Senior Finance Specialist

Emirates


Date: 16 hours ago
City: Dubai
Contract type: Full time
Job Purpose

At Emirates Group, we connect the world through our global hub in Dubai, ensuring our customers always ‘Fly Better.’ As one of the most recognised and admired brands globally, we’re driven by innovation and excellence. Join us as a Senior Finance Specialist and play a key role in driving financial strategy and decision-making for a global business. Experience a fast-paced, multicultural environment where your financial expertise will be central to shaping the future of aviation while making a meaningful impact on a global stage.

The Senior Finance Specialist (GFR) will ensure the company's financial reports are accurate, clear, and follow regulations. This role helps drive the organisation of financial data, ensuring compliance with accounting standards, analysing risks, and providing insights. This role plays a critical part in ensuring the Groups financial results are filed correctly and with the correct assurance and regulatory controls.

In This Role, You Will

  • Collaborate closely with various stakeholders to identify, evaluate and review respective team activities and functions and provide recommendations to Senior Management for process and system enhancements for managing overall risk, coordinate with the relevant stakeholders to ensure that the recommended changes are implemented as agreed by the management.
  • Establish and maintain Standard Operating Procedures and specific work instructions and ensure compliance to the Group Finance Policies and Procedures.
  • Work with the external, internal and government auditors to resolve their queries and observations by providing the required analytical information to ensure the smooth completion of the audit.
  • Manage the accurate monthly book closing of the books after completing pre-closing checks and handling exceptions as well as carrying out quality checks.
  • Manage the end-to-end financial accounting functions over receivables and payables in high value business areas.
  • Review Group company submissions for timeliness, completeness and accuracy. Analyse the movements in balances, obtaining explanations for significant variations with an aim to respond to audit queries and adjust to align them with Group accounting policies and IFRS.
  • Complete the consolidation process of incorporating Group company financials and support the audit of the consolidation.
  • Define Chart of Accounts disciplines to be followed by all departments to ensure uniformity in accounting. in line with International Accounting Standards.
  • Manage the reconciliation of General Ledger nominals by extracting / interfacing data from internal operating systems as well as external systems, ensuring the identification of any revenue leakage and review the quality of reconciliation in other sections and drive automation.
  • Apply International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) to existing business transactions and transactions originating at Group companies.
  • Review of Group company balance sheets to ensure compliance with the recognition and measurement policies to be adhered at Group level.

Qualification

To be considered for this role, you must meet the below requirements:

  • 5+ Years of Experience in Finance, Accounts & Taxation.
  • Degree + Honours (12+3 Equivalent).
  • Accounting qualification (CPA, ACCA, CA, etc).

You'll Have An Edge If You Have

  • Accounting and Taxation knowledge - Advance level.
  • Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with Senior Management internally and externally.
  • Analytical thinking and presentation skills - Advanced level.

At Emirates Group, we’re committed to providing our employees with opportunities to grow and develop in their careers. So if you’re looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity, apply today and join our team!

Salary & benefits

Salary & Benefits Join us in Dubai and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary and travel benefits that are exclusive to our industry, including discounts on flights and hotel stay around the world. You can find more information about our employee benefits in the Working Here section of our website www.emirates.com/careers. Further information on what it's like to live and work in our cosmopolitan home city can be found in the Dubai lifestyle section.

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