Accounts Manager

Job Requisition ID:
[[152798]] Established in the 1930s as a trading business, Al-Futtaim Group today is one of the most diversified and progressive, privately held regional businesses headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Structured into five operating divisions; automotive, financial services, real estate, retail and healthcare; employing more than 35,000 employees across more than 20 countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, Al-Futtaim Group partners with over 200 of the world's most admired and innovative brands. Al-Futtaim Group's entrepreneurship and relentless customer focus enables the organization to continue to grow and expand; responding to the changing needs of our customers within the societies in which we operate.

By upholding our values of respect, excellence, collaboration and integrity; Al-Futtaim Group continues to enrich the lives and aspirations of our customers each and every day Overview of the role:

As a member of Automotive Finance team – to support the Management in: - Support IT strategic roadmap from finance perspective for the UAE and Overseas Automotive operations.- Develop process guidelines and procedures for finance function and standardize the processes across entities.- Lead implementation of digitization initiatives within the finance function within automotive.- Implement best Business Processes in a ERP environment by designing appropriate solutions supporting the customers' business processes as part of the overall ERP programme.- Provide support and project manage the end to end life cycle management whilst partnering with IT teams.

What you will do:

Process Specialisation and Support - Develop and support process expertise on automotive business processes encompassing New units / Used Units / Parts / Service / Rental & Leasing Operations.

- Develop and support functional expertise on Inbound, Outbound, Finance integration on accounting, treasury, tax & reporting (FI-PCA).

System Development and Implementation - Drive the strategic IT roadmap across automotive finance operations with the central theme of standardization and automation.

- Implementation of IS Auto platform across Automotive network operations such as FAMCO, Select, GDA, AFF, Other overseas operations. - Drive system and process improvements within the overseas automotive finance functions. - Close collaboration with EIT on changes/developments and business led initiatives through requirements gathering, reviews blueprints etc. - Drive roadmap of ERP and other satellite tools usage within Automotive for Implementation of Tax regimes. - Project coordination across stakeholders. Collaborate with the business in identifying functional requirements for process and creating scripts for development through EIT.

Policy, Standard Operating procedures and Guidelines - Conduct a process mapping exercise across finance operations with support from subject matter experts.- Document the process flow and detailed standard operating procedures & E-Learning.

Implement SOPs across the functions- Assess the SOPs across overseas operation, recommend best practices and provides tools for its implementation.- Implement a robust governance process in place to maintain the SOPs in an up-to date manner.- Drive one way of doing things through process alignment.- Quick turnaround to changing business environment and its reflection on finance processes- Manage escalations and provide support to training and development plans.

Process Re-Engineering - Continuous review of front-end business and core finance processes to identify opportunities for digitization and implementing changes in operations to make it more efficient, effective whilst strengthening the risk management and compliance- Look at modern day tools and techniques for implementation in the existing or new business / finance processes.- Collaborate with respective finance functions across business, centre of excellence and shared services.

Change Management - Manage the change management activities with inputs from respective Subject Matter Experts and collaboration with EIT, super users and power users.- Ensure best practices are rolled out to all the entities / locations / showrooms.

Training & Development - Devise training and development plans for finance associates relating to accounting, internal controls and specific skill set around IFRS, Treasury, Tax areas etc.

- Devise and implement a training program for training of finance associates across various functional workstreams.


Required Skills to be successful:

• Must have experience in Tech-Savy Good Financial Knowledge Critical Thinking Policies and procedure drafting About the Team: The role will report to Senior Finance Manager and you will be working in a very busy and fast pace environment.
• Must have experience in Tech-Savy Good Financial Knowledge Critical Thinking Policies and procedure drafting About the Team: The role will report to Senior Finance Manager and you will be working in a very busy and fast pace environment.
• Must have experience in Tech-Savy Good Financial Knowledge Critical Thinking Policies and procedure drafting About the Team: The role will report to Senior Finance Manager and you will be working in a very busy and fast pace environment.
• Must have experience in Tech-Savy Good Financial Knowledge Critical Thinking Policies and procedure drafting About the Team: The role will report to Senior Finance Manager and you will be working in a very busy and fast pace environment.

What equips you for the role:

Minimum Qualifications and Knowledge:
Professional accounting Qualification – CA/ACCA or equivalentA degree in Information Systems/Project Management related discipline would be preferred

Minimum Experience:

Minimum of 8-10 years' experience with at least 2 years of support of SAP /other ERP processes or retail support experience.

Experience of working in the Automotive / retail industries will be preferred Job-Specific Skills:

Analytical, Process oriented, good communication skills, exposure to SAP ERP - SAP FI/CO Certified or super user with knowledge in SAP inbound and outbound process.

The job holder should have strong documentation ability in development of policies and procedures.


Behavioural Competencies:

• Ability to learn new technologies
• Adaptability
• Innovative thinking
• Technical acumen
• Customer focus
• Judgement
• Strong decision making and problem solving abilities
• Attention to detail
• Strong Customer Relationship building capability
• Sound influencing and negotiation skills