Accounting & Administration Assistant

Job description / Role

Our client is one of the world’s leading, professional services organisations in business strategy consulting. The firm has a worldwide practice and has helped change the way many corporations approach and engage in competition. They have a strong global presence and are currently in the process of developing their operations in Riyadh further.

We are looking for a Saudi national to work in the role of Accounting. The Accounting Executive will be an integral member of the Middle East finance team. The role will provide accounting support ensuring financial controls are in place while also fulfilling other accounting support functions.

Overall responsibilities include general accounting administration and other ad-hoc tasks. There will be a high expectation to bring operational excellence to the accounts processes. You will also be expected to support the accounting process in every way and suggest improvements when necessary. Additionally, in terms of general accounting, there will be the provision of timely and reliable financial and administrative support for month end closing activities related to accounts payable, preparing monthly GL schedules and provides support for audits.

Additionally you will be keeping track of all original and source contracts and invoices submitted to the clients in coordination with the project team and the finance team, outline regularly the invoicing process to the client and manage all associated documentation with invoices being obtained through finance and completion documents to be obtained through the project team all documentation to be submitted to the client for invoice approval and all documentation should be in accordance with the contractual set up and should include a compilation of all the deliverables and activities that are relevant for each invoice

Requirements

Our client is looking for linguistic skills in fluent Arabic and English and applicants must be intermediate users of Microsoft office at minimum.

Applications are invited from those with accounting/finance experience and good numeric ability. Additionally skills in client relationship and management, good interpersonal skills and documentation tracking are all imperative to the success of this role.

About the Company

Irwin & Dow was established in 2013 to provide clients with a unique and highly personalised recruitment service, providing the very top calibre of candidates across the business support and secretarial function.

We provide a refreshing approach, working in close partnership with clients and candidates across diverse industry sectors; large MNC’s, government & semi -government entities, SME’s, local businesses and in the start-up and UHNWI support framework.

Great people equal great success: all our candidates are interviewed personally by a member of the team, and we develop longstanding and in-depth relationships with our clients, understanding their corporate culture and goals to ensure a successful outcome for both parties.

Our values of discretion and diplomacy are paramount, and we are pleased to be a partner of choice for clients and candidates.