Accountant – Global Investor (Abu Dhabi Based) UAE National

Job description / Role

Title: Accountant – Global Investor (Abu Dhabi Based)
Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE

Summary: Our client is a global investor based in the UAE. They are looking to fortify their existing finance team by hiring a Qualified Financial Accounting Professional with around 4-6 years of experience.
For the role to comply with UAE nationalization law, we are assisting our client in meeting this legal requirement by seeking qualified candidates who can contribute to fulfilling this obligation with a family book.

Key Responsibilities:

• Compile and maintain Financial Statements (balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements) to ensure accuracy and compliance with accounting standards and regulations.
• Perform regular account reconciliations to verify the accuracy of financial data, identifying and correcting discrepancies in financial records.
• Oversee the general ledger, ensuring all transactions are accurately recorded and categorized, and prepare journal entries as needed.
• Ensure timely and accurate tax compliance and reporting (filing of tax returns, including income tax, VAT, and other relevant tax filings, while staying updated on tax regulations).
• Provide financial analysis and reporting to management, offering insights on financial performance, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.

• 4-6 years of experience in IFRS, Financial accounting, reporting & consolidation.
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Must be a qualified accountant, eg.: ACCA, ACA, CA, CIMA, CMA etc.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or related fields.
• UAEN- with a Family Book.

About the Company

Madison Pearl (MP) is the search firm of choice amongst the leading financial services firms and legal firms for mid to senior level positions including C-suite searches.

Founded in 2015, we are a truly Global Executive Search Firm strategically based out of DIFC, UAE to focus on mid-senior level positions including C suite in the rapidly evolving regional financial markets; as well as developed markets such as US and Europe. We also have an office in Bahrain as an extension to our commitment to the region and to be close to our clients in Saudi Arabia & Kuwait. From our office in Dublin we cater to our clients in US and Europe. We service our APAC clients from our Hong Kong office. We also recently opened our first UK office in London.

Encompassing a wide umbrella of services including Contingent and Retained searches aswell as Market Intelligence, Compensation Benchmarking, Board Advisory and Leadership Consulting, we provide 360 degree customized solutions for our client’s Talent Acquisition, Succession Planning and Employee Retention needs.

We work in teams where knowledge is shared and the client solution discussed thoroughly from every angle. Our sector specialist consultants are passionate about providing comprehensive yet timely recruitment solutions to our clients ranging from a single key hire to an entire team build up, leveraging their solid knowledge and relationships in vertical markets.

Driving support from our dedicated in-house research team that meticulously devises a step by step search strategy to identify and attract talent pool via sourcing from our robust internal database coupled with head-hunting techniques.

Exhibiting an unrivalled track record in successfully placing and mobilizing world class talent from leading financial & banking firms from Developed, Emerging, Frontier &rapidly developing markets, our reputation for delivery is exemplary which has earned us the confidence of our clients’ as the most trusted go to search partner.