Senior Accountant | Internal Finance

Grant Thornton - UAE


Date: 2 weeks ago
City: Dubai
Contract type: Full time


We’re a large and growing professional services firm that still feels like a community. With over 76,000 professionals in more than 150 countries, we combine global scale with local expertise to help dynamic organizations unlock their potential for growth. We truly care about our colleagues, our clients, and the communities where we work and live.

As a Senior Executive, you’ll play a key role in driving operational excellence, supporting strategic financial planning, and ensuring robust financial controls across the business. You’ll work closely with cross functional teams to analyze financial data, improve internal processes.

Discover your purple and join our Internal Finance Team today!

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Imagine being part of a team that puts “we before me”, where flexibility is a mindset, and where you trust your colleagues to have your back.

Imagine working for an organization that believes in the power of authenticity in everything that we do. Whether you're steering discussions in a client meeting, tackling your fear of heights at the top of the Burj Khalifa or ziplining across Jebel Jais – bring your true self to work. Be a part of a team driven by a purpose of shaping the world that we live in, based on trust and integrity in markets, dynamic businesses, and communities where businesses and people thrive.

Join us to expand your horizons, be inspired, face challenges, and most importantly, be yourself.

As a Senior Executive some of your responsibilities will include:

  • Ensuring correct revenue recognition for the various forms of client engagements per company policy through, for example assessing the quality of WIP/AR and the need for reserves/write offs
  • Ensuring compliance with internal controls, as well as regulatory and statutory requirements, and how we can strengthen how we do things (e.g. invoicing numbering process)
  • Managing WC by closely following WIP/AR as well as interacting with clients/consultants to smooth the administrative process
  • Monitoring of contractual billing terms, and chasing project teams on a timely basis to adhere to contractual terms ahead of time
  • Ensuring month-end account reconciliation in agreed areas are performed
  • Completing and reviewing of various year-end accounting packages. Interfaces with both Internal and External audit functions for both IFRS and local GAAP purposes
  • Assisting with internal/external audits especially around the areas of WIP/AR/Revenue recognition, but generally to support the Finance Controller where necessary
  • Key accounting activities including but not limited to GL, WIP, AR, treasury management, Tax Reporting and related matters. Ensures timely processing and reporting.
  • Ensuring compliance with internal controls and policies as well as regulatory and statutory requirements. Ensures correct revenue recognition for various forms of client engagements per company policy
  • Sharing knowledge with peers and actively participates in finance projects

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