Financial controller

Accounting & Finance
United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪
November 5, 2023
Full Time

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Job Description

Job Description

Duration: 3-6 months contract (Extendable)

  • This is a broad role which will involve assisting in all areas of financial management of the COMPANY’S fund.
  • Assist in; processing and controlling fund operations, the annual budgeting and planning exercise, quarterly cash -forecasting, treasury activities, compliance, and regulatory filings.
  • Supporting management/shareholder reporting and Investment performance reporting. You will have a key role in developing and documenting key controls and processes and assist in the implementation of an investment management system.

Detailed responsibilities

Fund operations

  • Assisting, preparing, and reviewing fund transactions
  • Bank reconciliations
  • Management of fund expenses
  • Liaise with Investment/legal and corporate team.

Treasury

  • Liaise with banks, brokers.
  • Assisting in effecting treasury transactions e.g., fixed deposits, forwards, treasury investments

Annual budgeting

  • Assist in the annual budget process.
  • Assist in the quarterly forecasting process.

Compliance/Regulation

  • Assist with annual audit process.
  • Assist with fund filings.
  • Assist with VAT reporting.
  • Assist with financial statement preparation.
  • Liaise with auditors/regulators.

Reporting

  • Assist in preparing shareholder, management & board reports for fund and subsidiary companies.
  • Assist in preparing materials for Investment & KPI reviews.

Systems, Operations & Controls

  • Develop & maintain sound financial controls and processes.
  • Assist in the implementation of Investment management system.
  • Maintain documentation and accounting system to support key financial reporting & compliance needs.

Requirements

Requirements:

  • Dynamic, personable individual who is keen to get involved.
  • Good time management skills and used to working to tight deadlines.
  • Broad hands-on experience of working in a finance function.
  • Excel skills
  • Professional accounting qualification (ACA/ACCA/CMA/CPA) with minimum of 5 years PQE experience.
  • In -depth knowledge of IFRS and Investment accounting and reporting
  • Excellent written and spoken English.

Desirable

  • Big 4 experience,
  • Management reporting experience,
  • Knowledge of python, SQL or other BI programming languages
  • knowledge/application of investment performance metrics,
  • Treasury experience
  • Knowledge of Oracle/Efront

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