Senior Accountant - Accounts Payable

• End to End Accounting Expense Recognition Invoicing & Cash Application Reconciliations of petty cash corporate credit card (disbursements and replenishment) banks and various GL accounts.
  
• Timely processing of supplier invoices with accurate PO / GL / Cost Centre / Projects codes.
  
• Perform petty cash and credit card transactions reconciliation in a monthly manner along with dealing with continuous monitoring and following up with custodians for supporting documents.
  
• Improving the standard financial procedures of the department and overseeing their execution
  
• Preparing the financial reports of the zerobased budget. Highlighting the positive and negative points to assist higher management in decisionmaking budgetary compliance according to set priorities.
  
• Continuous coordination with procurement on annual contracts and new purchase orders while monitoring the status of budgetary tracks to ensure budgetary compliance according to set priorities.
  
• Perform an advisory role on all tax matters and ensure implementation of best practices.
  
• Review existing contracts accounting systems and procedures.
  
• Follow / ensure DoA compliance in finance functions.
  
• Assist rest of the finance team during the period of: month / yearend reports budgets and internal / external auditing.
  
• Suggestions based on variance analysis and status of reserves / accruals assets and expenditures.
  
• Usual interactions / communications with internal teams such as Research centers Procurement HR Legal and Operation teams
  

Requirements

Necessary Knowledge and Experience

• Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience in Accounts Payable
  
• Strong understanding of IFRS & IPSAS
  
• Thorough understanding of VAT laws and its implementation in the UAE
  
• Proficient user of finance software (SAP Oracle)
  
• Strong interpersonal communication and presentation skills
  
• Demonstrate integrity dependability and accountability.
  
• Ability to act and operate independently with minimal daily supervision.
  

Qualifications:

• Bachelors in accounting Finance or similar disciplines is a must
  
• Advanced Accounting/Finance certifications such as ACCA CPA CIMA CMA etc. are preferred.