Financial Consultant
About the job
Our Mission is to Simplify Life. We are looking to Simplify and automate complex decision-making for customer-centric industries, like Utilities, Financial Services, Logistics, and commerce, that drive the world's economies and you have the chance to join the revolution. We are trying to solve huge challenges in today's enterprise that are directly impacting the employee and customer experience.
What can we promise you
- You’ll join a global family of awesome, passionate people that are working together to build a sustainable, scalable ecosystem committed to using logic to create a better experience.
- We want you to help us become better. You will be empowered to drive change and innovate.
- That we will invest in you. We will give you the opportunity to master your domain and drive excellence.
Main Job Objective
As Avertra’s Internal Financial Consultant, your mission would be ensuring company wide synergy with the corporate goals and strategy, as well as working towards achieving operational harmony in the Financial space. You would be working with the Executive team to provide financial guidance and ensure that the CEO has all of the data and analysis necessary to make detrimental company decisions. The ideal candidate for this position would be proactive, data driven, bright with numbers, and highly organised.
Responsibilities
Internal Project Management:
- Kick off of internal projects to stabilise, enhance, and optimise operational gaps and processes where there is a financial impact (Finance, Budgeting, Tax, Financial Planning, Treasury, Accounting, AR/AP, etc)
- Manage the internal projects by issuing tasks and ensuring timely and effective completion with KPIs
- Perform “post project closing” activities to ensure proper change management and maintenance
- Track and assess impact logging of related new policies (if any) or change to existing
- Looking for areas of improvement and adding them to process optimization log
Financial Report Audits:
- Auditing income statements
- Auditing cash flow statements
- Auditing cost tracking
- Auditing budget tracking
Financial Analysis:
- Analysing financial impact of delayed projects
- Analysing financial impact of benched or unutilized resources
- Determining ROI on upcoming projects
- Reporting on financial ratios to indicate corporate health metrics
- Flagging financial risks and bleeders
- Driving the creation of drill down dashboards
- Driving the creation of a CEO dashboard
- Assisting CEO with financial reports
System Upkeep:
- Review and understand existing system and how different modules feed into Finance
- Ensure and govern correct use of Avertra’s ERP system in the financial capacity
- Escalate and deal with misuse of Avertra’s ERP system in the financial capacity
- Research potential areas of improvement or automation of system interaction
Corporate Goals Governance:
- Track progress against financial goals
- Flag risks where non-completion could be a possibility
Research:
- Entering new countries and creating new entities
- Keeping track of laws to track financial exposure for each country we operate in
- Brainstorm and research capital raising insights and opportunities
Needed Competencies
- Financial Competency: Knowledge in what reports and ratios are needed to indicate corporate health as well as how to generate them is a must.
- Attention to Detail: Excellent analytical skills, along with the ability to create detailed reports
- Interpersonal Communication: It is imperative that you are able to connect and develop relationships with various stakeholders in the organisation at various seniority levels, all the way from Chiefs to juniors.
- Risk & Impact Assessment: Ability to assess and manage risks and impact in the process of decision making.
- Creativity: Since this role goes beyond reporting, creativity is key in order to be able to develop the best solutions that are unique to the context at hand.
- Data Visualization: Data visualisation is a must have
Experience
3+ years of experience in a Finance or Research related role
Skills
- Excellent research skills
- Past experience in a finance role is highly preferable
- Native or excellent written and verbal English skills is a hard must
Education
- A bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, business, accounting, or a related major is required.
- A master’s degree in finance, economics, business, accounting, or a related major is a plus.
Travel
Upon request by Executives
Work Schedule
Local Jordanian office hours with flexibility
