Accountant

Job description / Role

Objectives:

To ensure all key processes of financial planning, reporting, budgeting, and cost analysis through suitable standards, systems, and procedures in order to provide quality support to Management for decision-making.

Main Responsibilities:

• Assist the Admin & Finance Manager in developing the departmental strategies and plan - in line with the overall organizational strategy and objectives and ensure implementation of the same.
• Responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Finance Department, providing expertise, encouraging and ensuring teamwork, aligning work processes in order to achieve high-performance standards, meeting established targets, objectives, and employee engagement in a motivated work environment, and liaising with internal and external parties, as necessary, to facilitate the flow of business.
• Supporting the Admin. & Finance Manager for month-end financial closing and preparation of monthly management accounts and/or reports for use by management and shareholders.
• Preparation of monthly bank reconciliations to ensure that all payments & receipts are recorded on time.
• Maintaining schedules for all prepaid and accrued expenses on a monthly basis.
• Assist the Admin & Finance Manager in developing the departmental policies and procedures and ensure implementation of the same in line with the company policies and procedures.
• Maintain an effective involvement and understanding of the business in order to contribute to key business decisions within the department.
• Assist in monitoring the performance of projects from the cost viewpoint to highlight cost overruns and address areas of concern.
• Assisting to establish and implement a system for coordinating and collating budget-related information from the respective departments.
• Monitor budget implementation by respective departments across the Company and ensure adherence to plan, highlighting and reporting on variances promptly.
• Analyze & discuss reasons for variations with concerned department Heads in coordination with the line manager to recommend and implement changes or adjustments in the allocations as compared to the budget, if necessary.
• Provide all necessary documentation for preparation of year-end statutory accounts for external audit.
• Prepare reports and analyses for management reference as and when required.

Reporting to: Finance and Administration Manager
Number required: 1
Duration: 1 year
Desired start date: ASAP

Requirements

University Qualifications: Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting
Other certifications obtained: Certified Public Accountant
Nature and length of previous experience: 5 years experience in similar role

Specialist knowledge:
• Well-verse in the complete accounting cycle up to the year-end audit.
• Experience in analyzing company financial data and computerized accounts systems.
• Familiar with IFRS
• Exposure to a multinational working environment
• Excellent organizational skills.

Language Fluency: Excellent command of the English language, both written and oral.
Current Location: Bahrain

About the Company

Veolia is the world's largest environmental services company.

For over 160 years, Veolia has provided public and private sectors with Water, Energy and Waste Management solutions and services which are vital to human development and sustainable growth.

With over 200,000 employees on five continents, Veolia designs practical solutions for the management (operation, treatment, distribution and/or supply) of Water, Waste and Energy. Through these three complementary activities, Veolia helps to develop access to resources, to preserve available resources and to renew them.

Veolia Group achieved revenues of EUR 28.5billion in 2021. (In 2020) the Veolia Group served 95mn inhabitants with drinking water, 62mn with sanitation, produced nearly 43mn MWH of energy, and recycled 47mn tonnes of waste.

Veolia aims to become the benchmark company for ecological transformation. Our goal is to build a better 21st century. We therefore see ourselves as #resourcers.

VEOLIA IN THE NEAR & MIDDLE EAST

Veolia has operated in the Middle East for over 30 years, providing innovative and sustainable water & waste services to industries, governments & communities, retail and commercial businesses.

Veolia has more than 3,000 employees in the Near & Middle East and a strong regional network of ~12 offices in the UAE, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey.

Veolia currently has over 6,000 project references of work delivered in the region, and continues to develop new projects through public-private partnerships and innovative contractual schemes.