Finance Specialist

In this role you will be responsible for accounting and reporting fora number oflegal entities inscope of the Oivan Group. On a monthly basis youare in charge ofthe month-end closing process,ensuring quality and timely reporting of the financial results, ensure accounts are reconciled andkey controls are performed. The tasks might also include preparing monthly payrolls for the company’s employees. On an annual basis you support preparation of local financial statements and coordinate with auditors.

In this role you will be also responsible for finance activities within the Order-to-Cash (OTC) and Purchase-to-Pay (PTP) domains. OTC includes handling bank statement postings, allocation of incoming payments, customerrefunds and reconciliations. You have an important role in securing the companies’ cashflow bytaking ownership of collection activities, aging reporting and bad debt handling. This also includesliaising with key Oivan customers, analyzing the project POs & contracts and deliveries,communicating with customers during the delivery process, monitoring the agreed settlements,sending invoices and following up with customers, revisiting and reminding and keeping record of collection process.

PTP includes handling purchase invoice processing, payments, query and escalation handling, APmaintenance, month-end closing activities including accruals, reconciliations and internal controls. You support the vendor master data maintenance and also support the local travel &expense process including processing of claims, credit card and corporate travel account administration. You are ultimately responsible that master data (vendors, customer and employees) of your entity is correct andup-to-datein Oivan financial systems.

You are supported by other members of Oivan finance team and collaborate closely with business stakeholders as well as other internal teams. You have strong excel skills and know how to optimizefinance systems and constantly look for continuous improvement of daily activities. Further, you play a key role in continuously improving and enhancing our local accounting and reporting processes. You are quickly able to adapt to new processes and tools, can resolve any problem quickly and understand how tooptimiseour systems and ways of working.

The role also includes participation in various finance development projects.

Qualifications and requirements:

• Bachelor degree or similar, preferably a major in Accounting or Finance
• Preferable two years of experience in an accounting & payroll role
• Good knowledge of local GAAP and tax, basic IFRS knowledge considered a plus
• Strong communication and collaboration skills in English. Local language( Arabic)
• Strong analytical and data optimization skills
• Proactive, customer driven continuous improvement mindset
• An independent and proactive approach to work and good team playing skills
• Digi savvy, experience with finance systems