Senior Accountant
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About the Role
Turner & Townsend is hiring a Senior Accountant in Riyadh to manage the Finance function and act as a Business Partner to the local leadership team. The role requires a qualified accountant with at least 5 years post-qualification experience, including management accounts, forecasts, and project accounting.
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Responsibilities
- Deliver clear and accurate month end reporting requirements to timetable
- Business Partnering, Project profitability, Project Revenue Trackers, Project Accounting & WIP analysis
- Ensure balance sheet reconciliations are maintained with reconciling variances articulated
- Support ad hoc month end reporting including variance analysis commentary
- Maintain Revenue Trackers and Income Statement accurately
- Assist with annual statutory audit
- Support the annual Budget submission
- Process General Ledger journal transactions for both Income Statement and Balance Sheet
- Handle client invoicing at critical times
- Perform Intercompany account reconciliations
- Ensure compliance with accounting policies
- Support preparation of monthly payroll and generation of payroll journals
Requirements
- Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA or equivalent) with at least 5 years post qualification experience
- Experience preparing Management Accounts, Forecasts, and Project Accounting
- Strong Excel skills
- Good knowledge of KSA VAT and Tax laws (preferred)
- Strong organizational skills, able to manage and prioritize workload
- Comfortable working in a fast moving, dynamic environment
- Team player with ability to work under conflicting pressures
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
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Company Description
- At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.
- Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 130 countries worldwide.
- Our team is dynamic, innovative and client focused, supported by an inclusive and fun company culture.
Job Description
- The Saudi business currently employs circa 475 staff across the Real Estate, Infrastructure, and Natural resource sectors, and is forecast to continue growing.
- The KSA business has a vacancy for a Senior accountant to help manage the Finance function and be a Business Partner to the local leadership team.
Job Purpose
- Senior Accountant reporting to the KSA Finance Director.
- We require a qualified and technically strong accountant preferably with at least 5 years post qualification experience that includes preparing Management Accounts, Forecasts, Project Accounting and will act as a Business Partner.
- This person will be a strong team player with experience working in an environment with conflicting pressures and heavy workloads and they will be required to work on their own initiative when needing to manage unusual and ad hoc requirements.
- The role will require frequent interaction with the senior management to ensure objectives are aligned, therefore strong communication skills are also required.
- The successful candidate will be a key Business Partner to the KSA Management and Sector Managers in addition to ensuring minimum financial governance standards are met. A minimum of 5 years post qualified experience, ideally KSA based with MNC consultancy/construction industry experience is highly
Key Selected Responsibilities
- Deliver clear & accurate month end reporting requirements to timetable. Working closely with Commission Leads and the Finance Leads to ensure Management Accounts, Financial reports & Forecasts are as accurate as possible.
- Business Partnering, Project profitability, Project Revenue Trackers, Project Accounting & WIP analysis are key reports to the business.
- Ensure balance sheet reconciliations are maintained with any reconciling variances articulated and managed in accordance with financial reporting standards.
- Supporting other ad hoc month end reporting in line with group timetable, including providing support on commentary for variance analysis.
- Revenue Trackers, Income Statement accurately recorded and maintained.
- Assisting with annual statutory audit.
- Support the annual Budget submission.
- Processing General Ledger journal transactions for both Income Statement and Balance Sheet.
- Client invoicing – a critical requirement occurring at a critical time requiring the candidate to manage conflicting time and workload pressures.
- Intercompany account reconciliations with relevant action then being taken where necessary.
- Ensure compliance with accounting policies – both external reporting standards and internal policies.
- Support preparation of monthly payroll.
Core Behavioural Skills
- A challenging mind set, analytical, methodical with the ability to investigate and interrogate data. (Strong excel skills).
- Confident accounting skills (qualified, CIMA, ACCA and equivalent, with post qualified experience).
- Good organisational skills, used to managing and prioritising both own and others workload.
- Must be comfortable with working in a fast moving, dynamic environment.
- Team development focus and a team player. The team support each and work together where requirements can be simultaneous and conflicting. The ability to work with the team, agree the priorities and manage time pressures are paramount.
- The role will require frequent interaction with the senior management to ensure objectives are aligned, therefore strong communication skills are required and good interpersonal skills to manage business partnering relationships and the ability to manage conflicting requirements.
Company Values Statement
- We endeavour to create a work environment that reflects the culture of the company, and we encourage every member of our staff to embrace our commitment to be: Professional, Quality Driven, Goal Orientated, Customer Focused, Continuously Improving, Flexible, Open & Integrated.
Additional Information
- Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
- It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.
- Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees.
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