:

• Own working capital management across accounts payable, accounts receivable, and inventory, including contractor and supplier payment governance.
• Provide financial oversight of the procurement function, ensuring cost discipline and value -for-money across development and operating expenditure.
• Own payroll governance and financial oversight of people costs in partnership with Human Resources.

Strategic Finance & Corporate Development:

• Provide the financial architecture — feasibility models, GDV/TDC analysis, JV waterfall structures — for flagship developments, including branded residence and joint venture transactions (e.g. institutional plac ement frameworks with discount schedules and minimum net margin / MIRR thresholds).
• Evaluate and structure financing for the Group's diversification into industrial verticals (architectural glass, wires & cables, paints & coatings, porcelain tiles, joinery), including acquisition and licensing analysis.
• Lead financial due diligence and valuation for M&A and strategic investment opportunities, including sum -of-parts and segment-level analysis where relevant.
• Advise the executive management team and the Board on Group holding structure options (centralised, decentralised, or REIT) as the Group scales.

Finance Function Leadership:

• Build and lead a finance function spanning Treasury & Capital Markets, Financial Reporting & Control, FP&A, Tax & Compliance, Financial Control, and Investor Relations, capable of institutional-grade output.
• Develop the finance team's capability and succession, instilling a culture of rigour, accountability, and continuous improvement across the full finance value chain.

Key Successs Measures
Capital Markets, Treasury & Credit Rating:

• Successful execution and, where applicable, oversubscription of debt capital markets issuances within programme shelf limits, at a cost of capital competitive with top-tier regional peers.
• Achievement and subsequent maintenance of a strong national -scale credit rating, with no unplanned downgrades or negative rating actions.
• Continued improvement in credit metrics (e.g. EBITDA interest cover, net debt/EBITDA, liquidity coverage) consistent with the Company's ratings trajectory and covenant headroom maintained across all facilities.
• Diversified, well-laddered funding base across capital markets, bank, and Islamic finance instruments, minimising refinancing and concentration risk.

Financial Reporting, Control & Compliance:

• Clean, unqualified audit opinions and timely, fully IFRS-compliant Annual Financial Statements and group consolidation, delivered to Board-approved deadlines.
• Monthly and quarterly management accounts closed within a defined close cycle, with minimal restatement or post - close adjustment.
• Zero material control weaknesses identified by internal or external audit; any findings remediated within agreed timelines.
• Full, current compliance across tax, SCUML, and statutory/regulatory obligations, with no unresolved regulatory exposure.

Planning, Performance & Value Creation:

• Budget and forecast accuracy within Board-defined tolerances, with variance narratives that give the Board and MD reliable, decision-grade visibility.
• Financial structuring that enables the successful close of flagship JV, branded -residence, and industrial diversification transactions on acceptable margin, IRR/MIRR, and return thresholds.
• Demonstrable improvement in return on capital employed and project-level profitability across the development and industrial portfolios.
• Working capital discipline evidenced by improving receivables, payables, and cash conversion metrics across the Group.

Governance, Risk & Organisational Capability:

• A finance function and governance framework recognised by the Board, auditors, and rating agencies as institutional grade, spanning the full finance value chain from transaction processing through strategic finance.
• An internal control and risk management environment benchmarked against, and where relevant approaching, the standards of listed and internationally rated developers such as Ema ar.
• A high-performing finance organisation with clear succession depth, low key -person risk, and demonstrated capability development across Treasury, FP&A, Reporting, Tax, and Controls.
• Board, MD, and committee confidence in the CFO as a trusted, transparent, and proactive steward of the Company's capital and financial risk.

Requirements

• A minimum of 15 years' progressive finance leadership experience, including senior roles spanning capital markets, banking, or corporate finance; real estate, infrastructure, or industrial sector experience is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience leading debt capital markets transactions (commercial paper, bonds, private notes) and/or credit rating processes with recognised national or international rating agencies.
• Strong command of IFRS financial reporting, including complex or contested te chnical positions (business combinations, joint arrangements, revenue recognition, prior-period corrections).
• Demonstrated ownership of the full finance value chain, including financial control, tax, treasury, internal controls, and business partnering — not solely capital markets or reporting.
• Professional accounting qualification (ICAN, ACCA, CFA, or equivalent) required; an MBA or postgraduate qualification in finance, real estate, or a related field is an advantage.
• Prior experience as CFO, Finance Director, or in a comparable executive finance role, ideally within a real estate developer, financial institution, or rated corporate issuer.
• Track record of building or scaling a finance function within a fast-growing, founder- or family-influenced organisation moving toward institutional governance standards.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.

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