Group Accounting Manager
The Group Accounting Manager is responsible for end-to-end group accounting, consolidation, statutory reporting, and audit management across a multi-entity, multi-country manufacturing and services group. The role ensures full compliance with IFRS, ADGM / DIFC regulations, tax governance frameworks, and internal control standards, while acting as a key interface between Accounting, Tax, ERP, and FP&A functions.
Key Responsibilities & Authorities
1. Group Accounting & Consolidation
- Manage group-wide accounting operations (GL, AP, AR, FA, inventory accounting, intercompany).
- Prepare and review monthly, quarterly, and annual consolidated financial statements under IFRS.
- Lead group consolidation, including elimination entries, foreign currency translation, and consolidation adjustments.
- Ensure consistent application of group accounting policies across all subsidiaries.
- Oversee statutory financial statements for all group entities.
- Ensure compliance with ADGM filing requirements, Companies Regulations, and economic substance rules.
- Coordinate filings, board packs, and shareholder-ready financial disclosures.
- Act as the single point of contact for external auditors at group and entity levels.
- Manage annual statutory audits.
- Review audit findings, close audit points, and strengthen internal controls.
- Prepare audit-ready schedules, disclosures, and technical accounting papers.
- Act as business owner for ERP finance modules across the group.
- Ensure correct chart of accounts, cost centres, project accounting, and intercompany setup.
- Lead accounting involvement in ERP upgrades, rollouts, and process automation.
- Strengthen controls, workflows, and segregation of duties within ERP systems.
- Interface closely with FP&A on:
- Actuals vs Budget analysis
- Margin analysis (project, product, and service lines)
- Cost allocation and overhead absorption
- Ensure accounting outputs are accurate, timely, and aligned with management reporting needs.
- Support business planning, forecasts, and long-term financial models from an accounting integrity perspective.
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or Commerce.
- Professional qualification mandatory CA / ACCA / CPA / CMA.
- 10–15 years of progressive experience in group accounting and audit.
- Proven experience in multi-entity, multi-country consolidation
- Proven experience in Manufacturing + services environments
- Proven experience in Project-based accounting and inventory accounting
- Strong exposure to Big 4 or equivalent audit environments (either in practice or as client lead).
- Advanced knowledge of IFRS, consolidation, intercompany accounting, and audit requirements.
- Hands-on experience with ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, or equivalent).
- Strong understanding of tax-accounting interaction (without being a tax preparer).
- Excellent Excel and financial reporting skills.
- Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills.
- High attention to detail with audit-grade discipline.
- Ability to operate confidently at board, auditor, and senior management level.
- Structured, process-driven, and deadline-oriented mindset.
Physical and Mental Requirements:
- Lifting and Carrying: Ability to lift and carry up to 50 pounds.
- Mobility: Must be able to walk and climb to perform duties, including maneuvering within a refinery or plant environment and accessing elevated platforms via ladders and stairwells.
- Communication: Sufficient clarity of speech and hearing, or other communication capabilities, to communicate effectively.
- Focus and Multitasking: Ability to maintain focus and multitask effectively.
- Safety Equipment: Must be able to wear safety equipment as required by the safety department for personal protection, if/where needed in manufacturing environments.
- Personal Mobility and Reflexes: Sufficient personal mobility and physical reflexes, with or without reasonable accommodations, to perform office duties and travel to off-site locations when necessary.
About PIPECARE Group:
PIPECARE Group offers comprehensive In-Line Inspection Services to identify and size pipeline threats, Utilizing advanced technologies such as Magnetic Flux Leakage, Transverse Field Inspection, Ultrasound, and specialized tools, PIPECARE ensures precise detection and assessment of various pipeline anomalies.
What we do:
In-Line Inspection Services
PIPECARE provides In-Line Inspection Services to locate, identify, and size threats, supporting integrity management requirements.
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Inspection Technologies
Magnetic Flux Leakage (MFL): Detects and sizes general corrosion and metal loss anomalies, especially circumferentially oriented.
Transverse Field Inspection (TFI): Detects and sizes general corrosion and metal loss anomalies, primarily axially oriented.
Ultrasound (UT): Detects and sizes general and other metal loss anomalies with high depth sizing accuracy.
Ultrasonic Crack Detection: Detects and sizes cracks and colonies of cracks.
Caliper (Geometry): Detects and sizes deviations in the ideal circular shape of a pipeline (dents, ovalities, wrinkles, etc.).
Specialized Tools and Technologies
Combo Tools: Use multiple measurement systems in various combinations.
Specialized Tubing Technologies: Designed for Furnace and Downhole Operations.
Equal Opportunity Employer: We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.