We are looking for a Management Accountant to support our newly established operations in the UAE, as well as other group entities experiencing transformation driven by mergers, acquisitions, and substantial growth in volumes. The role will be instrumental in enhancing financial control, supporting scalability, and enabling informed decision-making across the organization.

The Management Accountant plays a pivotal role in our financial team, focusing on the meticulous execution of month-end processes to ensure accurate, understandable and transparent financial reporting. This includes overseeing one of the following areas: revenue, cost postings at a customer level, managing customer rebate accruals, consolidating business unit performance for the monthly P&L and comparing to expectations (budget and forecast).

Beyond month-end responsibilities, the Management Accountant produces insightful analyses on supplier/cost reporting and addressing ad-hoc management accounting duties. With an emphasis on customer profitability, this role involves reconciling granular cost data, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and contributing to the enhancement of automated rules for revenue reporting. Serves as a key contributor to our financial integrity, providing essential insights for informed decision-making and facilitating continuous improvement in financial processes.

Key responsibilities:

• Reporting financial performance including (but not limited to) production of the monthly management accounts, and ensuring timely review of the P&Ls with the business unit operational stakeholders.
• Collating commentary and insight supporting the trading performance following monthly review meetings with the operational leadership team
• Supporting the budgeting process for the relevant BU’s, building the budget from key rolling forecast information, working on cost drivers, explain, challenge and support key assumptions from stakeholders.
• Supporting profitability analysis at a customer level.
• Responsibility for Balance Sheet reconciliations for relevant business unit(s), ensuring support of the detailed make-up of the balance sheet positions highlighting risks and opportunities to the Finance Manager.
• Supporting with the Year End audit and be available to support the external audit team for the relevant business area of responsibility.
• Supporting Corporate Governance and Financial Control, support the financial control manager in maintaining best practice documents of accounting processes and controls within SCC.
• Ensuring regular reporting cycle targets are adhered to.
• Supporting ad hoc financial analysis to aid decision making.

Skills, knowledge and experience:

• Proven experience in management accounting roles, financial controller and financial analyst, demonstrating a strong financial background.
• Experience in month-end processes, ensuring accurate revenue/cost postings and resolving exceptional items promptly.
• Strong analytical skills for post month-end duties, including external costs, headcount reporting and ad-hoc analysis.
• Proficiency in interpreting financial data to provide meaningful insights and forecasts - Excel.
• Experience in reconciling and analysing granular cost data for accurate customer profitability reporting.
• Familiarity with automated rules for revenue reporting, ensuring functionality and troubleshooting as needed.
• Proven ability to liaise effectively with cross-functional teams, specifically Service Delivery Managers and operational stakeholders.
• Clear and concise communication skills, facilitating explanations for changes in P&L or customer profitability trends.
• Demonstratable adaptability to evolving processes and changing dynamics in revenue and cost structures.
• Commitment to continuous improvement, actively contributing to the development of the customer profitability process.
• Nice to have: French language skills

What we offer:

• High-quality external and internal technical training with a dedicated training department.
• Reimburse certificates and tuition fees for qualifications that are part of your individual training and development plans.

Monthly benefits package:

Fixed benefits:

• Recommendation Bonuses for new team members;
• Private medical subscription; Work from home allowance;
• Transportation allowance;
• Easter/Christmas bonus;
• Bookster corporate library subscription;
• Career development opportunities.

Flexible benefits:

• Meal tickets;
• Vacation & cultural vouchers;
• Retail vouchers (eMAG, IKEA).

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