Accountant & Project Cost Controller
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About the Role
Mignon Design Build is a design-build firm specializing in high-quality residential renovations, full home remodels, kitchens, bathrooms, and custom builds. With operations in Toronto and Dubai, the company is known for its exceptional craftsmanship and attention to detail.
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Company Description
Mignon Design Build is a design-build firm specializing in high-quality residential renovations, full home remodels, kitchens, bathrooms, and custom builds.
With operations in Toronto and Dubai, the company is known for its exceptional craftsmanship and attention to detail.
Mignon Design Build provides tailored solutions that reflect the unique needs and visions of each client.
The company prides itself on delivering projects that merge functionality with extraordinary design, ensuring client satisfaction at every step of the process.
Role Description
We are hiring an Accountant & Project Cost Controller to manage accounting, expenses, project costing, and financial reporting across our construction/design-build company and digital marketing agency.
This is not only a basic bookkeeping role.
We need someone organized, sharp, and detail-oriented who can help us understand exactly where money is being spent, which projects are profitable, which suppliers are expensive, and where costs can be improved.
Responsibilities
- Manage daily bookkeeping in Zoho Books
- Enter supplier bills, receipts, invoices, payments, and company expenses
- Reconcile bank accounts, credit cards, petty cash, and supplier balances
- Maintain clean financial records across multiple business entities
- Use Zoho tags/projects properly to track costs by company, project, trade, supplier, and category
- Track construction project costs including labour, materials, tools, subcontractors, transport, permits, and site expenses
- Prepare weekly cost reports showing spending by project and category
- Track project budgets vs actual costs
- Help compare supplier pricing, labour costs, and cost per square foot/meter between projects
- Monitor petty cash given to site staff and flag missing receipts or unexplained balances
- Track payroll, staff salaries, advances, deductions, leave balances, and visa-related costs
- Organize documents for UAE corporate tax, VAT, and compliance requirements
- Coordinate with external accountants/tax consultants when required
- Help organize Canadian company accounting records for review by a Canadian CPA
- Prepare simple weekly reports for management covering cash spent, payments due, missing receipts, project costs, and financial issues
- Research and flag possible cost-saving opportunities, supplier savings, rebates, financing options, or financial improvements where relevant
Requirements
- 2–4 years of accounting/bookkeeping experience
- Experience using Zoho Books preferred
- QuickBooks, Xero, or similar accounting software experience also acceptable if you can learn Zoho quickly
- Strong Excel or Google Sheets skills
- Experience in construction, fit-out, contracting, real estate, or project-based accounting is strongly preferred
- Good understanding of UAE invoices, receipts, petty cash, supplier payments, VAT basics, and corporate tax documentation
- Able to organize messy receipts, expenses, and supplier records into a clean system
- Comfortable working in a small, fast-moving company
- Strong attention to detail
- Good written and spoken English
- Must be reliable, organized, and able to work without constant supervision
- Preferred but not required
- Experience with job costing or project costing
- Experience with construction material/labour cost tracking
- Experience working with multiple companies or business divisions
- Basic understanding of Canadian bookkeeping is a bonus
- Experience preparing reports for owners/management
Compensation
- Year 1: AED 4,000/month all-inclusive
- Year 2: AED 4,500/month all-inclusive
- Year 3: AED 5,000/month all-inclusive
- 30 days off per year (inclusive of vacation, public holidays, and sick days)
Application Process
Applicants will only be considered after completing the screening form below:
https://form.typeform.com/to/izZ9svyI
Who this role is for
This role is best for someone who does not want to just enter receipts all day.
We want someone who can help build proper financial systems, track real project costs, and help management make better business decisions.
Pay: AED4,000.00 per month
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