INTERIM GROUP FINANCE
The group close, delivered on time.
I step into mid-sized international groups as an interim Group Financial Controller — for the consolidated close, for a consolidation system that needs fixing, or for the first joint reporting cycle after an acquisition. Remote-first from Dubai, on site when the close needs someone in the room.
In finance and controlling since 2018 · LucaNet · SAP S/4HANA · HGB & IFRS · Transfer pricing · DACH & Gulf
Independent since 2024
Group entities across Europe and the Gulf
Consolidation, close, integration
Available at short notice
Services
What I take on
01
Group close and consolidation
Monthly, quarterly and year-end close for groups with several entities and currencies. Intercompany reconciliation, equity roll-forward, cash flow statement, notes — and the audit file that goes with them.
02
Consolidation systems, LucaNet and SAP
Setting up, cleaning up or migrating a consolidation system so the numbers can be trusted again. Structures, mappings, validation rules — and documentation that survives your next staff change. Plus the finance workstream when the group moves to SAP S/4HANA: chart of accounts, accounting data, cutover.
03
Post-merger integration and carve-outs
Turning two charts of accounts into one, building opening balance sheets, and bringing a newly acquired or separated entity into the group reporting cycle without the close slipping.
04
Interim controlling capacity
Covering a vacancy, a parental leave or a peak period in group controlling — with someone who runs the close independently from week two, not from month three.
05
Transfer pricing support
Intercompany transactions booked and reconciled correctly, local file and master file prepared inside your finance function, methodology aligned with your tax advisors, and support during the tax audit. The tax opinion stays with your advisors — I prepare the documentation and the numbers behind it.
Approach
How a mandate starts
01
Intro call
Thirty minutes. You describe the situation, I tell you honestly whether I am the right person for it.
02
Scope and proposal
Within 48 hours you have a written scope, a timeline and a rate. No lengthy pitch process.
03
Start
Usually within two weeks. First deliverable inside the first reporting cycle, not at the end of the mandate.
Engagement models
Ways to work together
Interim mandate
· Three to twelve months
· Two to five days per week
· Remote-first, on site for close weeks and workshops
Project sprint
· One defined deliverable — a close, a migration, an integration
· Fixed scope, fixed timeline
· For a need that is sharp but temporary
Advisory retainer
· On-demand hours, booked when you need them
· Continuity after a mandate ends
· No minimum commitment
Rates on request. Invoiced from the UAE — for business clients in the EU under the reverse charge procedure.
About
Tuba Kara
I have worked in finance and controlling since 2018 — first in accounting and financial controlling, later in group reporting and consolidation, and since 2024 independently through my own practice.
Most mandates start the same way. A consolidated close that keeps slipping. A consolidation system nobody fully trusts. Two charts of accounts that were supposed to become one last year. I do that work myself — I am not a partner who sends a team and reappears at the steering committee.
Right now I prepare the group consolidation for an international group with more than 2,500 employees and over EUR 470 million in annual revenue. Before going independent I spent six years in finance and controlling roles: most recently as Group Controller at Thomas GmbH, where I shortened the group close by three days and built a reporting framework covering more than twelve subsidiaries, before that as deputy head of finance at Henry Schein, leading a team of four, and as financial controller at VAMED Engineering, part of the Fresenius Group. M.Sc. Finance & Accounting and B.Sc. International Finance, both in Frankfurt.
Kara Advisory is based in Dubai and licensed as Tuba Kara Advisory Consultancies – FZCO. I work with clients in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Gulf region, remote-first, and I travel on site when a close or a workshop genuinely calls for it.
FAQ
Questions before we begin
How quickly can you start?
You are based in Dubai — how does that work for a client in Germany?
How does invoicing work?
Do you take full-time mandates?
Do you work with recruitment agencies?
Contact
Let’s look at your close.
Tell me what is not working — a close that slips, a system nobody trusts, an entity that needs to join the group reporting. I will tell you honestly whether I can help and how long it would take.