Assistant Manager - Financial Control

AlFuttaim; Dubai; On-site; AED 167,000 - 246,000; Full time

Job summary

Al-Futtaim is seeking an Assistant Manager - Financial Control in Dubai to strengthen financial governance, governance, and reporting accuracy. The role emphasizes automation, dashboards, and AI-enabled reporting within real estate operations.

The candidate will review balances, perform reconciliations, and lead initiatives to standardize and automate finance processes while collaborating with IT, operations, and management teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance-related field is required.
• 3 to 5 years in financial controlling, reporting or audit.
• ACCA/CPA/CA/CMA or equivalent preferred.

Responsibilities

• Review trial balances and reconciliations for accuracy and compliance.
• Perform variance analysis and raise management attention on issues.
• Develop actionable insights for stakeholders from financial analysis.
• Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities.
• Identify opportunities to automate processes and improve governance.

Skills

Financial Control

Financial reporting

Trial balance review

Balance sheet reconciliation

Variance analysis

Month-end close

Power BI

Microsoft Excel

Data analytics

Finance automation

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, or related discipline

Tools

Power BI

Microsoft Excel

ERP systems

Data analytics

Job description

Assistant Manager - Financial Control Job Snapshot

Role: Assistant Manager - Financial Control
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Industry: Real Estate
Function: Financial Control
Experience: 3 to 5 years
Job Type: Full-time

Position Overview

Assistant Manager - Financial Control in Dubai, United Arab Emirates is a Real Estate opportunity focused on financial governance, reporting accuracy, internal controls, finance transformation, and digital process improvement. Al-Futtaim is hiring a finance professional to strengthen controlling activities across its real estate operations while advancing automation, analytics, AI-enabled reporting, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Job Details

Country: United Arab Emirates
City: Dubai
Industry: Real Estate
Function: Financial Control
Salary: 15000-22000
Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer.
Gender: Any
Candidate Nationality: Any
Job Type: Full-time

Role Context

The Assistant Manager - Financial Control will support the financial controlling function across Al-Futtaim 's real estate operations by improving reporting quality, strengthening governance, and ensuring finance processes operate within approved accounting policies and control frameworks. The role combines core financial control responsibilities with transformation work. In addition to reviewing balances, reconciliations, and reporting outputs, the position will identify opportunities to automate repetitive finance processes, develop management dashboards, improve data visibility, and introduce analytical or AI-supported solutions that help finance teams make faster and more informed decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Review trial balances, balance sheet reconciliations, and financial reports to confirm accuracy, completeness, and compliance.
• Perform detailed variance analysis and identify financial trends, exceptions, and issues requiring management attention.
• Translate financial analysis into clear and actionable insights for business and finance stakeholders.
• Support monthly, quarterly, and annual financial closing activities.
• Ensure finance processes follow approved accounting policies, standard operating procedures, governance requirements, and internal controls.
• Monitor control effectiveness and identify gaps that could affect reporting integrity or financial governance.
• Support audit preparation and ensure requested information, reconciliations, and supporting documentation are available when required.
• Follow up on audit findings, control issues, and compliance actions until appropriate resolution is achieved.
• Identify finance activities that can be simplified, standardized, automated, or digitally enabled.
• Develop and maintain dashboards, management reports, and analytical tools that improve financial visibility.
• Use data analytics to detect trends, anomalies, and opportunities for operational or financial improvement.
• Explore practical applications of AI within finance reporting, analysis, forecasting, and process execution.
• Promote wider adoption of digital tools and efficient working practices across the finance function.
• Independently initiate finance improvement projects aligned with divisional and organizational objectives.
• Lead process optimization initiatives designed to reduce manual effort, improve accuracy, and shorten reporting cycles.
• Contribute to finance transformation programs and system enhancement projects.
• Work with Finance, IT, operations, and other stakeholders to implement process or system improvements.
• Support standardization of financial processes across relevant real estate business activities.
• Track project outcomes and demonstrate measurable improvements in efficiency, reporting quality, or control effectiveness.
• Maintain clear documentation for finance procedures, controls, systems, and transformation initiatives.

Ideal Profile

• Bachelor 's Degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related discipline.
• 3 to 5 years of experience in financial controlling, reporting, audit, or a closely related finance function.
• Professional qualification such as ACCA, CPA, CA, CMA, or equivalent is preferred.
• Strong understanding of accounting principles, financial reporting, governance frameworks, and internal controls.
• Experience within real estate operations is advantageous.
• Proven ability to perform balance sheet reviews, reconciliations, variance analysis, and financial close activities.
• Strong Excel capability for financial analysis and reporting.
• Practical experience with Power BI or comparable business intelligence tools.
• Exposure to ERP platforms or financial management systems.
• Experience delivering finance automation, digital transformation, or AI-supported initiatives is highly valuable.
• Ability to identify weaknesses in existing processes and convert them into practical improvement projects.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Self-driven approach with the ability to manage initiatives with limited supervision.
• Comfortable working across several priorities in a changing and fast-paced business environment.
• Effective communication skills for working with finance, technology, operational, and management teams.

Skills Set

• Financial Control
• Financial controlling
• Financial reporting
• Trial balance review
• Balance sheet reconciliation
• Variance analysis
• Month-end close
• Quarter-end close
• Year-end close
• Internal controls
• Accounting policies
• Governance frameworks
• Audit readiness
• Audit remediation
• Financial analysis
• Management reporting
• Microsoft Excel
• Power BI
• Financial systems
• ERP systems
• Data analytics
• Dashboard development
• Finance automation
• Artificial intelligence in finance
• Process optimization
• Process standardization
• Finance transformation
• System enhancement
• Continuous improvement
• Real estate finance
• Financial governance
• Project management
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Control monitoring
• Process documentation

Why Join Us

This role offers the opportunity to work beyond traditional financial controlling by combining reporting, governance, technology, and finance transformation within Al-Futtaim 's Real Estate operations. The position provides practical exposure to automation, business intelligence, AI-supported finance processes, and system enhancement initiatives while maintaining responsibility for core financial controls and reporting quality. This combination can help build valuable experience across both financial governance and modern finance transformation. For a professional seeking broader responsibility, the role also provides scope to independently lead improvement projects, influence process design, strengthen financial visibility, and contribute to a more efficient and digitally enabled finance environment.

About the Company

Al-Futtaim is a diversified, privately held regional business headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with operations across automotive, financial services, real estate, retail, and healthcare. Established in the 1930s, the group employs more than 35000 people across over 20 countries in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. Its real estate activities are supported by continued investment in financial governance, digital transformation, operational efficiency, analytics, and long-term business development.