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 KPI’s
• 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 AdHoc 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
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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 record
• 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