# Senior Financial Analyst

**Company:** [Control Risks](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/1eXXHxeg9VjpNhhwFSwcCW.md)
**Location:** Dubai, United Arab Emirates
**Workplace:** on site
**Employment type:** Full-time
**Department:** HRMS

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## Description

Financial and payroll support to High Risk Managed Services

Tasks and responsibilities

**Financial Accounting and Reporting:**

-   Support month-end and year-end closing activities to meet reporting deadlines.
-   Analyse financial performance and provide commentary on key variances against budget, forecast, and prior periods.
-   Perform balance sheet reconciliations and investigate variances.
-   Ensure completeness and accuracy of income for HRMS department.
-   Prepare and review journal entries, accruals and adjustments.
-   Report realisation and project profitability for HRMS projects.
-   Support budgeting and forecasting processes by providing accurate financial data and insights.
-   Ensure compliance with IFRS and company accounting policies.
-   Assist with tax, commercial finance and operational teams on accounting and reporting matters.
-   Advise the business on financial issues, including FX and tax.

**Payroll**

-   Review the monthly expat payroll. Ensure they are as per HR data and that amounts are calculated and booked correctly.
-   Verify that supporting documents are on file for joiners, leavers, and those with contract amendments.
-   Have a firm understanding of DIFC Employment Law and Iraq personal tax calculations.
-   Assist in attending and resolving payroll queries and issues.

**General responsibilities**

-   Provide ad hoc financial support to HRMS department as required.
-   Provide financial support to HRMS Executive Committee as required.
-   Assist in the setup and reporting requirements of new legal entities and business expansions.
-   Assist with local statutory and group reporting requirements as required
-   Assist with internal and external audits as required.
-   Identify opportunities to improve reporting processes, automate tasks, and enhance financial controls.
-   Assist Financial Controller and Regional Finance Director as required.

## Requirements

Knowledge and experience

**Essential**

-   Experience of management accounting
-   Experience in an analytical accounting role
-   Experience of preparing budgets and forecasts
-   Experienced user of MS Excel

**Preferred**

-   Experience of providing financial support in a consulting business
-   Experience of providing commercial support, including pricing
-   Experience of audit
-   Experience of working in a global business
-   Experience of statutory accounting

Qualifications and specialist skills

-   Candidates must have a reached part qualified status in a recognised accounting qualification

Competencies

-   Take the initiative to resolve issues proactively within own remit and recognise when requires escalation.
-   Uses creativity to think outside the box and encourages others to do the same.
-   Adapts knowledge and analysis to provide effective solutions to clients; makes informed decision when appropriate.
-   Delivers on personal objectives to deliver to strategic and department plans, focuses on delivery, strives to exceed expectations.  Shows drive and determination to achieve high standards.
-   Uses own knowledge and experience to make sound judgements or assist others with sound judgement.
-   Ensures delivery of exceptional service by focussing self on the client’s needs.
-   Understands the business as a whole, strategic priorities and own contribution to goals.
-   Demonstrates global awareness; Considers the regional and global implications of what we do in our areas of responsibility; Identifies and build relationships across team and region.
-   Suggests and makes improvements and efficiencies to manage costs and improve margins.
-   Embraces a changing environment, adapts well to changing demands and ambiguous situations and adapts own behaviour accordingly.
-   Express self clearly and displays sensitivity to develop constructive relationships with others.  Shows understanding of others in order to influence as appropriate

Behaviours

-   All employees are expected to display behaviours reflective of our company values: Integrity and Ethics, Collaboration and Teamwork, Commitment to People and Professionalism and Excellence

## Benefits

-   Control Risks offers a competitively positioned compensation and benefits package that is transparent and summarised in the full job offer.
-   Private medical insurance
-   Annual Housing Allowance
-   Compulsory monthly employer contributions to the DIFC Employment Workplace Saving Scheme
-   As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us and are fully committed to equal treatment, free from discrimination, of all candidates throughout our recruitment process.