Finance & Accounting Manager
United Arab Emirates, Sharjah
Manage the accounting and reporting function with a focus on high quality and efficiency of service. Adhering to accounting policies and reporting rules, ensuring compliance with all local accounting, social, and tax principles, implementing financial group policy, adhering to international accounting standards, and providing strong support to senior management, CFO, and Chief Audit Executive.
Key Accountabilities
Reporting and Local Statutory Reporting
- Compare financial results with the respective plans, standards, and budgets, analyse these results and recommend corrective actions.
- Actively perform monthly reporting, forecasting, long range plan and budgeting.
- Set up systems for monitoring transactional volumes while continuously improving all processes to gain productivity.
- Assist the General Manager in analysing the strengths & weaknesses of the company and support the decision-making process with relevant data. Provide the financial part of the long-term and short-term planning (budget) process of the business.
- Organize and manage the accounting department in such a way that an efficient, reliable, and timely reporting that can be ensured for local and group purposes, with respect of all statutory and operational requirements, “Monthly closing in BFC” & “Monthly financial reports”.
Taxation
- Manage all related tax declarations and make sure it is submitted on time.
- Liaise with the external auditors and tax advisor regarding the audit and tax filings.
Treasury Operation
- Timely cash forecast and management.
- Manage financing requirements and ensure optimal liquidity management.
- Responsible to maintain a good relationship with the banks, analyse bank charges and facilities to ensure being provided with a good service.
Credit Control Management
- Responsible to ensure that asset management and asset registered is accurately being recorded.
- Responsible for managing the bad debt and main a low overdue rate.
- Reconcile accounts receivables with the sales and provide timely accurate accounts receivable information as required.
- Provide accounts receivable related to reports on a timely basis and highlight the past due accounts.
General Accounting
- Manage the day-to-day activities and transactions and lead the monthly closing cycle on the ERP system.
- Review and approve daily journal.
- Ensure operations cycle is completed with all supporting documents required.
- Ensure that all reconciliation and balance confirmation is accurately done and in a timely manner.
- Manage and control the budget & forecasting process.
- Prepare the monthly closing file that includes bank reconciliation, balance sheet, accounts analysis and ensure all the accounts are reconciled.
- Responsible for inventory stock count and ensure being conducted on regular basis and report variances and recommendations.
- Ensure that cash availability matches with the cash on the accounting system.
External Audit
- Respect and ensure application of both Finance and internal control procedures, to minimise the risks of mistakes and fraud. Successfully pass the external audits on the financial results.
Profile
- Bachelor Degree in Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or relevant field.
- Senior finance management, preferably from food trading background.
- 7-10 years of experience.
- Expertise in international accounting rules.
Competencies
- Strong people management skills
- Analytical capabilities
- Strong technical system knowledge (ERP system, BFC, BI tools)
- Knowledgeable with local tax legislation
- Knowledge in application of bookkeeping, accounts payable, general ledger, reconciliations, and related accounting functions.
- Detail oriented, accurate, eager to learn, and improve herself/himself.
Offer
BanoPuratos provides a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment that encourages our people to take initiatives and bring ideas that will contribute to the success of the company. Of course, BanoPuratos offers a competitive package but additionally, offers you a position that you can further develop and shape.
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