Assistant Commercial Manager | Blue Rewards | Corporate Services

Job Requisition ID: [[159377]] 

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 A”rab 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 organisation 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:

This role will support the GM Finance & Commercial and become the key lead in managing the end-to-end finance process of Blue Rewards.

What you will do:

• Business Planning & Analysis: Preparation and presentation of budgets and forecast for the business unit ensuring strategic alignment with business objectives.
• Ensure adherence to group reporting timeliness and BPC updates to facilitate timely reviews of budgets and forecasts
• Monthly management reporting: Provide monthly management reports highlighting key performance indicators and variance analysis. 
• Support in preparation of group reporting pack on monthly basis in coordination with Data team
• Setting up accounting flow and process: Develop accounting flow for new programs introduced in adherence to accounting principles and regulatory standards.
• Coordination with internal stakeholders and third parties: Closely work with Tech, product and third-party integrators to understand the product requirement and come up with schemes of accounting entries and financial process.
• Work wit internal and external teams to contribute in the user acceptance testing and finalization of accounting flow for new programs.
• Complete Bank reconciliations for all the Blue Wallet and Gift Cards (including reseller cases) after ensuring collections & booking expenses.
• End to end reconciliation between SAP GL’s and third party integrator reports to ensure all liabilities are booked correctly and address the issues accordingly to concern party. 
• ICM reconciliations with Blue partners (daily basis) – resolving errors related to Cashback, Gift Cards, Wallet Top-up and Points, and getting the ICMs accepted by the partners.
• Vendor onboarding, raising PRs/POs creating IANs and SRFs
• Coordinate payables with central payment team and provide updates to internal stakeholders on the status of payments
• Compliance with DOAs - Strict Adherence to DOAs
• Month closing activities and MIS – Liaise with shared service teams to ensure all activities are recorded and analyse the financials for management review. 
• Cashflow Management: Biweekly submission of fund requirement with Treasury to ensure availability of funds for the program
• Assisting in Internal/ External audit activities.

Required Skills to be successful:

• Bachelors in business administration 
• Experience in  operational finance
• Excellent communication and presentation skills 

About the Team:

• You will be reporting to GM – Finance and Commercial

What equips you for the role:

• Bachelor’s in business administration (BBA) with specialization in finance or accounting from an accredited university.
• Qualification (American CPA or international ACCA) is a plus; and
• Advanced knowledge of ERP systems is necessary; SAP (including Ariba) expertise is a must.
• Preferably minimum 8 years in an operational finance position, preferably in the digital commerce sphere.

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