Senior Accountant

Role overview

Accounting and inventory responsibilities

• Maintain accounting for raw materials, work in progress, finished goods, scrap, rework, and write-offs.
• Reconcile warehouse and production records with ERP and accounting records; investigate discrepancies across physical stock, production, warehouse, and accounting data.
• Account for landed costs on imported raw materials, including freight, customs duties, clearance, and related charges.
• Participate in stock and cycle counts, investigate differences, and prepare adjustment proposals.
• Maintain standard and actual carbon production costing; analyze material, labor, and overhead variances.
• Prepare cost reports by product, order, batch, or production line.
• Support accounting for production equipment, tools, repairs, maintenance costs, and depreciation.

Close, compliance, and controls

• Own monthly department close, including period cut-off, accruals, goods received not invoiced, inventory reconciliation, cost of goods sold review, and management reporting.
• Maintain audit-ready and tax-ready UAE VAT and Corporate Tax records for inventory, imports, cost of sales, and supporting documents.
• Improve procedures, checklists, and controls over inventory, costing, and month-end closing.
• Explain production costs and accounting logic to non-finance managers; document processes so the function does not depend on one person.

Required qualifications

• At least 5 years of accounting experience, including at least 2 years in manufacturing, production, workshop, inventory-heavy, or job-costing environments.
• UAE accounting experience is mandatory.
• Hands-on experience with inventory accounting, work in progress, cost of goods sold, stock counts, write-offs, and cost allocation.
• Strong understanding of production cost accounting and inventory control.
• Experience with an ERP or accounting system with inventory modules, such as QuickBooks, Zoho, Xero, Odoo, SAP Business One, or similar.
• Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills, including pivot tables, lookups, reconciliations, and data validation.
• Able to bring incomplete or inconsistent data to accounting logic and challenge unreconciled warehouse and production figures.
• Detail-oriented, structured, proactive, independent, and able to build controls and procedures without constant supervision.
• Good English language skills.

Advantageous experience

• Automotive parts, composite materials, carbon fiber, manufacturing, workshop, project-based, or job-order costing experience is advantageous.
• Experience building accounting processes from scratch or improving weak accounting controls is advantageous.

Working conditions

• Full-time, office-based role in Port Saeed, Dubai, UAE; work is in person.
• Duty timings are 10:00–19:00; reports to the Chief Financial Officer.

Pay

• Pay is AED 8,000–10,000 per month.