Accounts Assistant - Dubai Campus

Job Title: Manager - Management Accounts Assistant 

Grade:  G4

Department: Finance

Location: Dubai Campus

We are seeking a dynamic and detail-oriented Management Accounts Assistant to join our finance team. In this role, you will report and assist Senior Finance Business Partner to provide comprehensive financial support, analysis, and insights to drive informed business decisions. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist in the preparation of Monthly management reports, forecasts, and budgets to provide insights into the organization's financial performance.
• Assist in the annual budgeting and forecasting processes.
• Prepare monthly expense reports for detailed analysis of actual expenses for budget holders.
• Assist in validating prepayments and accruals to ensure accuracy and proper allocation of expenses.
• Preparation of month-end balance sheet reconciliations for assigned accounts, ensuring accuracy and completeness of financial data. Maintain proper documentation and support for reconciliations, in alignment with internal controls and audit requirements.
• Preparation of intercompany journal templates and reconcile intercompany accounts, ensuring accurate recording and elimination of intercompany transactions.
• Conduct ad hoc financial analyses to support business decisions, investment opportunities, and strategic initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to streamline financial processes, enhance data accuracy, and improve overall efficiency within the finance function.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or ACCA Part Qualified.
• 2+ years of experience in financial analysis, budgeting, or related roles.
• Proficiency in financial modeling, data analysis, and Microsoft Excel.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with keen attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with diverse teams.
• Knowledge of financial reporting standards and regulations.
• Experience with financial systems (e.g., ERP oracle fusion) is a plus.
• Ability to adapt to a fast-paced and dynamic work environment.

Heriot-Watt University Values

With a history dating back to 1821, Heriot-Watt University has established a reputation for world-class teaching and professionally relevant, leading-edge research, which has made it one of the top UK universities for business and industry.

We are a vibrant, forward-looking university, well known for the quality of our degrees with employers actively seeking out our graduates.  Heriot-Watt is also Scotland’s international university with an unsurpassed international in-country presence. We deliver degree programmes to circa 30,000 students in 143 countries around the world, have a further overseas campus in Dubai and boast the largest international student cohort in Scotland.

At Heriot-Watt we’ve created an environment that nurtures innovation and leadership - where our researchers, staff and students can realise their potential and develop their ambitions.

We are proud of our collegiate atmosphere and integrated teaching and research approach which has helped to build a community of committed academics and highly motivated students.  Our focus on careers delivers results and we’ve an excellent reputation for graduate employability.

In addition to the Edinburgh campus, we currently have campuses in  the Scottish Borders, Orkney, Dubai and Malaysia.  For all of our campuses we aim to provide stimulating, supportive environments conducive to effective learning and research, where staff and students can excel. At Heriot-Watt, we have an established set of values that help us to nurture innovation and leadership, and show our commitment to continuous improvement and development in all our activities.

Our values describe our deeply held beliefs and our community spirit. They characterise not only how we are as a higher education institution but also frame how we want to be.

Our values are:

• Belong
• Collaborate
• Inspire
• Celebrate

As learning, living and working institution, we use our values as the building blocks of how we go about doing our work and how we each conduct ourselves as members of Heriot-Watt University. They represent what binds us together as a University community and help us to become the best at what we do.

For full details on our University, please view our website https://www.hw.ac.uk/about.htm

‘How to Apply’

Interested applicants must submit applications attaching an updated CV. 

At Heriot Watt we are passionate about our values and look to them to connect our people globally and to help us collaborate and celebrate our success through working together. Our research programmes can deliver real world impact which is achieved through the diversity of our international community and the recognition of creative talent that connects our global team. 

Our flourishing community will give you the freedom to challenge and to bring your enterprising mind and to help our partners with solutions that can be applied now and in the future. Join us and Heriot Watt will provide you with a platform to thrive and work in a way that also helps you live your life in balance with well-being and inclusiveness at the heart of our global community.

The appointment is conditional upon successful completion of all Labour and Immigration formalities.