Finance Officer - Rugby School Dubai

Job Description

Rugby School Dubai, in partnership with Aldar Education, is seeking to appoint an outstanding Finance Officer to join our founding team ahead of the school’s opening in August 2026. This is a rare opportunity to play a key role in establishing robust financial processes, systems, and controls from day one, ensuring the highest standards of financial management and operational efficiency.

Opening in August 2026, Rugby School Dubai will bring over 450 years of world-class British education to the UAE, rooted in the iconic ethos of “The Whole Person, The Whole Point.” As part of Aldar Education, the school will operate within a values-led, high-performance environment, delivering excellence across education, operations, and community life.

This position is responsible for timely invoicing, receipting, reconciliation and follow up with parents to collect the school receivables. Responsible to reconcile school Accounts Receivables, month end closing activities.

Responsibilities

Main Duties

• Billing, collection, liaising with customers to collect the receivables.
• Ensure timely collection and reduction/avoid bad debt.
• Respond to parents’ requirements and inquiries relating to fees payment.
• Manage the collection process including reminders and warning.
• Follow up late payments and returned cheques.
• Provide student list with fee outstanding with School team for decision making and expedite the collection .
  
  
  

Specific Duties

• Timely and accurate billing, collection and reduction of bad debt.
• Responsible for delivering a high quality customer service for the school.
• Timely billing for all types of receivables (but not limited to) such as tuition fees, exam fees, ECA, trips, etc.
• Issue receipts on a daily basis with accurate information such as bank reference number, date, etc. and ensure the reason is updated against all unidentified transactions and shared with respective school accountants for preparing bank reconciliation statement.
• Ensure reminder and warning letters have been sent with guidance of Credit Control team.
• Preform sales validation and ensure the student number are accurately reconciled with admission team.
• Timely closing of AR module in line with closing calendar.
• Accurate and Timely reporting for AR reports for decision making.
• Reconcile Accounts Receivables between Education and ERP systems, identify the gaps and resolve them in co-ordination with IT team.
• Ensure the enrolment processes are followed in compliance with policies and procedures.
• Validate refund requests from school and initiate payments through AR module and handover the documents to School Accountant for payment.
• Provide finance clearance for leavers and internal transfers after due diligence checks and validation.
• Ensure month end activities are performed in a timely manner.
• Support internal and external audit queries, provide supporting documents and resolve all audit queries within the timeline.
• Initiate process improvement wherever possible to achieve finance excellence.
• Support digitalisation of billing and collection projects where required.
• Improve customer experience by responding to emails and calls in a professional manner.
• Attend weekly AR review meetings with the team and provide insights for decision making.
• Prepare suspension list with appropriate comments and share with school Principal.
• Ensure to send finance fee follow up letters timely manner in compliance with KHDA regulation.
  
  
  

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance
  
  
  

Minimum Experience

• At least 2 years of experience in similar role
  
  
  

Job Specific Knowledge & Skills

• Fluent English communication skills, written and oral
• Attention to detail with diligent follow up, and able to execute in a timely manner
• Skilled in multi-tasking and handling pressure
• Ability to be detail focused when required whilst maintaining sight of the big picture
• Deadline oriented and take ownership of work
• Forethought and forward planning
• Capable of influencing people and talented in networking with cultural sensitivity
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent analytical capabilities and hands on experience in MS Office presentations and other reporting tools
• Experience within a school setting advantageous
  
  
  

What We Offer

Aldar Education are a family of world-class, child-centred, and innovative schools based in the UAE. We educate over 38,000 students across our group of owned and managed schools and as we grow so does our need for highly skilled, inspirational, and dedicated school leaders. We offer an attractive remuneration package. Our future-focused learning model includes both students and staff and so we place a special emphasis on professional development, coaching and training.

This job description is not all-inclusive. Aldar Education reserves the right to amend this job description at any time. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment. We are dedicated to our national development strategy and encourage UAE Nationals in their application at our company.

Aldar Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. Offers of appointment are subject to satisfactory references and police clearance.

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