Accountant

Job description / Role

Job Purpose
Undertake various accounting duties and periodic statements in compliance with approved financial policies, standards, and procedures

Job Specific Accountabilities (Part 1)
- Prepare relevant accounting records and financial statements in accordance with the company's accounting policies, procedures and timelines.
- Maintain ledgers, statements and accounting policies, procedures and standards; take appropriate action to secure or make payments and resolve discrepancies.
- Carry out initial checks, balances and verifications of computer input data and related information to determine completeness and accuracy before any accounting or financial transactions are processed.
- Allocate appropriate accounting codes or cost centers to the transactions processed in the section in accordance with accounting policy and procedures.
- Carry out reconciliation of accounts periodically in order to ensure all accounting transactions are recorded accurately.
- Prepare payments relative to supplier invoices by verifying the amounts due against related contracts and submitting the documents to supervisor for arrangement of payment. Ensures that all allocations are in accordance with the Chart of Accounts Manual.
- Prepare cash flow projections to facilitate the planning for adequate liquidity to meet financial requirements.

Generic Accountabilities

Supervision
- Plan, supervise and coordinate all activities in the assigned area to meet functional objectives.
- Train and develop the assigned staff on relevant skills to enable them to become proficient on the job and deliver the respective section objectives.

Budgets
- Provide input for preparation of the Department/ Section budgets and assist in the implementation of the approved Budget and work plans to deliver Section objectives.
- Investigate and highlight any significant variances to support effective performance and cost control.

Policies, Systems, Processes & Procedures
- Implement approved Department / Section policies, processes, systems, standards and procedures in order to support execution of the Department / Section's work programs in line with Company and International standards.
- Comply with all applicable legislation and legal regulations.

Performance Management
- Contribute to the achievement of the approved Performance Objectives for the Department / Section in line with the Company Performance framework.

Requirements

Generic Accountabilities (continue)

Innovation and Continuous Improvement
- Design and implement new tools and techniques to improve the quality and efficiency of operational processes.
- Identify improvements in internal processes against best practices in pursuit of greater efficiency in line with ISO standards in order to define intelligent solutions for issues confronting the function.

Health, Safety, Environment (HSE) and Sustainability
- Comply with relevant HSE policies, procedures & controls and applicable legislation and sustainability guidelines in line with international standards, best practices and ADNOC Code of Practices

Reports
- Provide inputs to prepare Section MIS and progress reports for Company Management

Minimum Qualification
- Bachelor Degree in Accounting / Finance

Minimum Experience, Knowledge & Skills
- 6 years of experience.

About the Company

We are one of the world's leading energy producers, and a primary catalyst for Abu Dhabi’s growth and diversification.

We operate across the entire hydrocarbon value chain, through a network of fully-integrated businesses, with interests that range from exploration, production, storage, refining and distribution, to the development of a wide-range of petrochemical products.

Since 1971, we have created thousands of jobs, driven the growth of a diverse knowledge-based economy, and played a key role in Abu Dhabi’s global emergence.

Today, we continue to look for new and innovative ways to maximize the value of our resources, pioneering those approaches and technologies that will ensure we are able to meet the demands of an ever-changing energy market, and continue to have a positive impact on the Abu Dhabi economy for generations to come.