Accountant - Arabic Speaker

Robert Walters

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Ref: NP316-230

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Accountant - Arabic Speaker (KSA)

Based in KSA (Riyadh) you will be responsible for day to day accounting operations. The role will also involve liaison with Finance teams in the UAE and UK.

Responsibilities:
- Reporting cash balances for the region on a weekly basis to the UK, US and UAE
- Reconciling all bank accounts and balance sheet items for the region
- Perform adhoc reporting and projects for management
- Review and implementation of robust control processes around treasury, payables and general ledger
- Controlling the expense reports, supplier payments, advance accounts and petty cash expenses
- Completing bank reconciliations for all accounts every day
- Preparing paying in of cheques or cash
- Daily bank run
- Arranging any signatures needed
- Helping the cashier with any day-to-day work including posting vouchers for bank charges and transfers
- Client account posting for receipts and payments

Requirements

- Degree in Accounting or Finance from a recognized university
- Two to three years of multinational experience with experience in liaising with overseas offices/international clients
- Have the ability to inspire trust and confidence from internal and external clients
- Excellent interpersonal and team working skills, ability to work effectively at all levels within an organization
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Demonstrate the ability to deal with difficult situations
- Must be self-motivated, highly organized, accurate, with an attention to detail and be able to work with minimal supervision
- Flexible and enthusiastic with the ability to manage own workload and priorities to meet deadlines
- Knowledge of VAT
- Computer literate including at least an intermediate knowledge of Word and Excel
- Strong numerical skills including the ability to compute rates, ratios and percentages
- Bilingual (English and Arabic); spoken and written

About the Company

Robert Walters is one of the world's largest specialist professional recruitment consultancies with 53 offices spanning 24 countries.

We've helped thousands of professionals find permanent, contract and interim roles with leading global corporations, small to medium sized companies and innovative start ups. Our specialist recruitment focus includes: accountancy and finance, banking, engineering, operations, legal, IT, sales, marketing, procurement & logistics, HR and support/administration.

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