Financial Controller

Role overview

Accounting and reporting

• Coordinate month- and year-end close; prepare and review journals, accruals, prepayments, allocations, and period-end adjustments.
• Reconcile material balance sheet accounts, maintain general ledger records, and support financial statements under applicable standards, including IFRS where applicable.
• Coordinate accounts payable, receivable, expense accounting, and payment processes.
• Prepare and coordinate DFSA prudential and financial returns, including EPRS submissions; reconcile regulatory data to underlying records.
• Monitor regulatory capital and liquidity thresholds, coordinate statutory filings, and work with Compliance on finance-related submissions.

Tax, audit, and management reporting

• Coordinate UAE Corporate Tax and VAT returns, supporting calculations, reconciliations, records, deadlines, and external tax advisers.
• Coordinate audit requests and evidence, respond to queries, support annual financial statements, and track findings to resolution.
• Prepare management reports, variance commentary, budgets, forecasts, and scenario analysis to support business decisions.

Governance and finance operations

• Maintain finance policies, procedures, close and payment controls, approval limits, segregation of duties, and supporting documentation.
• Monitor control issues and remediation; support internal or regulatory reviews and improve finance systems, processes, and data quality.
• Assist with cash and liquidity forecasting, banking, payment, and cash-management controls; maintain stakeholder relationships.

Experience and qualifications

• At least 7 years of relevant accounting or financial control experience; financial services experience is preferred.
• DFSA-authorised firm experience is strongly preferred; experience in another regulated financial services environment is also relevant.
• Strong practical knowledge of financial accounting, close processes, balance sheet reconciliations, and financial controls.