Financial Accountant Dubai UAE

Position: Financial Accountant

Date posted: 2022-07-11

Industry: other

Employment type: Full Time

Experience: 3 to 5 year

Qualification: Bachelor’s Degree holder

Salary: AED 10000 to 20000

Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Company: Confidential

Description:

Financial Accountant

Our Financial Accountant position in Dubai is an exciting opportunity for a financial professional looking to make a difference in the world at one of the World’s Best Workplaces. Ready to take a next step in your career at a Fortune 500 organization and support Stryker’s growth journey?

• Accounting and Financial Reporting
• Partnering closely with Stryker’s Financial Shared Service Center.
• Providing updates on journal entries, monthly accruals, and adjustments to the Financial Shared Service Center
• Supporting the group monthly closing process including quarter and year-end packages
• Deliver and monitor all relevant and local reporting/filing requirements.
• Responsible for all accounts payable activities (providing invoices and booking instructions to the Financial Shared Service Center). Following up to ensure payments are done on time
• Conducting general accounting analysis and ad hoc reporting as required by the Finance Manager
• Conducting or assisting in ad hoc projects
• Work with internal VAT team to finalize quarterly VAT filing in FTA portal.
• Support any regular or ad-hoc internal and external audits of the company books, including the annual financial year end audits
• Ensure Balance Sheet Integrity
• Ensuring the integrity of accounting records for completeness, accuracy and compliance
• Prepare balance sheet reconciliations
• Partner with the Financial Shared Service Center to maintain schedules and registers (fixed assets/depreciation, Employee related accruals, etc.…)
• Finance Planning & Analysis (FP&A) activities
• Providing input and comments on monthly actuals vs. forecast variances
• Follow up on weekly sales forecast updates & report to changes to the Finance Manager
• Support in the preparation of the yearly sales budget & quarterly forecast updates
• Providing input for the yearly OPEX budget & quarterly updates

Education And Experience

• Finance/Accounting degree
• Fluency in both written and spoken English
• 3 years of experience within an accounting position
• Experience with an ERP system
• Strong Excel skills
• Experience working for a multinational organization or for a SSC is an advantage