Finance Excellence Consultant

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Assess accounting processes, general ledger and subledger activities, reporting workflows, and system interfaces for gaps that risk inaccurate or incomplete records.
• Define exception-reporting coverage across AP, AR, general ledger, treasury, fixed assets, intercompany accounting, and month-end close.
• Identify and document discrepancies, unreconciled balances, incorrect postings, missing entries, duplicate transactions, and reporting inconsistencies.
• Maintain central exception inventories and trackers, including financial impact, owner, age, root cause, corrective action, target date, and closure status.
• Set exception categories, validation rules, materiality thresholds, risk classifications, reason codes, reporting requirements, and documentation standards.
• Coordinate discrepancy investigation and resolution; escalate aged, material, recurring, and unresolved items without assuming ownership of underlying reconciliations.
• Develop exception and reconciliation-monitoring reports and dashboards; analyse volumes, values, ageing, trends, root causes, and remediation progress.
• Validate data against ERP, general ledger, subledger, and supporting schedules; prepare management reporting and escalate significant risks.
• Partner with finance owners and technology, data, and integration teams to define reporting needs, validate data lineage, automate workflows, and address reporting gaps.

Knowledge, skills, and experience

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance; ACA, ACCA, or CPA is preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in finance reporting, controls, operations, data analysis, process governance, or related shared-services work.
• Practical experience identifying, defining, and reporting financial exceptions across systems, interfaces, reconciliations, and reports.
• Experience defining business rules, data requirements, controls, ownership, service levels, and governance for reports, trackers, or dashboards.
• Strong knowledge of finance processes, reporting controls, ageing, root-cause analysis, data quality, compliance, and audit requirements.
• Experience coordinating finance and technology stakeholders, deadlines, remediation, and escalations in shared-services or complex multi-entity environments.
• Techno-functional experience with Oracle Fusion and linked modules or equivalent solutions; exposure to finance and reconciliation platforms is preferred.
• Strong understanding of finance data flows, interfaces, source-to-report lineage, control totals, data-quality checks, and integrated-system failure points.
• Strong analytical capability in exception definition, data profiling, ageing, trend analysis, root-cause identification, and report validation.

Assignment duration

• The role is for three months.

Client location

• The client is based in Dubai; the description does not specify a workplace arrangement.