Senior Controlling Analyst | Corporate Retail | Dubai

Overview of the role

Maintain a strong accounting & operational control environment to safeguard assets, improve accounting processes and manage business risks through financial compliance.

Communicates financial concepts in a clear and persuasive manner that is easy to understand and drives desired behaviors.

Ensure that the business activities are conducted in accordance with the Financial Control Models (FCM), and you also support the definition of local financial policies and ensure that the adherence to both local and global reporting standard are controlled.

What you will do

• Perform a preclosing balance sheet review in conjunction with the FSSC team to identify any accounting anomalies to be cleared prior to the book closure
• Support in the monthly accrual process to ensure adequate accruals have been taken for the BU
• Ensure the balance sheet lines are correctly reflecting their balances to avoid an Net debit / credit balance misstatements or any negative Balances in Asset lines. Inform FSSC of any errors to correct
• Ensure the bank balance reconciliations provided by FSSC throughout the month are matching with the bank statements \xe2\x80\x93 advise on any rectification entries to be passed
• Ensure all leasing accounting entries have been passed and check all lease renewals / modifications have been carried out by FSSC team
• Support driving any clearing of Balance sheet reconciliations identified post previous month end closing
• Support document retention compliance process in all BU\xe2\x80\x99s being managed
• Complete random audits of workflow to ensure that all accounting transactions are appropriately authorized and executed
• Regular review of Balance Sheet schedules provided by FSSC and driving resolution of misstatements/unreconciled open items in GLs
• Ensure timely submission of Balance sheet substantiation to group finance
• Advise any reclassifications required to be passed by FSSC in next monthly closing system
• Support the review SAP to BPC reconciliation on a monthly basis and minimize the entries posted in BPC
• Support the review of any audit adjustment entries being passed to ensure opening balances are correctly stated

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