Job Description

Overview Of The Role:
The Senior Finance Manager serves as a key figure in ensuring financial and commercial excellence within the Corporate Division. This role demands a strong leadership presence in managing financial processes, optimizing outcomes, and driving strategic initiatives. Partnering closely with stakeholders and shared services, the manager delivers actionable insights and fosters cross-departmental collaboration. Automation, AI, and advanced analytics are emphasized for efficiency, where the manager guides digital transformation efforts in the finance sector. They ensure compliance with organizational policies, safeguarding accuracy, timeliness, and integrity of financial information, and manage expenditure and reporting against IFRS and UAE tax laws.
What You Will Do:
Financial Controlling

• Preparing deck for monthly Controlling Review Meeting
• Monthly Balance Sheet Substantiation, regularizing misstatements timely, ensuring best quality of books
• Review account reconciliations regularly - Bank, IFRS 16, Investments, IC Loans, Passthrough, etc. and help clearing open line items
• GL Supervision: regular review of trial balance and GL schedules ensuring correctness of accounting and timely resolution of issues
• Monthly book closure: providing month close provision & other inputs to FSSC, pre-close and post-close review of TB
• AR/AP/Inventory management -Resolving issues related to IC receivables/payables
• Cashflow management: biweekly forecast, monthly actuals vs budget/forecast
• Review of AFEs (Approval for Expenditure)
• Releasing Purchase Orders and liaising with various stakeholders
• Releasing IT SRs for corporate entities
• Managing ad hoc deliverables
• Monitoring and providing guidance to overseas accountants
• Preparing SoPs
• Continuous improvement

Audit

• Managing statutory audits of UAE and overseas corporate entities
• Engaging with auditors and agreeing on timelines
• Liaising with FSSC & auditors closely, resolving issues ensuring group timelines are achieved.
• Review of FS prepared by FSSC
• Submitting weekly audit tracker
• Managing internal audits, supporting auditors with required information, responding timely to audit reports and ensuring recommendations are implemented

Projects & Digital Transformation

• Managing automation and process improvisation projects liaising closely with EIT and other related functions ensuring timely implementation of solutions
• Identifying areas of improvement, preparing BRDs, performing UAT for various projects

Risk Management & Compliance

• Ensuring compliance to group policies/practices
• Ensuring compliance with accounting standards
• Liaising with insurance to cover risk

Stakeholder Engagement & Business Partnering

• Effective collaboration with senior management and cross-functional teams
• Providing fact-based financial insights to influence strategic decisions
• Building strong partnerships across departments

Skills Required