Finance and Accounting Specialist

Digital Virgo; Dubai; On-site; AED 240,000 - 340,000; Full time

Job summary

Digital Virgo is seeking a Regional Finance Operations professional to oversee day-to-day finance activities across the Gulf region from Dubai. You will manage invoicing in Workday, handle accounts receivable, supplier payables, and month-end close, and coordinate with external accountants and auditors.

The role requires strong multi-entity experience, English fluency, and collaboration with internal teams, customers, and suppliers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related field.
• 3–5 years of hands-on accounting/finance operations experience.
• Experience in multi-entity international environment; UAE/GCC knowledge is a plus.
• Experience coordinating with external accountants, bookkeepers, auditors, or shared-service teams.
• Professional accounting qualification or progress toward one is an advantage.
• Fluent English, Arabic a plus; French is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage recurring day-to-day finance operations across the Gulf region and act as an operational finance contact for internal teams, customers, suppliers, bookkeepers and external accountants.
• Maintain finance calendars, operational trackers, pending-action lists and complete supporting documentation.
• Follow up on incomplete, delayed, or incorrectly processed finance items and drive routine matters to resolution.
• Escalate material unusual, overdue, or technically complex matters to the Regional Financial Controller.
• Review billing inputs for completeness, accuracy, legal entity, currency, contractual support and billing period.
• Create customer invoices in Workday and coordinate invoice preparation with bookkeepers or external accountants.
• Track rejected invoices, missing documentation, corrections, cancellations and credit notes.
• Coordinate intercompany invoicing and supporting documentation.
• Prepare balance-sheet reconciliations and supporting schedules; post routine journal entries.
• Support Workday and OneStream reporting activities as required.

Skills

English fluency

Multi-entity experience

GCC/UAE familiarity

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance

Professional accounting qualification or progress toward

Tools

Workday

OneStream

ERP systems

Job description

Main Responsibilities

Regional Finance Operations

• Manage recurring day-to-day finance operations across the Gulf region and act as an operational finance contact for internal teams customers suppliers bookkeepers and external accountants.
• Maintain finance calendars operational trackers pending-action lists and complete supporting documentation.
• Follow up on incomplete delayed or incorrectly processed finance items and drive routine matters to resolution.
• Escalate material unusual overdue or technically complex matters to the Regional Financial Controller.

Customer Invoicing

• Collect billing information and supporting data from account managers and relevant business teams.
• Review billing inputs for completeness accuracy legal entity currency contractual support and billing period.
• Create customer invoices in Workday when required and coordinate invoice preparation by bookkeepers or external accountants where applicable.
• Arrange signatures company stamps supporting schedules customer-portal submissions and other administrative requirements.
• Send invoices to the correct customer contacts retain submission evidence and maintain a complete regional billing register.
• Track rejected invoices missing documentation corrections cancellations and credit-note requests.

Accounts Receivable

• Send invoices and statements of account and follow up on routine receivables actions.
• Obtain remittance information and support accurate allocation of customer receipts.
• Investigate routine differences between customer records invoices and payments.
• Track disputed overdue and partially paid invoices and escape significant collection delays customer disputes and credit-risk matters.
• Support the preparation and maintenance of unbilled listings and other revenue-related schedules where applicable.

Supplier and Accounts Payable Administration

• Support supplier onboarding and supplier master-data creation in Workday ensuring documentation is complete and changes are independently reviewed and approved.
• Review supplier invoices for basic accuracy legal-entity details tax information supporting documents and evidence of approval.
• Create supplier bills in Workday when required and coordinate bill booking and corrections with bookkeepers or external accountants.
• Respond to routine supplier queries regarding invoice and payment status.
• Track urgent rejected blocked or incomplete invoices and follow up on corrective actions.

Month End Closing and Accounting Support

• Coordinate the regional month-end close calendar and follow up on assigned deadlines and cut-offs.
• Ensure routine customer and supplier transactions are processed before the applicable cut-off.
• Prepare assigned balance-sheet reconciliations and supporting schedules and review reconciliations prepared by bookkeepers or external accountants.
• Support schedules for accruals prepayments deferred balances fixed assets banks intercompany accounts and other assigned accounts.
• Prepare or post approved routine journal entries.
• Investigate routine reconciliation differences and follow up on corrective entries.
• Support Workday and OneStream reporting activities as required.

External Accountant and Bookkeeper Coordination

• Communicate regularly with external accountants and bookkeepers regarding transaction processing reconciliations reporting and close deadlines.
• Provide the information and supporting documents required for accounting entries and follow up on open requests.
• Escalate material balances accounting judgments and persistent delays to the Regional Financial Controller.

Intercompany Activities

• Coordinate intercompany invoicing and supporting documentation.
• Maintain intercompany transaction and balance schedules.
• Investigate routine intercompany differences follow up on corrective actions and support their resolution through the month-end close process.
• Escalate material aged or technically complex intercompany matters.

Audit and Documentation Support

• Provide internal support to the Regional Financial Controller for audit and review requests.
• Compile ledger extracts reconciliations invoices contracts approvals and other supporting documents in a complete and traceable manner.
• Maintain organized finance records and contribute to consistent application of approval and documentation controls.

Qualifications :

Profile

• Bachelors degree in Accounting Finance Business Administration or a related field.
• Three to five years of hands-on experience in accounting or finance operations including accounts receivable accounts payable reconciliations and month-end closing.
• Experience working in a multi-entity international or regional environment; exposure to the UAE or wider GCC market is a strong advantage.
• Experience coordinating with external accountants bookkeepers auditors or shared-service teams is preferred.
• A professional accounting qualification or progress toward one is an advantage
• Fluent English spoken and written is mandatory. Arabic is an advantage; French is a plus.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time