Senior Financial Accountant

Job description / Role

The Finance department of our international client plays a fundamental part in achieving the vision and targets set for the business. An opportunity has arisen for an ambitious self-driven individual to join the team and work together with a dynamic finance department constantly facing challenges resulting from the expansion of regions. SALARY PACKAGE 20K

The role will ensure the accurate recording and reporting of the financial transactions and manage month end duties including posting month end journals, reconciling key account lines as well as conducting variance analysis against budget, forecast and prior year.

The successful candidate will also be involved in budgeting and forecasting process and will take the lead role in relation to facilitating statutory and internal audit. They should also demonstrate strong Excel skills and confidence using financial systems.

The successful candidate will build effective and credible relationship with the senior Management, and must have an appetite to drive this role forward.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Manage the day to day bookkeeping and handle the month-end close processes and time-table.
- Oversee and review the reconciliation of all relevant ledger accounts in order to ensure all accruals and adjustment entries have been passed correctly.
- Liaise on day to day basis with the central teams in London, Warsaw and US to ensure all reporting deadlines are met.
- Upload the monthly packs for financial reporting, forecast and budget into Enterprise Performance Measurement (EPM) and SAP.
- Manage the accuracy of the accounts payable and receivables in order to make timely collections and payments.
- Key local contact person to auditors and support in the preparation of financial annual statements, preparation of management commentary, accrual schedules and monitoring and reviewing of key deliverables such as transfer pricing and tax calculations (if any).
- Monitoring, reviewing and managing control procedures overall revenue and expenditure including reviewing commercial contracts for their financial impact.
- Control month close process for P&L relevant transactions according to US GAAP and perform detailed analysis and commentary for inclusion in monthly management reporting packs to local and corporate teams.
- Support the business by involvement in ad-hoc projects as and when required.

Requirements

- Newly qualified (ACA/ ACCA/ CIMA).
- Training done in a top 7 accounting firm
- Solid experience as a Financial Accountant
- Solid understanding of Business Planning & Consolidation (BPC) and SAP.
- Fluent in English.
- Good understanding of US GAAP and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act.
- Able to handle pressure within a changing and fast paced media environment.
- Excellent prioritization skills, ability to work across different cross functional teams.
- Strong individual with excellent oral and written communication, articulate, detail oriented & accounting research skills.
- Good work ethic and a dedication to the highest work quality and job excellence.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to work effectively within a team.

About the Company

Inspire Selection is an award winning recruitment agency, headquartered in Dubai which recruits across the Middle East region. We employ highly knowledgeable, professional consultants who are experts in connecting the right people with the right opportunities. Our reputation has been built upon our honesty, integrity and our ability to source candidates of the highest calibre right across our specialist sectors. As a result, we are recruitment partners to a wide spectrum of organisations - from leading blue chip companies to smaller, local businesses. Sectors we cover include HR, Administration, Finance & Accounting, Legal, Sales & Marketing including Digital Marketing, IT, Oil/Gas/Energy, Engineering, Procurement, Manufacturing, Higher Education.