Location: Karachi
Client Overview
Our client is a well-established and diversified private business group in Pakistan with more than four decades of operational excellence. Headquartered in Karachi, the group has built a strong market presence across logistics, pharmaceutical imports, automobiles, and supply chain solutions. With a reputation for reliability, business depth, and long-term market engagement, the organization serves both local and international markets.
Role Summary
The Group Chief Financial Officer will serve as a strategic finance leader and trusted advisor to top management, providing financial oversight across the group’s investment portfolio and operating businesses. The role requires a commercially astute, forward-looking, and proactive professional who can strengthen financial governance, guide business strategy, improve performance visibility, and support sustainable growth across all group entities.
Key Responsibilities
1. Group Financial Leadership
• Lead and oversee the finance function across all group companies.
• Establish strong financial systems, controls, and reporting disciplines across the organization.
• Ensure alignment of finance operations with the overall strategic direction of the group.
2. Strategic Finance and Business Advisory
• Act as a key advisor to management on financial, commercial, and investment matters.
• Provide meaningful financial insights to support strategic planning and decision-making.
• Evaluate business opportunities, investments, and expansion initiatives from a financial and risk perspective.
3. Planning, Budgeting, and Performance Management
• Oversee annual budgeting, forecasting, and long-range financial planning for the group.
• Monitor financial performance and variance analysis across business units.
• Drive financial planning and performance review processes in line with group objectives.
4. Treasury and Cash Flow Oversight
• Manage group-level cash flow planning and liquidity oversight.
• Ensure effective working capital management and prudent utilization of financial resources.
• Support financial stability through disciplined treasury management and funding visibility.
5. Governance, Compliance, and Controls
• Ensure compliance with all applicable statutory, regulatory, taxation, and financial reporting requirements.
• Strengthen internal controls, governance practices, and financial risk management across entities.
• Support management in maintaining transparency, accountability, and financial discipline.
6. Team Leadership and Capability Building
• Lead, mentor, and develop finance teams across the group.
• Foster a culture of accountability, professionalism, and high performance.
• Build finance capability to support both operational excellence and strategic growth.
Qualifications
• At least 5 years of experience in a senior management or equivalent leadership role.
• Proven exposure to group-level finance leadership, strategic planning, and business partnering will be preferred.
Technical Expertise
• Group financial management and oversight
• Budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning
• Cash flow, treasury, and working capital management
• Financial analysis and strategic decision support
• Internal controls, governance, and financial risk management
Core Competencies
• Strong strategic, analytical, and decision-making ability
• Proactive and commercially minded leadership approach
• Ability to act as a trusted advisor to senior management
• Sharp business judgment and performance orientation
• Strong leadership presence with the ability to drive accountability
• Capability to carry forward and translate management’s vision into financial strategy
Compensation and Benefits
Market competitive compensation will be offered, aligned with the selected candidate’s experience, profile, and organizational policy.
How to Apply
Interested candidates who meet the above criteria may apply through web link for confidential consideration.
Confidentiality
All applications will be handled with strict confidentiality.