Hotels Accountant | Arabic Speaker | RAK
Listed on 2026-10-16
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Accounting
Bookkeeper/ Accounting Clerk, Accounts Receivable/ Collections, Accounts Payable Clerk, Financial Reporting
- Must be an Arabic speaker
- Mandatory:
Proven experience in Hospitality Accounting. - Mandatory:
Previous accounting experience in hotels, resorts, serviced apartments, holiday homes, luxury private villas, or hospitality management companies. - Strong understanding of hotel/property revenue, expenses, daily transactions, and property-level profitability
. - Experience handling AP, AR, GL, bank reconciliations, payroll/WPS, VAT, cash flow, and monthly financial reporting
. - Experience preparing property-wise P&L, revenue reports, expense reports, and budget vs. actual analysis
. - Experience reconciling booking platforms, payment gateways, POS/card transactions, cash, and bank accounts
. - Ability to manage supplier, contractor, and service-provider accounts
. - Ability to work independently and take full ownership of accounting operations.
- Strong knowledge of UAE VAT and accounting practices
. - Strong Excel and accounting/ERP system skills.
- 5+ years of accounting experience preferred
, with substantial hospitality accounting experience. - UAE experience is preferred.
Location: UAE
Employment Type: Full-time
Department: Finance & Accounting
Reports To: Management / Finance Manager
About the RoleWe are looking for an experienced and detail-oriented General Accountant to join our hospitality group, which operates and manages hotels, luxury private villas, and high-end hospitality properties in the UAE.
The ideal candidate should have strong hospitality accounting experience
, preferably from hotels, resorts, serviced apartments, luxury villas, holiday homes, or hospitality management companies.
The successful candidate will be responsible for managing the company's day-to-day accounting operations
, ensuring accurate financial records, proper control of revenues and expenses, timely reporting, supplier and customer accounts, payroll, VAT, cash flow, and property-level financial performance.
- Manage the complete accounting cycle, including journal entries, AP, AR, GL, accruals, prepayments, and month-end closing.
- Maintain accurate financial records and supporting documentation.
- Prepare monthly financial statements and management reports.
- Reconcile bank accounts, supplier accounts, customer accounts, and other balance sheet accounts.
- Monitor expenses and ensure proper accounting and documentation.
- Manage accounting activities related to hotels, villas, and hospitality properties.
- Record and reconcile room/property revenues, bookings, guest payments, refunds, deposits, and other income streams
. - Monitor daily revenue and expenses by property.
- Reconcile revenue between booking systems, payment gateways, POS systems, bank accounts, and accounting records.
- Track property operating costs including housekeeping, maintenance, utilities, supplies, F&B, transportation, and other operational expenses.
- Prepare property-wise P&L and profitability reports
. - Monitor actual performance against budgets and identify unusual expenses or variances.
- Coordinate with Operations and Property Management teams to ensure accurate financial information.
- Monitor daily collections and outstanding receivables.
- Reconcile online booking platforms, payment gateways, bank transfers, cash, and card transactions.
- Follow up on outstanding customer/company accounts.
- Ensure accurate recording of deposits, advances, cancellations, refunds, and other guest-related transactions.
- Prepare revenue and collection reports for management.
- Manage supplier invoices and payment schedules.
- Verify invoices against purchase orders, delivery notes, contracts, and approved expenses.
- Reconcile supplier statements and resolve discrepancies.
- Manage…
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