AR Section Head

Job description / Role

Job Description
- Review all revenue streams issuance and allocation.
- Ensure workflow and deadlines compliance.
- Review and receive from all the LoBs invoice requests and process the invoices for customers.
- Ensure the adequate accounting cycle for customer orders/ sales orders through reviewing the customer balance, in the process of issuing customer invoices.
- Ensure revenue records are complied with IFRS on a monthly basis
- Review down payments from customers.
- Send periodic statement of accounts to customers, to ensure that the company's receivables, matches the customers balance.
- Review monthly AR package.
- Review AR ECL calculation.
- Coordinate with collection manager for the preparation of the monthly collection management meeting.
- Perform periodic closure of AR related accounts with external auditors.
- Establish excellent working relationships within functions across the organization to ensure that the business priorities are implemented effectively.
- Analyze financial and business performance against key business metrics.
- Perform financial modeling and ad hoc financial analyses of Divisional financial performance to support strategic planning processes.
- Coaches, develops, motivates, monitors, and follows up on team members' performance, quality, and adherence for improving productivity and skills to ensure people development and high performance.
- Participate in the identification and recruitment of key talents for the AR team.
- Lead, guide and assist direct reports to perform their functional operations in accordance with set policies and procedures
- Set performance objectives, provide the necessary support, evaluate/appraise the team and provide regular feedback on performance

Requirements

Personal Skills
- Excellent communication, interpersonal skills
- Excellent analytical skills, strong work ethic and detail orientated
- Ability to create and give presentations to executive management
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Excellent command of English

Technical Skills
- B.Sc. in Accounting, CMA is a plus
- 10-13 years of experience in a similar position
-Knowledge and understanding of general Financial, Accounting (GAAP and/or IAS) and Business principles
- Shows good knowledge in IFRS.
- Experience in projects/subcontracting companies.
- Should participate at least 2 full cycle.
- Experience with the following:
- AP: Work Bench details, Setups and configurations, key reports analysis, details on specific standalone features provided by oracle).
- GL: Configuration and setting up. Awareness on the key features provided by Oracle GL - Revaluation, consolidation, translation, general options, and allocations. Report development by BI.
- AR: End to End awareness of Order to Cash Cycle. Key Functionalities of auto accounting, Auto Invoice interface generation and creation of statements and dunning letter.

Education
- B.Sc. in Accounting

About the Company

Giza Systems, a leading systems integrator in the MEA region, designs and deploys industry-specific technology solutions for asset-intensive industries such as the telecoms, utilities, oil and gas, hospitality and real estate among other market sectors. We help our clients streamline their operations and businesses through our portfolio of solutions, managed services, and consultancy practice. Our team of 1000 professionals are spread throughout the region with anchor offices in Cairo, Riyadh, Dubai, Doha, Nairobi, Dar-es-Salaam, Abuja, Kampala and New Jersey, allowing us to service an ever-increasing client base in over 40 countries.