Financial reporting manager

Intercompany and consolidation

• Manage group consolidation, including elimination entries, currency translation and minority interests, and reconcile intercompany balances monthly.

Controls and governance

• Own key financial controls: journal approval, reconciliations, segregation of duties and ERP access.

• Document and maintain accounting policies, SOPs and process narratives, and remediate audit findings on time.

Tax and regulatory

• Prepare VAT returns, support Corporate Tax and Pillar Two computations, and prepare financial inputs to CBUAE regulatory returns and licence-holder submissions, ensuring reconciliation back to the ledger.

Systems and automation

• Act as finance key user for Oracle Fusion, owning the chart of accounts, period controls and close configuration.

• Review current finance processes and propose and implement improvements, with a focus on shortening the close.

• Automate reconciliations, reporting and dashboards.

• Drive Agentic AI automation of processes across the month end close process.
  Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance, with ACCA, CA, CPA or equivalent.

• 8+ years of accounting experience, including financial close, IFRS reporting and group consolidation, with at least [3] years in a controllership or financial reporting role.

• Hands-on experience managing an external audit end to end.

• Strong knowledge of IFRS, including IFRS 9 in a lending context.

• Oracle Fusion (or a comparable tier-one ERP), advanced Excel and AI (Claude) exposure.

• Experience in banking, lending, payments or fintech.

• Detail-oriented and a clear writer, comfortable challenging the business with evidence in a fast-moving environment.

Nice to have

• Big Four audit background.

• UAE experience, including CBUAE regulatory reporting, UAE Corporate Tax and VAT.

• Experience with regulated entities or multi-entity group structures.

• Exposure to reporting automation tools (Power BI, Alteryx, SQL).