Finance Associate - MENA Region

Role overview

Invoice compliance and review

• Review invoices against MENA country rules, including KSA ZATCA Phase 2, UAE FTA, Egypt ETA, and Qatar QR standards.
• Validate invoice format, currency, language, tax identifiers, QR codes, purchase orders, and contracts; flag noncompliant invoices for correction.

Collections and disputes

• Contact customers with outstanding invoices, monitor accounts receivable aging, escalate delinquent accounts, and maintain collection records.
• Update client account statuses, collect withholding-tax certificates where applicable, report portfolio health, and assist with payment-blocking disputes.

Sales and client finance coordination

• Coordinate billing holds, disputes, and collection escalations with MSCI Sales and support new-client billing setup.
• Liaise with client Finance and Accounts Payable teams to confirm invoice receipt, resolve discrepancies, and maintain current billing requirements and contacts.
• Obtain global deal billing allocations and build relationships with client finance counterparts to reduce invoice rejections and accelerate collections.

Regional compliance and reporting

• Coordinate Billing and Collections updates, credit memos, adjustments, rebillings, and periodic accounts receivable reviews.
• Monitor MENA e-invoicing, VAT, digital tax, withholding, and exemption rules and maintain audit trails.
• Maintain billing and collections trackers, aging summaries, dispute logs, and compliance reports; support month-end close and reconciliation.

Process improvement

• Identify inefficiencies in the billing-to-collections workflow and propose improvements.
• Support billing tool and e-invoicing platform rollouts and maintain a country-specific MENA billing reference guide.

Skills and experience

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business.
• At least five years of accounts receivable, billing, or collections experience.
• Experience across MENA markets and strong knowledge of KSA and UAE billing and collections requirements.
• Hands-on experience with ZATCA and UAE VAT invoicing requirements.
• Fluency in English and Arabic; proficiency in SAP.
• The source description ends mid-qualification after “familiarity with Sal”, so the remaining text is unavailable.