UAE Finance OPUS Lead

UAE Finance OPUS Lead job Dubai Magnum
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UAE OPUS Finance Lead
Location: Dubai
Terms & Conditions: Fixed Term 12 months
The Magnum Ice Cream Company (formerly a division of Unilever) is now a standalone, independent, EUR 7.9 billion publicly listed company. We’re on a mission to create the ultimate snacking company. A place where growth, innovation, founder and ownership mentality, and performance are cultivated and rewarded. And where we craft extraordinary ice cream experiences – transforming ordinary moments into lasting memories. Because we know, life tastes better with ice cream.
We dream big but keep things simple to act fast.If you want to grow with us, make an impact, and shape the future of Ice Cream, this is the place for you!

Job Details at a Glance

UAE Finance OPUS Lead job Dubai Magnum – Job Purpose

The UAE OPUS Finance Lead ensures that the UAE market remains fully compliant with all statutory, regulatory, financial reporting, and operational Finance requirements throughout the OPUS (ERP) deployment. The role validates global design and configuration decisions against both Category Finance and Local Controllership needs, safeguarding financial accuracy, compliance, and business continuity.

Key Responsibilities

• Validate global Finance Category design (FP&A, credit management, revenue reporting, management reporting) against UAE business, statutory and regulatory requirements.
• Serve as the key authority evaluating global fittostandard decisions for statutory, tax, controls, financial reporting, and compliance needs.
• Coordinate with UAE SMEs to ensure all Finance requirements (Category & Controllership) are captured and aligned with global design.
• Consolidate and raise statutory, reporting and Category driven localisation requests to global design teams.
• Act as the single point of contact for finance related localisation, data migration, and exception routing.
• Assess and escalate compliance driven deviations when global processes do not align with UAE obligations.
• Own system integration testing and data migration activities for Finance Category and statutory processes.
• Lead and execute local UAT for all Category Finance and Controllership scenarios, ensuring they meet UAE requirements.
• Drive issue resolution during SIT and UAT with wave and global teams.
• Provide dedicated onsite support during cutover and go live to secure a smooth transition to the new OPUS system.
• Take full ownership of hyper care for Finance, handling user queries, resolving issues, and escalating critical incidents.
• Coordinate closely with Country Finance to ensure post deployment accuracy, compliance, and stability.
• Act as the primary interface between Category Finance, the Local Finance Controller Lead, global design teams, and wave deployment teams.
• Ensure close alignment with Country Finance on statutory and reporting decisions.

What You Need To Succeed

Minimum Requirements

• Qualified accountant or equivalent experience with strong understanding of UAE statutory, tax and regulatory Finance frameworks, plus Category Finance processes (FP&A, credit management, revenue reporting, management reporting).
• Ability to assess global design vs. UAE statutory and compliance obligations and identify localisation needs.
• Experience coordinating inputs from Category Finance and other local SMEs.
• Strong analytical and documentation skills; structured communication and discipline in validation activities.
• Resilience and agility to support SIT, UAT, cutover and hypercare.
• Working knowledge of SAP and Finance ERP systems; understanding of management reporting tools (e.g., BW).

Preferred Requirements

• Experience in finance transformation, ERP deployment, or process standardisation.
• Hands-on experience supporting UAT, cutover readiness and hypercare resolution.
• Strong problem solving skills to assess statutory and reporting impacts and escalate localisation needs.
• Ability to influence and collaborate across global, wave, and local Finance teams.
• Knowledge of Unilever Finance systems or similar global ERP and reporting platforms.

What You Can Expect

• A unique mix of global scale & start-up spirit—€7.9 bn powerhouse with an agile, entrepreneurial mindset.
• Career without limits—42 markets, international opportunities, and fast tracked growth.
• A performance-driven culture—Freedom to act, disrupt and grow – your success is measured by impact.
• A company that celebrates joy, innovation, and purpose.

About The Magnum Ice Cream Company

With 19.000 expert ice cream colleagues and iconic brands like Wall’s, Cornetto and Ben & Jerry’s, loved in 76 countries, we are the world’s largest Ice Cream company leading the industry We have been taking pleasure seriously for more than 100 years, serving happiness with every lick or scoop of ice cream for generations.
The Magnum Ice Cream Company (formerly part of Unilever) is all about growth. Growing our business. Growing our customers’ businesses. Growing our people’s careers. Growth begins with empowerment. So we free our people to be innovative, responsible entrepreneurs, driven and equipped to give our consumers more amazing products and unforgettable moments – and having fun doing it.
We are all about growth
We operate with speed and simplicity
We win together with fun
We boldly innovate to disrupt our industry
We care and challenge
We are experts in the Ice Cream Category

Quick Summary

• Company: The Magnum Ice Cream Company
• Role: UAE Finance OPUS Lead
• Location: Dubai
• Contract: 12 months
• Industry: FMCG Finance
• Experience: ERP / Finance leadership

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The Magnum Ice Cream Company embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.
For the recruitment of this position, we would like to emphasize that local conditions apply to the position
Disclaimer
Equal Opportunity Employer: The Magnum Ice Cream Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
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