General Accountant

We are looking for a General Accountant for a leading company.

• Assist the Finance Manager in managing the company ledgers.
• Set-up general ledger accounts with required levels of details:
  Managerial/Analytical Codes.
• Mapping of ledger accounts to Profit and Loss, Balance Sheet and any other required report as per reporting pack.
• Check and ensure consistency of account ledger codes - create new where required, delete non-required and change settings as per requirements.
• Completing bank reconciliations and ensure reconciling items are well explained.
• Bank reconciliation is to be performed on a weekly basis and follow-up should be done with concerned parties for reconciling items.
• End-of month reconciliation should be finalised on 2nd working day M+1 with final explanations for ALL reconciling items.
• Assist the treasurer in the set-up automated bank reconciliation and hedging.
• Ongoing project - training will be given to the accountant.
• Processing operating, administrative & financial expenses and provisions in the system as per requirements.
• Daily, monthly, quarterly and yearly expenses to be processed in correct GL accounts.
• Analysis of expenses to be followed-up by division and variances compared to budget to be explained.
• Preparing monthly accounts ledger analysis and check all entries are posted to correct accounts.
• Accounts Checking Sheets (as per Group standard template) to be prepared monthly with all Balance Sheet GL Accounts balances explained and approved by the FM.
• GL transactions matching to be performed monthly to keep 'pending transactions' only as per accounts balances and explanations in checking sheets.
• Provisions to be matched against respective charges in the respective GL accounts. Any shortage of provision should be immediately alerted and adjusted.
• Maintain fixed assets register and carry out assets inventories as per company policy.
• Liaise with the admin assistant to ensure all fixed assets are in the fixed assets register.
• Process monthly depreciation of fixed assets in general ledger and updated in the register.
• Process disposals and acquisition of assets and update fixed assets register accordingly.
• Ad-hoc assistance to stakeholders and auditors in any query and requirement.
• Reconcile Inventories (Stock and Goods in Transit) monthly between general ledger and supply chain reports.
• Approved reports from supply chain should be matched with ledger balances - ALL differences should be analysed, explained and cleared within the next month.
• Set-up monthly meetings where stock reconciliation between (1) physical and supply chain; and (2) supply chain and general ledger are presented and explained.
• Attend physical stock take every end-of year and ensure instructions forwarded by the FM are followed.
• Reconcile Intercompany transactions in general ledger accounts.
• Intercompany Turnover to be determined in ledger accounts and reported Group reporting pack.
• Assist the Finance Manager in Monthly Management Accounts Reporting, Budget and any other requirement.
• Prepare VAT declaration and upload in the FTA portal.
• Quarterly VAT Declaration + file to maintain with ALL documents for FTA.
• Follow-up Insurance Claims with the suppliers, insurance companies and logistic team.
• Follow-up of deposits.
• Maintain ledger balances with available deposits by third party (JAFZA, Dubai Chamber).
• Follow-up consumption of the deposits and update ledgers accordingly.
• Process claim where required.
• Act as Back-up for the Debtors Accountant and Admin assistant.
• Assist the Finance Manager in Business Control tasks.
• Creation of provisions - defining their nature and settings in the accounting system.
• Defining reports creation as per internal and external requirements (reports by Business Unit, Products, Cost Centres, any other requirement).
• Reviewing system reports settings and analyse to propose improvements.
• Assist in building up reporting pack by division and follow-up with system reports as backup.