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Accounting Specialist Wholesale Business
Location:
United Arab Emirates
Department: Accounting / Auditing
Job Description
Key Accountabilities
- Validation and settlement of invoices accurately & timely. Raise disputes, manage dispute tracker, ensuring old aged items are settled as per KPIs and coordinating with relevant business unit, supplier and accounts payable team for timely payment.
- Review and validate contracts with customers and suppliers from finance perspective.
- Support and implement end-2-end process from “Procurement to pay” keeping the final process implementation in mind ensuring best possible level of automation.
- Reconcile and recorded revenue against billing records, sales data, and customer contracts to identify and resolve discrepancies.
- Application of receipts received from customers.
- Compile and analyze financial data to generate month end accrual entries, allocate revenue and costs across departments or projects, and provide comprehensive settlement information for financial reporting and decision-making.
- Generate required reporting/analysis as per requests from the Management/ Business units. Preparation and analysis for various monthly reports for management.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor Degree in Accounting or Finance, ACCA/ Partly or fully Qualified CA.
Experience:
- Minimum 3 years of experience in accounting specifically in revenue recognition, cost booking, and invoicing handling.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including the ability to create and summarize financial reports is must.
- Knowledge of basic accounting standard (IFRS) and other relevant principles for recognizing revenue and cost based on the contract.
- Excellent understanding of accounting terms like deferred revenue and cost, accruals and cost of sales (COS) accounting.
- Hands-on experience with ERP systems like Oracle, ASCADE or similar accounting software.
- Ability to perform basic financial analysis, identify trends, discrepancies and areas for improvement in cost and revenue booking.
- High level of accuracy and precision in booking revenues, recording costs, and recording and issuing invoices to ensure financial integrity.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines, especially during month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing periods.
- Strong problem-solving skills to resolve discrepancies in revenue recognition, billing issues, and cost allocation efficiently.
- Telecom accounting experience is preferred, though not essential
Skills:
- Expertise in Financial processes, Accounts payable, GL, accruals, Revenue.
- Skills in performing dataanalysis through Excel as well as building simple to advanced financial models for reporting.
- Attention to details. Strong ability to analyze revenue and cost trends, identify discrepancies, and provide insights for better financial decision-making
- Skills in reconciling vendor statements, customer invoices, and internal records to ensure the accuracy of both payables and receivables.
- Ability to identify inefficiencies within the revenue and cost booking processes and recommend improvements for better operational efficiency
- Strong communication skills for liaising with cross-functional teams (e.g., customers, legal, finance) and addressing any issues related to invoicing or cost allocation
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines, particularly during month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing periods.

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Accounting Specialist Wholesale Business