Accounting Manager

Job description / Role

The Accounting Manager reports to the Chief Financial Officer and is responsible for managing and building a competent Accounting and Administration function that is based on quality and timeliness.
The responsibilities include Accounting, Financial and Operational Reporting as well as the Administration part of Human Resources. Initially the Accounting Manager should be willing and able to perform the activities himself, but should have the capabilities to grow with the company.
The Accounting Manager is responsible for developing and maintaining good relations with External Financial related parties, be it financing partners, Auditors and Vendors to positively influence the funding of the business development.
The Accounting Manager responsibilities include;
• To manage all accounting activities (Payroll, Asset, Vendor payment, etc.) including maintaining the Company books of accounts ensuring that financial and accounting information is accurate, produced on time and to agreed quality standards.
• To develop and implement systems and procedures that meet the Company’s accounting requirements including consistency and compliance with International Accounting Standards and Board requirements.
• To ensure the accurate consolidation of the various books of accounts and proper reconciliation towards Dealer & Revenue systems.
• To set guideline for Daughter companies and ensure accurate and timely consolidation of their results.
• To monitor and follow-up on trends and developments within the Company that poses risks and/or opportunities.
• To ensure a precise and correct financial and operational reporting including forecasts to both internal and external parties.
• To setup and monitor Internal Controls & Authorization rules within the Companies
• To monitor and follow-up on trends and developments within the Company that poses risks and/or opportunities.

Requirements

The successful candidate is CPA qualified from a recognised professional body with 8 to 10 years post graduation experience and minimum 3 to 4 years of experience in a management role with overall responsibility of the complete accounting function.

The candidate has in-depth understanding of different account principles and has the experience to take the company on to the stock exchange via an IPO.

Experience from a mobile operator would be a benefit.

The Personality of the ideal candidate
• Highly motivated with a demonstrated continuous development and improvement
• Self-starter, with effective work practices and habits.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Customer focused
• Cost conscious
• Possess a strong performance- and results orientation
• Fluent in written and spoken English. Arabic is a significant plus

About the Company

FRiENDi mobile is an innovative telecommunications company that offer mobile services across the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region as a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO), which is a proven business model that brings significant benefits to end-users, telecom operator partners and the general societies of the countries where FRiENDi mobile operate.

FRiENDi mobile’s management team bring together senior level cross-functional experience from successful regional and global mobile operators and MVNOs, and the company is backed by financially very strong, well respected and experienced shareholders based in the MENA region and abroad.

FRiENDi mobile is headquartered in Dubai Internet City in the United Arab Emirates, and we’re in the process of establishing a number of local operating companies and Joint Ventures across the MENA region with more to come in the near future.