Costing Clerk

Alghanim Industries; Kuwait; On-site; KWD 3,300 - 5,000; Full time

Job summary

Alghanim Industries in Kuwait seeks a Finance Assistant to manage job costing, invoicing, cash collection and daily cash reconciliation, ensuring records align with policy.

The role requires knowledge of bookkeeping, reconciliations, month-end schedules, and proficiency in Excel and Word; English and Arabic fluency is preferred.

Candidates with at least 1 year of cash handling experience and commerce education are encouraged to apply; flexibility to work weekends may be required.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of bookkeeping and recording accounting entries.
• Preparing reconciliations and month end schedules.
• Commerce graduate with proficiency in English and Arabic.

Responsibilities

• Do proper costing of the Jobs in progress in Service areas, close the job cards on job completion after complying with the published pricing and discount norms and raise the invoices on the system and collect cash from customers.
• Accurately operate cash register; deposit daily cash collected to treasury, bank or collection agents as advised by supervisor.
• Ensure all disbursements are verified with proper supporting documents as per company policy.
• Record all receipts and payments in cash register; file and store supporting documents.
• Sort, count and wrap coins and currency; reconcile cash in hand with cash register daily.
• Prepare month-end cash schedules and ensure cash-related tasks meet deadlines.
• Be flexible to work beyond business hours and weekends as needed.

Skills

Bookkeeping

Cash handling

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Bilingual English/Arabic

Education

Commerce degree

Tools

Excel

Word

Job description

The Job holder will be responsible for job costing, invoicing, cash collection, daily cash reconciliation, and maintaining accurate financial records while ensuring compliance with company policies and procedures.

Job Responsibilities

The Job holder will be responsible for job costing, invoicing, cash collection, daily cash reconciliation, and maintaining accurate financial records while ensuring compliance with company policies and procedures.

• Job description:
• Do proper costing of the Jobs in progress in Service areas, close the job cards on job completion after complying with the published pricing and discount norms and raise the invoices on the system and collect cash from customers.
• Accurately and efficiently operate cash register; deposit the daily cash collected to treasury, bank or duly authorised collection agents as advised by the Cost office co-ordinator or Supervisor. Obtain due acknowledgment from the person receiving the funds on Fund Transfer forms for cash handed over.
• Ensure all disbursements are carefully handled after verification of proper supporting documents as per company policy;
• Ensure all receipts and payments are timely recorded in cash register and the documents are filed and stored in an orderly manner along with all the supporting documents (Invoices, job cards, receipts etc)
• Sort, count and wrap coins and currency.
• Reconcile cash in hand with balance in Cash register on daily basis.
• Ensure that there is sufficient cash in the cash drawer
• Ensure that all schedules, including month end reconciliations, relating to cash are prepared on timely basis.
• Flexibility to work above business hours and weekends as needed.
• Ad hoc duties as assigned by line manager

Candidate Requirements

• Knowledge of Bookkeeping and recording the accounting entries.
• Preparing reconciliations and month end schedules.
• Commerce graduate
• Able to speak English and Arabic
• Knowledge of Excel and Word
• Minimum of 1 year experience in Cash handling and disbursements