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Job Overview
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!
Let us paint a picture for you
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
Skills
Think you've got what it takes to be a Senior Executive? Like the color purple? Great. Here's a few more boxes we're also hoping you can tick:
- Bachelors Degree in Accounting, Finance or Business Administration
- Chartered/Certified accountant qualification – CA, ACA (ICAEW), ACCA, CPA is preferred
- Strong accounting, analytical, numerical and structural skills
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and PowerBI
- Good knowledge of modern accounting software systems and workflow, ideally Microsoft D365 (although SAP/Oracle welcomed)
- Strong written and spoken English. Arabic speaking is advantageous
- Willingness and ability to work additional hours, as needed, and travel to various client sites
Job Details
Preferred Candidate
About This Company
Grant Thornton UAE
At Grant Thornton we’re focused on making a difference in the lives of our clients, our colleagues, and our communities. That’s our purpose. Or, as we like to say, our purple.
Are you ready to Discover Your Purple? We are committed to electronically confirm with all applicants when an application has been received. If your application is shortlisted, then the next stage will be a technical assessment using the software TestGorilla.