Mid-Senior Accountant

Overview

Mid-Senior Accountant

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Departmen

Key Responsibilities

• Record daily accounting transactions in ERP accurately and timely
• Post journal entries and maintain general ledger
• Process AP, AR, and employee reimbursements
• Perform bank, payroll, intercompany, and balance sheet reconciliations
• Support month-end and year-end closing (accruals, prepayments, schedules)
• Assist in VAT and Corporate Tax support (reconciliations & documentation)
• Support payroll accounting entries and validation
• Assist in audits by preparing reconciliations and supporting documents
• Maintain proper accounting records and documentation
• Identify discrepancies and assist in resolving accounting issues
• Support management reporting when required and handle issue resolution effectively

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
• 4–7 years of accounting experience in the UAE
• Strong bookkeeping and general ledger experience
• Hands-on experience in reconciliations and month-end closing
• ERP experience (D365 / FOCUS preferred)
• Good Excel skills (formulas, lookups, pivots)
• Basic knowledge of UAE VAT; exposure to Corporate Tax is a plus
• Detail-oriented, disciplined, and ownership-driven
• Not limited to HRMS execution (SAP/Oracle/D365 etc. is secondary)
• Must be able to challenge system outputs, not just process them
• Must understand how payroll decisions impact finance, billing, and compliance simultaneously
• Strong ability to work with Finance, Operations, and Legal teams on payroll design and controls

Core Profile Required

• The ideal candidate must operate beyond HR software execution and demonstrate:
• Deep understanding of
• payroll computation methodology
• , not just system processing (gross-to-net logic, accruals, retro, end-of-service, benefits impact)
• Strong grasp of
• labor law implications on payroll structures
• (UAE labor law + contract frameworks + compliance impact)
• Ability to interpret payroll as a
• financial model
• , including cost allocation, provisions, accruals, and P&L impact
• Experience in
• manpower / staffing industry
• , preferably handling both
• blue-collar and high-volume white-collar payroll structures
• Understanding of
• billing impact of payroll
• (cost-to-client mapping, recharge models, margin sensitivity, utilization vs cost)
• Ability to identify and control
• payroll vs revenue leakage risks
• Experience in handling
• complex payroll structures across multiple entities or client

Industry Fit

• Manpower / staffing / Oil & Gas/ Construction/ Outsourcing / shared services environment preferred