Description:
Core duties & responsibilities:
Service Delivery
- Ensure periodic reconciliations on all bank accounts, delivering to both internal and regulatory deadlines
- Support special projects / new products and workflow process improvements.
- Assist in the implementation of new software platforms.
- Lead team members in delivering service excellence across the assigned work and continually evaluating performance
- Publish complete and timely financial statements to company executives, shareholders, and the board
Process and Operations
- Assist in development and implementation of new procedures and features to streamline the workflow of the department.
- Ensure monthly accounts closure
- Prepare monthly financial statements.
- Prepare and submit all required corporate reports and central bank reports
- Ensure a timely quarter end and year-end audit (Internal, External, Central Bank and State Audit)
- Account for any budget variances and report significant discrepancies to management
Finance
- Report to CFO & CEO financial results together with any special reporting requests
- Improve efficiencies and reduce cost across the business
- Recommend benchmarks for the measurement of company financial performance goals
Customer Focus
- Provide monthly P&L reviews with Area managers and retail head
- Assisting peer departments for ultimately achieving group goals.
- Ensure the team delivers the minimum TAT for customer/partners queries in case of cancellations, etc.
Compliance
- Ensure all services provided by the function are compliant with the CBUAE and WSE policies & procedures.
- Raise awareness within the team and wider organization of our employee responsibility in working in a risk free and compliant manner.
- Ensure all employees attend risk and compliance awareness programmes during the course of their employment whether it is as part of the on-boarding process or the annual refresher training.
Knowledge & Skills required:
Essential:
- Knowledge of IFRS.
- Knowledge of VAT.
- Proficient in MS office tools, analytic tools
- Proven team leader
- Excellent Accounting concepts
- Good interpersonal and communication skills.
- Excellent time and stress management.
- Experience of handling large volumes of data sets