Global Finance Manager

Confidential Jobs; Dubai; On-site; AED 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential Jobs seeks an experienced Global Finance Manager to oversee financial control across 25+ international markets, including MNO/MVNO businesses across multiple regions. Reporting to the Group CFO, this senior, hands-on role ensures strong governance, consistent policies, and robust controls.

The ideal candidate will own IFRS accounting policies, lead intercompany governance, and drive balance-sheet integrity while collaborating with external auditors and international finance teams.

Qualifications

• Experience leading international financial control in telecoms or similar complex groups.
• Senior, hands-on finance professional with governance focus and policy ownership.
• ACA/CA/CPA certified is essential.

Responsibilities

• Own IFRS accounting policies including telecom-specific treatments.
• Lead intercompany accounting, cost allocations and transfer-pricing support.
• Ensure reconciliations before group consolidation and maintain compliance calendar.
• Oversee balance-sheet integrity reviews and challenge aged balances.
• Provide technical accounting leadership and liaise with external auditors.
• Develop delegation-of-authority and approval frameworks.
• Maintain group-wide financial controls and master data governance.
• Support business transformations, new products, migrations and MNO/MVNO arrangements.
• Collaborate with international finance teams and Group CFO to standardise standards.

Skills

IFRS accounting

Intercompany accounting

Financial governance

Transfer pricing

Financial controls

Education

CA/ACA/CPA

Job description

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Global Finance Manager to join an international telecommunications group based in Dubai.

The role will take ownership of the Group's financial control framework across 25+ international markets, covering MNO and MVNO businesses across Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia.

Reporting to the Group CFO, this is a senior, hands-on finance role with responsibility for ensuring strong financial governance, consistent accounting policies and robust controls across a complex international group.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the Group's IFRS accounting policies, including telecom-specific accounting treatments.
• Lead intercompany accounting and governance, including recharge models, cost allocations, reconciliations and transfer-pricing support.
• Ensure intercompany balances are appropriately reconciled before Group consolidation.
• Maintain the Group's financial compliance calendar across multiple countries and legal entities.
• Lead regular balance-sheet integrity reviews and challenge unsupported or aged balances.
• Provide leadership on complex technical accounting matters and work with external auditors to resolve accounting issues.
• Develop and maintain financial delegation-of-authority and approval frameworks.
• Own key finance controls covering chart of accounts, master data, journal approvals and segregation of duties.
• Provide financial control expertise for business transformation, new products, platform migrations and MNO/MVNO commercial arrangements.
• Work closely with international finance teams and the Group CFO to maintain consistent financial standards across the organisation.
• CA, ACA, CPA essential