Branch Accountant

As a Branch Accountant, you will be assisting the Accounts Manager in making key day-to-day accounting decisions. This role is crucial for ensuring the financial health and compliance of our operations.

What you will do

• Invoicing for Units of Commercial Vehicles (CV) and rental invoicing for Commercial Vehicles – Hino and Toyota Motors Handling Equipment (TMHE)
• Validating Sales Order Conditions and recovery account balance before invoicing
• Issuing gate passes for invoiced units
• Liaising with Central Finance on DP allocation, returns, and rebilling
• Managing VAT refunds for export billing
• Submitting export BOE in SAP
• Ensuring compliance with defined policies and SOPs, and highlighting any discrepancies to managers in a timely manner
• Following up on accounts receivable with the business
• Liaising with Business Managers on overdue accounts
• Calculating expected collections and provision releases
• Conducting monthly stock reconciliation and IND verification
• Handling Capex requests for all divisions of Hino and Toyota Motors Handling Equipment (TMHE)
• Ensuring compliance with procurement SOPs on quotes, vendor selection, etc
• Reviewing and analyzing recovery and upselling accounts
• Reviewing AFSS reports and submitting clearing transactions to AFSS
• Uploading budgets in SAP/IFRP and generating upload files for IFRP (Flat file)
• Creating upload tables for SAP
• Liaising with various Al Futtaim Group departments like Central Finance, Group Legal, EIT, Group Admin, Group HR
• Monitoring and managing general ledgers and assisting in balance sheet substantiation
• Establishing key financial performance Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and creating measurement and governance dashboards based on these Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Preparing dashboards for monthly presentations
• Evaluating business decisions and reviewing financial impacts

Desired Candidate Profile

Required skills to be successful

• Accounting professional qualification (Bachelors in Accounting and Finance, MBA-Finance)
• Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Projects)
• 3 to 5 years of well-rounded experience in the field of Finance & Accounting
• Strong core finance technical skills, processes, infrastructure, and systems

About the team
As a Branch Accountant, you will be reporting to the Branch Account Manager.

What equips you for the role

• Experience with ERP (preferably SAP, BPC)
• Proven expertise in financial and management accounting