Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities

Cross-Border Transaction Review & Consolidation

▸ Receive, validate, and reconcile transactions posted by local accounting teams across 6–7 African countries and their multiple site locations.

▸ Identify posting errors, classification issues, or missing entries and coordinate corrections with country-level teams.

▸ Perform inter-company reconciliations and eliminate intra-group balances for consolidated reporting.

▸ Maintain a master ledger and ensure all subsidiary data feeds are complete, timely, and accurate before any report is prepared.

1. Financial Reporting & Management Accounts

▸ Prepare accurate and insightful monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements — P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow — at both entity and group consolidated level.

▸ Translate multi-currency, multi-location data into a unified reporting pack for senior management and Group leadership.

▸ Provide budget-vs-actual variance analysis with clear, concise commentary explaining deviations and recommending corrective actions.

▸ Present financial dashboards and KPI summaries that give management a real-time pulse on group performance.

Costing & Profitability Analysis

▸ Conduct detailed cost analysis across product lines, service categories, and geographies to identify margin drivers and cost inefficiencies.

▸ Build and maintain costing models that allow management to assess the true profitability of each country operation and business unit.

▸ Analyse operational expenditure patterns and flag anomalies or budget overruns proactively.

▸ Support pricing decisions and business case evaluations with data-driven costing insights.

1. Accounts Payable, Receivable & Payroll

▸ Oversee end-to-end AP/AR cycles, ensuring timely vendor payments, accurate invoicing, and healthy cash collection.

▸ Conduct regular bank reconciliations and ensure all accounts are closed cleanly at period end.

▸ Supervise payroll processing in compliance with UAE Labour La w and coordinate with HR on headcount and benefits data.

Internal Controls & Audit Liaison

▸ Design and enforce internal control frameworks to prevent fraud, misstatement, and financial discrepancies across all entities.

▸ Serve as the primary point of contact for external auditors during year-end audit processes; prepare audit schedules and respond to queries.

▸ Ensure all financial practices and disclosures comply with IFRS, and proactively flag any gaps or risks to senior management.

▸ Document standard operating procedures for accounting and finance workflows to create consistency across the group.

Desired Candidate Profile

• Education & Qualifications ▸ Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or a related field (mandatory). ▸ Professional qualification — ACCA, CPA, CA, or CMA — is a strong advantage and will be given significant preference. Experience ▸ 3 to 7 years of core accounting experience, with at least 2 years within the UAE. ▸ Prior exposure to multi-entity or multi-country group accounting is highly desirable. ▸ Demonstrated experience in both accounting operations and financial analysis/reporting — candidates from pure audit backgrounds without hands-on bookkeeping experience will not be a fit.

  
  

  Technical Skills ▸ Proficiency in ERP software: Tally, Zoho Books, Oracle, or equivalent platforms. ▸ Advanced Microsoft Excel (pivot tables, VLOOKUP, financial modelling, dynamic dashboards). ▸ Familiarity with multi-currency accounting and intercompany consolidation workflows. ▸ Working knowledge of IFRS standards and their practical application.