Assistant Director - Accounting

About the Position:

Wynn Al Marjan Island is currently seeking an Assistant Director of Accounting to join our Finance Team.

The primary duties and responsibilities of this role are:

• Lead the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close processes, ensuring reporting is accurate, complete, supported, and delivered within the approved close calendar.
• Prepare and review standalone and consolidated financial statements with IFRS and applicable statutory and internal reporting requirements.
• Own the consolidation process, including intercompany reconciliations, elimination entries, foreign currency considerations, and review of reporting packages.
• Prepare statements of cash flows, including reconciliation of movements in cash and cash equivalents.
• Oversee the general ledger and ensure that journal entries, accruals, prepayments, allocations, and account reconciliations are properly prepared, reviewed, approved, and retained.
• Maintain balance sheet integrity through timely completion and review of detailed account reconciliations, supporting schedules, aging analyses, and resolution of reconciling items.
• Review fixed asset accounting, including construction-in-progress reviews, capitalization assessments, componentization, asset transfers, disposals, impairment considerations, useful-life reviews, and depreciation.
• Ensure appropriate classification of capital and operating expenditure, particularly during the transition from pre-opening development activity to post-opening operations.
• Prepare and analyze financial statements, management reports, income statements, balance sheets, cash flow statements, and key account movements for Finance leadership.
• Develop and maintain accounting policies, procedures, and close controls aligned with IFRS, corporate requirements, and operational needs.
• Coordinate with Accounts Payable, Payroll, Treasury, Tax, Procurement, FP&A, IT, and operating departments to ensure complete and accurate accounting.
• Responsible for the completion of statutory, internal, and regulatory audits by coordinating information requests, preparing schedules, resolving audit queries, and implementing agreed actions.
• Drive process improvements, standardization, automation, and reduction of manual journals and spreadsheet-dependent activities.
• Provide technical accounting guidance on complex transactions and prepare accounting position papers and memoranda when required.
• Lead, mentor, and develop the accounting team, establish clear responsibilities, and create succession and cross-training plans for critical activities.
• Perform any other duties and responsibilities assigned by senior Finance management.
• Build effective working relationships with operational departments, banks, auditors, tax advisers, consultants, and Group Finance teams.
• Promote a culture of accountability, accuracy, service, confidentiality, and continuous improvement within the Finance function.
• Ensure financial information is handled in accordance with company policies, delegated authorities, and data-confidentiality requirements.
• Support the resort s transition to post-opening operations by ensuring accounting processes, resources, systems, and controls are scalable for increased transaction volumes.