Finance Manager

Job description / Role

• Responsibility for end-to-end Budgeting, Planning and Reporting of Dubai Schools
• Analyzing all lines of the P&L, BS, and Cash Flow to explain variances in Budgets
• Ensure finance activities are managed effectively and proactively to provide visibility on expenses and risk
• Manage Dubai Schools expenditure, cash flow and capital budgets in accordance with Taaleem financial regulations
• Ensure high quality, real time availability of data and analytics to support delivery of the business strategy
• Ensure audit compliance of financial records, performance and controls
• Main point of contact with TEC and KHDA, attending meetings and delivering reporting as required
• Ability to translate analysis into presentation suitable for senior stakeholders (CFO, CEO, Board, and Principals) and ensure accuracy of contents
• Obtain agreement on expenditures with budget holders and provide regular financial reports as required
• Use financial management information, especially benchmarking tools, to identify areas of relative spend and advise accordingly. Suggest ways of effecting budget efficiency
• Seek, identify and implement the best practices throughout the company that will improve cost and productivity efficiencies.
• Manage all financial risks, key risk and performance indicators and exposure to the company
• Point of contact for the Dubai Schools annual audit with responsibility for producing the Dubai Schools annual accounts
• Provide all information required by the internal auditors and implement any recommendations
• Operate all bank accounts, ensuring that a full reconciliation is undertaken
• Oversee the preparation of invoices and collection of all monetary dues
• Assisting the Operations Team in setting up processes and implementing best practices across all the schools, covering:
– Petty cash
– Payroll and staff related expenses
– Payments
– Expense claims
– Bank Reconciliations

• Assist the Taaleem VAT filing process
• Contribute to potential bid opportunities
• Ad hoc reporting and miscellaneous tasks as required by the Head of Finance