Senior Manager - Spend Review

About Department Of Finance - Abu Dhabi

The Department of Finance - Abu Dhabi is at the forefront of Abu Dhabi’s economic future, dedicated to enhancing the Emirate’s financial ecosystem and ensuring its sustainability. Our commitment lies in developing comprehensive financial strategies that promote the growth of the financial sector within the emirate, with a focus on long-term prosperity and economic excellence.

Role Overview

Managing the assessment and optimization of an organization's spending practices. The Senior Manager Spend Review play a crucial role in identifying cost-saving opportunities, improving efficiency, and ensuring compliance with spending policies.

Primary Duties And Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on leadership and guidance to the Spend Review team, and to the broader Budget Sector team
• Deliver the Spend Review annual plan and provide oversight to the team in delivery of the individual Spend Reviews
• Act as a Spend Review focal point for interacting with internal stakeholders and other Government entities
• Oversee the Spend Review annual plan including quantitative and qualitative analysis, and associated presentation materials
• Oversee the daily operations of multiple ongoing Spend Reviews, providing active support for resolving any problems or challenges
• Review the daily outputs of the team, provide both technical and managerial feedback
• Work with the Spend Review team and any consultants to deliver the objectives for each Spend Review
• Build and review financial and operational models to deep dive government operations performance
• Build decision support presentations including context setting, research overview, scenario analysis, impact assessments, and recommendations
• Collaborate with different government entities to ensure data gathering is accurately captured and shared
• Lead Spend Review workshops with Government entities
• Ensure the development of appropriate policies, procedures, and processes for Spend Reviews in order to achieve the respective objectives
• Actively seek opportunities for process improvement in delivering the Spend Reviews
• Liaise internally to ensure that the Spend Review outputs are adequately captured in the annual budget process
  
  

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in the field of Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or its equivalent
• A Professional certification such as Certified Management Accountant (CMA) or Certified Financial Analyst (CFA) is preferred.
  
  

Years Of Experience And Required Qualifications.

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in similar position or filed.