Finance Assistant

Job description / Role

The role supports the UAE Finance Manager in the day-to-day financial operations of a four-person Middle East finance team covering Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and occasionally Riyadh.

Key Dimensions

- Support finance operations across Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and occasionally KSA.
- Build strong working relationships with colleagues across Asia and other global offices, enabling effective remote collaboration.
- Assist the Finance Manager in ensuring smooth financial operations, effective WIP management, timely collections, and the accuracy and integrity of financial and statutory reporting.

Key Responsibilities:

Operational Finance:
- Provide finance support across ME offices on matter management, billing (including e-billing), tax, compliance, and cash collection.
- Coordinate with shared service centres to ensure billing processes are completed smoothly and in line with firm policies, regulatory requirements (e.g. SRA rules), client fee arrangements, and tax compliance.
- Manage the cash collection process, including direct finance-level communication with clients.
- Support the ME Finance Manager in monitoring key financial drivers and proposing improvements to enhance regional performance.

General Finance:
- Assist with month-end and year-end close processes, budgeting, and financial analysis (including variance and profitability analysis).
- Support internal and external audits, internal controls, and compliance activities.
- Promote financial discipline and best practices across ME offices.

Statutory Reporting & Tax Compliance
- Assist with preparation of UAE VAT and Corporate Income Tax returns and annual audits.
- Participate in the design and implementation of the e-invoicing process.
- Assist with quarterly UAE VAT returns.
- Prepare monthly KSA tax compliance reports, including review of timesheets, travel documents, and travel trackers.

Additional Responsibilities
- Understand and align with the firm’s strategy and vision and its impact on the practice.
- Monitor developments within the finance function and highlight potential financial implications.
- Provide financial analysis and respond to queries from the UAE Finance Manager and Partners as required.

Education & Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree.
- Knowledge of SAP (desirable).

Experience
- 2–3 years’ experience in a finance role, ideally within a professional services environment.
- Exposure to commercial environments with some experience in statutory and management accounting (desirable).

Technical & Office Skills
- Advanced Excel skills.
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Experience with financial accounting systems (desirable).

Language Skills
- Fluent English (mandatory).
- Fluent Arabic (desirable).

Personal Attributes
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Highly organised self-starter with the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet tight deadlines.
- Confident and professional when dealing directly with Partners and clients.
- Strong relationship-building skills with the ability to develop internal and external networks.
- Willingness to challenge existing processes to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
- Approachable, diligent, and detail-oriented, with high integrity when handling sensitive information.
- Flexible and adaptable to changing priorities.
- Mature and confident personality (desirable).
- Culturally sensitive with regional experience (desirable).
- Curious and open-minded (desirable).

About the Company

RecruitME are a specialized recruitment consultancy supplying top tier business support staff to Dubais leading multinational organizations. We carefully source, screen and select only the very best candidates to assist our clients in making easier recruitment decisions faster.

Differentiating ourselves from standard recruitment agencies our consultants have been carefully chosen for their backgrounds in business support for leading multinational organizations. Having been both the client and the candidate previously, we have an insiders understanding of the recruitment process and our clients needs.

What we do:

Specializing in business support positions we can assist in introducing a small selection of experienced administration, finance and human resource candidates with the relevant experience to benefit your business. Our careful screening process ensures that we have met with and can give a concise overview of each candidates skills and current situation before you meet them.

We pride ourselves on sending our clients only the very best available candidates in the market to ensure a simplified, hassle free and timely recruitment experience for all involved.