Finance PMO Lead

Careers at UAE; Dubai; On-site; AED 240,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Lakhraim Group is seeking a Finance PMO Lead in Dubai to drive finance transformation programs across Shared Services. You will bridge Finance, Shared Services, and IT, coordinating planning, progress tracking, and reporting of critical initiatives.

The role evolves toward a Finance Manager position after transformation. Key duties include coordinating workstreams, documenting workflows, and ensuring KPI alignment, governance, and timely deliverables while supporting system consolidations and

Qualifications

• Experience in planning, coordinating, and delivering finance transformation projects.
• Strong knowledge of core finance processes (P2P, O2C, R2R) and process standardization.
• Familiarity with ERP enhancements, data migration, and testing workflows.
• Ability to prepare dashboards and reports using BI tools such as Power BI.

Responsibilities

• Support in planning, coordinating, and executing finance transformation projects.
• Maintain structured project documentation, charters, workplans, timelines, risk logs, decision registers.
• Prepare and update weekly progress dashboards and steering committee reports highlighting status, blockers, and mitigation plans.
• Facilitate project meetings, ensure follow-through on action items, drive accountability across workstreams.
• Act as a workstream coordinator for finance-specific projects (e.g., accounts standardization, shared services rollout, reporting automation).
• Collaborate with finance and shared services teams to identify inefficiencies across core processes (P2P, O2C, R2R) and recommend standardization or automation.
• Lead documentation and redesign of workflows, SOPs, and controls to support operational efficiency and scalability.
• Contribute to the rollout of centralized finance operating models and support alignment of KPIs, reporting cadence, and performance measures.
• Support ERP enhancement, data migration, UAT testing, and system reconciliation to ensure smooth transitions.
• Collaborate with HR, Procurement, IT, Finance teams to validate system configurations and ensure automation aligns with business objectives.
• Assist in the development and validation of dashboards and reports using tools like Power BI, & Dynamics.
• Monitor and report on key transformation KPIs and financial metrics to track progress and enable data-driven decision-making.
• Support cross-functional stakeholder engagement to drive adoption of new processes, tools, and systems.
• Participate in change readiness assessments and help identify training needs, communication gaps, and resistance areas.
• Assist in preparing training content, onboarding materials, and internal communication for project rollouts.
• Ensure finance transformation initiatives are aligned with applicable tax, VAT, audit, and regulatory frameworks.
• Support internal and external audit processes by maintaining accurate documentation and providing required information.
• Monitor compliance and governance requirements throughout the project lifecycle and flag potential risks.
• Any Other PMO related Tasks assigned by VP-Shared Services

Skills

Project management

Finance processes

ERP systems

Power BI

Dynamics 365

UAT testing

Tools

Power BI

Dynamics 365

Job description

Finance PMO Lead

The Finance PMO Lead will support the execution of shared services transformation projects across Lakhraim Group. This role combines project management discipline with deep finance process knowledge, ensuring timely and effective delivery of transformation initiatives. Acting as the bridge between Finance, Shared Services, and cross-functional teams, the role will be responsible for planning, monitoring, and reporting progress on key projects while contributing to long-term process improvement and systems centralization. The role sits within the Finance function and is structured to evolve into a Finance Manager capacity post-transformation.

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Support in planning, coordinating, and executing finance transformation projects.
• Maintain structured project documentation, charters, workplans, timelines, risk logs, decision registers.
• Prepare and update weekly progress dashboards and steering committee reports highlighting status, blockers, and mitigation plans.
• Facilitate project meetings, ensure follow-through on action items, drive accountability across workstreams.
• Act as a workstream coordinator for finance-specific projects (e.g., accounts standardization, shared services rollout, reporting automation).
• Collaborate with finance and shared services teams to identify inefficiencies across core processes (P2P, O2C, R2R) and recommend standardization or automation.
• Lead documentation and redesign of workflows, SOPs, and controls to support operational efficiency and scalability.
• Contribute to the rollout of centralized finance operating models and support alignment of KPIs, reporting cadence, and performance measures.
• Support ERP enhancement, data migration, UAT testing, and system reconciliation to ensure smooth transitions.
• Collaborate with HR, Procurement, IT, Finance teams to validate system configurations and ensure automation aligns with business objectives.
• Assist in the development and validation of dashboards and reports using tools like Power BI, & Dynamics.
• Monitor and report on key transformation KPIs and financial metrics to track progress and enable data-driven decision-making.
• Support cross-functional stakeholder engagement to drive adoption of new processes, tools, and systems.
• Participate in change readiness assessments and help identify training needs, communication gaps, and resistance areas.
• Assist in preparing training content, onboarding materials, and internal communication for project rollouts.
• Ensure finance transformation initiatives are aligned with applicable tax, VAT, audit, and regulatory frameworks.
• Support internal and external audit processes by maintaining accurate documentation and providing required information.
• Monitor compliance and governance requirements throughout the project lifecycle and flag potential risks.
• Any Other PMO related Tasks assigned by VP-Shared Services

Department

Finance

Locations

Regional Office – Dubai, UAE

Remote Status

On Site