Senior Manager - Factory Finance

- Factory Finance will manage end-to-end financial operations for a manufacturing site, ensuring factory performance is supported by accurate reporting, disciplined controls, clear cost analysis, and timely business partnering. The role connects finance with daily production realities, helping operations teams understand cost per unit, yield, wastage, material usage, inventory movements, production variances, and margin impact. By maintaining strong controls and supporting cost optimization, the position helps protect company assets, improve factory productivity, and strengthen financial decision-making within GMG’s manufacturing environment.

Key Responsibilities

* Manage factory-level finance operations in line with GMG Group finance policies, internal controls, governance frameworks, and reporting standards.
* Maintain strong financial discipline across manufacturing transactions, including inventory, procurement, production costing, factory expenses, and operational accruals.
* Oversee month-end closing activities, journal entries, factory cost allocations, provisions, reconciliations, and balance sheet schedules.
* Ensure timely and accurate financial reporting for factory operations, aligned with Group timelines and management expectations.
* Monitor key manufacturing finance metrics such as cost per unit, production yield, wastage, material variances, labor efficiency, overhead absorption, and margin movement.
* Review inventory accounting, stock valuation, factory consumption, inventory adjustments, and related financial controls to ensure reporting accuracy.
* Partner with factory operations to identify cost-saving opportunities across raw materials, packaging, labor, utilities, maintenance, overheads, and production processes.
* Analyze production costs, standard costs, actual costs, bill of material variances, usage trends, and inefficiencies to support better manufacturing decisions.
* Track factory budgets and spending against approved financial plans, highlighting risks, overspends, savings opportunities, and corrective actions.
* Support budgeting and forecasting activities by preparing factory-level financial assumptions, cost models, volume inputs, working capital needs, and operational finance data.
* Lead and support internal and external audits, ensuring documentation readiness, timely responses, and closure of audit findings.
* Safeguard company assets through regular reconciliations, control reviews, stock checks, inventory validation, and compliance follow-up.
* Strengthen factory finance processes by improving reporting discipline, cost visibility, approval workflows, documentation quality, and control effectiveness.
* Provide practical financial insight to factory operations leadership on productivity, waste reduction, cost optimization, and profitability improvement.
* Support business decisions with clear analysis of manufacturing performance, working capital, inventory movement, margin trends, and operational risks.
* Manage and develop the factory finance team by allocating work, reviewing outputs, coaching team members, and ensuring high-quality deliverables.
* Build finance capability within the factory through on-the-job guidance, process discipline, performance follow-up, and continuous improvement.
* Promote a culture of accountability, accuracy, cost awareness, compliance, and strong business partnering across factory finance activities.

Ideal Profile

* Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related discipline is required.
* Master’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field is an advantage.
* 8-12 years of progressive finance experience, with significant exposure to manufacturing, factory operations, production finance, or plant finance.
* Proven experience managing factory-level finance operations, including costing, inventory, month-end close, reporting, controls, and operational finance support.
* Strong knowledge of manufacturing finance, bill of materials, standard costing, production variances, inventory valuation, stock reconciliations, and factory cost controls.
* Experience working in large, structured organizations with defined governance frameworks, audit requirements, approval controls, and Group reporting standards.
* Strong ability to analyze production costs, factory budgets, margins, wastage, yield, labor costs, overheads, and working capital movement.
* Skilled in financial reporting, month-end closing, balance sheet reconciliations, budgeting, forecasting, and management reporting.
* Good understanding of internal controls, audit management, compliance standards, asset safeguarding, and financial governance.
* Advanced Excel skills and hands-on experience with ERP systems used for finance, inventory, procurement, production, and reporting.
* Strong business partnering capability with the confidence to work closely with factory operations, supply chain, procurement, production, and senior finance teams.
* Practical leadership style with the ability to manage team output, improve finance discipline, and support continuous development.
* Detail-oriented, analytical, and execution-focused with strong ownership of deadlines, data accuracy, and financial control.

Skills Set

* Factory finance
* Manufacturing finance
* Financial control
* Cost accounting
* Standard costing
* Production costing
* Bill of materials
* Variance analysis
* Inventory accounting
* Inventory valuation
* Stock reconciliation
* Cost per unit analysis
* Yield analysis
* Wastage tracking
* Margin analysis
* Budget control
* Forecasting
* Month-end close
* Journal entries
* Balance sheet reconciliation
* Financial reporting
* Audit management
* Internal controls
* Compliance monitoring
* ERP systems
* Advanced Excel
* Working capital management
* Procurement finance
* Production finance
* Cost optimization
* Factory operations support
* Business partnering
* Team leadership
* Financial governance

Why Join Us

This opportunity is ideal for a senior finance professional who wants to take ownership of factory-level finance in Dubai’s active Manufacturing sector. The role offers direct involvement in production costing, inventory control, margin improvement, cost optimization, audit readiness, and business partnering with factory operations. It is a strong career move for someone who enjoys hands-on financial leadership, operational problem-solving, and building disciplined finance processes within a structured and growing business environment.

About the Company

GMG is a global well-being company headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with operations across sport, everyday goods, health and beauty, food, properties, logistics, consumer goods, and manufacturing. Under the ownership and management of the Baker family for more than 45 years, GMG has built partnerships with leading international and home-grown brands across the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia. Through its manufacturing and distribution capabilities, GMG supports product quality, operational efficiency, supply reliability, and continued growth across its regional business portfolio.