Internal Controls & Risk Specialist

UNIKAI Foods P.J.S.C; Dubai; On-site; AED 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

UNIKAI Foods P.J.S.C in the United Arab Emirates seeks an experienced Internal Controls professional to lead risk-based reviews across finance, operations, and manufacturing. You will design testing plans aligned with key risks and assess control effectiveness.

The role requires 4–7 years in internal controls or related fields within FMCG, with strong accounting knowledge and proficiency in ERP environments such as Oracle, SAP, or Microsoft Dynamics.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Auditing, or a related discipline.
• Professional qualification or progress toward a qualification such as ACCA, ACA, CPA, CMA, CIMA, CIA, or equivalent is preferred.
• Approximately 4-7 years of relevant experience in internal controls, finance, internal audit, external audit, compliance, or risk management.
• Experience within FMCG, food manufacturing, manufacturing, distribution, or a similar inventory-intensive environment is strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of accounting principles, financial processes, internal controls, business process risks, Delegation of Authority, and segregation-of-duties concepts.
• Practical experience reviewing procurement, inventory, manufacturing, sales, receivables, payables, cash-management, fixed-asset, and commercial processes.
• Experience working with ERP systems and system-based controls; familiarity with Oracle, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, or similar platforms is advantageous.
• Good understanding of Microsoft Excel and data-analysis techniques, with the ability to identify trends, exceptions, and unusual transactions from large data sets.
• Strong professional judgement, integrity, confidentiality, analytical ability, communication skills, and confidence to challenge control weaknesses constructively.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a risk-based annual internal control review and testing plan aligned with key financial and operational risks.
• Review and assess internal controls across financial, operational, commercial, manufacturing, and supporting processes.
• Identify control weaknesses, process gaps, financial risks, policy breaches, and instances of non-compliance, and assess the potential impact where reasonably quantifiable.
• Perform periodic control testing to determine whether established controls are appropriately designed and operating effectively.
• Review selected financial transactions and supporting documentation for appropriate authorization, accuracy, completeness, and compliance with company policies and the Delegation of Authority.
• Review key financial reconciliations and follow up on unusual, long-outstanding, unsupported, or unexplained items.

Skills

Risk management

Internal controls

Auditing

Financial processes

Analytical ability

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Auditing, or related

Professional qualification (ACCA/ACA/CPA/CMA/CIMA/CIA) preferred

Tools

ERP systems

Oracle

SAP

Microsoft Dynamics

Job description

UNIKAI Foods P.J.S.C in the United Arab Emirates seeks an experienced Internal Controls professional to lead risk-based reviews across finance, operations, and manufacturing. You will design testing plans aligned with key risks and assess control effectiveness.

The role requires 4–7 years in internal controls or related fields within FMCG, with strong accounting knowledge and proficiency in ERP environments such as Oracle, SAP, or Microsoft Dynamics.