Primary Responsibility and Accountability

• Perform day to day accounting duties.
• Manage journal entries and ensure proper general ledger transactions in support of monthly closings.
• Assist with monthly and yearly closing process including financial analysis and financial reporting.
• Prepare timely and accurate monthly reconciliations of balance sheet accounts, including cash, advances, prepaid expenses, deposits, fixed assets, deferred costs, and deferred liabilities, accrued expenses, and other accounts as needed.
• Assist in the development and maintenance on accounting system that records and reports all financial transactions per generally accepted accounting principles.
• Follow documentation retention policy to maintain accounting files.
• Support Auditor in conducting internal and external audits.
• Handle Fixed assets transactions, maintain fixed assets register and run monthly depreciation.
• Assemble, review, and verify invoices and payment requests.
• Review and verify the service invoices, expenses claims and payments requests to ensure the operations continuity.
• Review invoices and requisitions for satisfactory payment approval.
• Maintain copies of vouchers, invoices or correspondence necessary for files.
• Match purchase orders to invoices and enter invoices into the system.
• Address and respond to vendor/supplier inquiries.
• Keep a track record of cash inflow and outflow into and from the bank respectively.
• Analyze daily bank deposits to identify any discrepancies.
• Reconcile all group bank accounts daily and ensuring all receipts and payments are posted correctly to the accounts and that any unknown items are resolved and posted promptly.
• Prepare monthly bank reconciliations in a timely manner.

Job Competencies

Functional Competence
• Familiarity with financial and accounting statements.
• Solid understanding of basic bookkeeping and accounting principles.
• Excellent data entry skills.
• In-depth product knowledge.
• Commercial awareness partnered with a strategic mindset.
• Solid knowledge of performance reporting and financial/budgeting processes.

Core Competence
• Excellent verbal and written skills.
• Accuracy and attention to details.
• Strong analytical abilities.
• Ability to multi-task, meet firm deadlines, proactively prioritize needs, and effectively manage priorities.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Able to delegate tasks and supervise others.
• Ability to provide strong customer service.

Qualifications
. Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, or any relevant field.
. 3 to 5 years of experience
. CMA or CPA are highly recommended.
. Solid working knowledge of MS Office and ERP systems.
. English and Arabic are a must, in addition to prevailing local language