Job description

Main Accountabilities

As Senior GL Accountant you will work from the Beirut office and take on the senior role within the GL department reporting to the Group Reporting Manager. In this role you will provide support to the Finance Shared Service team and be responsible for the accounting from A to Y of more than 30 legal entities within the EMEA Region.

This is a hands-on role in which you will perform the following accountabilities:

• Review journal entries on a timely basis and in accordance with our accounting guidelines;
• Record and review the necessary provisions and accruals;
• Review FX revaluations for vendors, customers, banks and general ledger account entries
• Review FA depreciation
• Review bank reconciliations for our subsidiaries;
• Review vendor/customer balance reconciliations;
• Review intercompany transactions per company policy, included intercompany loans;
• Review intercompany reconciliations and perform root cause analysis;
• Monthly review and reconciliations of other balance sheet accounts, such as inventory, goods received not invoiced, fixed assets, …
• Review the monthly and yearly closing and monitor the monthly closing process;
• Contact local finance teams to resolve issues and discuss monthly closing;
• Ensure that monthly team KPI’s are met and improved to ensure a continuous improvement in our business processes;
• Ensure all business policies and processes are followed to comply with internal controls, segregation of duties, delegation of authority;
• Assist in continuously improving our processes and in optimising our ERP system
• Assist local finance teams when migrating to D365 and support them in testing the set-up of the processes and the resulting reporting;
• Assist in implementing new tools to further automate our accounting processes;
• Assist in reporting on compliance with Group Rules
• Assist in audit processes;
• Any ad hoc project or process request.