Senior Accountant

Accountant
Abu Dhabi
October 22, 2025
Full Time
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Job Description

The Senior Accountant will oversee accounting operations, ensuring that accounting across all entities and jurisdictions is accurate, timely, and compliant. You will act as the primary point of contact for auditors, senior finance leadership, with full ownership over financial governance, reporting accuracy, and compliance across jurisdictions. This role requires strong technical accounting knowledge, deep understanding of internal controls and compliance framework, also risk management.

Key Responsibilities

General Ledger (GL) & Reporting

  • Maintain and reconcile the general ledger, ensuring all entries are accurate, complete, and compliant with accounting standards
  • Manage month-end closing activities, prepare and analyze financial reports including profit & loss, balance sheet, and cash flow statements
  • Support the budgeting and forecasting process by providing accurate financial data
  • Monitor and reconcile intercompany accounts, accruals, provisions, and other GL balances
  • Maintain the fixed asset, lease and other relevant registers, ensuring accurate recording of acquisitions, disposals, transfers, and depreciation

Accounts Payable (AP)

  • Supervise the AP function, ensuring accurate invoice verification, approval, posting, and payment processing
  • Prepare vendor account reconciliations, dispute resolution, and timely settlement of dues
  • Enforce internal controls to prevent fraud, errors, and compliance gaps

Accounts Receivable (AR)

  • Oversee invoicing, collections, credit control, and reconciliations
  • Work with project accounting teams to resolve billing disputes and minimize bad debts
  • Prepare AR aging reports and analyse collection trends

Cash Management

  • Prepare cash forecasts to ensure smooth and timely payments to vendors
  • Monitor cash balances across the group companies, ensure necessary and timely funding of entity bank accounts
  • Liaise with banks for day to day operations, queries, changes in approval workflows

Audit & Compliance

  • Serve as the primary contact for external auditors and advisors
  • Prepare documentation and schedules to support both internal and external audits
  • Ensure compliance with IFRS/GAAP, tax, and regulatory requirements
  • Maintain and improve internal controls to safeguard assets and enhance governance

Qualifications and Requirements:

  • 8-10 years’ progressive accounting experience, with at least 3 years in a supervisory or senior accountant role, with exposure to group companies and consolidation
  • Strong knowledge of IFRS/GAAP, local taxation, and regulatory frameworks
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate data into actionable insight
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence stakeholders across technical, operational, and executive levels
  • Prior experience in the healthcare, public sector, or technology/software industries is highly desirable
  • Accounting qualification (CPA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent) required
  • Proficiency using Netsuite required
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