Finance Product Officer

Job Purpose: JOB PURPOSE The Product Management Officer (Financial
Applications & Masters) supports the Product Owner / Controller (Financial
Applications & Masters) to manage and deliver the financial systems
enhancements and support for Finance on a global scale, to ensure the
provision of best-in-class financial systems, applications, and management
information for use internally by Finance and across the business, including
to inform/enable commercial decisions. The role is expected to help in the
implementation & compliance with the effective policies and processes for
financial systems access and maintenance of operational master data updates to
ensure appropriate control over the Group's assets and accurate financial
information processing. Operational masters includes but not limited to direct
operating cost contracts, Interline partner agreements, tax masters (ticket,
direct and indirect Tax), supplier and customer master, revenue and cost
accounting masters, etc. JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES LINKED TO OBJECTIVE AREAS •
Ensure all financial applications support is provided in line with respective
Service Level Agreement (SLAs) helping to keep the lights with support from
IT. It is expected that the person in this role suggests root cause fixes
towards permanent resolution for identified recurring issues. • Provide
consultancy & business support related to financial applications, assisting
the end-user community to utilise systems effectively and helping enable the
evolving business processes via solutions provided through improved system
functionality on a continuous basis. • Explore & suggest new features in
financial applications to continuously improve the products under management.
This applies to internal and external (vendor-based) applications. • Maintain
regression test packs, conduct first level of User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
for new features, enhancements & bug-fixes for financial applications. Find
innovative ways to continuously improve the testing cycle for FA&MM,
optimizing time and resources for the department. • Help write Standard
Operating Procedures (SoPs), user guides and setup / configuration documents
for systems (core configuration) & functional masters for financial
applications. • Action user access management & functional masters update
requests while being compliant with defined policies, standard operating
procedures (SoPs) and SLAs to help protect group assets. • Support periodical
review of users and operational masters to ensure maintenance of healthy
master data compliant to policies and processes • Configure applications in
line with the approved setup & configuration documents to maintain the
respective financial application in good health to ensure accurate financial
information processing. • Understand the existing business processes being
supported and support the change enablers in training & adoption • Manage own
performance & continuous learning plan. Help improve performance of the unit,
help other members in the team with their development to support succession
planning.
Qualifications & Experience: MINIMUM
QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE/KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS Qualifications: Degree or Honours
(‎12+‎3 or equivalent) in Technology, Finance or Accounting related would be
preferred. Candidates with demonstrable continuous self-development through
career would have higher consideration. Experience: ‎5+ yrs. Functional
(Finance and/or Accounting) in a Supervisory capacity Knowledge / skills: •
Functional knowledge of Financial Applications highly desired which include
but not limited to: - ERP Finance (Oracle Financials eBS preferred), - Airline
Revenue Accounting, Direct Operating Costs - Payment Gateway - Treasury -
Planning, Forecasting, Consolidation & Budgeting - Reporting / Analytics •
Ability to pick-up any financial application, understand how it fit in the
overall technology landscape and how it enables the finance function • Sound
Accounting & Taxation knowledge • Operational Finance Knowledge • Ability to
understand finance processes from a system and operational perspective •
Experience in handling master management functions, preferably in an airline •
Basic product and/or project management skills Leadership Role: No Safety
Sensitive Role: No
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.