Accountant

ABOUTELEVATE

Elevate is a full-service consulting firm that inspires high-performing organisations to find their limits and push past them. With expertise in brand consulting, sales strategy, data-driven insights, and talent optimisation, Elevate gives its clients a competitive edge in the fight for people's precious time and attention. Established in 2018, Elevate set out to help sports teams and leagues spark innovation and drive performance. In the years since, the world of sports has transformed, today standing at the convergence of media, entertainment, and consumer brands, with Elevate supporting some of the world's most ambitious businesses across these sectors. Elevate's proprietary technology, data sources, and software products combined with our thoughtful insights, and people centric approach give clients a 360 degree view of their customers, underpinning intelligent decision making on marketing spend, growth strategy, and more.

Our team of 500+ employees spans the globe with in 20 locations worldwide. We value recruiting diverse individuals to our team to bring new perspectives to our company and look forward to learning more about you in the recruitment process. To learn more and see what we've been up to, follow Elevate on X, LinkedIn, and Instagram.

Role Description

Elevate is seeking an experienced Accountant to join as a key member of the Elevate team to support day to day finance requirements:

• At least 2 years experience in an Accounting role.
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel.
• Experience in Accounting/bookkeepingsystems.
• Knowledge of Prepayments, depreciation, accruals, inter company transactions, foreign currency accounting, and account reconciliation.
• Committed to deliver results.
• Take ownership of your duties.
• Eager to learn and evolve.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage day to day accounting activities, these include accounts receivable, accounts payable and maintenance of management accounts.
• Participate in all aspects of the End Of Month process.
• Prepare/review journal entries and ensure transactions include valid supporting documents.
• Ensure GL accounts roll forwards, monthly reconciliations, and analyses are completed.
• Help in improving internal control policies and procedures to ensure delivery of reliable management reports and financial statements.
• Support with External Audit Requirements.
• Ensure compliance with Accounting standards.
• Manage Client registration and setup.
• Manage Supplier billing process and assist in Client billing.
• Manage Staff expenses process and reporting platform.
• Manage banking process from importing to reconciliation.
• Manage Finance enquiries and emails.
• Support Finance team with ad hoc duties as assigned.

Skills & Competencies

• Result oriented, committed with a sense of responsibility.
• Strategic & critical thinking.
• Ability to multi task and manage to remain accountable to meeting deadlines.
• Problem solving and innovative skill set - being able to develop new ways to perform old tasks more efficiently.

People

As the Accountant, you will be engaged in Team and cross department activities, thus you will need to maintain people skills such as:

• Working well as part of a team.
• In certain role related tasks / are you will need to work closely with the HR and Ops teams to enhance your tasks' results.
• Confidence when dealing with senior personnel both internally and externally.

Communication

Excellent communication across all levels of the organisation is paramount to the success of this role:

• Fluent in spoken and written English & Arabic
• Very good written and verbal communication skills; the ability to articulate complex problems and solutions in a simple, logical and impactful manner.

Qualifications & Experience

Candidates interested in this position must have:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Accounting, Finance.