Finance Assistant - UAE National
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About the Role
Turner & Townsend is hiring a Finance Assistant for their Shared Service function, supporting the Accounts Payable team. The role involves invoice processing, expense claims, supplier reconciliation, and compliance support.
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Responsibilities
- Confirm purchase orders have been goods receipted
- Match invoices and purchase orders
- Ensure all invoices received are recorded on the invoice register and digital copies are saved
- Follow up with Purchase Order creators and resolution of workflow issues
- Bi weekly processing of employee expense claims
- Assist employees in resolution of expense claim related issues
- Supplier reconciliation, payments and allocation
- Upload bank payments and obtain necessary approvals
- Petty cash posting and reconciliation
- Support internal and external audits by providing required AP documentation
- Ensure AP processes adhere to internal controls and company policies
- Identify process gaps and recommend improvements in payment and reconciliation procedures
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or commerce
- 0 1 years of experience in accounts payable
- Fluency in Microsoft Office suite (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.)
- Must be a UAE national with family book
- Strong numeracy and analytical skills
- Ability to work independently and as a team player
- Good interpersonal skills
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Company Description
- Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
- Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives.
- Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
Job Description
- The role will be working within the Shared Service function, supporting the Accounts Payable team.
- The successful candidate should have an accounting background and a desire to pursue a career in Finance & Accounting.
- Experience is an advantage but not essential as we will provide training.
- This successful candidate will be a strong team player but will also be required to work on their own initiative when needing to manage unusual and ad hoc requirements.
Accounts Payable
- Confirm purchase orders have been goods receipted
- Matching invoices and purchase orders
- Ensuring all invoices received are recorded on the invoice register and digital copies are saved on the server for record keeping purposes.
- Follow up with Purchase Order creators and resolution of workflow issues.
- Ad Hoc tasks related to the efficient processing of supplier invoices
- Bi weekly processing of employee expense claims.
- Assisting employees in the resolution of any expense claim related issues.
- Supplier reconciliation, payments and allocation
- Upload bank payments and obtain necessary approvals
- Petty cash posting and reconciliation
- Other ad hoc tasks as required
Compliance
- Support internal and external audits by providing required AP documentation
- Ensure AP processes adhere to internal controls and company
- Identify process gaps and recommend improvements in payment and reconciliation procedures
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or commerce.
- 0 1 years of experience in accounts payable
- Fluency in Microsoft Office suite (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.)
- Must be a UAE national with family book
Core Behavioral Skills
- Strong numeracy and analytical skills with the ability to investigate and interrogate data
- Shows initiative and can work independently on assigned tasks
- Be a team player. The team support each other and work together where requirements can be simultaneous and conflicting.
- Have good interpersonal skills with ability to communicate well with all levels within the organization
- Must be comfortable with working in a fast moving, dynamic environment
- Month end closing must adhere to group reporting deadlines and therefore it’s time challenging and pressurized period
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