Financial Controller - DUBAI UAE

Your main responsibilities are:

• To build a strong communication structure within the UAE collating relevant information impacting profitability and ensuring awareness by key stakeholders of financial performance.

• To ensure financial reporting is accurate and deliverables are submitted within set deadlines.

• To provide sound financial/non-financial performance analysis and commentary.

• To help drive the financial forecasting and budget exercise and ensure a high level of accuracy.

• To actively participate in month-end closing to ensure correct revenue and cost allocation by UAE entities and (when required) proposing appropriate accruals.

• To assist UAE businesses with HQ level reporting into client consolidation platform to ensure timely reporting.

• To actively participate in cost control projects and propose actions to ensure containment of general overheads and ensure appropriate communication across all the departments of the organization.

• Support other areas of the business in analyzing results and collating information for decision-making including involvement in ad-hoc projects. This includes developing reporting tools and dashboards where appropriate.

Tasks & Responsibilities

• Business Plan Budgeting and Forecasting

• Coordination of budget and forecasts reporting budget submission (yearly and monthly); two Forecasts per year (forecast) one Long Term Plan.

• Develop and maintain a budget and forecasting model which can be utilized by all UAE business and is compatible with financial reporting software/ERP.

• Coordinate collection, analysis, production, and dissemination of information.

• Maintain a detailed working knowledge of the UAE consolidated budget and KPIs.

• Financial Control and Accounting

• Coordination of the closings: ensure accuracy (P&L, Balance sheet, Cash Flow items) and on-time submission by subsidiaries in the consolidation software.

• Taxation

• Assist operating teams with Ad-Hoc questions around VAT and Corporate Income Tax to ensure all entities are compliant with regulatory requirements.

• Data Analytics & Process Improvements

• Implement group-wide data analytics tools to provide insights and support decision-making.

• Lead initiatives to standardize and streamline financial processes across the group.

• Optimization of existing tools and systems to ensure reliability and productivity of reporting.

• Update and improvement of consolidation data and various reports: KFIs, Savings, CAPEX, Segments, and bridge analysis on a regular basis.

• Control accuracy and completeness of information reported by UAE business. Provide provisional analysis to UAE Country CFO of monthly position vs. budget/forecast.

• Develop tools to assist teams in analyzing variances against budget, forecast, and previous year in an accurate & efficient manner linking into financial ERP data.

• Perform quarterly reconciliations between consolidation platform and Financial ERP to ensure accuracy of Group reporting to underlying books and records.

• Oversight of working capital key performance indicators to activate remedial steps as and when necessary including explaining variances to budget and action needed to improve position in line with target.

Qualifications:

• Good knowledge and practice of accounting and financial techniques (IFRS standards and local accounting and tax rules).

• Strong ability to solve complex accounting and tax issues and challenges and with other finance functions or operational departments.

• Good knowledge of accounting and financial processes for both internal control and procedural efficiency.

• Good knowledge of accounting and financial information systems.

• Ability to organize and plan the process of periodic account closings and meet accounting and tax deadlines.

Remote Work: No

Employment Type: Full-time