Job Summary
Cost Control Tower (CCT)
- Assist the Senior Manager in preparing for the CCT working committee and Exco meetings, by tracking all spend requests presented to the CCT mail box
- Co-ordinate with Business / Spend requestee on structuring memos, providing relevant and accurate information, this includes understanding the nature of requests, budgetary and bank’s procurement requirements and polices in place
- Drafting CCT working committee meeting minutes (weekly basis) and Exco minutes (by-weekly basis) and circulate via email with CCT action points.
- Prepare dashboard with the summaries of the memos, for the EXCO and draft GCEO’s approval email for circulation
- Prepare the final approval confirmation email on the business cases after obtaining the GCEO’s approval along with GCEO’s action points (if any)
- Collate information / statistics on all business cases presented to CCT and prepare dashboard on the overall savings to the bank on a bi-annual basis and to be presented to the CFO.
Financial Control (ICOFR)
Assist the ICOFR team in coordinating day to day activities, follow ups, documentation and testing of Internal Control Over Financial Reporting (ICOFR)Co-ordinate and follow up with control and process ownersPerform control testing on design effectiveness of internal controls on an annual basisPerform control testing on operational effectiveness of internal controls across the bank on periodic basis – pertinent to controls on monthly, quarterly and yearly basisPerform remediation of failed controls and identify with control owners mitigating controls and / or recommend new controls to ensure operational effectivenessAssist the Senior Manager in preparation of monthly / quarterly dashboard for management review with controls tested : passed, failed, remediation.Assist the Senior Manager other areas of testing and control review in the Financial Statement Close processAssist the Senior Manager on co-ordination and submission of quarterly auditor requirements to external auditorsWithholding Tax (WHT)
Prepare the monthly WHT Return in line with the data submitted by the Accounts Payable team and submit the return on the Dhareeba portal within the specified timeline. (before 15th of next month)Review the list of vendors alongside the invoice on a monthly basis to check whether the invoices are taxable based on a provision of service as per the regulations of General Tax Authority (GTA).Provide WHT deduction certificates to the vendorsArabic translation of the WHT returns and submission in the Tax PortalAssisting the Senior Manager in correspondence and interaction with Tax regulators and Other regulatory reporting requirement including QFMA / QSE correspondenceAssist the team for communication with Regulators – QFC, QFMA, General Tax authority (GTA), QSE etc including Arabic translationEducation
Bachelor’s degree in Business with preferably a specialization in Finance or Accounting
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Skills
Ability to interact with internal and external stakeholdersAbility to work under pressureAccounting MethodsAppropriations PlanningAwareness of local cultural and social factors, and labour law provisionsBilingual (Arabic & English)Budget Preparation and ReportingBudget SystemsBudgetingBudgeting Analysis#J-18808-Ljbffr