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About the Role
Skybound Wealth Management is seeking a motivated Financial Accountant to join their Dubai finance team. The role involves preparing monthly management accounts, statutory financial statements, reconciliations, and supporting audit deliverables.
Key Skills for This Role
Responsibilities
- Assist with the preparation of monthly management accounts across group entities
- Prepare balance sheet reconciliations, including bank, intercompany, accruals, prepayments and control accounts
- Support month end close processes, ensuring deadlines are met and reporting is accurate
- Review income, costs and ledger postings to ensure correct accounting treatment
- Assist with variance analysis and commentary for management reporting
- Support the preparation of statutory financial statements under IFRS
- Assist with year end audit preparation and liaise with external auditors
- Prepare audit schedules, supporting documentation and responses to audit queries
- Help ensure accounting records are complete, accurate and audit ready
- Support intercompany reconciliations and group reporting processes
- Assist with consolidation schedules and group level reporting requirements
- Help maintain strong internal controls across finance processes
Requirements
- Part qualified, finalist or recently qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CPA, CA or equivalent)
- Experience in audit, accounts preparation or financial reporting
- Strong understanding of IFRS
- Good technical accounting knowledge and attention to detail
- Confident working with Excel and accounting systems
- Able to manage deadlines and work across multiple entities or reporting lines
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Currently based in Dubai or willing to work from Dubai
- Background in audit practice with exposure to statutory accounts (desirable)
- Experience within financial services, wealth management, insurance or regulated businesses (desirable)
- Experience with multi entity groups, intercompany balances or consolidations (desirable)
- Exposure to UAE or other jurisdiction VAT or corporate tax processes (desirable)
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Role Overview
- We are looking for a motivated and technically strong Financial Accountant to join our Finance team in Dubai.
- This role would suit a part qualified, finalist or recently qualified accountant with experience in audit, accounts preparation and financial reporting.
- The role will involve supporting the preparation of monthly management accounts, statutory financial statements, reconciliations, audit deliverables and group reporting.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist with the preparation of monthly management accounts across group entities.
- Prepare balance sheet reconciliations, including bank, intercompany, accruals, prepayments and control accounts.
- Support month end close processes, ensuring deadlines are met and reporting is accurate.
- Review income, costs and ledger postings to ensure correct accounting treatment.
- Assist with variance analysis and commentary for management reporting.
- Support the preparation of statutory financial statements under IFRS.
- Assist with year end audit preparation and liaise with external auditors.
- Prepare audit schedules, supporting documentation and responses to audit queries.
- Help ensure accounting records are complete, accurate and audit ready.
- Support intercompany reconciliations and group reporting processes.
- Assist with consolidation schedules and group level reporting requirements.
- Help maintain strong internal controls across finance processes.
Essential Requirements
- Part qualified, finalist or recently qualified accountant ACA, ACCA, CPA, CA or equivalent.
- Experience in audit, accounts preparation or financial reporting.
- Strong understanding of IFRS.
- Good technical accounting knowledge and attention to detail.
- Confident working with Excel and accounting systems.
- Able to manage deadlines and work across multiple entities or reporting lines.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Currently based in Dubai or willing to work from Dubai.
Desirable Experience
- Background in audit practice with exposure to statutory accounts.
- Experience within financial services, wealth management, insurance or regulated businesses.
- Experience with multi entity groups, intercompany balances or consolidations.
- Exposure to UAE or other jurisdiction VAT or corporate tax processes.
- Experience using AccountsIQ, Xero, Sage, QuickBooks, Oracle NetSuite or similar systems.
Skills & Attributes
- High attention to detail.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
- Professional, reliable and deadline driven.
- Comfortable working in a fast paced environment.
- Willingness to learn and take ownership.
- Strong communication skills and ability to work with non finance stakeholders.
- Commercial mindset, not just a bookkeeping mentality.
- Ambitious and looking for long term career growth.
About Us
- Skybound Wealth Management is a global financial advisory company with employees across the UK, USA, Switzerland, Cyprus, Spain and UAE.
- We provide tailored financial advice to international clients, supported by expert teams across wealth planning, compliance and operations.
Why Join Skybound Wealth?
- Opportunity to join a growing international wealth management group with operations across multiple jurisdictions.
- Exposure to group reporting, audit, financial controls, statutory accounts, regulatory reporting and commercial finance.
- Strong development path for someone who wants to build a career within a high growth finance function.
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