5 Financial Specialist jobs in the United Arab Emirates

Dubai, United Arab Emirates | Posted on 10/14/2025

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About the Role:

We’re looking for a Finance Executive who is detail-oriented, analytical, and ready to thrive in a fast-paced, global environment. You’ll play a vital role in managing daily finance operations, supporting growth initiatives, and ensuring compliance while helping us scale across regions.

What You’ll Do:

• Handle day-to-day accounting, reconciliations, and financial reporting.
  
• Manage accounts payable/receivable, invoices, and expense tracking.
  
• Assist with monthly closing, budgeting, and forecasting processes.
  
• Partner with cross-functional teams (Sales, Operations, Guest Experience) to provide financial insights.
  
• Ensure compliance with local regulations, tax filings, and internal controls.
  
• Support audits, financial analysis, and ad-hoc reporting. Use tech tools, automation, and dashboards to improve efficiency.
  

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
  
• 2–4 years of finance/accounting experience; experience in hospitality or tech/hospitality-tech is a plus.
  
• Strong understanding of accounting principles, financial reporting, and compliance.
  
• Proficiency with accounting software and Excel/Google Sheets.
  
• Analytical mindset with meticulous attention to detail.
  
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, scaling startup environment.
  
• Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
  

Overview

Kearney, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Analyst — Full-time in Dubai, Middle East & Africa region.

Kearney, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Analyst

As the FP&A Analyst in our Dubai office, you will support the financial planning and analysis function with a focus predominantly on the Middle East region. This role is responsible for budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, and providing strategic insights to drive business decisions. The FP&A Analyst will collaborate with various departments to gather and analyze financial data, identify trends, and support decision-making processes. A proactive mindset, strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to communicate complex financial information clearly are essential. The ideal candidate will be a strategic thinker who can contribute to the company's growth and profitability through meticulous financial planning and analysis.

Reporting directly to the Senior Financial Planning & Analytics Manager and functionally to the Regional CFO and ME Financial Controller. The role also works closely with Finance teams in Dubai, South Africa, Turkey, London, and Chicago, as well as other local functions such as HR, Staffing, Office Management, and Legal. The ME finance team consists of 11 members.

• Develop and maintain complex financial models to support various business scenarios and strategic initiatives.
• Conduct detailed variance analysis to compare actual results to budget and forecast, identifying key drivers and providing actionable insights.
• Monitor and analyze cost structures, identifying areas for cost reduction and efficiency improvements.
• Collaborate with sales and marketing teams to develop accurate revenue forecasts and track performance against targets.
• Evaluate capital expenditure proposals, perform ROI analysis, and track project performance.
• Perform scenario planning and sensitivity analysis to assess the financial impact of different business decisions and external factors.
• Conduct benchmarking studies to compare company performance against industry peers and best practices.
• Create and maintain dashboards and visualizations to communicate financial performance and key metrics to stakeholders.
• Ensure compliance with financial regulations and internal policies, assisting with audits and regulatory reporting as needed.
• Identify and implement process improvements to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the FP&A function.
• Act as a strategic partner to business units, providing financial insights and recommendations to support operational and strategic decisions.
• Identify and assess financial risks, developing strategies to mitigate potential impacts on the business.
• Develop and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure and improve business performance.
• Assist in the preparation and management of the annual budget, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and objectives.
• Support ad-hoc financial analysis and special projects as needed, providing timely and accurate information to stakeholders.

After nearly 100 years, we know this business is fundamentally about making connections—between facts, figures, insights, strategies, tools, technologies and above all, people. That’s why we look for proactive, positive, and flexible individuals who are always unapologetically their unique selves.

We want to hear from you if you:

• Have a university degree or equivalent and are studying for, or completed an internationally recognized Certified/Chartered accountant qualification such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA
• Have a minimum 5 years in a similar role. Professional service industry experience is desirable
• Have a strong knowledge of financial planning and analysis in a related role
• Possess strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and financial modelling
• Have experience with financial software and ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle) is a plus
• Have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Have excellent verbal and written communication skills in English. Arabic is desirable
• Are commercially minded and are willing to be hands on
• Have strong organization skills, attention to detail and a high level of accuracy
• Are a self-driven, highly motivated team player who understands the implications of collaborating in a truly global environment

Every day, our people work to be the difference for our clients, our communities, and our colleagues. They are sustained by a competitive remuneration package plus comprehensive benefits and perks, including but not limited to:

• Generous retirement/pension savings contributions
• Comprehensive medical insurance for employees and their families
• Structured and on-the-job learning and development opportunities
• Personalized opportunities to help you chart a unique career journey to pursue your own personal and professional goals

Apply now. Submit your cover letter, CV (.doc or .pdf format only) via our website.

Equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination Kearney prides itself on providing a culture where our employees belong and thrive equally, which means our people feel comfort, confidence, and joy as they do great things for our firm, our colleagues, and our clients. Kearney is an equal opportunity employer; we recruit, hire, train, promote, develop, and provide other conditions of employment without regard to a person’s gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race or ethnicity, religion, age, national origin, disability, marital status, pregnancy status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other differences consistent with applicable laws. This includes providing reasonable accommodation for disabilities or religious beliefs and practices. We encourage everyone to apply, including those who may not feel historically represented in consulting.

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Communications

ABOUT THE COMPANY

We are a global energy maritime logistics leader with a world-class asset base. We are the dedicated and vital logistics arm for ADNOC Group, providing mission critical and highly specialized services across ADNOC’s entire value chain. We also provide market-leading, cost-competitive maritime and logistics solutions to over 100 global customers and ship to more than 50 countries across the world.

