Assistant Manager Finance Control And Reporting

Job description / Role

Job description

In line with the UAE government's strategy in empowering and developing nationals, Emirates NBD is committed to welcoming the young generation into an innovative, modern, and supportive work environment to contribute to the nation's success. We are looking to find the best UAE talent to join our ENBD family.

Emirates NBD Services is the business-facing control team supporting the various business/support units e.g. WB, Retail, Treasury, ITO, GOPS, and Tanfeeth. This unit is responsible for ensuring adequate control/checks are in place, identifying, escalating, and mitigating risk, resolving financial and accounting related issues, driving group projects/initiatives, etc.

Key responsibilities:

• Perform daily/monthly reconciliations (balance sheet, suspense balance, interest, balances, etc.) at all levels in a timely and accurate manner.
• Follow up to ensure resolution of reconciliation differences between GL and transaction processing systems.
• Support all accounting and other related requirements including office accounts creation, maintenance, etc.
• Perform checks of both balance sheet and P&L balances with necessary and appropriate substantiation at regular intervals.
• Support business, finance, and other stakeholders to launch new initiatives/processes including modification thereto and driving projects/initiatives impacting finance.
• Conduct finance-related UAT.
• Maintain tracker of operational and system issues, liaising with IT or stakeholders until closure.

Skills and experience

• Bachelor's degree is essential.
• A thorough understanding of finance and accounting concepts.
• Strong computer skills in MS Office and prior experience of working in an ERP system (Oracle, SAP, etc.).
• Qualified accountant - CA/ACCA/CFA/MBA Finance or pursuing.
• A minimum of 3 years of total work experience in the finance function of a large bank with exposure to business finance.
• Proficient in Excel.