Senior Accountant

JOB DESCRIPTION / ROLE

Employment: Full Time

Charterhouse are currently supporting a leading client within the Project Development and Contracting space, whom are looking to hire a Financial Accountant to support their regional business entities managed from their UAE branch in Sharjah.

With a reporting line to the Finance Director, this Senior Accountant shall oversee and manage all areas of financial accounting, whilst also developing any accounting best practice to ensure accurate and timely reporting along with adherence to audit policies. This role will also be focused across the consolidation of accounts to support both financial analysis and management accounting including P&L, cashflow control and receivables management. This role will also support VAT filing and the oversight of payables and invoicing. In conjunction, this role will also require a candidate whom can oversee a fixed asset register whilst also developing financial and variance analysis-based reporting tools.

REQUIREMENTS

Our client is looking to hire a part-qualified or recently qualified Accountant, with a minimum of 5 years’ experience, along with an ability to demonstrate a background within transactional accounting and reporting-based finance functions. Applicants shall be required to understand audit and IFRS-related principles whilst being able to work across ERP systems and accounting packages to a high level of accuracy and efficiency. To ensure strong reports, this role will require a strong Excel proficiency to develop areas of financial analysis and business controls. The nature of this client and their operation requires a self-starter candidate, whom is able to develop accounting policies, reporting controls and IT systems linked to financial reports and consolidation.

ABOUT THE COMPANY

The Charterhouse brand and business was launched in Dubai and the Middle East in April 2004 by a team of international recruiters and management consultants, after its inception in Sydney, Australia in September 2003. Charterhouse Middle East is now positioned as the leading regional recruiter within its area of disciplines and functional markets.

Charterhouse offers professional and bespoke contingency and retained search services to all sectors of the market. Service quality is guaranteed, thanks to a particular focus on flexibility. Charterhouse was the first international search and selection business to establish Dubai as its base. The growth in the Middle East region has been mirrored by Charterhouse globally, with offices now in Qatar, Hong Kong, Singapore, Melbourne and Sydney.