Associate / Senior Associate (Business Service Outsourcing)
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About the Role
BDO UAE is seeking an Associate/Senior Associate for Business Service Outsourcing to manage accounting, payroll, and financial reporting for clients. The role involves setting up accounting systems, preparing financial statements, managing payroll, and ensuring compliance.
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Responsibilities
- Set up accounting systems including chart of accounts and management report formats based on client requirements.
- Prepare and finalize books of accounts in accounting software in line with statutory requirements.
- Produce financial statements including general ledgers, trial balance, profit and loss, balance sheet, and cash flow.
- Prepare reconciliations of accounts, cash books, credit card accounts, and expense schedules.
- Manage payroll setup, processing, and reporting including end of service benefits and WPS compliance.
- Review and verify employee expense claims in accordance with client policies.
- Manage bank accounts for clients to process salary and supplier payments.
- Prepare funding requests and cash flow forecasts.
Requirements
- Minimum 2 4 years of relevant work experience in accounting services in the UAE market
- Bachelor's degree in accounting/finance or equivalent
- Professional certification such as CMA/ACCA/CPA
- Exposure to payroll management and familiarity with accounting and payroll software
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About the Role
- Adhere to the highest degree of integrity, professional standards and strict client confidentiality.
- Based on client’s requirement and selected software, setting up the accounting system including creation of a chart of accounts, format of management reports and sample of other deliverables.
- Prepare and finalise the books of accounts in the accounting software based on documents and information provided by the client and ensure that they are in line with statutory requirements.
- Produce finalised general ledgers, trial balance, profit and loss statement, balance sheet, cash flow statement, financial budget and management report.
- Prepare reconciliation of accounts, cash books, credit card accounts, expense schedules and adjustment journal entries.
- Produce supporting schedules for staff indemnity, accrued expenses, fixed assets, prepaid expenses, customer and supplier ageing and bank reconciliation statements.
- Ensure books of accounts prepared compliance with client’s internal policy manual.
- Review and understand frequency and depth of financial reporting requirements per client and ensure accuracy and timely delivery of reports generated.
- Based on payroll structure provided by the client setting up the client’s payroll in our payroll software
- Advise client on local laws and regulations relevant to payroll activities such as end of service benefit/gratuity calculation, social security requirements and WPS regulations etc.
- Prepare and finalize the monthly payroll calendar with the client.
- Prepare and finalize the monthly/yearly payroll reports and other deliverables including payroll reports, variance reports, gross to net pay reports and pay slips etc.
Additional Responsibilities
- Prepare monthly payroll journal entries summarizing the employee salaries, allowances, deduction and provision for indemnities
- On behalf of the client check, review and verify the expense claim submitted by their employees and ensure those are processed in accordance with client’s management guidelines.
- Based on privileges assigned manage the bank of accounts for the client/on behalf of the client to process the salary payment, supplier’s payment and other expense payment.
- Review and uphold allocated time schedules per client.
- Prepare the report for funding request and cash flow forecast and co ordinate with the client for timely payments.
Key Attributes
- Good communication skills.
- Confident and comfortable in client interactions.
- Experience of working in multi disciplinary teams.
- Ability to manage multiple engagements and competing priorities in a rapidly growing, fast paced, interactive, results based team environment is required.
- Excellent interpersonal skills – with a positive & enthusiastic attitude.
Key Experience Parameters
- Minimum 2 4 years of relevant work experience in accounting services in the UAE market.
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting/finance or equivalent.
- Must possess a professional certification such as CMA/ACCA/CPA.
- Strong attention to detail and an analytical mind.
- Exposure to payroll management and familiarity with accounting and payroll software.
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