Financial Accounting Specialist

Job Objective

Accurately capture all transactions related to pre-payments and Operating Expenses in the books of accounts. Reconcile assigned General Ledger balances and control fund management by liaising with the Planning and Fund management team. Support in providing required information on GLs to internal / external auditors

Responsibilities

Strategic

• Monitor, track and report performance against strategic initiatives
• Assist the Head of Accounting in preparing the strategy and the strategic initiatives for the sub-function aligned to the Financial Strategy

Financial 

• Assist the Head of Accounting in preparing the budget for the sub-function
• Monitor and track adherence to the approved budget and highlight deviations
• Perform all month end activities related to accounting for operating expenses in the books of accounts. Book opex cost, maintain accrual accounts and book journals at period end to ensure that the P&L related to each period accurately reflects the opex

Operational

• Actively provide required information (on General Ledgers and reconciliations) to internal and external auditors within stipulated timelines. Coordinate with auditors and resolve any audit related issues raised
• Perform pre-payment accounting. Follow-up with user departments and investigate to rectify cost booked (on issue of GRN, PO and PR) but not yet accrued; or costs accrued but not yet booked (as GRN was not yet issued)
• Evaluate convergence of financial regulatory practices for Opex costs for instance, IFRS, VAT, etc.
• Conduct review and analysis for opex cost booked and Capital cost transactions wrongly booked as opex cost
• Complete GL reconciliations for assigned accounts within the stipulated timeframe. Clear review items and maintain a log of action items to provide periodical status on progress
• Close books of accounts within the stipulated timeframe and escalate exceptions
• Control GL master records in the system (SAP). Take ownership of error logs and clear outstanding items. Monitor system access control with periodic reviews of system access and user profiles
• Control Fund Management through cooperation with Planning team, Financial Management team and users. Provide support to other finance team colleagues such as planning, reporting (HFM ), reconciliation, etc
• Implement procedures and controls at each functional process, such that all relevant procedural / legislative requirements are fulfilled while delivering a quality, cost effective service to internal customers
• Ensure continuous improvement of policies, processes, systems / structural programs and procedures covering all individual Functional activities
• Provide relevant information to address employee queries related to functional area
• Actively provide required information (on General Ledgers and reconciliations) to internal and external auditors within stipulated timelines. Coordinate with auditors and resolve any audit related issues raised

People

• Continuously share the knowledge and understanding of the telecom industry and business trends
• Take ownership for attending the trainings as per the plan
• Take ownership for completing PMS process, employee engagement surveys in time

Qualification

• Bachelor’s in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration

Experience

• 3-6 years of experience in financial accounting functions in the telecom environment.
• Strong working knowledge of SAP, HRMS and MS office applications such as Excel, Access and Power Point
• Good analytical skills (Financial).
• English language spoken and written skills.
• Optional: Arabic language spoken and written skills. 

Certification

• Accounting qualification (AAT/Part Professional qualification) or equivalent
• Preferably ACCA, CMA, CPA, etc. qualified