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Job Purpose:

This is a senior Finance leadership role accountable for end-to-end financial accounting and financial reporting for HBME and its branches, including accounting and financial reporting expertise and delivery support to other MENAT regional entities. The role leads to the delivery of accurate, timely and compliant internal and external financial reporting, while shaping an efficient operating model that strengthens controls, improves data quality, reporting consistency and supports evolving regulatory, disclosure and technology requirements. The role partners closely with senior management in-country and regionally, Global Financial Reporting, Global Finance Operations, lines of business, Risk, Regulators and External Auditors.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Own and govern the accounting-to-reporting process, ensuring IFRS-compliant accounting outcomes and a robust, well-controlled period end close (monthly/ quarterly/ annual) process.
• Drive consistent application of Group accounting policies and provide technical accounting advice on new products, asset transfers, and emerging requirements.
• Ensure operational/transactional accounting requirements are appropriately executed and evidenced with a clear audit trail.
• Oversee key accounting activities performed onshore/offshore (e.g., accruals, prepayments, provisions, recharges, intercompany/inter-branch, suspense/clearing accounts, manual journals).
• Ensure correct mapping to chart of accounts and reporting lines.
• Ensure timely reconciliation of key accounts (nostro, suspense, intercompany, control accounts) and that reconciling items are investigated, aged, resolved and evidenced.
• Identify recurring breaks (posting errors, late feeds, mapping issues), drive root-cause fixes with upstream teams/Finance Ops/IT, and track remediation to closure.
• Hands-on delivery with coaching to build a resilient, high-performing team.
• Drive collaboration across Finance and wider functions to deliver shared outcomes, deploying resources effectively across onshore/offshore.
• Foster an inclusive growth culture focused on continuous learning, future skills and a clear succession pipeline, encouraging early escalation and constructive challenge.
• Senior Finance interface for regional accounting and reporting with broad exposure to Local, Regional and Group senior management.
• Extensive engagement with country sub-finance leads (e.g., Business Finance, Tax, Treasury), Global Financial Reporting, Global Finance Operations, Risk, Compliance and Assurance functions.
• Regular interaction with external auditors and local regulators on accounting and reporting matters.
• Role requires both strategic leadership and hands-on oversight to ensure delivery and capability build.
• Identify, manage and mitigate accounting and financial reporting risks within acceptable thresholds by ensuring strict adherence to Group policies and required standards.
• Ensure key risks are assessed, documented and escalated appropriately, including emerging external risk trends impacting accounting/reporting.
• Maintain an effective control framework over accounting-to-reporting activities, including SoX control ownership for relevant UAE processes.

Experience & Qualifications:

• A graduation degree is essential for obtaining a UAE visa and work permit. If your university certificate is from outside the UAE, up-to-date attestations and equivalency are also mandatory (Recognition of Higher Education Qualifications Issued Outside The UAE)
• Graduate or postgraduate degree (preferably Accounting, Finance or related discipline).
• Member of a professional accounting body (e.g., ACA, CPA).
• Deep subject matter expertise in financial accounting and reporting, including IFRS and strong understanding of controls and governance.
• Proven leadership experience building, developing and motivating teams; ability to operate effectively as a hands-on leader.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including ability to influence without authority at senior levels across country, region and Group.
• Experience working with regulators and maintaining effective relationships; confident communicator able to explain accounting and risk matters in business language.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and deliver change (process improvement, operating model evolution, and system/reporting enhancements).
• Strong analytical capability to improve data quality and reporting insight through review and challenge.
  
  

For further details and application information please visit our careers site, searching for the reference number 49820.

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