Sr. Accountant

Job Description

Role Summary:

Ensuring accurate and timely financial record-keeping, Balance sheet accounts reconciliation, Journal entry, Journal entry upload. IFRS compliance, and other regulatory requirements.

Main Responsibilities:

• Ensure the timely and accurate recording of all GL transactions in the ERP system.
• Conduct weekly reconciliation of bank accounts to identify and address discrepancies. And Investigate and resolve any discrepancies or irregularities on time.
• Make sure all balance sheet accounts are reconciled.
• Review period-end journal entries and financial statements to ensure accuracy and compliance with accounting standards.
• Fixed assets register maintained.
• Prepaid expenses
• Assist in the preparation of accrual files.
• Calculate and prepare tax returns, including VAT and income tax, and Ensure timely submission of tax returns and compliance with tax regulations.
• Perform additional tasks as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
• SOCPA, and CMA, certificates are preferred
• 4+ years of experience in various rules.

Required Skills:

• Strong verbal & written communication skills in both English & Arabic.

Core Competency:

Dependability

• Self-driven and acts proactively.
• Pursues goals with persistence and stamina, works on tasks thoroughly, ensuring accuracy and meeting standards
• Maintains high levels of quality and effectiveness of work outputs and achieve outstanding results

Collaboration

• Collaborates constructively with people at all levels across the organization
• Helps colleagues and always be available to the team and delivering on team commitments
• Trusts the guidance and direction of colleagues and senior members of the team

Analytical Thinking

• Examines, evaluates and analyses different types of information objectively
• Spots trends and patterns, establishes key facts clearly and interprets numerical data effectively
• Provides insights and identifies ways to improve things. Trusts own intuition about which methods will work best

Effective Communication

• Listens attentively, seeks to understand before being understood
• Explains things clearly, articulates and presents information effectively and confidently
• Challenges ideas effectively and presents persuasive arguments by presenting a strong case.

Functional Competency:

Financial Accounting

• Strong knowledge of accounting principles and practices, including accurately recording financial transactions.

Financial Analysis

• Proficiency in financial analysis and reporting, including interpreting financial data and providing insights.

Regulatory Compliance

• Familiarity with ZATCA, IFRS, and other financial regulatory requirements, and the ability to ensure compliance in financial operations.