Financial Specialist

Roles and responsibilities

This role is responsible for the day-to-day management and execution of financial and regulatory communications activities to ensure all reporting obligations for ADNOC L&S as a listed entity are fulfilled. Managing reputational risks and ensuring positioning opportunities are maximised are also part of the remit.

Reporting obligations include quarterly and annual earnings announcements and management presentations; regulatory announcements relating to the AGM and the release of material information and ad hoc company updates; and the release and positioning of corporate reports including the Annual Report, Sustainability Report and Governance Report.

This role is suited to someone with a background in corporate or financial communications with experience in internal and external stakeholder and media relations, ideally at a listed entity. It requires someone who can gain the trust of senior leaders and work effectively across teams to generate materially sensitive company information.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Maintaining a calendar of financial and regulatory communications obligations
• Drafting materials to support financial and regulatory communication obligations
• Working with a network of L&S business as well as finance, corporate communications and legal functional colleagues to align and secure the approval of draft materials
• Managing the release of approved materials to external stakeholders, including the media
• Working with IR to manage quarterly and annual earning calls and answering questions from the media
• Ensuring alignment with broader internal audiences, as appropriate
• Identifying ongoing reputation risks and opportunities and escalating where necessary
• Supporting senior leaders ahead of external engagements
• Managing agency support when it is required
  

Generic Accountabilities

Supervision

• Plan, supervise and coordinate all activities in the assigned area to meet functional objectives.
• Train and develop the assigned staff on relevant skills to enable them to become proficient on the job and deliver the respective section objectives.
  

Budgets

• Provide input for preparation of the Section / Department budgets and assist in the implementation of the approved Budget and work plans to deliver Section objectives.
• Investigate and highlight any significant variances to support effective performance and cost control

Desired candidate profile

Policies, Systems, Processes & Procedures

• Implement approved Section / Department policies, processes, systems, standards and procedures in order to support execution of the Section’s / Department work programs in line with Company and International standards.
  

Performance Management

• Contribute to the achievement of the approved Performance Objectives for the Section / Department in line with the Company Performance framework.
  

Innovation and Continuous Improvement

• Design and implement new tools and techniques to improve the quality and efficiency of operational processes.
• Identify improvements in internal processes against best practices in pursuit of greater efficiency in line with ISO standards in order to define intelligent solutions for issues confronting the function.
  

Health, Safety, Environment (HSE) and Sustainability

• Comply with relevant HSE policies, procedures & controls and applicable legislation and sustainability guidelines in line with international standards, best practices and ADNOC Code of Practices.
  

Reports

• Provide inputs to prepare Section MIS and progress reports for Company Management.
  

QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS:

Minimum Qualification

Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration or other relevant degree