Senior Accountant
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About the Role
Turner & Townsend is seeking a Senior Accountant to join their KSA business, reporting to the Finance Director. The role involves management accounts, project accounting, business partnering, payroll support, and tax compliance.
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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 reconciling variances articulated
- Support ad hoc month end reporting including commentary on variance analysis
- Revenue Trackers, Income Statement accurately recorded and maintained
- Assist with annual statutory audit
- Support the annual Budget submission
- Process General Ledger journal transactions for both Income Statement and Balance Sheet
- Client invoicing – manage conflicting time and workload pressures
- Intercompany account reconciliations with relevant action
- Ensure compliance with accounting policies – both external reporting standards and internal policies
- Support preparation of monthly payroll, generation of payroll journals and relevant payroll recons
Requirements
- Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA or equivalent) with post qualified experience
- At least 5 years post qualification experience
- Experience preparing Management Accounts, Forecasts, Project Accounting
- Strong Excel skills
- Good organisational skills, able to manage and prioritise workload
- Comfortable working in a fast moving, dynamic environment
- Team player with team development focus
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
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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.
- 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 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.
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.
Qualifications
- 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 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.
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