GL Accountant - 1 year contract

Our client is an international organisation with operations across multiple regions, currently undergoing a finance systems transformation. They operate in a fast-moving environment and are enhancing their financial infrastructure to support continued growth. The business offers strong cross functional exposure and the opportunity to work closely with a core finance team on a high impact project.

Responsibilities

• Support finance activities related to the implementation of a new ERP system, ensuring accuracy and completeness of financial data.
• Participate in data cleansing and validation work prior to system migration.
• Assist with reconciling legacy ledger balances, ensuring all opening balances and open items are correctly identified ahead of migration.
• Contribute to mapping existing accounts and transactions to the updated chart of accounts.
• Support the incorporation and alignment of financial dimensions within existing datasets.
• Validate migrated data and perform post migration reconciliations to ensure ledger integrity.
• Assist with user testing for finance related processes and workflows within the new ERP system.
• Document finance processes, testing outcomes, and workflows as part of the implementation programme.
• Perform general ledger accounting tasks including reconciliations, reviews, and ledger clean up as required.
• Provide day to day support to the Finance Core Team throughout the transformation period.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline.
• 2 to 5+ years of General Ledger accounting experience.
• Strong background in account reconciliations and ledger analysis.
• Experience in ERP implementation or system migration is essential.
• Hands on experience with Microsoft Dynamics is highly preferred.
• Advanced Excel skills including pivot tables and data analysis.
• Candidates do not need prior UAE experience but must be currently based in the UAE and immediately available.