Overview
Finance Manager at Tech First Gulf — Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Main Role: To manage the organization’s finance and accounting function by ensuring accurate financial reporting, full regulatory compliance, effective audit and tax management, and strong internal controls. The Finance Manager supports business growth by optimizing financial processes, leveraging ERP systems with appropriate controls and checks, providing strategic financial insights, and guiding the HQ and regional teams toward operational excellence.
Full job description
Main Role: To manage the organization’s finance and accounting function by ensuring accurate financial reporting, full regulatory compliance, effective audit and tax management, and strong internal controls. The Finance Manager supports business growth by optimizing financial processes, leveraging ERP systems with appropriate controls and checks, providing strategic financial insights, and guiding the HQ and regional teams toward operational excellence.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead financial reporting, statutory audits, internal audits, and regulatory filings, ensuring compliance with IFRS, ESR, AML, VAT, and corporate tax requirements.
- Evaluate and strengthen internal controls, governance structures, and risk management frameworks across the organization.
- Provide monthly and quarterly financial oversight and insights for large and complex IT projects, cost centres, and regional accounting activities.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather financial data, support audits, and drive process improvements.
- Extensively utilize ERP systems and enterprise applications, including SAP Business One to streamline financial operations and reporting, strengthen system-based controls, and reduce manual intervention and human error.
- Mentor and lead F&A team members, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and professional development.
Requirements
Qualifications and Skills:
- Chartered Accountant (CA) with 3-4 years of post-qualification experience is mandatory.
- High ownership mindset with the ability to work independently, manage senior stakeholders, and drive timely closure of finance, audit, tax, and reporting deliverables.
- Strong knowledge of IFRS, ESR, AML, and VAT regulations.
- Proficiency in ERP systems such as SAP Business One, SAP R1, and Tally.
- Demonstrated ability to complete complex finance projects, improve reporting processes, and support audit readiness.
- Excellent analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
- Exemplary skills in Excel, Power Query and all relevant work tools & software
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and time management abilities.
- Experience in IT distribution is a major advantage.
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