Senior Officer, Business Conduct Assurance (Finance)
Summary of the Role:
Verify accuracy, compliance, and documentation of financial processes in SAP. Responsibilities include reviewing transactions, verifying cost allocations, validating workflows, and supporting finance audits across procure-to-pay (P2P) , record-to-report (R2R) , and order-to-cash (O2C) cycles .Focus areas include journal entries, supplier reconciliations and CapEx/OpEx classifications.
Key Roles:
- Develop annual verification plan, finalize Key Risk Areas to be verified - based on latest 5-year ADNOC Offshore Business Plan, Level 1 KPIs, Previous Verification Findings, Risk Register etc.
- Lead and manage Finance related Compliance Verifications:
o Review SAP-based transactions, including Pos, invoices, GRNs, payments and cost allocations.
o Perform anomaly detection in financial transactions and initiate required deep reviews or investigations, supporting early identification of irregularities or potential fraud in a professional manner.
o Confirm 3-way match accuracy (PO-GRN-Invoice) and investigate exceptions or manual overrides.
o Verify the compliance with accounting standards and the guidelines issued.
o Evaluate the budgeting process, evaluate the division's performance over the years.
o Evaluate document management and preservation.
o Assess the appropriateness of cost allocations, overhead recovery, and interdepartmental charges.
o Ensure compliance with internal controls, corporate finance policies, and audit frameworks.
o Identify duplicate entries, overpayments, unbudgeted spend, or non-compliant financial activity.
o Support the audit trail process, working with finance, procurement, and operations teams.
Key Challenges:
- Visibility and traceability of financial transactions across multiple divisions, departments and systems.
- Dealing with incomplete or delayed documentation from stakeholders.
- Coordinating with multiple stakeholders for timely access to data and clarifications.
Key Success Factors:
- Strong functional expertise in SAP financial workflows and reporting.
- Attention to detail and ability to identify inconsistencies or anomalies in financial data.
- Clear understanding of business and ERP controls, ensuring actionable recommendations.
- Strong understanding of financial controls and risk.
- Effective communication with finance and non-finance teams.
- Conduct financial verifications for select business units, divisions or cost centers based on risk or audit plans.
- Validate cost allocations, budget utilization, and CapEx entries.
- Prepare clear verification reports, highlighting issues, gaps, and suggested remediation.
- Build rapport with finance, procurement, and operational teams to streamline data access and clarification.
- Identify opportunities for automation or efficiency improvements in the financial verification process.
Contribute to improving checklists, templates, and SAP-based verification dashboards in coordination with digital/automation teams.
Progression to roles such as Senior Finance Verifier, Internal Auditor - Finance, Financial Controls Lead, or Finance Compliance Officer.
Potential transition into Risk & Assurance, FP&A, Corporate Governance, or Business Process Improvement functions.