The Role
Leads enterprise financial strategy, planning, governance, compliance, tax oversight, revenue assurance, procurement controls, risk management, and technology investment oversight. Advises the CEO and Board, ensures financial reporting integrity and regulatory compliance, manages audits and sustainability frameworks, and leads the Finance and Procurement function. Requires extensive public-sector finance leadership, professional accounting credentials, board-level reporting experience, and strong stakeholder and team leadership skills.
Summary Generated by Built In
Strategic Financial Leadership and Sustainability
Requirements
Benefits
- Develop and lead PSW’s financial strategy aligned with its statutory mandate and digital transformation objectives.
- Advise the CEO and Board on financial sustainability, cost recovery, funding models, and major investment decisions.
- Oversee long-term financial planning, revenue assurance, and prudent cost management.
- Ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulatory requirements, including corporate, tax, audit, and public-sector governance frameworks.
- Provide assurance to the Board and Audit Committee on financial reporting integrity, internal controls, and risk exposures.
- Oversee responses to statutory, internal, and regulatory audits.
- Provide strategic oversight of corporate tax governance, including compliance, withholding obligations, indirect tax exposure, cross-border tax matters, and management of tax audits or litigation.
- Provide strategic oversight of annual budgets, revised estimates, forecasts and multi-year financial plans.
- Review financial performance, material variances, cash-flow projections, and financial commitments.
- Ensure robust expenditure governance, control frameworks, and financial accountability.
- Oversee service-charge structures, user fees, funding arrangements, and other approved revenue streams.
- Review cost-recovery models and financial sustainability projections.
- Ensure strong revenue assurance mechanisms covering billing, collection, reconciliation, and financial system integrity.
- Provide financial oversight of technology investments, ERP systems, digital payments, and platform infrastructure.
- Review business cases, lifecycle costs, financial risks, and return on investment for major initiatives. Procurement, and Risk Governance
- Provide executive oversight of procurement governance and contract financial terms.
- Ensure financial risk management, fraud prevention controls, and segregation-of-duties frameworks are effective and enforced.
- Ensure robust tax governance frameworks covering vendor taxation, contractual tax clauses, and statutory withholding compliance.
- Engage with regulators, ministries, auditors, financial institutions, donors, and strategic stakeholders.
- Lead the Finance & Procurement function through the senior leadership team, promoting integrity, transparency, and performance excellence.
Requirements
- Member of a professional accounting body recognized by IFAC (e.g., ICAP, ICMAP, CPA), in good standing.
- Minimum 16–20 years of relevant experience, including at least 5 years in a senior finance leadership role (CFO / Director Finance / Head of Finance or equivalent), with demonstrated exposure to Board-level reporting, governance and strategic financial management.
- Proven ability to navigate public sector regulations, compliance, and reporting requirements.
- Experience in technology-enabled organizations or large-scale transformation initiatives will be an advantage.
- Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to interpret complex financial data and trends.
- Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, for effective engagement with internal and external stakeholders.
- Strong leadership skills, including team development and mentorship.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Fuel Card
- Health benefits
- Professional development opportunities
- Inclusive work culture & much more
Skills Required
- Member in good standing of a professional accounting body recognized by IFAC, such as ICAP, ICMAP, or CPA.
- 16–20 years of relevant professional experience.
- At least 5 years in a senior finance leadership role such as CFO, Director Finance, or Head of Finance.
- Demonstrated experience with Board-level reporting, governance, and strategic financial management.
- Ability to navigate public-sector regulations, compliance, and reporting requirements.
- Experience in technology-enabled organizations or large-scale transformation initiatives.
- Excellent analytical skills and ability to interpret complex financial data and trends.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong leadership, team development, and mentorship skills.
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The Company
What We Do
Pakistan Single Window (PSW) is an integrated digital platform that allows parties involved in trade to submit standardized information and documents with a single entry point to fulfill all import, export, and transit-related regulatory requirements, aiming to digitalize and streamline cross-border trade.
