Assistant Financial Controller

Beiersdorf

Dubai, UAE

Ref: KP606-26

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Financial Accounting:
• Demonstrated a thorough understanding of complex accounting and auditing concepts and applied them to the business situations.
• Assist in the month end closing and financial reporting process including GL account analysis, consolidation and Intercompany reconciliation.
• Preparation of monthly balance sheet reconciliations with high accuracy and ensuring that these reconciliations are properly backed up with required supporting.
• Ensure Royalty, Management charges and Intercompany transactions are posted accurately and on time.
• Perform detailed analysis of OH to see if any efficiencies possible.
• Ensuring monthly reconciliation of VAT GL’s and on time submission of VAT returns once VAT is implemented.

Management Reporting:
• Supporting financial controller in preparation of management dashboard, budgeting and forecasting.
• Performing variance analysis and reporting to cost centre managers against their budget/forecast.
• Running and analysing management reports using company management reporting tool B.One.

Compliance, Risk Management and Internal controls:
• Ensuring that effective internal controls exist and are working effectively across all business areas.
• Assisting in the formulation of internal controls and policies to comply with company policies, local legislation and established best practices.
• Reviews the data quality and accounting scorecards on a monthly basis and highlighting areas of concern and agree on action points.

Ad hoc and Projects:
• Providing finance support on new affiliate projects.
• Providing support on VAT implementation project and working closely with consultants to fully understand the VAT concepts and then later working as VAT champion.
• Any other special assignments that may come up as part of routine finance work.

Requirements

• 1-2 years experience
• Professional certification (e.g. CA, ACCA, CIMA)
• Solid knowledge of IFRS.
• Excellent knowledge of accounting and financial processes (budgeting, data analysis, financial closure, reporting etc.)
• Working knowledge of MS Office (especially excel)
• A willingness to support and challenge stakeholders
• Attention to detail and problem-solving ability

About the Company

Every day, our global brand icons, such as NIVEA, Eucerin and Hansaplast, make more than 500 million consumers in over 70 countries feel good in their skin. Care for consumers and our people worldwide is what has driven us all the time. More than 130 years ago, we invented modern skin care, kept continuously innovating it and still have a clear business focus on it. This is what has made us today's No.1 skin care company in the world. Across the Middle East and North Africa, our brands hold many no. 1 market positions. We strive to reinforce these positions by growing in strategically selected markets and convincing our customers by continuously providing the latest product innovations. In this regard, we continue to count on intensive research, state-of-the-art technologies, perfect marketing strategies and above all our competent and dedicated employees.

Learn more about us and our job opportunities on our LinkedIn company page and our website - Join Beiersdorf!

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Financial Controller salaries in UAE

Average monthly compensation
AED 25,000

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