Accountant - Retail

Job description / Role

Overview of the role

• Ensure that all importation and payable documents are constantly monitored and accounting treatment is accurately maintained.
• Review import shipments documents and record the required entries related.
• Invoices review and recording.
• Control clearing agencies accounts and manage their payments.
• Ensure the smooth payment preparation.
• Complete month end duties to ensure all reporting can be completed on time.
• Supplier reconciliation.
• Customs account monitoring.
• Record all travel expenses and analyze the travel expenses account.
• Respond to the payable queries by coordinating with the Shared Service office.
• Petty cash accounts and related G.L entries.
• Support the department managers to prepare for audits and ensure that auditors' queries and requirements for any supporting evidence are provided during the audit.

Required skills to be successful

• Excellent Arabic and English communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to plan, organize and implement.
• A university degree in accounting.
• A large-scale retail experience.
• Desirable to have detailed know-how of the IKEA concept in order to implement it.
• Mathematical and analytical skills.
• SAP / Navision experience.
• Microsoft Office skills.

What equips you for the role

• Excellent Arabic and English communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to plan, organize and implement.
• 3+ years of experience in accounting.

About Al-Futtaim Retail

Al-Futtaim Retail has established itself as one of the leaders in retail across the Middle East, Africa, and Asia over the past 30 years. We have developed partnerships with some of the biggest and most respected brands in the world including IKEA, ACE, and Toys R Us in the Middle East and the Inditex Group of Brands (Zara, Mango, Bershka, and P&B) across Asia. We are also one of the largest global partners of Marks and Spencer's in both regions with over 75 stores offering both fashion and food options.
Most recently, we have been responsible for bringing brands to the Middle East for the first time with the exciting launches of Watsons and B&Q and we aim to continue to be agile and adaptive to our markets with new launches and further development. For this to be possible, we aim to recruit the best talent from all backgrounds who will continue to challenge and develop our diverse workforce which includes over 100 nationalities across 12 countries. Join us today and make a difference...

About Al-Futtaim IKEA

Growing together...
We are a values-driven company with a passion for life at home. Our vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people.
Al-Futtaim IKEA holds the franchise rights for IKEA in Egypt, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.

About the Company

Established in the 1930's, the Al-Futtaim Group initially operated as a trading enterprise. Rapid development throughout the 1940's and 50's saw it establish itself regionally as an integrated commercial, industrial and services organisation, positioning itself one of the leading business houses in the lower Gulf region. Today, it operates collectively over 40 companies bearing the Al-Futtaim name, dominates many market segments in the UAE, and has expanded its sphere of operation to include Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and Egypt.

The Group comprises a diverse range of strategically positioned operating subsidiaries and associate companies, structured to give the Al-Futtaim Group the flexibility and versatility to keep ahead of local competition while keeping pace with the ever-evolving global business scenario. The Groups continued investment in world-class systems technology is clear evidence of its commitment to maintain leading edge performance and service delivery.

The success of the Al-Futtaim Group can be attributed to a business approach that combines the ability to change with the traditional values of integrity, service and social responsibility that define its core business philosophy. This, linked with the Groups belief in decentralisation, gives the heads of the operating companies a high degree of functional autonomy and authority, providing the Group with essential flexibility, and individual employees a clearly defined work culture and sense of responsibility.