Financial Controller – Middle East

Control Risks

. Ensure finance control framework within Middle East.

Posted 4/25/2026contractDubai • 🇦🇪 United Arab EmiratesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Ensure finance control framework within Middle East.
Review Cardiff Finance Hub activity to ensure accuracy of month end results (P&L and Balance Sheet).
Review Cardiff Finance Hub operational activity to ensure items are addressed in a timely way (e.g. vendor payments, credit control, etc).
Regular review of balance sheets ensuring all balances are reconciled and substantiated.
Stakeholder management with all Middle East Partners.
Drive improvement in cash collection process within Middle East.
Reporting to EMEA Financial Controller regularly on Middle East status, as well as promptly on any ad hoc issues.
Ensuring regional alignment on policies' application and conduct of processes, to drive transparency, reliability and accuracy of financial reporting.
Ensuring that the Region complies with all statutory and regulatory reporting requirements in a timely manner and to high standard.
Oversee regional payroll operations, ensuring accurate, timely and compliant payroll processing across Middle East jurisdictions in line with local labor laws, tax regulations and social security requirements.
Providing oversight, support and advice on local and Group audits and investigations, assuring swiftness of actions.
Provide input into group tax framework where required.
Ensure compliance with all direct and indirect taxes, including timely and accurate completion of all tax returns and submissions.
Contributing to new entities' set up plans to creating optimal solutions.
Tracking and preparedness for upcoming changes within financial compliance, driven by local laws as well as Group guidance.
Oversee regional cashflow forecasts to ensure accuracy and optimization of intercompany transfers.
Striving to always understand and respond to business' needs, while remaining independent, objective and ethical.
Providing commercial advice, alongside Business Partners, on pricing (including taxes) and financial performance .
Support EMEA Financial Controller and Group Financial Controller on regional and global initiatives.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Certified chartered accountant with significant, recent and relevant experience and expertise, including:
Robust and efficient financial control policies and processes;
Technical accounting and statutory reporting;
Taxation - direct, indirect, domestic and international;
Financial compliance in a complex and dynamic environment.
**Preferred**
Candidates must have a recognised accounting or international equivalent with significant post qualification experience.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Consulting Control Risks is a global specialist risk consultancy firm. It helps organizations navigate and succeed in a volatile world by providing strategic advice and services in areas such as security risk management, operational and protective security, organizational resilience, crisis response, digital risks, and more. The company offers insights into political and country risks, ethics, compliance, and governance, as well as forensic and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) services. Control Risks aims to ensure that its clients are prepared for and can efficiently handle various risk factors impacting their business operations globally. Financial Controller – Middle East 🔥 2 minutes ago 🏢🏡 Dubai – Hybrid ⏳ Contract/Temporary 🟡 Mid-level 🟠 Senior ⛔️ Financial Controller Apply Now Find Hiring Managers Customize resume for this job Report problem ☆ Save ☑️ Mark as applied ❌ Hide 📋 Description
Ensure finance control framework within Middle East.
Review Cardiff Finance Hub activity to ensure accuracy of month end results (P&L and Balance Sheet).
Review Cardiff Finance Hub operational activity to ensure items are addressed in a timely way (e.g. vendor payments, credit control, etc).
Regular review of balance sheets ensuring all balances are reconciled and substantiated.
Stakeholder management with all Middle East Partners.
Drive improvement in cash collection process within Middle East.
Reporting to EMEA Financial Controller regularly on Middle East status, as well as promptly on any ad hoc issues.
Ensuring regional alignment on policies' application and conduct of processes, to drive transparency, reliability and accuracy of financial reporting.
Ensuring that the Region complies with all statutory and regulatory reporting requirements in a timely manner and to high standard.
Oversee regional payroll operations, ensuring accurate, timely and compliant payroll processing across Middle East jurisdictions in line with local labor laws, tax regulations and social security requirements.
Providing oversight, support and advice on local and Group audits and investigations, assuring swiftness of actions.
Provide input into group tax framework where required.
Ensure compliance with all direct and indirect taxes, including timely and accurate completion of all tax returns and submissions.
Contributing to new entities' set up plans to creating optimal solutions.
Tracking and preparedness for upcoming changes within financial compliance, driven by local laws as well as Group guidance.
Oversee regional cashflow forecasts to ensure accuracy and optimization of intercompany transfers.
Striving to always understand and respond to business' needs, while remaining independent, objective and ethical.
Providing commercial advice, alongside Business Partners, on pricing (including taxes) and financial performance .
Support EMEA Financial Controller and Group Financial Controller on regional and global initiatives. 🎯 Requirements
Certified chartered accountant with significant, recent and relevant experience and expertise, including:
Robust and efficient financial control policies and processes;
Technical accounting and statutory reporting;
Taxation - direct, indirect, domestic and international;
Financial compliance in a complex and dynamic environment.
**Preferred**
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Hard Skills & Tools

financial controlmonth end resultsbalance sheet reconciliationcash collection processpayroll processingtax compliancefinancial reportingtechnical accountingstatutory reportingfinancial compliance

Soft Skills

stakeholder managementcommunicationindependenceobjectivityethical decision makingcommercial adviceproblem solvingtimelinessattention to detailcollaboration

Certifications

chartered accountantrecognized accounting qualification