Senior Officer, Business Conduct Assurance (Finance)
Job description / Role
Employment: Full Time
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:
- Review SAP-based transactions, including POs, invoices, GRNs, payments, and cost allocations.
- 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.
- Confirm 3-way match accuracy (PO-GRN-Invoice) and investigate exceptions or manual overrides.
- Verify compliance with accounting standards and the guidelines issued.
- Evaluate the budgeting process and the division's performance over the years.
- Evaluate document management and preservation.
- Assess the appropriateness of cost allocations, overhead recovery, and interdepartmental charges.
- Ensure compliance with internal controls, corporate finance policies, and audit frameworks.
- Identify duplicate entries, overpayments, unbudgeted spend, or non-compliant financial activity.
- 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.
- Navigating complex SAP transactional flows and custom workflows across business units.
- 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.
- Timely and accurate reporting of verification findings and recommended actions.
- 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.
Career progression:
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.
About the Company
We are one of the world's leading energy producers, and a primary catalyst for Abu Dhabi’s growth and diversification.
We operate across the entire hydrocarbon value chain, through a network of fully-integrated businesses, with interests that range from exploration, production, storage, refining and distribution, to the development of a wide-range of petrochemical products.
Since 1971, we have created thousands of jobs, driven the growth of a diverse knowledge-based economy, and played a key role in Abu Dhabi’s global emergence.
Today, we continue to look for new and innovative ways to maximize the value of our resources, pioneering those approaches and technologies that will ensure we are able to meet the demands of an ever-changing energy market, and continue to have a positive impact on the Abu Dhabi economy for generations to come.
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