Manager Accounts & Finance - Process Transformation & Digitalization
by Caliberly in Real Estate Development & Property Management
The Manager Accounts & Finance – Process Transformation & Digitalization will drive finance process optimization, automation, and digital transformation initiatives across a large-scale real estate organization in Dubai, UAE. The role bridges finance operations and technology by identifying opportunities to streamline accounting processes, improve controls, enhance reporting, and maximize ERP and digital platform capabilities. The position plays a key role in transforming finance operations within a large-scale real estate environment, supporting improved efficiency, data accuracy, process governance, and management decision-making, particularly within an organization actively investing in digital solutions across its real estate and customer journey. The role leads end-to-end transformation initiatives across Accounts, Finance, and related functions; reviews existing finance processes to identify inefficiencies, control gaps, duplication, and manual activities; develops and implements streamlined, standardized, and automated finance workflows; establishes process improvement roadmaps aligned with business and finance objectives; and drives continuous improvement initiatives to enhance productivity, accuracy, and turnaround time. For digitalization and automation, the role identifies finance processes suitable for automation, digitization, and workflow optimization; leads implementation of RPA, workflow automation, OCR, analytics, dashboards, and other digital finance solutions; evaluates emerging technologies; recommends solutions that improve finance operations; develops business cases, ROI assessments, and implementation plans for finance transformation initiatives; and monitors the effectiveness and adoption of newly implemented digital solutions. The role drives optimization and enhancement of ERP-based finance processes and modules, works with IT and system implementation teams to define finance requirements and functional specifications, leads system testing, UAT, process mapping, configuration validation, and implementation activities, identifies system gaps and recommends enhancements to improve accounting and reporting capabilities, and ensures integration between finance systems and other business platforms. The position requires a strong understanding of core accounting processes including GL, AP, AR, fixed assets, cash management, reconciliations, and financial closing. It reviews finance workflows for appropriate segregation of duties and internal controls, identifies control weaknesses and implements automated controls where possible, ensures process changes remain compliant with accounting standards, tax requirements, and company policies, and supports internal and external audit requirements related to systems and finance processes. The role develops and enhances finance dashboards, management reports, and performance metrics; improves the quality, accuracy, accessibility, and timeliness of financial data; implements automated reporting and reconciliation solutions; analyzes finance data to identify trends, anomalies, process bottlenecks, and improvement opportunities; and supports management with reliable financial insights and actionable analytics. The Manager manages finance transformation projects from requirements gathering through implementation and post-go-live stabilization, prepares project plans, timelines, deliverables, KPIs, and status reports, coordinates with Finance, IT, Procurement, HR, Operations, Sales, and external technology partners, manages project risks, dependencies, issues, and change requests, and drives user adoption through training, communication, and change management initiatives. The role develops and maintains detailed SOPs, process maps, RACI matrices, and finance policy documentation, establishes standardized finance processes across departments and business units, defines and monitors process KPIs and service-level metrics, ensures transformation initiatives are properly documented and governed, and conducts periodic reviews to identify additional optimization opportunities. The successful candidate should hold a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related discipline, with CA, ACCA, CMA, CPA, or equivalent highly preferred. The role requires 8–12 years of experience across accounting, finance, finance transformation, process improvement, or digitalization, strong experience managing finance transformation and digitalization projects, proven experience with ERP finance modules and finance process automation, and experience in real estate, construction, property development, infrastructure, or other large-scale organizations, with real estate, construction, property development, infrastructure, or other large-scale organization experience highly preferred. The candidate must have a strong understanding of end-to-end finance and accounting processes and experience with ERP implementation, system upgrades, UAT, process mapping, and business requirements gathering. Key technical competencies include finance transformation and digitalization, accounting process optimization, ERP implementation and optimization, RPA and workflow automation, finance systems and technology, process mapping and re-engineering, internal controls and governance, financial reporting and analytics, data visualization and dashboards, project and change management, business requirements gathering, UAT and system testing, Advanced Microsoft Excel, and Power BI or similar analytics tools. The position offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package, an opportunity to lead strategic finance transformation initiatives within a major real estate organization, exposure to large-scale ERP, automation, analytics, and digitalization projects, a professional and collaborative work environment, strong career growth and leadership development opportunities, and an opportunity to contribute to the continued digital evolution of a major Dubai real estate business.