Accountant

Alfa Laval; Al Khobar; On-site; SAR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Alfa Laval in Saudi Arabia (Al Khobar) seeks an Accountant KSA to verify, allocate, post and reconcile accounts within AP/AR/GL. You will maintain accurate accounting aligned with principles and reporting schedules and support continuous improvements.

You will collaborate with Finance Shared Service Centre and Local Finance teams, handle VAT, bank reconciliations, IFRS 16 schedules, and assist year-end audits.

Qualifications

• Experience in general ledger accounting (GL) and reconciliations.
• Familiarity with VAT processes and audit support.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional finance teams.

Responsibilities

• Verify, allocate, post and reconcile accounts within area of responsibility (AP, AR, GL).
• Maintain accurate accounting records in line with principles and reporting schedules.
• Prepare VAT returns and assist VAT submissions; collate VAT documents for audits.

Job description

Accountant KSA

Verifying, allocating, posting and reconciling the accounts within area of responsibility (e.g. Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and General Ledger). Maintaining accurate accounting within area of responsibility to be in line with accounting principles and reporting schedules. Contribute to Continuous Improvements within area of responsibility. Collaborate with counterparts in the finance processes (e.g. Finance Shared Service Centre personnel & personnel within Local Finance).

About the Company:

In Alfa Laval, we are every single day contributing to a more sustainable future for our planet through engineering innovation. Our global team designs and implements the refining, recycling and purifying process that allows our customers to be better themselves. You will find our work in leading applications for water purification, clean energy, food production, waste processing, pharmaceutical development and much more. The people of Alfa Laval enjoy the freedom to pursue ideas and the resources to see those ideas to become reality, in an environment that welcomes drive, courage and diversity. The result is a company where we all can be very proud of what we do. Our core competencies are in the areas of heat transfer separation, and fluid handling. We are dedicated to optimizing the performance of our customers’ processes. Our world-class technologies, our systems, equipment, and services must create solutions that help our customers stay ahead. Please feel free to peruse our website www.alfalaval.com

Main purpose of the job / mission:

• Verifying, allocating, posting and reconciling the accounts within area of responsibility (e.g. Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and General Ledger).
• Maintaining accurate accounting within area of responsibility to be in line with accounting principles and reporting schedules.
• Contribute to Continuous Improvements within area of responsibility.
• Collaborate with counterparts in the finance processes (e.g. Finance Shared Service Center personnel & personnel within Local Finance).

Key tasks:

• Ensure accurate domestic supplier reconciliations for E4
• Intercompany invoicing for cost reallocation among domestic & foreign Alfa Laval companies.
• Monthly GL reconciliation submitted in line with timelines
• Maintain and reconcile GL (Suspense Account).
• Preparing of VAT return file
• Assisting in VAT submission
• Collated and filed VAT documents for audit purposes.
• Preparing WH tax files
• Bank and Cash (bank recons, SL revaluations) posting and Reco
• Posting of Payroll, Leave, Bonus journal on Scala
• Preparing Concur transactions payments and posting scala
• Check Concur transactions and reconcile 101101 & 141000 GL.
• Preparing month Accruals and posting.
• Post monthly interest on lease liability journals.
• Assisting with yearend audit preparation files and audit queries
• GL Accounting support to Finance Manager
• Maintain (Updates, interest, modifications) and reconcile IFRS 16 schedules.
• Managing company credit cards (issuing, cancellations, usage)
• Updating Sales Module after review
• Updating Stock Module after review
• FTE Stats update
• Assist with onboarding of new suppliers & Update scala with new suppliers.
• Coordinating with bank
• Assisting sales team to provide financial information
• Assisting service operation team required financial information
• Payment of GOSI
• Coordinating with external consultants (Tax & Assurance)

Who you are?

You’re innovative and solutions oriented. You’re driven and practical, able to execute in the most efficient way possible. You also share our curious mindset and want to know how you can be better and do better day after day. Just as important are the people, team, and communication skills essential to delivering projects in an agile way that meet quality, time, and targets. If you’re also adaptable and flexible, eager to learn even more and have a curiosity that drives innovation, this is where you’ll find a world of career-building opportunity.

Why should you apply?

• We offer you an interesting and challenging position in an open and friendly environment where we help each other to develop and create value for our customers.
• Exciting place to build a global network with different nationalities to mingle and to learn.
• Your work will have a true impact on Alfa Laval’s future success; you will be learning new things every day.
• 140 years old Swedish multinational company with stable growth and expansion
• Sustainability and contributing back to the people and planet are motives behind everything we do.

We care about diversity, inclusion and equity in our recruitment processes. We also believe behavioral traits can provide important insights into a candidate’s fit to a role. To help us achieve this we apply Pymetrics assessments, and upon application you will be invited to play the assessment games.