Finance Controller

Job Purpose: Manage the month-end closing of the financial books, perform
detailed financial reviews of the Group entities submissions, and
authenticating the quality of reconciliations to ensure that the financial
numbers are complete and accurate. Provide key support in the preparation and
audit of the Group's Financial Statements. Review Group entities financials to
ensure that they are compliant with the Group Policies and IFRS. Job Outline:
- Manage the monthly closing of the books after completing pre-closing checks
and handling exceptions with the concerned sections/departments to ensure that
the financial numbers are complete and accurate. This will entail the review
of balance sheet nominals through a process of validating balances through a
variety of checks e.g. using trends, awareness of the business, the accounting
entry flow, change in activity levels, etc. - Manage the end-to-end financial
accounting functions (i.e. accrual, reconciliation, and controls) over certain
receivables and payables in high-value business areas. - Perform detailed
financial reviews of the Group entities with an aim to ensure that the
accounting and reporting policies as per Group Manual and IFRS / local GAAPs
are consistently applied by the entities' management. - Review the Group
entity submissions to identify balances with significant judgements and
management incentives and ascertain the accuracy of such balances through
inquiries, contract reviews and validate in line with the business
performance, quarterly Group Reporting Packs and IFRS guidance. - Discuss the
review findings with the entities' management and obtain their buy-in on the
proposed management action points. - Review Group company submissions for
timeliness, completeness, and accuracy. Analyze the movements in balances,
obtaining explanations for significant variations. - Review the quality of
reconciliations performed by Group entities and provide them improvement
solutions so that the efficiency of the process is increased and the risk of
errors is reduced. These solutions would have to be tailored to the entity's
business operations considering the constantly changing processes and new
business initiatives with a view to cover the risks associated with the
changes. This would entail changing processes, methods of / approaches to
reconciliation. - Manage and prioritize the assigned objectives to achieve the
work plan as per deadlines.
Qualifications & Experience: Experience: Finance, Accounting and Assurance :
‎5+ years Qualifications: Degree or Honours (‎12+‎3 or equivalent)
Knowledge/Experience: - Accounting Degree, preferably a qualified accountant
with at least ‎6 years relevant experience in a large organization, preferably
within the travel industry. - Strong accounting and technical skills in a
service company with different lines of business operating in a multiple
currency environment. - Ability to analyze complex and large financial
databases. - Assurance experience to critically review and validate large
numbers reported by the Group Entities. - Flexibility to travel
internationally.
Salary & Benefits: Join us in Dubai and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary
and travel benefits that are exclusive to our industry, including discounts on
flights and hotels stays around the world. You can find out more information
about our employee benefits in the Working Here section of our website
www.emirates.com/careers. Further information on what's it like to live and
work in our cosmopolitan home city, can be found in the Dubai Lifestyle
section.