puestos de Compliance Manager en Emiratos Árabes Unidos

We are a diversified, multi-entity industrial group operating across trading, distribution, engineering, and project-based businesses. With multiple legal entities, branches, and business lines, our operations generate high transaction volumes, complex intercompany flows, and a strong need for disciplined, standardised accounting across the Group.

To strengthen our financial backbone, we are looking for a Group Accounts Manager who will own our books, closing, and consolidation agenda across all entities.

This is a hardcore accounting and control role – not a corporate finance, fundraising, or FP&A position.

The Group Accounts Manager is the custodian of financial records for the entire Group.

• Design and enforce a common accounting framework across all entities
• Lead the record-to-report (R2R) cycle from entity books to Group consolidation
• Ensure accurate, timely, and compliant accounting across the Group
• Deliver clean, reconciled Trial Balances and reliable Group financials every month
• Act as the key accounting contact for auditors, tax advisors, and internal stakeholders

If you enjoy the engine room of finance – ledgers, reconciliations, intercompany, controls – and want to do it at Group scale, this role is for you.

• Group Accounting Framework & Policies
  • Establish and maintain Group-wide accounting policies aligned with IFRS/local GAAP and regulatory requirements.
  • Design and govern a harmonised Group Chart of Accounts, enabling consistent reporting across all entities.
  • Define minimum documentation standards for invoices, GRNs, contracts, journals, and credit/debit notes.
  • Ensure all entities apply these policies consistently, and address deviations with entity finance teams.
• Entity-Level Books Integrity & Closing Discipline
  • Oversee the quality of books across all legal entities:
    • Daily postings for sales, purchases, expenses, payroll, journals, provisions, accruals, etc.
    • Correct GL, cost centre, and project coding.
  • Implement a standard monthly and annual closing calendar for all entities, with clear cut-offs and checklists.
  • Ensure clean, reviewed Trial Balances for each entity by a defined working day every month.
  • Perform periodic GL reviews to clear suspense items, fix misclassifications, and resolve abnormal balances.
• Intercompany Accounting & Reconciliations
  • Set standard processes for intercompany transactions (cross-entity sales, shared services, cost recharges, loans/advances).
  • Ensure intercompany entries are properly documented, mirrored, and posted in all relevant entities.
  • Lead intercompany reconciliations, resolve mismatches, and prepare elimination schedules for consolidation.
  • Reduce intercompany noise and ensure Group financials are not distorted by internal imbalances.
• Group Consolidation & Reporting
  • Own the Group consolidation process:
    • Map entity CoAs to Group CoA;
    • Apply appropriate consolidation rules.
    • Eliminate intercompany revenues, costs, and balances.
  • Deliver monthly/quarterly consolidated financials (P&L, Balance Sheet, and, where feasible, Cash Flow).
  • Support management with variance analysis and commentary (month-on-month, year-on-year, budget vs actual).
  • Provide accurate data and explanations for Board packs, lender reporting, and management reviews.
• VAT / Indirect Tax & Basic Regulatory Compliance
  • Coordinate VAT accounting across entities (output VAT, input VAT, imports, reverse charge, VAT reconciliations).
  • Ensure VAT ledgers tie to Trial Balances and filed VAT returns.
  • Provide reconciled schedules and support for VAT filings and address queries with advisors/authorities when needed.
  • Uphold statutory record-keeping and documentation standards from an accounting perspective.
• Audit Readiness & Control Environment
  • Act as the central accounting contact for Group statutory auditors.
  • Coordinate audit schedules, reconciliations, sample support, and responses across entities.
  • Work with internal audit (if present) on accounting, reconciliation, and control-related observations.
  • Track closure of audit findings and management letter points, especially recurring issues.
  • Strengthen controls by embedding:
    • Maker-checker checks;
    • Proper access rights and segregation of duties;
    • Routine reconciliations and exception reporting in daily work.
• ERP, Systems & Data Quality
  • Act as functional owner for finance modules in the ERP (GL, AP, AR, FA, Inventory from a financial perspective).
  • Govern master data (CoA, cost centres, project codes, vendor and customer masters) across entities.
  • Collaborate with IT/ERP teams to:
    • Improve posting logic and workflows;
    • Reduce manual work and duplicate data entry;
    • Enhance reporting capabilities for accounting and consolidation.
  • Promote a culture of "right first time" data entry.
• Leadership & Stakeholder Collaboration
  • Provide technical guidance and coaching to entity accountants and finance teams.
  • Set expectations on closing timelines, reconciliations, and documentation quality.
  • Partner with Sales, Operations, Procurement, HR, and Projects to:
    • Explain accounting implications of operational decisions;
    • Clarify what good documentation looks like and why it matters.
  • Be seen as the go-to person for accounting questions across the Group.

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting / Commerce / Finance.
• Professional qualification preferred: CA, ACCA, CPA, CMA (fully or substantially completed).
• 8–12 years of experience in core accounting roles, including:
  • Responsibility for month-end / year-end closing, GL reviews, and reconciliations;
  • Experience in a multi-entity / group environment is a strong advantage.
• Sector exposure to trading, distribution, industrial, engineering, or project-based businesses is preferred.
• Strong command of double-entry accounting and GL/sub-ledger management.
• Hands‑on experience with:
  • AP, AR, bank reconciliations, fixed assets, provisions, accruals;
  • Intercompany accounting and Group consolidation;
  • VAT accounting and reconciliations (GCC/UAE context is an advantage).
• Proficient in ERP systems (SAP / Oracle / Dynamics / Tally / similar) and advanced Excel.

• High ownership – treats the books as their responsibility, not just a checklist.
• Detail-obsessed, but still able to see patterns and root causes.
• Disciplined and reliable on deadlines, especially around closing.
• Strong problem-solving skills – especially with reconciliations and consolidation issues.
• Clear, respectful communicator with both finance and non-finance stakeholders.
• Uncompromising integrity and confidentiality with financial information.