Finance Assistant - UAE National
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About This Role
Overview
Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives.
Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest.
Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.
Key Responsibilities
The role will be working within the Shared Service function, supporting the Accounts Payable team.
The successful candidate should have an accounting background and a desire to pursue a career in Finance & Accounting.
Experience
is an advantage but not essential as we will provide training.
This successful candidate will be a strong team player but will also be required to work on their own initiative when needing to manage unusual and ad-hoc requirements.
More important attributes for the role are enthusiasm, communication, personality, and an ability to contribute to business improvements.
Accounts Payable
- Confirm purchase orders have been goods receipted
- Matching invoices and purchase orders
- Ensuring all invoices received are recorded on the invoice register and digital copies are saved on the server for record keeping purposes.
- Follow up with Purchase Order creators and resolution of workflow issues.
- Ad Hoc tasks related to the efficient processing of supplier invoices
- Bi-weekly processing of employee expense claims.
- Assisting employees in the resolution of any expense claim related issues.
- Supplier reconciliation, payments and allocation
- Upload bank payments and obtain necessary approvals
- Petty cash posting and reconciliation
- Other ad-hoc tasks as required
Compliance
- Support internal and external audits by providing required AP documentation
- Ensure AP processes adhere to internal controls and company
- Identify process gaps and recommend improvements in payment and reconciliation procedures
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or commerce.
- 0-1 years of experience in accounts payable
- Fluency in Microsoft Office suite (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.)
- Must be a UAE national.
Core Behavioral Skills
- The successful candidates will possess the following characteristics:
- Strong numeracy and analytical skills with the ability to investigate and interrogate data
- Shows initiative and can work independently on assigned tasks
- Be a team player. The team support each and work together where requirements can be simultaneous and conflicting. The ability to work with the team, agree the priorities and manage time pressures are key.
- Have good interpersonal skills with ability to communicate well with all levels within the organization
- Must be comfortable with working in a fast-moving, dynamic environment
- Month end closing must adhere to group reporting deadlines and therefore it’s time challenging and pressurized period
- Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects:
*It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process.
No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.*
*Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees.
In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.*
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