Senior Accountant

Role Objective

Key Accountabilities

• Ensures the integrity of accounting information by recording, verifying, consolidating, and entering transactions
• Manage invoicing to external clients
• Ensures vendors payments are in accordance with company policies
• Prepares and records asset, liability, revenue, and expenses entries by compiling and analyzing account information
• Reconciles bank accounts, maintains, and balances subsidiary accounts by verifying, allocating, posting, and reconciling transactions and resolving discrepancies
• Summarizes financial status by collecting information and preparing balance sheet, profit and loss, and other statements
• Coordinate month-end and year end closing activities and ability to prepare financial and cash forecasts
• Experience in VAT registrations and VAT filings
• Protects organization’s value by keeping information confidential
• Ensure the CRM system, company compliance, Know Your Client (KYC) and Anti Money Laundering (AML) processes and filing systems are updated for all client projects

Key responsibilities

• Preparing financial statements
• Assessing internal controls, including risk assessments and reviews of risk areas
• Performing monthly balance sheet, income statement and changes in financial position/budget variance analyses
• Assisting in the design and preparation of budgets for review by management
• Maintaining and reconciling fixed assets schedules
• Update financial spreadsheets with daily transactions
• Prepare balance sheets
• Track and reconcile bank statements
• Create cost analysis reports (fixed and variable costs)
• Support monthly payroll and keep organized records
• Record accounts payable and accounts receivable
• Process invoices and follow up with clients, suppliers and partners as needed
• Provide administrative support during budget preparation
• Participate in quarterly and annual audits
• Drafts, follows, and completes all company Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and requirements in the UAE, KSA and respective jurisdictions in alignment with the regulations of CBC and the authorities
• Develop and sustains valuable relationships between CBC and all clients and stakeholders

Experience and Education

• Degree qualified in accounting or finance
• 5-10 years’ experience in accounting or finance
• Preferable 2+ years working in corporate services or professional services within UAE and or KSA
• Proven operational, project management and customer support record for 3 years
• Proficiency in Advanced Excel skills, MS Office, and CRM software (e.g., Zoho Books)
• Experience in working with multiple legal entities under different legal umbrellas
• Experience with financial reporting requirements
• UAE, Saudi Arabia and wider GCC market knowledge