Assistant Manager - Controlling (Chief Accountant/Supervisor) | Real Estate | Shared Services

Job Requisition ID: 164417 

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:

A finance professional to manage financial information for real estate development projects. This role involves overseeing the finance regional team, ensuring alignment with Group Finance objectives, and supporting the Finance Controlling team with fixed assets and daily operations. The candidate should have strong managerial and detail-oriented skills, as well as knowledge of compliance and governance. Effective communication and collaboration are essential for success in this position.

What you will do:

• Ensures an accurate & timely month, quarter & year-end closing providing all necessary regular & irregular analysis.
• Maintaining the Chart of WBS, AUC creation, profit, and cost centers related to the development activities to ensure adequate and proper classification among FS presentations.
• Prepare the monthly reconciliation for the management reports.
• Ensure a clean & timely year-end audit and assist with financial audits, prepare audit schedules, and interface with auditors.
• Responsible for preparing and distributing timely, accurate the actual VS budget statement across all fixed assets along with all the analytical reports related and non-related to the financial statements.
• Participate in special projects, ERP implementation, system enhancements, or ad hoc analyses as assigned.
• Ensure that the provided data to the management are reliable and with a high level of accuracy.
• Ensure that all the financial transactions are properly accounted for in the General Ledger and in the correct cost and profit centers, and WBS.
• Maintaining accurate cost recognition, capitalization databases, and inventory analysis per unit for all our development projects.
• Ensure all month-end entries are passed in the system.
• Monitoring bookings of accruals, provision use, and no longer required.

Required Skills to be successful:

Minimum of 7 Years of relevant experience in the Real Estate sector.

What equips you for the role:

• Strong knowledge of Egyptian Accounting Standards and IFRS.
• Solid background in real estate sector accounting.
• Strong knowledge of ERP Software is necessary; SAP and PMWEP will be preferred.

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