Senior Accountant
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About the Role
Oversee accounting, invoicing, accounts payable and receivable, ensuring compliance with UAE VAT laws, while managing a team and maintaining audit readiness.
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Accounting & Invoicing
- Oversee and review sales and purchase invoicing for trading and project-based transactions, ensuring compliance with contractual and regulatory requirements.
- Ensure all invoices are accurately recorded in the correct general ledger mapping, cost centers, project codes (where applicable), VAT treatment, foreign currency allocation, and exchange rates in the ERP system.
- Review invoice details against contracts, quotations, purchase orders, project agreements, and international trade documents to ensure completeness, accuracy, and proper revenue and cost recognition.
- Monitor and enforce proper cut-off procedures to ensure all revenues and expenses are recorded in the correct accounting period during month-end and year-end closings.
- Apply project accounting principles, including tracking project costs, revenues, margins, and work-in-progress (WIP), and ensuring alignment with contractual milestones and billing schedules.
- Maintain and strengthen internal controls over invoicing, accounting entries, and ERP data integrity to minimize errors, prevent duplication, and ensure audit readiness.
- Review and approve accounting entries posted by junior team members.
Accounts Payable & Accounts Receivable
- Oversee accounts payable & Accounts receivable function, including trade suppliers, administrative vendors and trade debtors.
- Timely review of vendor balances, debtors’ balances, statements of accounts, and outstanding payments/receipts for making payments. Review and approve customer and vendor statement reconciliations, ensuring differences are identified, investigated, and resolved promptly.
- Ensure payments are processed strictly as per agreed payment terms, approvals, and supporting documentation.
- Prepare and Monitor cash flow requirements, Vendor ageing report, debtors ageing report and other reports.
- Ensure regular follow-up on overdue receivables, coordinating with sales and commercial teams to resolve disputes, short payments, and credit-related issues.
- Escalate high-risk or long-outstanding balances to management and recommend corrective actions.
- Ensure reconciliations are completed on a monthly basis and maintained in an audit-ready manner.
Uae Vat Compliance And Uae Corporate Taxes
- Should have working experience and knowledge about UAE VAT Law and UAE Corporate tax laws
- Review all the entries For Imports, Exports, Local Supplies, Reverse charge Mechanism, Zero rated Exempt supplier and could able to file the Vat Treatment independently with in the due dates.
- Handle VAT audits, clarifications, and correspondence with the Federal Tax Authority (FTA).
- Should have basic knowledge of E-invoicing
Audit & Statutory Compliance And Reporting
- Should have experience to handle the statutory auditors and close the audits with minimal involvement of the managers.
- Prepare and maintain audit-ready documentation at all times to share with the auditors and banks.
- Should be able to prepare the monthly reports including MIS, Debtors ageing report, creditors ageing report, cash flow or the adhoc reports as and when required for the management.
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