Public Accountant-Jobs in Vereinigte Arabische Emirate

Main Responsibilities:

Accountable for statutory and Group Actual reported books (P&L, Balance Sheet, etc.) prepared by ACC and local teams, ensuring compliance with both local and Group requirements

Set-up and lead the Country Accounting Organization, supported by ACC

Optimize the set-up and quality of accounting processes and tools / technology enablers, in line with Group guidelines and internal control requirements (incl. various projects)

Propose financial technical advice and support for the business needs

Collaborate within Finance Community to support the overall function goals

Manage Tax accounting & filings, in coordination with Tax Compliance teams

Manage the relation with external stakeholders (incl. auditors)

Drive Transformation within the Accounting domain and support other related Group transformations"

Responsibilities

1- Accountable for Group accounting, statutory and tax books prepared by ACC and local team:

-Provide input on local accounting policies and procedures and define local Accounting approval matrix

-Ensure robust end to end accounting process in coordination with ACC: efficiency, productivity and quality of delivery

-Reporting under IFRS & Group principles (Implementation of Group Controlling and accounting rules and processes)

-Ensure the production of the compliant statutory accounts, communication with local authorities, auditors, banks, …

-Manage regular Balance sheet reviews and challenge assessment of risk provisions

-In collaboration with tax ensure local and international tax compliance, timely filling in, reviewing, approving, filing the tax returns and making the tax payments

Ensure reconciliation between tax / local GAAP/ group reporting accounts

2- Leads the Country Accounting Organization, supported by ACC

-Manage work with Finance SS in the framework of an SLA

-Set up & update Accounting team in the Country for all legal entities, in accordance with the Group projects & evolution

-Governance and escalation of issues (based on Sequence tool)

-Part of ACC Governance and respond to ACC Customer satisfaction survey

3- Responsible to optimise set up and quality of Accounting and Tax processes and tools

- Define priorities and roadmap for process improvement

- Ensure that processes are in place, they are in line with corporate guidelines, documented, communicated and updated

- Ensure that tools are in place, they are in line with the corporate guidelines and employees are trained to use them

-Lead evolution&change in tools in compliance with Global guidelines (and where applicable including tools not governed by the Global guidelines)

4- Responsible to update Finance on legislations/local rules change and statutory events

- Maintain Subscription for Accounting, Tax and relevant legislation updates from external professional firms or local

- Membership to Accounting and Tax Network

- Responsible to maintain a planning of all statutory / compliance activities and duties

- Accountable for implementation of internal controls in all accounting processes in his/her scope

- Provide accounting support for ad-hoc activities like acquisitions, LE merges, carve-outs

- Lead Accounting Transformation, to align with Group strategy and support other Group related transformation projects (where applicable)"

What qualifications will make you successful for this role?

Technical skills

• Local accounting/tax qualification and English speaking
• CPA or IFRS degree (certificates)- Process oriented (workflows, guidelines, instructions, documentation etc)
• compliance and internal control
• Digital Mindset
• Technical knowledge of IFRS and country accounting (both statutory and tax)
• IT and tools oriented
• capacity to understand both local and global pictures from a statutory perspective"

Soft Skills and leadership

• Business partnership
• Leadership and team management skills
• Collaboration
• Good communicator able to explain
• Capacity to collaborate and manage stakeholders (CFO, ACC, Auditors, Corp, Functions)
• Ability to synthesise and identify key priorities and issues, and after explain complex issues in simple manner
• Agility and capacity to drive change
• Curiosity, pragmatism and capacity to understand both local and global pictures

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