Senior Reporting Specialist

We're Hiring: Senior Reporting Specialist

Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience Level: Senior

Work Arrangement: Fully Remote

About Us

We are a globally focused organization committed to providing accurate, timely, transparent, and decision-useful reporting across diverse markets and business operations.

Our Finance and Business Intelligence teams collaborate across Accounting, FP&A, Operations, Commercial, Risk, Compliance, Technology, Data, and senior leadership to transform financial and operational information into reliable management reports, dashboards, performance insights, and executive-level decision support.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Reporting Specialist to lead management reporting, financial and operational performance reporting, data analysis, reporting governance, dashboard development, and reporting-process improvement.

The ideal candidate will combine strong analytical and reporting expertise with commercial awareness and attention to data quality. The role will be responsible for producing accurate and insightful reports, maintaining reporting standards, analyzing performance trends, supporting executive decision-making, and improving reporting processes through automation, standardization, and effective use of data and technology.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the preparation and delivery of recurring management, financial, operational, and performance reports.
• Develop accurate, timely, and decision-useful reporting packages for senior management and business leaders.
• Coordinate monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting cycles across relevant functions and business units.
• Establish reporting calendars, deadlines, responsibilities, review processes, and submission requirements.
• Consolidate reporting inputs from Finance, Operations, Commercial, HR, Procurement, Risk, and other business functions.
• Validate reporting submissions for completeness, accuracy, consistency, and logical integrity.
• Perform detailed analysis of financial and operational performance against budgets, forecasts, targets, prior periods, and strategic plans.
• Investigate material variances, unusual movements, trends, and reporting anomalies.
• Prepare management commentary explaining key performance drivers, risks, opportunities, and emerging trends.
• Develop executive dashboards and performance scorecards covering key business and financial indicators.
• Design reporting frameworks aligned with organizational objectives and management requirements.
• Define reporting requirements, data sources, methodologies, business rules, and calculation standards.
• Establish standardized reporting definitions, metrics, KPIs, and performance measures.
• Maintain reporting dictionaries, metric definitions, data specifications, and reporting methodologies.
• Ensure consistent interpretation and presentation of key performance indicators across departments and entities.
• Develop automated reporting solutions using business-intelligence, data-visualization, ERP, and reporting platforms.
• Build and maintain dashboards, interactive reports, management packs, and analytical tools.
• Improve reporting processes through automation, standardization, workflow optimization, and data integration.
• Identify manual reporting activities and recommend opportunities for process simplification and automation.
• Work with Data and Technology teams to improve reporting infrastructure, data pipelines, and system integrations.
• Validate data extracted from ERP, financial systems, CRM, operational platforms, and other source systems.
• Reconcile reporting data to underlying financial and operational records.
• Investigate data inconsistencies and coordinate resolution with data owners and system teams.
• Establish appropriate controls over reporting data, calculations, transformations, and outputs.
• Maintain audit trails and supporting documentation for key reports and performance metrics.
• Ensure reports are produced using approved data sources and controlled methodologies.
• Monitor reporting data quality and establish processes for identifying and correcting data issues.
• Support financial reporting by coordinating with Accounting and FP&A teams on financial results and reporting requirements.
• Support management reporting by integrating financial results with operational and commercial performance indicators.
• Analyze revenue, costs, margins, profitability, productivity, customer performance, working capital, and other relevant business metrics.
• Develop business-unit, product, service, project, customer, geographic, and functional performance reports where applicable.
• Prepare ad hoc analysis and reporting in response to management requests.
• Translate complex data into clear insights, trends, conclusions, and recommendations.
• Produce executive summaries that highlight material issues requiring management attention.
• Support strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting, and business-review processes with relevant reporting and analysis.
• Prepare reporting materials for management meetings, business reviews, performance reviews, and executive presentations.
• Coordinate reporting submissions for board, executive, investor, regulatory, or other stakeholder requirements where applicable.
• Ensure reports comply with applicable internal policies, reporting standards, governance requirements, and confidentiality expectations.
• Manage reporting-related requests, priorities, deadlines, and stakeholder expectations.
• Establish service-level standards for recurring and ad hoc reporting.
• Monitor reporting timeliness, accuracy, completeness, and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Conduct periodic reviews of reporting processes and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Benchmark reporting practices and identify new approaches to improve management information.
• Evaluate emerging reporting, analytics, visualization, automation, and AI-enabled technologies.
• Support implementation and enhancement of reporting, business-intelligence, data-warehouse, and analytics platforms.
• Participate in system implementations, upgrades, migrations, and reporting-transformation projects.
• Develop user acceptance testing requirements for reports, dashboards, calculations, and reporting workflows.
• Validate new or modified reports before deployment into production environments.
• Prepare reporting documentation, process maps, operating procedures, and user guidance.
• Train business users and reporting stakeholders on dashboards, reporting tools, methodologies, and interpretation of key metrics.
• Mentor junior reporting and data-analysis professionals.
• Provide management with regular updates on reporting performance, data-quality issues, reporting risks, automation initiatives, and improvement opportunities.

Key Performance Indicators

• Reporting accuracy
• Reporting timeliness
• Management reporting cycle time
• Monthly reporting completion rate
• Quarterly reporting completion rate
• Annual reporting completion rate
• Report submission compliance
• Data completeness
• Data accuracy
• Data reconciliation accuracy
• Reporting error rate
• Reporting rework rate
• Report correction frequency
• KPI calculation accuracy
• Dashboard accuracy
• Dashboard availability
• Dashboard adoption
• Management-reporting stakeholder satisfaction
• Executive reporting satisfaction
• Variance-analysis completion
• Variance explanation quality
• Reporting request turnaround time
• Ad hoc reporting response time
• Reporting SLA compliance
• Data-quality issue resolution time
• Reporting issue recurrence rate
• Reporting control effectiveness
• Audit-trail completeness
• Reporting documentation completeness
• Reporting methodology compliance
• Metric-definition consistency
• Cross-functional reporting consistency
• Automation adoption
• Manual reporting reduction
• Reporting process efficiency
• Report generation cycle-time reduction
• Reporting cost efficiency
• Business-intelligence platform utilization
• Reporting system uptime
• User acceptance testing completion
• Reporting implementation success
• Reporting transformation benefits
• Continuous-improvement completion
• Reporting training completion
• Reporting governance compliance
• Management decision-support effectiveness

Ideal Candidate

The successful candidate should have strong experience in management reporting, financial reporting, business intelligence, performance analysis, data analytics, FP&A, or reporting operations, preferably within a complex, multinational, commercial, financial, technology, professional-services, or data-driven organization.

The candidate should demonstrate:

• Proven experience managing recurring management and performance-reporting processes.
• Strong understanding of financial and operational reporting principles.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify trends, variances, risks, and performance drivers.
• Experience developing management reports, dashboards, scorecards, and executive reporting packs.
• Strong understanding of KPI development, metric definitions, and performance measurement.
• Experience consolidating reporting information from multiple departments, systems, entities, or business units.
• Strong data-validation, reconciliation, and quality-control capabilities.
• Experience working with ERP, business-intelligence, reporting, data-warehouse, or analytics platforms.
• Advanced spreadsheet and data-analysis capabilities.
• Experience with reporting and visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Qlik, or equivalent platforms.
• Strong understanding of data governance, reporting controls, and information-quality principles