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Ref: QP103-118
Job description / Role
Your main responsibilities will be to oversee the management of accounts and payroll.
These daily duties include:
- Managing the accounts and payroll team made up of 5 full time employees
- Mentoring and developing the team and providing them with day-to-day guidance
- Providing hands-on support on complex reconciliations of bank accounts and large account payables (AP) accounts
- Supporting accounting activities for our other MENA offices: Abu Dhabi, Doha and Riyadh
- Providing guidance and hands-on support with regards to trust transactions and sanctioned countries transactions
- Providing hands-on support with regards to the payroll process including gathering data and processing leavers and joiners
- Reviewing current processes to ensure continued efficiency including recording invoices and payments on the system, releasing invoices and dealing with reconciliations for month end closing
- Monitoring cash position and ensuring cash flow optimization
- Identifying and undertaking different accounts projects
- Reviewing and authorizing payments
- Secondary responsibilities
Month End/Year End processes include:
- Supporting and overseeing the month end activities, such as reconciliations and accruals.
- Reviewing month end reconciliation files (including balance sheet, fixed assets, bank, prepayments, loans)
- Assisting the Management Accountant in reviewing accounts and delivering month end reporting, such as our monthly Finance Pack
- Providing support to the wider team during the annual audits
- Managing the annual SRA audits with support and guidance
On occasion you may be involved in a variety of projects including but not limited to:
- Assisting with WPS set up on the HSBC platform
- Assisting with WPS set up in our KSA office
- Other ad hoc projects as and when they become relevant
Requirements
- Be a Qualified Accountant with a minimum of 5 years accounting experience from a law firm or professional services background
- Have a minimum of 2 years' experience managing an accounts team
- Have compliance experience from the region
- Have excellent managerial skills with a proven track record in delivering best practice accounts services to stakeholders
- Have a good understanding of payroll and UAE labour law
- A good understanding of general auditing processes
- Be innovative, creative and driven to work efficiently and effectively
- Have good commercial sense and excellent attention to detail
- An excellent team player with exceptional people skills when it comes to supervising, supporting and guiding team members
- Lead by example especially with regards to quality control and communication skills
Technical Skills:
- Knowledge of accounting packages and software
- Computer literate and highly proficient with Microsoft Office especially Excel
- Proficiency in improving internal processes and systems
About the Company
RecruitME are a specialized recruitment consultancy supplying top tier business support staff to Dubais leading multinational organizations. We carefully source, screen and select only the very best candidates to assist our clients in making easier recruitment decisions faster.
Differentiating ourselves from standard recruitment agencies our consultants have been carefully chosen for their backgrounds in business support for leading multinational organizations. Having been both the client and the candidate previously, we have an insiders understanding of the recruitment process and our clients needs.
What we do:
Specializing in business support positions we can assist in introducing a small selection of experienced administration, finance and human resource candidates with the relevant experience to benefit your business. Our careful screening process ensures that we have met with and can give a concise overview of each candidates skills and current situation before you meet them.
We pride ourselves on sending our clients only the very best available candidates in the market to ensure a simplified, hassle free and timely recruitment experience for all involved.