Accountant - French Speaker

Job description / Role

Responsible for booking of the entries in the ERP system Accounting Software for the assigned field. Ensuring ledgers are reconciled to General Ledger for the assigned entities.


Financial Reporting:
- Preparation of monthly journal entries in a timely and accurate manner
- Perform complex monthly reconciliations of general ledger accounts
- Review of balance sheet transactions to ensure accuracy, sufficient documentation and ensure all balances are properly supported, and record correct entries as required
- Bank reconciliation
- Prepare monthly provision of accrued expenses

Accounts payable / Purchasing:
- Make online payments
- Complete payments and control expenses by receiving, processing, verifying and reconciling invoices/payslips
- Process invoices including data entry, match invoices and validate approvals
- Resolve AP invoice problems
- Schedule tasks to ensure compliance to deadline
- Ensure subsidiary ledgers on accounts payable, agree to the general ledger
- Respond to inquiries from vendors and operations
- Audit expenses reports
- Vendor set up and maintenance
- Verify all requests as per company credit facilities and policies
- Process payments
- Booking of taxes (VAT, WHT, Corporate tax..)
- calculating, preparing and submitting accounts and tax returns in a timely manner
- Prepare and update tax provision schedules
- Maintains the Company's tax calendar to ensure that all filing and payment requirements are met in a timely manner

Accounts receivable / Invoicing / Sales:
- Maintain an updated list of Outstanding Receivable and follow up past due invoices through calls, emails or personal visits
- Make a monthly reconciliation of AR and generate a report for upper management
- Accomplish accounting and organization by completing related results as needed

Staff salary process:
- Monitoring of expenses claims and leaves for employees
- Liaise with HR department for preparation of the payroll for the staff
- Payslip processing
- WPS processing
- Monthly payroll booking and reconciliation
- Assisting on extensive external audit
- Knowledge of UAE labor laws

Others:
- Set up of new ledgers on the ERP
- Any other tasks that may be assigned by Payroll and Accounts Manager.

Requirements

- Bachelor in Accounting or in Business Administration.
- French Speaker
- Minimum 3 years experience in Finance / Accounting position in similar organizations.

Skills Required :
- High organization and confidentiality
- Attention to detail, thoroughness, analytic and communication skills
- Honesty, reliability
- PC proficiency, data entry skills
- Stress and time management

About the Company

Our Group, MPH, founded in 1985, currently has over 800 consultants worldwide providing personnel to the Oil & Gas Industry Onshore and Offshore, Naval Construction, Nuclear Industry, Health, Safety & Environment and Water Treatment.

MPH specializes in providing specific personnel for key projects & senior engineering / construction disciplines such as:

• Engineering (basic and detailed multidisciplines)
• PMC Engineering / Construction Services
• Project Management for major EPC contracts
• Construction Management and various construction disciplines.
• Commissioning, Start-up / Production
• Marine Operations
• Maintenance and shut-down Operations
• Health, Safety & Environment
• IT, Change Management

Our current personnel may be mobilized rapidly for the various projects in hand worldwide. Our Companies are dedicated to international projects.