General Accountant
Job Location : Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Main Roles and Responsibilities:
• Will work closely with other accountants and operations personnel and handle day-to-day bookkeeping to maintain accurate, complete and timely information to achieve overall department objective.
• Provides financial information to management by researching and analyzing accounting data; preparing reports.
• Record, classify and summarize accounting transactions to compile various documents and verify their accuracy.
• Assemble documents for computer input of itemized charges, account numbers, total costs and to authorize payments in accordance with established procedures.
• Post journal entries accurately to tally balance sheets.
• Maintain records through filing, retrieval, retention, storage, compilation, coding and updating.
• Respond to inquiries to locate and resolve discrepancies.
• Compute figures to determine balance, differences, adjustments, reviewing and totals to reconcile all transactions at the end of each day.
• Effectively and efficiently manage the company’s petty cash operations through proper inspection and payments of bills, receipts and cash count.
• Check & Book expenses and prepare monthly account reconciliations and examine supplier invoices for accuracy and issue cheque in time for accurate allocation of payments against invoices.
• Conduct month end closing activities so that all current costs must be reflected as expenses of the current month.
• Follow up with customer for the pending payments, the reconciliation of customer account, and generating customer invoices.
Skills and Requirements :
• Minimum of 05 years experience as an accountant from the construction industry (Interior/Fit-Out)
• Advanced degree in Accounting
• Knowledgeable of UAE Tax Law, accounting and corporate finance principles and procedures
• Excellent user of any accounting software (SAP/ERP, TALLY, etc)