Specialist Accounting Jordan

Specialist Accounting - Jordan

Area:Levant

Department: Finance-Accounting

Direct Reporting Line: Manager Accounting–GCC & Jordan

Indirect reporting line:Sr Finance Manager–GCC & Jordan

Subsidiary/country:Amman, Jordan

Location:Amman, Jordan

GSMS Grade:P2

Number of Personnel Managed: N/A

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

To perform solid bookkeeping, both compliant internally (Group policies and guidelines) and externally (local audit/tax requirements) per local accounting standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• To prepare and book operating expenses, payables and receivables in accordance with Group Finance Manual.
• Error free day to day bookkeeping with maximum precision as per the Group deadlines and IFRS requirements.
• Prepare accurate work papers, schedules, and balance sheet reconciliations
• Retail collections reconciliation and store alignments
• Reconciles financial discrepancies by collecting and analyzing account information
• To meet the set timelines of the Accounting Team Manager for the month end closing process of two reporting units (Amman and Aqaba).
• To monitor and reconcile the monthly Trial Balance movements within Accounts Payable/Account Receivables/Retail Sales/Treasury/Intercompany Sections.
• To initiate and drive improvement in current accounting processes and to control proper implementation.
• To support other departments in driving process improvements in all accounting related processes.
• To ensure proper compliance of accounting processes and policies with the Group Internal guidelines (GCSA).

• To ensure proper submission of financial reports to the external auditors.
• Retail store and head office petty cash handling.
• Intercompany reconciliations and bookings
• To review and follow up of all outstanding accounts payable transactions.
• Prepares payments by verifying documentation and requesting disbursements in line with the defined cut-off times.
• Prepares & reviews tax computation and related correspondence
• Fixed asset accounting and tagging
• Handling prepayments schedules and postings

KPIs:

• Accuracy and attention to detail.
• Clean system bookkeeping.
• Score of the GCSA/internal audit for the AP and NTP part.
• Satisfaction of internal (other functions, Management) and external parties (Auditors…).
• Maintain and implement effective accounting procedures
• Reliable financial feasibility analysis (submission of RFC and Budget within dedicated area of responsibility).

Key Relationships:

• All local departments
• Retail Stores
• Vendors/Customers
• Internal & External Auditor

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Commercial acumen: Very good numerical and analytical skills.
• Good written and verbal communication, presentation and facilitation skills.
• Fluent English (verbal and written).
• Strong MS-Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), proficient in MS Office.
• Basic SAP knowledge is required.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree in finance (preferably CA or ACCA)
• Functional: > 3 years accounting experience
• Industry: ideally apparel/fashion/shoes or FMCG
• Exposure: Audit, tax, insurance

IT skills:

• Outlook: Basic
• Word: Basic
• Excel: Expert
• PowerPoint: Advanced

Language skills:

• English: Fluent
• Arabic: Fluent

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