UAE National_Senior Accountant - Transformation | Corporate Services | Dubai

Job Requisition ID: 180214 

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:

The Senior Accountant Transformation is responsible for supporting the GBS Finance transformation agenda by coordinating governance processes, preparing review decks, and maintaining action trackers. The role focuses on enabling automation and IT initiatives across finance workstreams, acting as a key project-management and execution resource within the Transformation function. This position requires effective management of deliverables, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and strong follow-up discipline, particularly across the UAE and Egypt.

What You Will Do:

• Prepare Monthly Operations Review (MOR) and Divisional Review Meeting (DRM) decks, consolidating executive updates, KPI scorecards, and controlling matters into a Board-ready format.
• Capture and circulate meeting minutes and agreed action items promptly after each session, ensuring alignment with divisional CFOs and tower heads.
• Coordinate the monthly governance calendar across all divisions, aligning schedules, invitees, and logistics with stakeholders.
• Build and maintain consolidated action trackers with clear owners, due dates, RAG status, dependencies, and context, driving items to closure.
• Track completion rates across divisions, categorize items by impact, escalate overdue or blocked actions, and report status back into the MOR/DRM cadence.
• Follow up proactively with owners across GBS Finance and Business / Divisional Finance to secure timely updates and evidence of closure.
• Support pre-closure and post-closure reporting inputs feeding the MOR/DRM packs, including KPI dashboards and service delivery scorecards. 
• Consolidate and validate inputs from towers and the Controlling team to ensure accuracy and consistency across all governance deliverables.
• Participate in GBS Finance Agile POD weekly sessions with GTDP and support the delivery of automation initiatives across towers.
• Contribute to Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and Cost-Benefit Analyses (CBA), and track transformation milestones through the roadmap and deliverables tracker.
• Manage ad-hoc requests from Group leadership to enable rapid, data-driven decision-making.

Required Skills To Be Successful:

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Advanced proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel for creating detailed reporting decks and action trackers.
• Proven ability to follow through on tasks with disciplined project management approach.
• Adept at using Microsoft Planner/Lists and Power BI/Tableau for data tracking and analytics.

What Qualifies You For The Role:

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business, with CPA / ACCA / CMA preferred.
• 4+ years of experience in Finance Shared Services, PMO / project coordination, or Audit.
• Advanced skills in PowerPoint & Excel, Microsoft Planner / Lists, Power BI / Tableau, with familiarity in ERP systems such as SAP / Oracle.
• Strong understanding of FSSC taxonomy, end-to-end process lifecycles, and governance/reporting cadences.

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