As a global energy maritime logistics leader and the dedicated and vital logistics arm for ADNOC Group, we are driven to set the highest standards in shipping and maritime operations, pushing boundaries and pioneering new frontiers in sustainability. We are committed to delivering world-class solutions that are innovative and efficient, while always putting safety first

JOB PURPOSE:
This role is responsible for the day-to-day management and execution of financial and regulatory communications activities to ensure all reporting obligations for ADNOC L&S as a listed entity are fulfilled. Managing reputational risks and ensuring positioning opportunities are maximised are also part of the remit.
Reporting obligations include quarterly and annual earnings announcements and management presentations; regulatory announcements relating to the AGM and the release of material information and ad hoc company updates; and the release and positioning of corporate reports including the Annual Report, Sustainability Report and Governance Report.
This role is suited to someone with a background in corporate or financial communications with experience in internal and external stakeholder and media relations, ideally at a listed entity. It requires someone who can gain the trust of senior leaders and work effectively across teams to generate materially sensitive company information.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
• Maintaining a calendar of financial and regulatory communications obligations
• Drafting materials to support financial and regulatory communication obligations
• Working with a network of L&S business as well as finance, corporate communications and legal functional colleagues to align and secure the approval of draft materials
• Managing the release of approved materials to external stakeholders, including the media
• Working with IR to manage quarterly and annual earning calls and answering questions from the media
• Ensuring alignment with broader internal audiences, as appropriate
• Identifying ongoing reputation risks and opportunities and escalating where necessary
• Supporting senior leaders ahead of external engagements
• Managing agency support when it is required

Generic Accountabilities
Supervision

• Plan, supervise and coordinate all activities in the assigned area to meet functional objectives.
• Train and develop the assigned staff on relevant skills to enable them to become proficient on the job and deliver the respective section objectives.

Budgets

• Provide input for preparation of the Section / Department budgets and assist in the implementation of the approved Budget and work plans to deliver Section objectives.
• Investigate and highlight any significant variances to support effective performance and cost control
• Implement approved Section / Department policies, processes, systems, standards and procedures in order to support execution of the Section’s / Department work programs in line with Company and International standards.

Performance Management

• Contribute to the achievement of the approved Performance Objectives for the Section / Department in line with the Company Performance framework.

Innovation and Continuous Improvement

• Design and implement new tools and techniques to improve the quality and efficiency of operational processes.
• Identify improvements in internal processes against best practices in pursuit of greater efficiency in line with ISO standards in order to define intelligent solutions for issues confronting the function.

Health, Safety, Environment (HSE) and Sustainability

• Comply with relevant HSE policies, procedures & controls and applicable legislation and sustainability guidelines in line with international standards, best practices and ADNOC Code of Practices.

Reports

• Provide inputs to prepare Section MIS and progress reports for Company Management.

QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS:
Minimum Qualification
Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration or other relevant degree

Group Company: ADNOC Logistics & Services

Job Category

Finance

Location

UAE - Dubai

Job Type

Full Time

Closing Date

03-Oct-2025

Keyston Distribution is the B2B Distribution unit of Majid Digital Group. In 2021, Keyston was established with a capital infusion and a digital mandate to create 5000+ digital customers from Iraq and MENA region. Our objective is to onboard the best-in-class global vendors and to provide end-to-end technology and professional solutions to our reseller channel base.

We partner with reputable global vendors in the technology industry, which include Avaya, Asus, Canon, Western Digital, SanDisk, LG, Seagate, MSI and ASRock as well as other strategic partners whose relationship with the group has strengthened over the past 5 years.

We are dedicated to serving our customers by providing end-to-end products and solutions that support specific business demands.

Keyston operations commence from Dubai and expand across the GCC region and Iraq with future to expand to other markets.

We are looking for a results-oriented and analytically strong Financial Planning Analyst (FP&A) to support strategic planning and performance management in our fast-growing IT distribution business. This role will play a critical part in driving financial insight across multiple vendors, product lines, and regions, enabling data-driven decision-making at all levels of the organization.

Immediate joiners based in UAE only

Budgeting & Forecasting

Lead the annual budgeting process across all business units and departments.

Manage rolling forecasts for revenue, gross margin, operating expenses, and cash flow.

Build robust financial models to evaluate revenue, cost of goods sold (COGS), and profitability by vendor, SKU, region, and channel.

Revenue & Margin Analysis

Analyze gross margin and profitability by product category, vendor, and customer segment.

Track and interpret sales vs. forecast and identify root causes of performance variances.

Support pricing strategy, promotional campaigns, and discount impact analysis.

Business Performance & Reporting

Develop and maintain Power BI dashboards and KPI scorecards for real-time visibility.

Prepare monthly business review decks and performance reports for senior leadership and board-level meetings.

CA / ACCA / CIMA / MBA (Finance or related field).

5–10 years of experience in FP&A, financial modeling, and business analytics.

Power BI certification is a strong plus.

Experience in IT distribution or trading is preferred.

Preferred Skills

Strong proficiency in financial modeling, forecasting, and data visualization.

Ability to translate complex financial data into clear business insights.

Experience in developing annual operating and capital budgets aligned with corporate strategy.

Excellent communication, presentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Self-driven, organized, and capable of working both independently and in teams.

If you meet the criteria and you are enthusiastic about the role, we would welcome your application.Tocomplete the application you would need the following document(s):