Senior Officer, Business Conduct Assurance (Finance)

Summary of the Role:

Verify accuracy, compliance, and documentation of financial processes in SAP. Responsibilities include reviewing transactions, verifying cost allocations, validating workflows, and supporting finance audits across procure-to-pay (P2P), record-to-report (R2R), and order-to-cash (O2C) cycles. Focus areas include journal entries, supplier reconciliations and CapEx/OpEx classifications.

Key Roles:

• Develop annual verification plan, finalize Key Risk Areas to be verified - based on latest 5-year ADNOC Offshore Business Plan, Level 1 KPIs, Previous Verification Findings, Risk Register etc.
• Lead and manage Finance related Compliance Verifications:
• Review SAP-based transactions, including Pos, invoices, GRNs, payments and cost allocations.
• Perform anomaly detection in financial transactions and initiate required deep reviews or investigations, supporting early identification of irregularities or potential fraud in a professional manner.
• Confirm 3-way match accuracy (PO-GRN-Invoice) and investigate exceptions or manual overrides.
• Verify the compliance with accounting standards and the guidelines issued.
• Evaluate the budgeting process, evaluate the division’s performance over the years.
• Evaluate document management and preservation.
• Assess the appropriateness of cost allocations, overhead recovery, and interdepartmental charges.
• Ensure compliance with internal controls, corporate finance policies, and audit frameworks.
• Identify duplicate entries, overpayments, unbudgeted spend, or non-compliant financial activity.
• Support the audit trail process, working with finance, procurement, and operations teams.
  
  

Key Challenges:

• Visibility and traceability of financial transactions across multiple divisions, departments and systems.
• Dealing with incomplete or delayed documentation from stakeholders.
  
  

Navigating complex SAP transactional flows and custom workflows across business units

• Coordinating with multiple stakeholders for timely access to data and clarifications.
  
  

Key Success Factors:

• Strong functional expertise in SAP financial workflows and reporting.
• Attention to detail and ability to identify inconsistencies or anomalies in financial data.
• Clear understanding of business and ERP controls, ensuring actionable recommendations.
• Strong understanding of financial controls and risk.
• Effective communication with finance and non-finance teams.
  
  

Timely and accurate reporting of verification findings and recommended actions.

• Conduct financial verifications for select business units, divisions or cost centers based on risk or audit plans.
• Validate cost allocations, budget utilization, and CapEx entries.
• Prepare clear verification reports, highlighting issues, gaps, and suggested remediation.
• Build rapport with finance, procurement, and operational teams to streamline data access and clarification.
• Identify opportunities for automation or efficiency improvements in the financial verification process.
  
  

Contribute to improving checklists, templates, and SAP-based verification dashboards in coordination with digital/automation teams.

Progression to roles such as Senior Finance Verifier, Internal Auditor – Finance, Financial Controls Lead, or Finance Compliance Officer.

Potential transition into Risk & Assurance, FP&A, Corporate Governance, or Business Process Improvement functions.

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