Chief Finance Officer

Job purpose

As a member of the organization's Leadership Team, accountable for shaping and executing the Finance strategy, ensuring alignment with the organization's strategies, objectives, components, and programs, with its short-term and long-term goals of the organization working harmoniously to achieve efficiency, continuity, and success for the business. Reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer, the CFO will ensure that financial management, capital allocation, and regulatory compliance support both short-term performance and sustainable value creation. Responsible for fostering strong, strategic relationships with banks, investors (both equity and bond), funding partners, government ministries, regulators, and shareholders, building trust and confidence in the company's financial stewardship. The CFO will drive operational efficiency, continuous improvement, and business resilience, ensuring the finance function operates as a catalyst for efficiency, innovation, competitiveness, and growth.

The position will act by OQGN's mission, vision, values, governance policies, and guidelines, supported by an IT platform, upholding the highest HSE standards, adhering to the Oman government and other regulatory requirements, and applying international best practices in alignment with Oman's national objectives.

Main tasks and responsibilities

• Active partner together with the CEO and executive leadership team in developing the corporate strategy and objectives.
• Accountable for developing the Finance strategies and plans to ensure alignment with corporate strategic directions and compliance with the organization's guidelines and standards.
• Principal advisor on all finance matters, providing insight and enabling data-driven decision-making.
• Ensure full compliance with energy sector regulations and capital markets disclosure requirements.
• Translate business requirements into the Finance Function's actions, ensuring to creation of balanced measurements of its performance and achievement for the organization's success.
• Accountable for developing an innovation culture by supporting and cultivating an open innovation ecosystem for the organization, ensuring compliance with the organization's standards and guidelines.
• Accountable for leading the preparation and presentation of the financial statements in compliance with IFRS and regulatory guidelines. Financial Control: Overseas related processes and providing strategic directives and guidelines considering (Financial Accounting/ Financial Risks/Tax Services)
• Capital Management and Treasury: Accountable for the cash flow, ensuring the required funds are meeting the cash requirements and business needs through the development of hedging strategies. Directing the treasury operations and considerations to ensure alignment with the organization's guidelines and standards. Accountable for leading treasury operations, funding strategies, and debt management to achieve an optimal cost of capital to support infrastructure investment and strategic growth. Accountable for maintaining sufficient liquidity at all times to meet operational, regulatory, and strategic requirements, while ensuring disciplined cash flow management. Manage and safeguard the company's credit rating by proactively engaging with rating agencies, providing transparent disclosures, and maintaining strong financial metrics. Secure and manage access to diverse sources of liquidity, including debt capital markets, bank facilities, Islamic financing instruments and other funding channels to support ongoing operations and strategic initiatives.
• Contracting and Procurement: Oversees and provides directions to the diverse teams and processes, ensuring the achievement of positive supplier performance, balancing the forms of contract and effective policies and procedures, to support business value and gain commercial advantage, ensuring material and service availability to internal customers.
• FP&A / Business Finance: Overseas financial planning, analysis, and budgeting, ensuring evaluation of all operational aspects to anticipate potential matters fostering future financial results, considering economic and business trends to provide updated strategies and directions aligning with the organization guidelines and standards.
• Risk, Control & Business Continuity: Accountable for ensuring the development of enterprise risk management, framework, and processes, considering the alignment of the organization guidelines and standards, supporting in mitigating the primary threats, flags, or any other areas of concern.
• Investor Relations & Insurance: Accountable for executing investment relations initiatives and the assigned tasks for the business portfolio, providing legal support on merger and acquisition strategies among the related areas, bringing relevant people together and executing the best opportunities to monetize the organization's assets.

Background and experience

• + 18 years of experience in the oil and gas sectors, energy transition, with a proven track record as a CFO or senior finance executive.
• Handling senior management roles with a proven record of people, budget, and business plans.
• Experienced in corporate finance, capital structuring, and strategic investment planning.
• Experienced in a publicly listed company with strong knowledge of capital markets, investor relations, and public disclosure obligations.
• Experienced in understanding regulatory compliance in the energy sector.
• Experienced in resource control, contract management and general management.

Soft

• Strong management & leadership skills to lead all aspects of the facility support process and work collaboratively with all involved.
• Ability to manage time effectively and handle both internal and external conflicts.
• Excellent interpersonal and public speaking skills.
• Aptitude in decision-making and problem-solving.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and multicultural sensitivity.
• Ability to organize effectively, delegate responsibility, solve problems quickly and communicate clearly.
• Capable of working in a professional team environment and liaising with external parties and stakeholders.

Technical

• Computer literate with expertise in MS Office.
• Technical engineering terminology in English & and Arabic languages.
• Business planning and development.
• HSE, finance, budget, and reporting.
• Advanced business and financial analytical skills, Procurement, Contract, Inventory, and Warehouse.