Employer Overview
An integrated development platform operating across the Middle East and Africa, focused on energy, water, and industrial development. The organization delivers end-to-end solutions spanning project development, engineering, and investment to support sustainable growth, climate resilience, and inclusive economic development across strategic value chains.
Job Overview
The Chief Financial Officer will lead the financial strategy, capital structuring, and financial governance of a fast-growing infrastructure and renewable energy platform. The role combines strategic leadership with hands-on execution across project finance, investment structuring, and institutional readiness as the organization scales its operating assets and development pipeline.
Key Responsibilities
Financial Strategy & Capital Structure
- Design and manage group capital structure across the holding company and SPVs.
- Structure and oversee shareholder loans, inter-company balances, and development cost capitalization.
- Lead equity, quasi-equity, and debt fundraising at both project and platform levels.
- Support structuring and launch of asset aggregation and YieldCo vehicles.
- Act as the primary financial interface with banks, DFIs, investors, and credit committees.
Project Finance & Financial Modeling
- Own and review all financial models for IPP, BOOT, BOO, and concession projects.
- Validate project economics, including IRR, DSCR, LLCR, sensitivities, and tariff structures.
- Lead financial close processes in coordination with lenders, advisors, and legal counsel.
- Oversee lender due diligence and financing condition precedents.
Financial Control, Accounting & Compliance
- Establish and maintain IFRS-compliant accounting across the group and SPVs.
- Ensure proper separation between HoldCo and SPV financials.
- Oversee audits, valuations, and tax advisory engagements.
- Implement and maintain fixed asset registers, depreciation policies, and revenue recognition frameworks.
- Address and resolve legacy accounting, receivables, claims, and shareholder loan matters.
Cash Flow, Treasury & Risk Management
- Own group and SPV-level cash flow forecasting and liquidity planning.
- Manage FX exposure, debt service obligations, and dividend waterfalls.
- Implement treasury controls and monthly cash reporting.
- Support capital allocation and payment prioritization decisions with the CEO.
Transactions, M&A & Strategic Initiatives
- Lead financial workstreams for asset sales, partial exits, minority stakes, and buy-back options.
- Support valuation, SPA, SHA, and financing documentation from a financial perspective.
- Contribute to strategic partnerships, joint ventures, and investment transactions.
Team, Systems & Institutional Readiness
- Build and manage the finance and accounting team.
- Implement ERP and financial reporting systems.
- Develop investor, board, and management reporting dashboards.
- Prepare the organization for institutional investors, lenders, and board oversight.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or Engineering
- MBA or CFA is preferred
- 15+ years of relevant finance experience
- Prior CFO, Deputy CFO, or senior finance leadership role
- Proven experience in project finance, SPVs, and non-recourse debt structures
- Strong exposure to infrastructure, energy, water, industrials, or sustainable development sectors
- Experience working with banks, DFIs, investors, auditors, and legal advisors
- Strategic thinking and executive leadership
- Strong negotiation and stakeholder management skills
- High integrity and governance mindset
- Ability to operate in complex, long-term development environments
- Strong communicator with board-level presence
- Capital structuring and financial modeling
- Investment analysis and portfolio management
- Risk management and financial governance
- Strong commercial and financial judgment
- Hands-on, execution-oriented leadership style
- Advanced financial modeling tools
- ERP and financial reporting systems
- MS Excel and financial analysis software
- Fluent in English (written and spoken)
- Operate effectively in fast-growing, founder-led organizations
- Manage cross-border, multi-entity financial operations
- Support institutionalization and long-term platform scaling
