Senior Accounts Executive
Role Overview
The Senior Accounts Executive manages day-to-day accounting operations, transactions, reconciliations, payables and receivables, closing activities, reporting support, and financial controls.
The role calls for technical accounting knowledge, commercial awareness, accuracy, compliance, and timely delivery.
Key Skills for This Role
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Work arrangement
- The description states the role is fully remote in the United Arab Emirates.
Role overview
The Senior Accounts Executive manages day-to-day accounting operations, transactions, reconciliations, payables and receivables, closing activities, reporting support, and financial controls.
The role calls for technical accounting knowledge, commercial awareness, accuracy, compliance, and timely delivery.
Accounting operations
- Manage daily accounting entries, general ledger records, payables, receivables, customer collections support, and cash application.
- Prepare journals and supporting documentation; perform bank, customer, supplier, intercompany, and general ledger reconciliations.
- Support close activities with schedules, accruals, prepayments, revenue recognition, expense allocation, and period-end adjustments.
- Monitor aging, cash flow, working capital, expenses, fixed assets, inventory accounting where relevant, and accounting cut-off.
- Prepare management reporting support, financial summaries, variance analysis, and ad hoc analyses.
Controls and collaboration
- Coordinate accounting queries with Procurement, Operations, Sales, Commercial teams, vendors, customers, and related entities.
- Support tax documentation, statutory schedules, internal and external audits, and financial-control reviews.
- Maintain accounting documentation, master data, approval controls, confidentiality, and organized records.
- Support system upgrades, automation, process improvement, procedure documentation, and junior team members.
Experience and accounting knowledge
- The ideal candidate has strong experience in financial accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger, management accounting, finance operations, or commercial accounting.
- Proven experience managing end-to-end accounting activities and knowledge of double-entry bookkeeping and accounting principles.
- Experience with journals, accruals, prepayments, reconciliations, financial schedules, and period-end closing.
- Experience monitoring receivables, payables, working capital, financial controls, and audit support.
- Familiarity with VAT, indirect taxes, and statutory accounting requirements.
Systems and capabilities
- Experience with SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, NetSuite, or equivalent ERP and accounting systems.
- Strong Microsoft Excel proficiency for formulas, reconciliations, reporting, and financial analysis.
- Finance automation, digital accounting tools, or reporting-platform experience is desirable.
- The candidate should demonstrate analytical, communication, organizational, and stakeholder-management skills, attention to detail, and numerical accuracy.
Role scope and performance
The description lists general ledger accuracy, processing and reconciliation accuracy, close timeliness, aging and collections, reporting, control compliance, audit response, data quality, process improvement, and team support among its performance indicators.
The role may provide guidance to junior accounting team members and review selected work.
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