SVP Financial Reporting

About Us:

Mubadala is a leading global and responsible investor with $385 billion AUM, five global offices and business investments in 50+ countries. While creating sustainable financial returns, we deliver impact and help find solutions to the world’s biggest challenges.

As a business, we aim to double the size of our portfolio over the next decade. To achieve this, we are seeking talent with corporate experience that can contribute to the organization’s success across local and global offices, including London, Beijing and New York.

Join a team that is at the heart of change and be part of Abu Dhabi’s economic diversification and investment opportunities globally in partnership with some of the world’s largest financial institutions.

Find out more about how you can add value to our business.

Unit Overview:

• Financial Governance & Reporting serves as a gateway to clarity and confidence by delivering accurate, timely, and transparent financial information, enabling compliance, supporting stakeholder trust, and strengthening decision-useful management and statutory reporting.
  
  

What you will do:

Job Purpose:

This role is responsible for leading the governance, technical accounting, financial close, statutory reporting, and control agenda across Mubadala’s reporting environment. The role is expected to ensure timely, accurate, transparent, and auditable financial information.

• Lead group-wide financial governance and reporting activities across legal entities, investees, and reporting platforms, ensuring compliance with IFRS and Mubadala policy requirements.
• Drive a robust financial statement close process, including close calendar governance, reconciliations, consolidation review, disclosure controls, significant judgments, and management sign-off.
• Provide executive-level technical accounting leadership on complex investment deals, including business combinations, consolidation assessments, fair value, financial instruments, impairment, expected credit losses, and accounting policy interpretation.
• Act as a senior partner to business finance, platform finance, treasury, corporate reporting, legal, tax, risk, internal audit, and external auditors, while leading transformation across systems, data, and reporting processes.
  
  

Key Accountabilities:

Technical Accounting:

• Lead the resolution and documentation of complex IFRS matters, including consolidation suite of standards, business combination, financial instruments and other standards relevant to Mubadala’s portfolio.
• Own and annually update Mubadala’s Group Accounting Policy
• Lead and own IFRS technical topics across the Mubadala Group, including their implementation – e.g. IFRS 18
• Own or sponsor accounting position papers for complex transactions and review purchase price allocation, impairment, expected credit loss, and consolidation conclusions where applicable.
• Drive the review of significant estimates and judgments, disclosure completeness, subsequent events, and presentation matters to support a true and fair view in the financial statements.
• Lead IFRS technical training within Mubadala Head office, and across investees as required
  
  

Financial Reporting, Consolidation:

• Ensure the integrity of financial information across wholly owned entities, controlled investees, equity-accounted investments, and other reporting components feeding the Group consolidated financial statements.
• Review the quality and timeliness of investee reporting packages, entity submissions, and note disclosures used in group reporting.
• Contribute to the development and execution of the Group Finance strategy as it relates to financial governance, statutory reporting, close excellence, and control maturity.
• Establish and drive performance priorities for FGR activities, aligning the function with the requirements of senior management, ARCC, the Board, and other governance forums.
• Lead strategic initiatives to enhance reporting quality, transparency, speed, consistency, and audit defensibility across Mubadala’s financial reporting environment.
• Oversee disclosure controls, subsequent events review, management representation support, and ARCC / Group CFO reporting packs required for periodic close cycles.
  
  

Governance, Policies, and Control Environment:

• Contribute to the ICoFR environment relevant to financial reporting under COSO-based principles and Mubadala governance expectations.
• Lead continuous improvement of financial reporting policies, close procedures, and governance standards in line with international leading practice and Mubadala requirements.
• Promote automation, standardization, and digitalization of financial close, validation, consolidation, and reporting processes to reduce manual intervention and improve control precision.
  
  

Relationship Management and External Stakeholder Engagement:

• Manage strategic relationships with senior finance leadership, legal, tax, treasury, risk, internal audit, and external auditors.
• Support external audit of periodic reviews and annual audits, including planning, issue resolution, evidence readiness, and management representation support.
• Oversee the quality, timeliness, and governance of outsourced service providers and specialist consultants supporting reporting, and control activities.
  
  

People Leadership:

• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team, creating clear accountability for delivery, technical quality, and professional development.
• Build capability in IFRS technical accounting, financial reporting, close governance, consolidation, and ICFR disciplines across the team.
• Set an executive standard for ownership, integrity, communication, collaboration, and disciplined escalation.
  
  

Related Assignments:

• Perform other related responsibilities and strategic assignments as directed by senior management.
  
  

What will you bring:

Minimum qualification:

• Chartered Accountant qualification is required; an additional relevant professional qualification is advantageous.
  
  

Experience:

• 18+ years of progressively senior experience across financial reporting, technical accounting, consolidation, audit, and financial governance roles.
• Big 4 background is required, with substantial post-qualification experience in complex IFRS reporting environments.
• Strong experience working across multiple jurisdictions and legal entity structures reporting under IFRS.
• Prior experience within an asset manager, sovereign wealth fund, investment holding company, private equity, alternatives, or similarly complex investment environment is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience leading teams and managing delivery in fast-paced, high-accountability organisations.
  
  

Knowledge:

• Expert-level understanding of IFRS and statutory reporting, with strong command of consolidation, business combinations, fair value, impairment, and financial instruments.
• Strong knowledge of financial close governance, disclosure controls, reconciliation standards, audit support, and evidence retention requirements.
• Strong understanding of ICFR/COSO concepts, governance forums, deficiency evaluation, and remediation discipline.
• Working knowledge of systems and reporting environments , and related interfaces/reporting controls.
  
  

Leadership and Other Competencies:

• Executive presence with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and communicate complex accounting matters with clarity and judgement.
• Strong analytical capability, structured problem-solving, and the confidence to challenge and resolve issues constructively.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, lead through change, and deliver under tight reporting deadlines.
• Demonstrates integrity, accountability, maturity, and a continuous-improvement mindset consistent with Mubadala’s governance expectations.
• Builds effective partnerships across functions and acts as an ambassador for high-quality finance governance and reporting.
  
  

What we offer:

A superior platform to grow your career including:

• A role that has social and financial impact.
• Great working environment with talented and like-minded colleagues.
• Market leading pay and benefits including performance pay.
• Hybrid working and wellness benefits to help you live your best work and private life.
• Opportunity to grow and develop through learning and experience.
• Excellent work culture enabled by our values of Accountability, Inspiration, Integrity & Partnership.
  
  

Key Indicators:

• Location: Abu Dhabi
• Flexible Working: Remote working up to 5 days a month

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