Overview
Oversee the financial operations across our entities, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and efficiency in accounting, cash management, reporting, and taxation. The selected candidate must possess a strong financial background specifically within the landscaping, contracting, and construction industries.
The ideal candidate will play a key role in supporting business decisions while maintaining robust financial controls across all active project sites.
Key Responsibilities
- Project Costing & Estimation Control
- Monitor and analyze project-wise profitability for all contracting, construction, and landscaping jobs against initial budgets and Bills of Quantities (BOQ).
- Review material procurement, subcontractor costs, and labor allocation to identify budget variances.
- Accounts Receivable & Progressive Billing
- Oversee progressive billing and ensure timely processing of invoices and Interim Payment Certificates based on project milestones and site progress.
- Approve sales invoices after validating transaction details, site measurements, and supporting documents.
- Maintain accurate customer statements and reconcile advances (including retention money), accrued income, and AR balances.
- Escalate late collections from clients and manage debt write-off approvals if required.
- Subcontractor & Supplier Management (AP)
- Verify subcontractor payment applications, variations, claims, and back-charges before processing payments.
- Reconcile vendor accounts (including commercial nurseries, soil/materials suppliers, and logistics providers) and ensure accurate accruals for unbilled project costs.
- Manage and track retention payable to subcontractors, ensuring compliance with contract terms.
- Inventory, Nursery & WIP Management
- Supervise site and nursery inventory counts, reconciling green assets (plants, trees), landscaping materials, costing, and wastage.
- Monitor Work in Progress (WIP) balances for ongoing landscaping, civil, and structural construction works, ensuring correct cost allocation.
- Prepare WIP schedules, project reconciliations, and enhance WIP accounting policies tailored to construction and contracting cycles.
- Cash & Bank Management
- Manage cash flow and authorize withdrawals/deposits according to operational and urgent project site needs.
- Conduct spot checks on treasury (cash, cheques, cards) and review bank balances daily.
- Oversee bank account openings and reconciliations, while maintaining strong banking relationships (including facilities for project guarantees, performance bonds, and tender bonds).
- Enforce petty cash policies for site expenses and coordinate additional project fund requirements.
- Utilities & Machinery/Vehicle Expenses
- Record, allocate, and monitor utility, heavy machinery, and vehicle-related expenses, including fuel, equipment maintenance, insurance, and driver/operator costs.
- Fixed Assets & Plant/Equipment Depreciation
- Track and manage fixed assets (machinery, irrigation equipment, vehicles) from acquisition to capitalization.
- Maintain schedules, record additions, disposals, and transfers, and monitor Capital Work in Progress (CWIP).VAT & Corporate Tax Compliance
- Review and validate quarterly VAT (ensuring correct treatment of retention and progressive billing) and corporate tax filings.
- Ensure all transactions comply with local tax laws and maintain updated company information on portals.
- Pre-Payments, Provisions & Deposits
- Review prepaid schedules, categorize expenses, and approve provisions.
- Reconcile staff provisions (including project-based labor gratuities) and manage security deposits with developers/municipalities.
- Month-End Closing & Project Reporting
- Lead month-end closing across entities, including reconciliations of AP, AR, inventory, project WIP, FA, provisions, and other accounts.
- Prepare internal financial reports, project cost-to-complete forecasts, and support external audits.
Requirements
- Experience: Possess a minimum of 5–8 years of progressive finance and accounting management experience, with at least 3–5 years in a supervisory role within the UAE Contracting, Construction, or Landscaping sectors across a multi-entity framework.
- Technical Expertise: Strong mastery of Project Costing, WIP Accounting, Retention Tracking, and progressive certification/billing workflows.
- Compliance & Tax: Robust knowledge of international accounting standards (IFRS), UAE VAT, local corporate tax regulations, and statutory financial reporting.
- Leadership: Excellent analytical, organizational, and leadership skills to seamlessly govern financial controls across both corporate offices and remote project sites.
- Operational Execution: Proven ability to maintain strict regulatory compliance and drive process efficiencies within dynamic, project-driven environments.
