Senior Accountant
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About the Role
Turner & Townsend seeks a Senior Accountant in Saudi Arabia to manage the finance function and act as a business partner to local leadership. 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 clear and accurate month end reporting requirements to timetable
- Work closely with Commission Leads and Finance Leads to ensure accurate Management Accounts, Financial reports, and Forecasts
- Business Partnering, Project profitability, Project Revenue Trackers, Project Accounting & WIP analysis
- Ensure balance sheet reconciliations are maintained with reconciling variances articulated and managed
- Support ad hoc month end reporting and provide commentary for variance analysis
- Maintain Revenue Trackers and Income Statement accurately
- Assist with annual statutory audit
- Support annual Budget submission
- Process General Ledger journal transactions for Income Statement and Balance Sheet
- Client invoicing at critical times, managing conflicting time and workload pressures
- Intercompany account reconciliations with relevant action
- Ensure compliance with accounting policies and external reporting standards
Requirements
- Qualified accountant (e.g., CPA, ACCA, or equivalent)
- At least 5 years post qualification experience
- Experience preparing Management Accounts, Forecasts, and Project Accounting
- Strong communication skills
- Ability to work on own initiative and manage ad hoc requirements
- KSA based with MNC consultancy/construction industry experience highly preferable
- Good knowledge of KSA VAT and Tax laws and practices is a significant advantage
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Role Overview
- 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.
- Senior Accountant reporting to the KSA Finance Director.
Key Requirements
- 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.
- Strong team player with experience working in an environment with conflicting pressures and heavy workloads.
- Ability to work on own initiative when needing to manage unusual and ad hoc requirements.
- Strong communication skills required for frequent interaction with senior management.
- A minimum of 5 years post qualified experience, ideally KSA based with MNC consultancy/construction industry experience is highly preferable.
Key Selected Responsibilities Accounting & Reporting
- 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.
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.
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