Senior Financial Analyst

Overview

Element has an opportunity for a Senior Financial Analyst. In this role, you will be responsible for the financial health of the organisation, evaluate financial information, conduct analysis and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the GM and Operations teams to influence decision making
• Ensure integrity of sales forecast and help drive local team to achieve targets
• Ensure local compliance with all Element group financial policies & processes, including DoA
• Work with Dubai GBS to prepare accurate and timely monthly management accounts
• Ensure the accounts comply where appropriate with IFRS, and any local accounting and tax regulations.
• Perform Budget vs. Actual and trend analysis for the lab and provide a challenge to operational teams.
• Actively manage working capital and A/R, credit, and collections
• Support Operations in developing capex investment cases
• Develop, maintain and monitor the lab’s annual financial budget.
• Manage and finalise company statutory requirements: tax, corporate secretarial matters, audit etc. timely

Skills / Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with internationally recognized qualification
• Minimum 5 years post qualification experience sufficient to contribute to the commercial development of the business with proven experience in all aspects of accounting in a service-oriented environment.
• Strong general ledger, internal and external reporting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll and basic income tax knowledge
• Audit experience from a recognized audit firm (preferred but not essential)
• Willingness and motivation to work with non-Finance partners in understanding the business, outgoing personality

Company Overview

Element is one of the fastest growing testing, inspection and certification businesses in the world. Globally we have more than 9,000 brilliant minds operating from 270 sites across 30 countries. Together we share an ambitious purpose to ‘Make tomorrow safer than today’.

When failure in use is not an option, we help customers make certain that their products, materials, processes and services are safe, compliant and fit for purpose. From early R&D, through