Regional Accountant

Role summary

Regional financial operations

• Manage transactions, general ledgers, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and fixed assets across regional legal entities.
• Oversee vendor payments, supplier accounts, petty cash reconciliation, accurate coding, and timely disbursement.
• Track office expenses and employee reimbursements across regional branches.
• Execute month-end and year-end closes in accordance with IFRS.
• Prepare consolidated financial statements and balance-sheet reconciliations.
• Monitor intercompany transactions, transfer-pricing alignment, and cross-border eliminations.

Compliance, audits, and tax

• Ensure compliance with financial laws, filings, governance standards, and statutory reporting across UAE, KSA, Qatar, Egypt, and Syria.
• Coordinate internal and external audits and act as the primary auditor contact.
• Prepare audit schedules, disclosures, and supporting documentation.
• Manage regional corporate tax, VAT, and applicable withholding-tax compliance and filings.

Treasury and analysis

• Oversee regional bank accounts, cash flows, daily liquidity, and currency conversion or hedging strategies.
• Review payroll postings and vendor payment runs; monitor credit control, receivables aging, and collections.
• Analyze actual expenses and financial outcomes against budgets and forecasts.
• Work with regional office managers and department heads to gather data and resolve accounting variances.
• Maintain and optimize financial software and ERP workflows for data integrity and automated reporting.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline.
• 3–6 years of progressive accounting experience, including 2–3 years overseeing multi-entity regional operations across MENA.
• Hands-on statutory audit experience and high-volume vendor accounts-payable workflows across multiple territories.
• Strong understanding of GCC/MENA regulatory and tax frameworks, including UAE Corporate Tax and VAT and KSA ZATCA regulations.
• In-depth knowledge of IFRS and multi-country accounting practices.

Systems and language skills

• Experience with modern cloud ERP platforms such as Oracle NetSuite, SAP, Zoho Books, or Microsoft Dynamics 365, and advanced Excel.
• Professional fluency in English is required; Arabic fluency is strongly preferred.

Preferred qualifications

• ACCA, CPA, CMA, or equivalent professional qualification is strongly preferred.
• Healthcare technology, SaaS, software, or IT services experience is highly desirable.
• Attention to detail, audit-readiness discipline, analytical problem-solving, cross-border communication and collaboration, and independent work in a fast-paced environment are specified.