Finance Applications Lead

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Requires a degree in technology, finance, or accounting, coupled with experience in a supervisory capacity within large multinational companies, focusing on applications/product management. Functional knowledge in finance and/or accounting is essential. An edge is given to candidates with reporting and data analytics dashboard building skills on platforms like ORBIT, and functional product knowledge of financial applications, including ERP finance (Oracle Financials eBS preferred), airline revenue accounting, direct operating costs, payment gateway, treasury, planning, forecasting, consolidation, budgeting, and reporting/analytics. Understanding the broader impact of financial applications within the technology landscape and their role in enabling the finance function, along with basic accounting, taxation, and advanced operational finance knowledge, is also beneficial.

Job description / Role Job Type Full Time Job Location Dubai, UAE Nationality Any Nationality Salary Not Specified Gender Not Specified Arabic Fluency Not Specified Job Function Accounting & Audit Company Industry Aviation, Airlines & Aerospace Job purpose At Emirates Group, we connect the world through our global hub in Dubai, ensuring our customers always ‘Fly better.’ As one of the most recognised and admired brands globally, we’re driven by innovation and excellence. Join us as a finance applications lead and play a key role in driving financial strategy and decision-making for a global business. Experience a fast-paced, multicultural environment where your financial expertise will be central to shaping the future of aviation while making a meaningful impact on a global stage. Our finance department at Emirates Group is responsible for acquiring and managing financial resources to generate profit. The team is pivotal in providing relevant financial information contributing to the productivity of our business functions, planning, and decision-making activities. As a finance applications lead, your role will be to manage and deliver financial systems enhancements and support for finance on a global scale, to ensure the provision of best-in-class financial systems, applications, and management information for use internally by finance and across the business, including to inform and enable commercial decisions. The role is also expected to help in the implementation and compliance with the effective policies and processes for financial systems access and master data updates ensuring appropriate control over Group's assets and accurate financial information processing. In this role, you will: Ensure effective management and delivery of the FA&MM program backlog leading the product management lifecycle for assigned products (financial application/modules) which includes understanding business process changes, requirements, feature refinement, solution design, user experience definition, personas and process journey mapping, testing, training, and coordinating the delivery of features to production in coordination with IT. Represent the finance end-user/stakeholders for the assigned products; hence the role needs to ensure alignment with respective technical product owners (TPO) for product roadmap management and Scrum Masters (SM) from IT to ensure successful delivery of current program increment (PI) plan and support the FPM for PI planning for the respective assigned products. Act as a product specialist on strategic and operational projects across respective working groups for products under responsibility, as and where impacted or need integration with other finance or non-finance applications to deliver wider scoped initiatives. Collaborate with other product owners internally (IT, finance or outside finance) and externally (vendors, banks) to design integrated solutions for optimized data flow across multiple systems while ensuring the necessary financial controls are in place keeping a wider lens to solutions. Ensure compliance with service line agreements (SLAs) agreed related to application support requests (ASRs) by engaging with IT and respective external vendors and banks, as required. Provide product specialist advice and functional consultancy to the support team on issues, identify product improvements based on a data and insights driven approach by identifying root causes for recurring issues and fixing them via product enhancements. Ensure alignment of FA&MM processes to all applicable policies for user access management and functional master management including but not limited to periodic reviews to ensure a self-checking mechanism on key user access and functional masters within the products under responsibility. Functional masters could include e.g., contracts, supplier, customer, bank masters, etc. Write standard operating procedures (SOPs), user guides and setup/configuration documents for systems (core configuration) and functional masters for financial applications which guides the rest of the team to maintain the respective financial application in good health and ensure accurate financial information processing. Support the training plan driven by FPMs to address identified training needs from across the stakeholder groups to enable better utilization of technology and adoption. A success metric for FPOs is better utilization of the products under responsibility and avoidance of any outside-the-system processes and/or non-standard (customized) solution. Manage and help improve performance of the unit, and provide upskilling opportunities to support talent development. Provide continuous feedback, facilitate professional development and ensure continuous improvement. Qualification To be considered for this role, you must meet the below requirements: Degree in technology, finance or accounting related Experience in large multi-national companies in a supervisory capacity, focused on applications/product management. Functional (finance and/or accounting) knowledge You’ll have an edge if you have: Ability to build reports and data analytics dashboard on platforms like ORBIT Functional product knowledge of financial applications highly desired which include but not limited to: ERP finance (Oracle Financials eBS preferred) Airline revenue accounting, direct operating costs Payment gateway Treasury Planning, forecasting, consolidation and budgeting Reporting/analytics Ability to understand the wider impact of financial applications, understand how it fits in the overall technology landscape and how it enables the finance function Basic accounting and taxation knowledge Advanced operational finance knowledge Ability to understand finance processes from a financial applications perspective Experience in handling master management functions, preferably in an airline or aviation group Advanced product management skills Salary and benefits Join us in Dubai and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary and travel benefits that are exclusive to our industry, including discounts on flights and hotel stays around the world. Further information on what it’s like to live and work in our cosmopolitan home city can be provided upon request. About the Company A fast-growing international airline with one of the youngest fleets in the sky and more than 400 awards for excellence worldwide. Apply Now