Senior Accountant
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About the Role
Turner & Townsend seeks a Senior Accountant to manage the finance function and act as a business partner to the KSA leadership team. The role requires a qualified accountant with at least 5 years post-qualification experience, including management accounts, forecasting, and project accounting.
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Responsibilities
- Deliver month end reporting, including Management Accounts, Financial reports, and Forecasts
- Business Partnering, Project profitability, Project Revenue Trackers, Project Accounting & WIP analysis
- Ensure balance sheet reconciliations are maintained and variances managed
- Support annual statutory audit and budget submission
- Process General Ledger journal transactions
- Client invoicing and intercompany account reconciliations
- Support preparation of monthly payroll and respond to payroll queries
Requirements
- Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA or equivalent)
- 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 (advantage)
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
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Job Description
- The Saudi business currently employs circa 475 staff across 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.
- The role will require frequent interaction with senior management, therefore strong communication skills are required.
- A minimum of 5 years post qualified experience, ideally KSA based with MNC consultancy/construction industry experience is highly preferable.
Key Selected Responsibilities
- Deliver clear & 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 any reconciling variances articulated and managed.
- Supporting other ad hoc month end reporting in line with group timetable.
- 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.
- Intercompany account reconciliations with relevant action then being taken where necessary.
- Ensure compliance with accounting policies – both external reporting standards and internal policies.
Payroll
- Support preparation of monthly payroll.
- Generation of payroll journals and relevant payroll recons.
- Responding to payroll queries as and when required.
Tax
- Good knowledge of KSA VAT and Tax laws and practices will be a significant advantage.
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.
- Strong communication skills and good interpersonal skills to manage business partnering relationships.
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.
- Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com
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