Financial Compliance Specialist

Azadea Group

Lebanon

Ref: KP561-659

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

The Financial Compliance Specialist is responsible for supporting the accounting department in complying with relevant rules and legal conduct in alignment with the group’s policies and procedures.

Key Accountabilities
- Follow up on financial terms of corporate agreements and guarantees implementation including bank covenants, franchiser, lease and rent agreements
- Administer Extraordinary/ Ordinary General Meeting documents ensuring their legal compliance and timely execution
- Generate the annual audit plans, support reviewing audit reports and issuing yearly audited financial reports
- Ensure the practices, policies and procedures are set and implemented in compliance with the local fiscal rules, regulations of the ministry of finance, as well as efficient tax structure in order to guarantee a successful cost control
- Monitor the sales report generated by the countries on a daily basis and report any gap in cash projections to the Group Compliance Manager
- Assist the local accounting department in preparing the financial statements (booking entries, reconciliation and checking trial balance) and perform comprehensive reviews of accounting transactions for adherence with established policies and procedures, and compliance with the measures set by the Group Compliance Manager
- Check and validate the data on the financial management system in order to generate accurate consolidated reports
- Administer the JDE financial module and act or advocate on technical issues
- Follow up on taxes database and ensure that all country reports are settled in compliance with the tax regulations and laws

Requirements

- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or a related field
- 4 years of experience in a similar role
- Proficient in MS Office and Accounting Software
- Fluent in English

Competencies
- Attention to details
- Planning and Organizing
- Communication Skills
- Analytical Thinking
- Driving and Achieving results
- Commercial Understanding
- Teamwork

About the Company

Azadea Group is a premier fashion and lifestyle retail company that owns and operates more than 50 leading international franchise concepts across the Middle East, North Africa, Asia and Europe. Since its inception in 1978, the Group has grown a substantial chain of stores representing leading international brand names in fashion and accessories, food and beverage, home furnishing, sporting goods and multimedia.With over 11,000 employees, the company boasts a solid infrastructure overseeing more than 600 stores spread across 15 countries including Algeria, Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Ghana, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar and United Arab Emirates.

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