Sr. Spclst, General Accounting

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Accounting manager responsibilities include establishing financial status by developing and implementing systems for collecting, analyzing, verifying and reporting information. We are also looking for someone to work closely with our financial management team.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensure timely and accurate bookings and perform monthly closing activities to report US GAAP financials to Regional Management in Europe and the consolidation team in the United States
• Perform and/or review specific account analysis and reconciliations on a periodic basis to ensure compliance with internal policies, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and internal control system standards.
• Support the external auditors during the annual statutory audit, including preparation of financial statements, respective documentation and assistance during the audit process.
• Perform analysis on operating expenses by cost center and division to support the financial analysts
• Key contact person for numerous internal stakeholders such as shared service centers, internal audit, Group consolidation team, payroll, tax and treasury
• Assist the Financial Controller in leading the accounting team
• Ad-hoc tasks and projects as required

Working Capital Management:

• Ensure necessary working capitals are met,
• Monitor and follow up collections and outstanding claims from customers,

Disbursement Functions:

• Review disbursement transactions including compliance with financial controls and Foreign Corrupt Practice Act (FCPA requirements),
• Manage audit processing of employee expense reimbursements and Citi Corporate Card activity monitoring,
• Manage monthly expense budget versus actuals, including but not limited to sponsorship activities and its financial compliance approvals,
• Monthly accruals process,
• Work with Shared Service center for payment processing, follow up and timely conflict resolution,
• Timely identification and resolution of disbursement related issues

Compliance Tracker/Monitoring:

• Work with the Compliance Committee Team in monitoring outliers in marketing activities using internal tools,
• Review “items of interest” for adequacy of supports and remediation.

Other Tasks:

• Assist the Financial Planning team on headcount and cost center expense analysis
• Meet accounting financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
• Confirm financial status by monitoring revenue and expenses; coordinating the collection, consolidation, and evaluation of financial data; preparing special reports.
• Maintain accounting controls by establishing a chart of accounts; defining accounting policies and procedures.
• Guide other departments by researching and interpreting accounting policy; applying observations and recommendations to operational issues.
• Maintain financial security by establishing internal controls.
• Avoid legal challenges by understanding current and proposed legislation; enforcing accounting regulations; recommending new procedures.
• Protect organization's value by keeping information confidential.
• Accomplish accounting and organization mission by completing related results as needed.

Skills and Competencies

• Professionally Certified Chartered accountant/ACCA/CMA/Master of Commerce from International Institute or pursuing towards the same, MBA Finance with relevant experience will also be desirable
• Relevant working experience (+5 years) in an accounting/finance department
• Pharmaceuticals experience shall be preferred but not essential.
• Experience in project management with strong capabilities in simultaneously managing various tasks, prioritizing them and respecting strict deadlines is essential for this role
• Excellent understanding and experience within a matrix organization
• Fluent in English both oral and written, with Arabic knowledge being a plus
• Big 4 experience is highly desirable
• Possess ‘Can do” approach, having high sense of ownership and urgency.
• Knowledge of ERP systems, preferably experienced with SAP (FI), proficient with MS Office, mainly Excel (Pivot, Macros)
• Not afraid to go through details.
• Possess leadership skills and able manage a team thru difficult times,
• Excellent analytical and communication skills.

Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

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