Company DescriptionDo you want to shape the world of tomorrow and work on innovative projects? Then you're a good fit for us! We are a global engineering group with 15,000 employees and 140 locations worldwide. With our services, we are driving the topics of energy efficiency, climate protection and decarbonization and developing tech industries into new dimensions.The world of SEGULA Technologies Experts revolves around industries such as automotive, software, energy and life sciences. As an independent player, we support OEMs and suppliers with personal engineering services. Take advantage of new opportunities and take on exciting tasks and attractive positions with direct customer assignment.Your main responsibilities are:To build a strong communication structure within the UAE, collating relevant information impacting profitability and ensuring awareness by key stakeholders of financial performanceTo ensure financial reporting is accurate and deliverables are submitted within set deadlinesTo provide sound financial / non-financial performance analysis and commentaryTo help drive the financial forecasting and budget exercise and ensure a high level of accuracyTo actively participate in month end closing to ensure correct revenue and cost allocation by UAE entities and (when required) proposing appropriate accrualsTo assist UAE businesses with HQ level reporting into client consolidation platform to ensure timely reportingTo actively participate in cost control projects and propose actions to ensure containment of general overheads, and ensure appropriate communication across all the departments of the organizationSupport other areas of the business in analyzing results and collating information for decision making including involvement in ad-hoc projects. This includes developing reporting tools and dashboards where appropriateTasks & ResponsibilitiesBusiness Plan, Budgeting and forecastingCoordination of budget and forecasts reporting budget submission (yearly and monthly); two Forecasts per year (forecast) + one Long-Term PlanDevelop and maintain a budget and forecasting model which can be utilized by all UAE business' and is compatible with financial reporting software/ERPCoordinate collection, analysis, production, and dissemination of informationMaintain a detailed working knowledge of the UAE consolidated budget and KPI'sFinancial Control and AccountingCoordination of the closings: ensure accuracy (P&L, Balance sheet, Cash Flow items) and on time submission by subsidiaries in the consolidation softwareTaxationAssist operating teams with AdHoc questions around VAT and Corporate Income Tax to ensure all entities are compliant with regulatory requirementsData Analytics & Process ImprovementsImplement group-wide data analytics tools to provide insights and support decision-makingLead initiatives to standardize and streamline financial processes across the groupOptimization of existing tools and systems to ensure reliability and productivity of reportingUpdate and improvement of consolidation data and various reports: KFIs, Savings, CAPEX, Segments and bridge analysis on a regular basisControl accuracy and completeness of information reported by UAE business. Provide provisional analysis to UAE Country CFO, of monthly position vs. budget/forecastDevelop tools to assist teams in analyzing variances against budget, forecast, and previous year in an accurate & efficient manner, linking into financial ERP dataPerform quarterly reconciliations between consolidation platform and Financial ERP to ensure accuracy of Group reporting to underlying books and recordOversight of working capital key performance indicators to activate remedial steps as and when necessary, including explaining variances to budget, and action needed to improve position in line with targetQualificationsTechnical Skills and Responsibilities:Good knowledge and practice of accounting and financial techniques (IFRS standards and local accounting and tax rules),Strong ability to solve complex accounting and tax issues and challenges and with other finance functions or operational departments,Good knowledge of accounting and financial processes for both internal control and procedural efficiency,Good knowledge of accounting and financial information systems,Ability to organize and plan the process of periodic account closings and meet accounting and tax deadlines