Accountant - Emirates

Job Summary

Ensure timely processing accounting and payments of supplier invoices incentive and refunds. Carry out processing and reconciliation of Sales/Revenue Recognition/Interline transactions and nonairline partner billings by providing assurance on completeness and accuracy through internal control and review. Identify discrepancies through audit raise under collections investigate movements in balances and ensure accurate reconciliations with minimal exceptions and adjustment needs. Analyse and report flight revenue yields ensure all functional units are aligned with the Quality Management System update system related masters accurately and on timely basis. Compile monitor and follow up on the accounting and control reports from the outstations and validate contents through appropriate analysis.

Job Accountabilities

• Review processes analyse high risk areas handle quality checks and ensure adequate maintenance of prevention and detection controls to ensure completeness timelines of processing accounting billing and accuracy of computation and settlement.
• Resolve disputes queries discrepancies with internal and external stakeholders.
• Identify areas and ensure active involvement in projects system enhancements testing and process changes and thereby acquire in depth knowledge and enhance business processes.
• Check the integrity of interfaces and completeness of data generated by the system. Provide support on key processes and deliverables in the absence of Finance Officer and assist the Finance Officer/Controller in month closing reviews by investigating movements in balances to ensure quality/accuracy of reporting and to ensure that month/year end adjustments are kept to the minimum.
• Provide data analytical support for Management Information Systems (MIS) KPI and Revenue Assurance.

Interline & Revenue Recognition

• Ensure the revenue processing and accounting is completed as per the timelines for reporting and overall revenue recognition for the month.
• Manually prorate complex coupons which have been rejected by the Revenue Accounting system in order to process in a timely and accurate manner and clear prorate exceptions for Emirates and other airline documents so that the fare collected can be allocated to each coupon of the document and sales liabilities on own document sales and revenue from OWN & other airlines uplifts can be established and accounted.
• Complete the processing and accounting of interline invoices sales commissions discounts rejection values and other related accounts to ensure that the inward billing control account has a justifiable outstanding balance.
• Process interline Prime invoices (including Flight Interruption Manifest billing) and recharges in accordance with Prorate Manual and Special Prorate Agreement with the help of proration modules in Revenue Accounting. Accept and or reject for the overbilled or billed values as per the norms of IATA Resolutions and or Revenue Accounting Manual including correspondence with Other Airlines on Interline Billing Disputes.

Qualifications & Experience

Qualifications

• Bachelor s Degree Preferably in Finance

Experience

• Finance & Insurance. Accounts
• 5 years relevant experience
• Additional Finance qualification preferable

Knowledge/skills

• Accounting knowledge preferably from an airline background.
• High level of computer literacy and good knowledge of office automation software like Word Excel MS Access and PowerPoint
• Good analytical and investigative skills
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing with various stakeholders across the business.
• Ability to function independently within an established framework.

Specific to teams in:

• EK Revenue Services
  Knowledge of fares ticketing proration and interline rules/ agreements (preferable with IATA qualification and/or cargo knowledge). Working knowledge of Global Distribution Systems (GDS)