Senior Accountant (Arabic)

Job description / Role

Our client operates in the professional services sector.

This position will see the selected candidate working closely with the operations managers in the business, sitting in on meetings with senior managers, helping them to understand where they are with their budget spend, and whether their clients are paying on time. The Senior Accountant is primarily responsible for managing the process for issuing invoices, credit notes and revised invoices for the KSA clients. You will also have significant input into credit control and key involvement in preparation of the financial statements related to the KSA clients. Candidates should be used to working directly with Senior Management, and not be afraid of liaising with external auditors in the Big 4.

Responsibilities

• Oversee posting of all time-sheets & deal with timesheet queries/issues (including checking for duplicate time entries);
• Distribute Client Pre Bill Reports to Project Managers for approval;
• Oversee all Labour & Expense transfers
• Organise Client and Intercompany Billing
• Process the distribution of all clients billing
• Reconcile client accounts
• Maintaining client project files and client invoices;
• Research client billing backup requests;
• Responsible for setting up new project codes to the system;
• Research all complex client billing requests and issues
• Chasing payment of outstanding invoices and credit control
• Key input into financial statements
• Key point of contact for KSA related clients
• Work with the senior management team on assessments around efficiency and profitability of KSA projects.

Salary:
AED 15,000 to 20,000 per month inclusive of fixed allowances.

Requirements

• Candidates straight from the Big 4 firms will be considered.
• Previous senior accounting experience in a professional services organization
• Fluent written and spoken English and Arabic is essential.
• The role is to be based in Dubai with weekly travel to Riyadh for 3-4 days per week
• Experience of working to tight reporting deadlines.
• Ability to manage workload pro-actively
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Sound working knowledge of GCC working environment, especially KSA.
• Experience working in a MNC
• Relevant professional qualification in accounting is preferred (CMA, CPA etc).

Thank you for your interest. All applications are viewed and evaluated according to the role requirements. We aim to contact shortlisted candidates within 2 weeks. As we often receive a high volume of applications, we are unable to reply to everyone. If you have not heard back from us within 2 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful

About the Company

Inspire Selection is an award winning recruitment agency, headquartered in Dubai which recruits across the Middle East region. We employ highly knowledgeable, professional consultants who are experts in connecting the right people with the right opportunities. Our reputation has been built upon our honesty, integrity and our ability to source candidates of the highest calibre right across our specialist sectors. As a result, we are recruitment partners to a wide spectrum of organisations - from leading blue chip companies to smaller, local businesses. Sectors we cover include HR, Administration, Finance & Accounting, Legal, Sales & Marketing including Digital Marketing, IT, Oil/Gas/Energy, Engineering, Procurement, Manufacturing, Higher Education.