Assistant Financial Controller

Our lending business funds equipment, vehicles and working capital for small and mid-sized companies across the UAE. We started in 1996 and have grown to about 4,900 people.

The position

The role is new and comes from growth in our client base. We are moving from QuickBooks Enterprise to NetSuite next year. ERP conversion experience is a real plus. Employment is through our payroll partner in Luxembourg. Salary is paid monthly in euros. Working hours follow Gulf time, Monday to Friday. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

What you'll do

• Oversee cash management, bank relationships and the weekly cash forecast.
• Prepare consolidated financials and intercompany eliminations.
• Design and maintain internal controls over cash, payables, payroll and revenue.
• Coordinate the annual financial statement audit and act as main contact for the audit firm.
• Supervise a team of accountants and AP and AR staff.
• Manage the month-end close and deliver financial statements by business day 8.
• Write and update accounting policies and procedures.

Required qualifications

• 1-2 years of progressive accounting experience, including public accounting audit.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Comfortable presenting financial results to ownership and lenders.
• Bachelor's degree in accounting.
• Experience managing a monthly close and an accounting team.
• History of managing external audits with clean results.
• Hands-on with NetSuite, Sage Intacct, Microsoft Dynamics or SAP.

Nice to have

• Private equity-backed company experience.
• FloQast, BlackLine or Cube.

Benefits

• Health insurance through our employer-of-record partner.
• Paid parental leave.
• Annual team retreat.
• Two weeks of paid leave at year end.
• Wellness allowance.
• Paid sick days.

The posting will close once we have a strong shortlist.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Falcon Advisors LLC.