Senior Finance Manager | Industrial Equipments | Al Futtaim Automotive | Dubai

Established in the 1930s as a trading business, Al-Futtaim Group today is one of the most diversified and progressive, privately held regional businesses headquartered in Dubai, United A”rab Emirates. Structured into five operating divisions; automotive, financial services, real estate, retail and healthcare; employing more than 35,000 employees across more than 20 countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, Al-Futtaim Group partners with over 200 of the world's most admired and innovative brands. Al-Futtaim Group’s entrepreneurship and relentless customer focus enables the organisation to continue to grow and expand; responding to the changing needs of our customers within the societies in which we operate.

By upholding our values of respect, excellence, collaboration and integrity; Al-Futtaim Group continues to enrich the lives and aspirations of our customers each and every day.

ROLE PURPOSE:

This is a mid-management role with specific focus on steering the accounting and financial processes of Al Futtaim Industrial Equipment business.

KEY ROLE SPECIFIC ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Management and Control

• To deliver monthly closure of books of accounts as per the group accounting policies. Approval and supervision of monthly provision entries as per business requirements.
• Contribute to the development of business management through monthly reviews and recommendation of improvement initiatives.
• Review and initiate cost saving measures in the business.
• Support business in making commercial decisions by providing financial acumen.
• Review contracts for large B2B customers and actively participate in pricing the tenders etc for the business
• Support business with collections and interfering wherever there are reconciliation issues
• Ensure compliance of laws and regulations like VAT etc
• Ensure compliance of IFRS for revenue booking, cost and expenses.
• Ensure application of appropriate internal controls, compliance and financial processes
• Liaise with various AF Group departments like Group Legal, EIT, Group Admin, Group HR, etc.
• Liase with AF Group companies for IHF (long term and short term)
• Supervision of Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables, Inventory and petty cash activities.
• Review insurance policies for the company and come up with the optimum policies.
• Conduct order study for optimal ordering.
• Manage SAP system related changes to ensure compliance of invoice formats and accounting processes.

Financial Reporting

• Design and implement best practices and process improvements within the Financial Reporting, Accounting and Financial Controlling processes
• Review accounting policies and suggest improvements if required
• Evaluate Business decisions and review financial impacts
• Review and reconciliation of BS accounts

Minimum Qualifications and Knowledge:

• Accounting professional qualification (CA/CPA/MBA Finance) with proven expertise in Financial and Management accounting
• Strong core finance technical skills, processes and systems

Minimum Experience:  

• Experience with ERP (preferably SAP, BPC)
• Proficiency in MS Office (Word/ Excel/ PowerPoint/MS Projects)
• 8 to 10 years of well-rounded experience in the field of Finance & Accounting

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