Senior Accountant / Senior Executive

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Execute end-to-end manual billing activities from approved billing requests through invoice creation and release.
• Review and validate customer, contract, pricing, tax, supporting documentation, and approval details before processing invoices.
• Maintain accurate billing trackers, supporting evidence, reconciliations, and audit trails in accordance with established controls.
• Investigate and resolve billing discrepancies and exceptions with relevant internal teams.
• Monitor pending, incomplete, and overdue billing requests and prioritize critical activities to meet deadlines.
• Escalate billing issues, delays, and potential timeline risks to appropriate stakeholders.
• Perform source-request-to-invoice reconciliations and investigate discrepancies.
• Support period-end billing completeness checks and ensure required billing activities are recorded and closed.
• Prepare and maintain operational billing reports and supporting documentation.
• Ensure proper handover of billing activities, outstanding items, and relevant documentation.
• Adhere to billing procedures, financial controls, approval workflows, and tax requirements.
• Identify process improvement opportunities while maintaining business continuity during standardization and automation initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, or a related discipline.
• Proven experience as a Senior Accountant, Senior Executive, Billing Accountant, or similar role.
• Hands-on experience in Order-to-Cash, billing, invoicing, and period-end accounting processes.
• Practical experience with Oracle ERP billing modules.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency, including reconciliation and data analysis.
• Strong understanding of billing controls, approval processes, tax requirements, and supporting documentation.
• Experience performing reconciliations and investigating billing exceptions and discrepancies.
• Strong attention to detail with a high degree of accuracy in financial transactions and records.
• Excellent organizational and time-management skills for managing multiple billing requests and deadlines.
• Strong communication and coordination skills for working with upstream and downstream teams.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure during billing peaks and period-end activities.
• Strong ownership, reliability, and commitment to established processes and controls.

Additional Advantage

• UAE or Dubai experience is an added advantage.