Team Leader, Statutory Accounting & Finance Operations

To provide financial and accounting support and ensure the integrity of internal control and reporting in full compliance of IFRS. This includes formulating business plans, forecasting, reporting financial results, monitoring the progress in business plan execution, cost management, and implementation of financial policies & procedures.

Responsibilities : 

• Perform financial transactions related to business units under assigned responsibility (Masdar plus all its subsidiary & associated companies) and enter them in the GL correctly by legal entity, business unit and project in base (Foreign) currency, in full compliance with IFRS and Masdar financial policies and procedures.
• Assist with the review of the monthly trial balance of balances related to Masdar and ensure these are compliant with both IFRS and Masdar’s accounting policies.
• Maintain the transactions in the GL periodically to ensure accuracy of the GL and its compliance with relevant policies and procedures.
• Prepare and update all types of journal entries/vouchers include those required for adjustments, allocations, accruals / and provisions ensuring that all amounts are supported by appropriate documents / workings.
• Provide finance support to a number of the support services responsibility centres. Ensuring that expenses are correctly recorded in the relevant responsibility centres and correct provisions are made. For legal in particular, ensure that accruals are made for all legal costs to projects tracking those with the legal team.
• Process all sub-ledgers inputs (Asset Management, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, and Project Accounting) prior to month end deadlines.
• Maintain appropriate accounting entries such as amortization, adjustments, accruals, depreciations, etc. as well as verify entry of transactions to ensure they are generated accurately and thoroughly entered in the system.
• Review of intracompany revenue and expenses for month end purposes and posting journal entries, as necessary to reconcile.
• Review the P&L, balance sheet, performance management reports (financial components) and other reports on a periodic basis and ensure accuracy of the reported numbers based on forecasts/estimates
• Prepare forecasts, monthly management accounts, project reports, divisional reports ensuring that they are developed in an accurate and timely basis. Support in the preparation of quarterly rolling forecasts, annual budgets for the business plan of the business unit, including P&L and CAPEX for projects. Validate and document information received and finalize the budget with the division for sign off prior to upload into the system.
• Monitor the monthly costs for the BU/Responsibility centre and on certain projects by the activity code. Prepare reports on cost versus budget and meet the BU for explanations on variances to budget and prepare detailed variance analysis
• Support in quarter and year end audit process including (i) prepare supporting documents/schedules/information & reconciliations with justifications and necessary workings
• Support in preparation of Consolidated Financial Statements of the Masdar including notes to the financial statements
• Support in coordination and discussions with both internal and external auditors
• Monitor, advise and track any recharges/cost recoveries to be made for the unit and ensure accounting information on revenue is correctly entered into Oracle for all.
• Review any revenue contracts for the unit to ensure that AR are raising invoices and collecting funds in accordance with the provisions of the contract. Liaise and follow up on AR matters related to divisions.
• Ensure understanding of the technical accounting matters for revenue recognition compared to what was generated by Oracle. Prepare a log and workings to be compliant with IFRS and on a monthly basis generate the required entries to be made in Oracle.
• Prepare all required GL entries for the 2 separate legal entities to record monthly transactions
• Reconcile the third party loans, accrued interest and charges each month. Review the derivative hedge valuation report and create the journals to recognize the movement on the overall balance as well as effective and ineffective legs of the movement
• Reconcile the fixed asset sub ledger to GL and run/import capitalization as well as deprecation entries for the month.
• Close the monthly accounts for each legal entity
• Prepare the monthly TB and upload a copy directly to DEWA
• Prepare the quarterly reporting pack for DEWA and upload to DEWA as required
• Liaise directly with the Shuaa auditors for quarterly review of the packs as well as for the annual audit requirements managing all auditor queries.
• Manage the accounts for Emirates Solar Power Company, taking the required share of results through the company, hedge reserves and investment balance. Liaise with the EDF team as required. Manage the annual audit of the Company and deal with matters related to the annual audit.