Statutory Compliance Specialist

Aggreko, LLC; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Aggreko, LLC is hiring a Statutory Compliance Specialist in the United Arab Emirates. You will ensure timely statutory reporting, audit, and tax compliance, collaborating with finance teams, auditors, and tax advisors.

The role requires a qualified accountant with IFRS expertise, statutory accounting experience, and strong stakeholder management. You will coordinate year-end reporting and tax compliance across entities in a dynamic, deadline-driven environment.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with IFRS knowledge and statutory accounting experience.
• Experience coordinating with external auditors and tax advisors.
• Strong stakeholder management and proactive problem-solving.

Responsibilities

• Prepare annual statutory financial statements in line with IFRS and local GAAP.
• Ensure statutory accounts reconcile to management accounts and ERP balances.
• Prepare disclosures, reconciliations, and working papers for statutory reporting.
• Coordinate year-end and periodic statutory reporting to meet deadlines.
• Prepare balance sheet reconciliations including intercompany, tax, provisions and equity.
• Act as primary contact for external auditors during audits.
• Coordinate audit requests and resolve queries with finance teams.
• Prepare audit schedules, reconciliations, and supporting analyses for statutory audits.
• Support Company Secretarial activities including annual returns and regulatory submissions.
• Coordinate direct and indirect tax compliance activities across entities.

Skills

IFRS knowledge

Statutory accounting

External audit management

VAT & tax compliance

Stakeholder management

Proactive & ownership

Education

ACA/ACCA/CA/CPA or equivalent

Job description

Bring your energy to Aggreko as a Statutory Compliance Specialist. You'll play a key role in ensuring our statutory reporting, audit, and tax compliance obligations are delivered accurately and on time.

Working closely with finance teams, external auditors, tax advisors, and key business stakeholders, you'll help maintain the integrity of our financial reporting while identifying opportunities to simplify and improve processes.

Power without pause. Heating, cooling and oil-free air without end. We keep our customers’ worlds on. From world-class events that last a few weeks to mining operations and remote communities who rely on us for decades.

What you’ll do as a Statutory Compliance Specialist:

• Prepare annual statutory financial statements in line with IFRS and local GAAP requirements.
• Ensure statutory accounts are fully reconciled to management accounts, accounting records, and ERP balances.
• Prepare financial statement disclosures, reconciliations, supporting schedules, and statutory reporting working papers.
• Coordinate year-end and periodic statutory reporting activities to meet local and Group reporting deadlines.
• Prepare and review statutory balance sheet reconciliations, including intercompany, tax, provision, and equity accounts.
• Act as the primary point of contact for external auditors throughout the audit process.
• Coordinate audit requests and facilitate timely resolution of queries with finance teams and stakeholders.
• Prepare audit schedules, reconciliations, and supporting analyses for statutory audits.
• Support Company Secretarial activities, including annual returns, statutory filings, and regulatory submissions.
• Coordinate direct and indirect tax compliance activities across assigned entities.

You are:

• A qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CA, CPA or equivalent).
• Knowledge of IFRS and financial reporting standards.
• Experienced in statutory accounting, financial reporting, and external audit management.
• Familiar with corporate tax, VAT, and wider tax compliance obligations.
• An excellent stakeholder manager, capable of building strong relationships both internally and externally.
• Proactive in your approach, taking ownership of issues and driving activities through to completion.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Solutions-focused, with the ability to identify risks, resolve challenges, and continually improve processes.

Here’s what you’ll get:

• An opportunity to support diverse and fast-paced regions.
• Exposure to senior regional and global stakeholders.
• Work within a global market leader with strong career development opportunities.
• A focus on continued personal development.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme, which helps promote and support a healthy lifestyle.
• Our people are can-do, positive, resilient and persistent.

We welcome people from different backgrounds and cultures, and respect people’s unique skills, attitudes and experiences. We encourage everyone to be themselves at work because we know that’s how we do our best, for each other, for our customers, for the communities where we work, and for our careers.

We are an equal opportunity employer. If you apply for a role at Aggreko, we will consider your application based on your qualifications and experience, and not on your race, colour, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

At Aggreko, we provide energy solutions so communities can thrive and businesses can grow. We bring power, heat and cooling to customers and communities wherever they need it.

No two days are the same. We work in dynamic environments and offer a wide range of opportunities for motivated people to enrich their lives and communities.

If you are prepared to give us your best, you can learn and grow quickly.

We are building a culture and an environment where everyone can be at their best.

We encourage everyone to be themselves at work because we know that’s how we achieve our potential.

Join us, bring your energy, and grow your career.