Company Description

The Middle East Region employs circa 800 staff across the Real Estate, