Accountant - Job Costing | Bilingual

The Accountant will be responsible for tracking, analysing, and reporting the costs of individual projects/jobs to ensure accurate profitability measurement, proper cost allocation, and timely financial reporting. The role focuses on monitoring project expenses, labor, materials, subcontractor costs, equipment usage, work-in-progress, and billing progress in coordination with project managers and operations teams.

Key ResponsibilitiesJob Costing & Project Accounting

• Maintain accurate job cost records for each project/job, including labor, materials, subcontractors, equipment, overheads, and other direct costs.
• Allocate costs to the correct project, cost center, work order, or job code.
• Review project expenses to ensure proper classification and supporting documentation.
• Monitor project budgets versus actual costs and highlight variances.
• Prepare job profitability reports and cost-to-complete analysis.
• Track committed costs, including purchase orders, subcontractor agreements, and pending invoices.
• Assist in calculating work-in-progress, accrued costs, and revenue recognition where applicable.

Accounts Payable & Cost Control

• Review supplier and subcontractor invoices against purchase orders, delivery notes, contracts, and approved job budgets.
• Ensure invoices are charged to the correct project/job code.
• Coordinate with project managers for invoice approvals.
• Monitor unpaid project-related liabilities and accrued expenses.
• Identify duplicate, unsupported, or incorrectly coded costs.

Billing & Revenue Support

• Support progress billing, milestone billing, or percentage-of-completion billing.
• Coordinate with operations/project teams to confirm work completed before invoicing.
• Reconcile project billing with contract values, variation orders, and approved claims.
• Track unbilled revenue, retention amounts, advance payments, and customer balances.

Reporting & Reconciliation

• Prepare monthly job cost reports by project.
• Reconcile job cost reports with the general ledger.
• Support month-end closing by preparing accruals, prepayments, WIP schedules, and project cost summaries.
• Assist in preparing management reports showing project margins, cost overruns, and pending commitments.
• Maintain proper filing of project-related financial documents.

Coordination & Compliance

• Work closely with project managers, procurement, warehouse, HR/payroll, and finance teams.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, approval matrix, and internal controls.
• Support internal and external audits by providing project cost schedules and supporting documents.
• Recommend improvements in job costing, cost tracking, and reporting processes.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• 7 years of accounting experience, preferably in construction, contracting, engineering, manufacturing, facilities, or project-based companies.
• Strong knowledge of job costing, cost allocation, accruals, and reconciliations.
• Good understanding of project budgets, purchase orders, subcontractor invoices, and WIP reporting.
• Proficiency in MS Excel and accounting/ERP systems.
• Experience with construction/project accounting software is a plus.

Pay: AED10,000.00 - AED12,000.00 per month

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Experience:

• Cost Accounting : 7 years (Preferred)
• project accounting: 7 years (Preferred)
• Budget vs. actual analysis: 7 years (Preferred)
• Accounts Payable : 7 years (Preferred)
• Reporting & Reconciliation: 7 years (Preferred)

Language:

• Arabic (Preferred)
• English (Preferred)

Location:

• Abu Dhabi (Preferred)

Work Location: In person