Senior Finance Analyst

PwC - United Arab Emirates; Al Khobar; On-site; SAR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking a Senior Finance Analyst in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia, to manage finance managed service operations. Candidates should have a Bachelor’s, ideally a Master’s in finance, and 3-4 years of relevant experience. Fluency in English and Arabic is essential, along with excellent communication skills.

Qualifications

• 3-4 years of professional experience in finance, preferably in the Middle East.
• Experience with diverse portfolio of people, process, and technology.

Responsibilities

• Manage accounts payable and ensure accuracy of financial statements.
• Prepare monthly reports and assist with A/P issues.
• Identify exceptions in cash reconciliations.
• Resolve customer disputes and document interactions.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Strong understanding of P2P or O2C process

Fluent in English

Fluent in Arabic

Education

Bachelor’s degree in finance or Business Management

Master’s degree in finance or Business Management

Job description

Established in the region for 40 years, PwC has around 12,000 people in 12 countries across the region: Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, the Palestinian territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Our regional team operates across the Middle East bringing international experience delivered within the context of the region and its culture. We can bring the collective knowledge and experience of more than 370,000 people across the entire global PwC network in advisory, assurance and tax to help you find the value you are looking for.

Job Summary

What does this role aim to achieve in the firm/what impact does the role create: The Finance Analyst is responsible for the day-to-day delivery of Finance Managed Service operations for the Finance Service Tower. This includes processing of finance transactions and production of required reports.

Roles and Responsibilities

Daily tasks and delivery expectation

As a Senior Finance analyst, you will work across one or more core finance processes, delivering these activities for customers of PwC:

Accounts Payable

• Complete ownership of accounting and reconciliations; ensures accuracy and timeliness.
• Manages monthly closing of financial records and posting of month end information; ensures accuracy of financial statements.
• Prepare monthly and quarterly reporting, as requirement
• Assist accountants and controllers with A/P issues or problems.
• Review and process invoices along with providing the resolutions for the invoices and releasing the invoices for Payment.
• Resolve all vendor queries and requests coming via e-mails / Tickets within the agreed SLA.
• Maintain exception logs for process related exception as and when they occur for knowledge retention.
• Independently perform transactional tasks which support the compliance, planning and execution of assigned processes.
• Enforce the internal compliance policy and guideline established by the management on their daily operational activities.
• Perform daily internal audit to ensure all Invoices / queries are balanced as per the guidelines.
• Maintain a tracker of the exceptions and ensure Invoices and queries are balanced taking based on the exception tracker

Order to Cash

• Identify and rectify unidentified cash and manage end to end process of Cash office reconciliations.
• Identify exceptions in cash office reconciliations and follow up with store for proper closure.
• Report Cash short / Long and send for payroll recovery for amount above threshold as per Policy.
• Work closely with Merchants for credit card settlement issues and charge backs.
• Follow up on customer/internal disputes, customer questions and working between departments to get a resolution.
• Making collection calls to the customers, emailing/faxing invoices or getting hard copies mailed out to customers as per their requests.
• Making collection calls to the customers, emailing/faxing invoices or getting hard copies mailed out to customers as per their requests.
• Solving queries related to cash applications and coordination with customers.
• Extensive knowledge and ability to perform day-to-day operations while maintaining SLA.
• Working as a part of Order to Cash Processing team which will be accountable for Order to Cash process that starts from customers enquiry and involves sales order from customer to delivery and invoicing.
• Determining Financial outcome by collecting operational Data / Reports, whilst conducting Analysis and Reconciling transaction

Expected Skills

Specific learned abilities or technical skills

• Excellent communication skills are a must with a good command over written and spoken English & Arabic
• Strong understanding about P2P or O2C process and related accounting knowledge preferred.
• Arabic experience

Expected Competencies

Values, behaviors & attitude

• Communicate with impact.
• Results driven.
• Drive organizational excellence

Required Language Skills

• Proficient in written and spoken English. Arabic is a plus

Minimum Education and Specific Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Business Management / Administration or equivalent
• Master’s degree in finance, Business Management / Administration or equivalent from an accredited university

Minimum years experience required

• Minimum 3-4 years of professional experience, ideally having worked with a diverse portfolio of people, process, and technology with a leading firm, preferably in the Middle East region

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