Country Holding Officer Saudi Arabia

At ABB, we help industries run leaner and cleaner—and every person here makes that happen. You’ll be empowered to lead, supported to grow, and proud of the impact we create together. Join us and help run what runs the world.

This position reports to:

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Your Role:

Responsible for ensuring ABB operates to required standards and maintains compliance with all fiduciary requirements across the country. Coordinates local functions and business organizations to ensure consistency, expertise, and regulatory focus while representing ABB at the local governance level and leading the finance front office.

While maintaining regulatory compliance, the role creates an agile business platform enabling divisions to evolve with flexibility. Key priorities include driving process simplification, reducing complexity, and supporting the business to secure to a highly motivated and skilled workforce for sustainable growth.

The Role is based in Riyadh - Saudi Arabia.

• Ensuring collaboration between businesses is effectively executed, where appropriate, to be consistent with the "ABB-Way."
• Actively seeking opportunities to simplify and streamline processes.
• Establishing and maintaining local governance in line with regulations while eliminating internal complexity. 
• Fulfilling and coordinating fiduciary duties on behalf of ABB's local legal entities, in support of all respective functions, Business Areas and Divisions.
• Acting as the authorized signatory for compliance with local regulations, statutory, tax, treasury and HSE requirements.
• Representing ABB locally or organizing representation by another local leader / expert (focusing on external representation, including e.g. representation in associations, government relations) and actively managing partnerships and external (non-customer) stakeholders, when of significant importance across several local businesses.
• Responsible for compliance with all applicable local fiduciary finance requirements, overseeing compliance with US GAAP, local reporting, internal controls, legal and tax requirements, with support provided by respective functions. Oversight and alignment of Real Estate across the country.
• Consulted on, facilitates and supporting global business for the Country within scope for M&A activities, reorganizations, restructuring, non-core activities, carve-outs, as requested.  Leading or actively supporting the local aspects of global projects, as needed.
• Maintaining relations with external auditors and communicating their local findings and recommendations to the appropriate organization for remediation (i.e. Business, Finance Services or Corporate).
• Championing process simplification and elimination of non-value-added activities across all fiduciary and governance functions.
• Acting as the strong local leadership for corporate/globally owned functions such as Country Communications, Government Relations, HR, Legal, Tax and Treasury.

What it takes to Run what runs the world

• Bachelor’s degree in any discipline.
• Well demonstrated leadership abilities based on creating an impactful collaboration culture and strong accountability.
• 10+ years of working knowledge with supervisory experience in a similar role in a multicultural environment, particularly in a GCC/Saudi Arabian context.
• Broad functional knowledge and expertise, including full range of functional finance and non-financial skills and management skills.
• Proven ability to streamline operations and eliminate complexity.
• Proven ability to work with internal & external (non-customer) stakeholders, such as tax authorities, government institutions, associations, auditors, etc.
• Deep knowledge, understanding and interest in Saudi Arabia, its regulations and culture.
• Arabic language proficiency is highly desirable

Building a cleaner, smarter future takes all kinds of minds: the curious, the courageous, and the creative. That's why we welcome people from all backgrounds and experiences.

Ready to make an impact?

Apply today or visit https://www.abb.com to learn more about the impact of our solutions across the globe.