Senior Accountant

Confidential Company

Accounting & Invoicing

• Oversee and review sales and purchase invoicing for trading and project-based transactions, ensuring compliance with contractual and regulatory requirements.

• Ensure all invoices are accurately recorded in the correct general ledger mapping, cost centers, project codes (where applicable), VAT treatment, foreign currency allocation, and exchange rates in the ERP system.

• Review invoice details against contracts, quotations, purchase orders, project agreements, and international trade documents to ensure completeness, accuracy, and proper revenue and cost recognition.

• Monitor and enforce proper cut-off procedures to ensure all revenues and expenses are recorded in the correct accounting period during month-end and year-end closings.

• Apply project accounting principles, including tracking project costs, revenues, margins, and work-in-progress (WIP), and ensuring alignment with contractual milestones and billing schedules.

• Maintain and strengthen internal controls over invoicing, accounting entries, and ERP data integrity to minimize errors, prevent duplication, and ensure audit readiness.

• Review and approve accounting entries posted by junior team members.

  
  

  Accounts Payable & Accounts receivable

• Oversee accounts payable & Accounts receivable function, including trade suppliers, administrative vendors and trade debtors.

• Timely review of vendor balances, debtors’ balances, statements of accounts, and outstanding payments/receipts for making payments. Review and approve customer and vendor statement reconciliations, ensuring differences are identified, investigated, and resolved promptly.

• Ensure payments are processed strictly as per agreed payment terms, approvals, and supporting documentation.

• Prepare and Monitor cash flow requirements, Vendor ageing report, debtors ageing report and other reports.

• Ensure regular follow-up on overdue receivables, coordinating with sales and commercial teams to resolve disputes, short payments, and credit-related issues.

• Escalate high-risk or long-outstanding balances to management and recommend corrective actions.

• Ensure reconciliations are completed on a monthly basis and maintained in an audit-ready manner.

  
  

  UAE VAT Compliance/UAE Corporate taxes

• Should have working experience and knowledge about UAE VAT Law and UAE Corporate tax laws

• Review all the entries For Imports, Exports, Local Supplies, Reverse charge Mechanism, Zero rated Exempt supplier and could able to file the Vat Treatment independently with in the due dates.

• Handle VAT audits, clarifications, and correspondence with the Federal Tax Authority (FTA).

• Should have basic knowledge of E-invoicing

  
  

  Audit & Statutory Compliance and Reporting

• Should have experience to handle the statutory auditors and close the audits with minimal involvement of the managers.

• Prepare and maintain audit-ready documentation at all times to share with the auditors and banks.

• Should be able to prepare the monthly reports including MIS, Debtors ageing report, creditors ageing report, cash flow or the adhoc reports as and when required for the management.