Specialist - Costing & Financial Studies | UAE National

Roads and Transport Authority; Dubai; On-site; AED 223,000 - 391,000; Full time

Job summary

Roads and Transport Authority in Dubai seeks a senior financial professional to execute daily cost accounting activities, support forecasting, analysis, and reporting to safeguard financial sustainability. You will provide inputs on fees, agreements, and transformation initiatives aligned with RTA standards.

The role emphasizes applying cost accounting to deliver actionable detail, analyzing data, and supporting pricing studies and financial controls across departments to ensure compliance and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Accounting or Economics.
• Certifications such as CPA and CMA.
• Must have experience in financial studies, financial analysis, pricing and benchmarking.

Responsibilities

• Apply cost accounting principles to provide detailed cost information not available in general accounting.
• Support business modeling and financial analysis for informed decision‑making.
• Prepare KPI results for related cost activities and analyze the results.
• Contribute to pricing studies for new or revised services within approved financial frameworks.
• Provide inputs to legislative and policy proposals related to service pricing and cost recovery.
• Conduct financial impact assessments for agreements/MoUs prior to approval.
• Assess employee and customer suggestions for financial impact and prepare supporting studies.
• Prepare, review, and analyze financial reports for accuracy and compliance with accounting standards.
• Implement and control day‑to‑day accounting, costing, forecasting and reporting activities.
• Apply cost accounting principles that provide detailed activity information beyond financial accounting.
• Assist with monthly cost reports.
• Conduct comparative financial analysis and coordinate with departments.
• Communicate analysis results with stakeholders and recommend corrective actions.
• Suggest enhancements to methodologies to improve accuracy and reliability.
• Review and update policies related to financial studies in line with RTA requirements.
• Monitor cost changes and perform variance analysis to improve reporting accuracy.
• Recommend corrective measures and process improvements to strengthen financial controls.
• Support continuous improvement in financial systems ensuring policy compliance.

Skills

Financial analysis

Cost accounting

Forecasting

KPI reporting

Pricing studies

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Accounting or Economics

CPA

CMA

Job description

Job Purpose

Execute daily financial and cost accounting activities to ensure accurate reporting, compliance, and integrity of financial data and providing financial inputs on fees, agreements, and transformation initiatives to safeguard RTA’s interests and enhance financial sustainability. Support forecasting, analysis, reconciliation, and reporting processes while maintaining effective accounting systems and internal controls in line with RTA standards.

Roles and Responsibilities

Strategy

• Apply cost accounting principles to provide detailed actionable cost information not available in general accounting systems.
• Support business modeling and financial analysis to contribute to informed and evidence-based financial decision‑making.
• Prepare key performance indicator (KPI) results for related cost activities and analyze the results
• Contribute to pricing studies for new or revised services in line with approved financial frameworks.
• Provide inputs to legislative and policy proposals related to service pricing and cost recovery.
• Conduct financial impact assessments for agreements, and MoUs prior to approval
• Assess employee and customer suggestions for financial impact and prepare supporting studies.

Operations

• Prepare, review, and analyze financial reports to ensure accuracy, compliance, and alignment with accounting standards.
• Implement and control day‑to‑day accounting, costing, forecasting and reporting activities.
• Apply cost accounting principles that provide detailed activity information not provided by financial accounting
• Assist with preparation of monthly cost reports.
• Conduct comparative financial analysis of activities according to statistical data and coordinate with concerned departments
• Communicate results of analysis with internal and external stakeholders, recommending corrective procedures where needed.
• Recommend enhancements to financial study methodologies to improve accuracy, reliability and consistency.
• Review and update policies and procedures related to financial studies in line with RTA requirements.

Product / Process Improvement

• Monitor cost changes and conduct variance analysis to enhance accuracy and reliability of reporting.
• Recommend corrective measures and process enhancements to strengthen financial controls and cost management practices.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives in financial systems, ensuring compliance with policies, procedures, and best practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Accounting or Economics
• Must have 3+ years experience in case of Master’s degree (5+ years in case of Bachelor’s degree)
• Certifications such as Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Management Accountant (CMA)
• Must have experience in Financial studies, financial analysis, pricing and benchmarking