Director of Finance

We don’t think about job roles in a traditional way. We are anti-silo. Anti-career stagnation. Anti-conventional. 

Beyond ONE is a digital services provider radically reshaping the personalised digital ecosystems of consumers in high growth markets around the world. We’re building a digital services aggregator platform, with a strong telco foundation, and a profitable growth strategy that empowers users to drive their own experience—subscribe once, source from many, and only pay for what you actually use. 

Since being founded in 2021, we’ve acquired Virgin Mobile MEA, Friendi Mobile MEA and Virgin Mobile LATAM (with 6.5 million subscribers) and 1600 dedicated  colleagues across Chile, Colombia, KSA, Kuwait, Mexico, Oman, Pakistan and UAE. 

To disrupt for good takes a rebellious spirit, a questioning mind and a warm heart. We really care about how to get things done and not who manages who. We benefit from our diversity, and together, we disrupt the way we and others thinking about our lives for good.  

Do you want to exchange ideas, learn from each other and leave your mark on our journey? This is the place for you. 

Role Summary

Financial Director - Kuwait will lead the finance function for Virgin Mobile Kuwait, covering accounting, financial operations, reporting, FP&A, compliance, controls, commercial finance support, and finance transformation. The role partners closely with the Kuwait CEO, Group Finance, commercial teams, technology, regulators, auditors, banks, and external partners to ensure accurate reporting, strong governance, effective financial planning, and commercially sound decision-making for the telecom business.

What You Will Do

Financial Leadership and Governance

· Lead and manage end-to-end accounting and finance operations for Virgin Mobile Kuwait.

· Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close process, including trial balance reviews, reconciliations, management reporting, and financial statement preparation.

· Ensure compliance with IFRS, internal controls, delegation of authority, accounting policies, and Group reporting requirements.

· Provide clear financial leadership to local management and act as the primary finance partner to the Kuwait CEO and Group Finance leadership.

· Manage finance team operations, review deliverables, coach team members, and build a high-performance, accountable finance culture.

Commercial Finance and Business Partnering

· Support commercial, segment, sales, and marketing teams on new products, pricing plans, discounts, commissions, promotions, and business initiatives.

· Review financial and operational performance across revenue, margins, receivables, collections, profitability, cost efficiency, and business trends.

· Provide management with financial analysis, business cases, dashboards, presentations, and strategic insights to support decision-making.

· Coordinate with budgeting and forecasting team to support annual budgets, rolling forecasts, business plans, and performance reviews.

· Challenge business assumptions and ensure commercial decisions are supported by strong financial analysis, controls, and profitability considerations.

Financial Operations, Reporting, and Controls

· Oversee core finance operations, including general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, intercompany, fixed assets, revenue accounting, inventory-related finance processes, and bank reconciliations.

· Monitor receivables, ageing, collections, working capital, and cash flow, and drive timely follow-up with relevant business owners.

· Ensure accurate accounting and reporting for telecom revenue streams, customer offers, discounts, commissions, deferred revenue, contract liabilities, and related cost recognition.

· Maintain strong financial controls over procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, record-to-report, treasury, and reporting processes.

· Drive continuous improvement in reporting quality, close timelines, reconciliations, and process standardisation.

Tax, Regulatory, Audit, and Stakeholder Management

· Lead tax, statutory, and regulatory compliance activities in Kuwait in coordination with external consultants and auditors.

· Manage external audit requirements, ensure timely submission of audit schedules, and drive closure of audit matters.

· Act as the key finance point of contact with regulators, banks, auditors, external advisors, suppliers, and relevant telecom partners for financial and operational matters.

· Ensure local statutory books, filings, board reporting inputs, and regulatory submissions are accurate, complete, and delivered on time.

Finance Transformation and Systems

· Lead finance transformation, process automation, and system implementation initiatives, including ERP, reporting, procurement, and data automation projects.

· Partner with technology, data, and operations teams to strengthen revenue assurance, system integrations, reporting accuracy, and control visibility.

· Support SAP S/4HANA or other ERP improvement initiatives, including workflow approvals, master data governance, reporting enhancements, and automated controls.

· Identify opportunities to simplify processes, reduce manual work, improve compliance, and create scalable finance operations for Kuwait.

· Promote a control-focused and automation-led finance operating model aligned with Group standards.

Key Performance Indicators

· Timely and accurate monthly close and management reporting in line with Group deadlines.

· Clean audit delivery with timely closure of audit queries and no major unresolved control findings.

· Accurate statutory, tax, and regulatory submissions with full compliance to local requirements.

· Improved working capital visibility, including receivables ageing, collections, cash flow, and payable management.

· High-quality commercial finance support for pricing, offers, discounts, commissions, and business cases.

· Successful delivery of finance transformation, process automation, and reporting improvement initiatives.

· Strong finance team performance, accountability, and collaboration with local and Group stakeholders.

What You Will Need

Education

· Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field.

· Professional qualification such as ACCA, CPA, CA, CMA, or equivalent is strongly preferred.

· MBA or other relevant postgraduate qualification is an advantage.

Experience

· 10+ years of progressive finance experience, including senior finance leadership, controllership, financial operations, reporting, and business partnering.

· Experience in telecom, MVNO, digital services, technology, or other high-volume consumer businesses is strongly preferred.

· Proven experience managing month-end close, statutory reporting, audits, tax compliance, financial controls, budgeting, and forecasting.

· Experience working with executive management, commercial teams, auditors, banks, regulators, and external consultants.

· Experience leading finance transformation, SAP S/4HANA, reporting automation, or process improvement projects is an advantage.

Skills and Attributes

· Strong understanding of IFRS, financial reporting, management accounting, internal controls, and telecom-related revenue and cost structures.

· Commercial mindset with the ability to translate financial data into clear business insights and actionable recommendations.

· Excellent analytical, planning, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

· Ability to work under pressure, manage multiple priorities, and meet tight reporting and audit deadlines.

· Strong leadership capability with a hands-on approach, high accountability, and the ability to develop finance teams.

· High proficiency in Excel, financial reporting tools, ERP systems, and data-driven finance processes.

· Fluent in English; Arabic is an advantage.

Knowledge and Expertise

· IFRS accounting and reporting for telecom operations, including revenue recognition, discounts, commissions, deferred revenue, contract liabilities, and cost matching.

· Financial planning and analysis, budget control, working capital management, cash flow forecasting, and management reporting.

· Tax, VAT, statutory compliance, audit management, and regulatory reporting in Kuwait or GCC markets.

· Revenue assurance, system controls, reconciliation frameworks, and data-driven reporting in telecom or digital services environments.

· ERP, workflow approval, procurement control, reporting automation, and finance process standardisation.

 

What we offer:

• Rapid learning opportunities - we enable learning through flexible career paths, exposure to challenging & meaningful work that will help build and strengthen your expertise.
• Hybrid work environment - flexibility to work from home 2 days a week in our UAE & Pakistan offices.
• Healthcare and other local benefits offered in market.

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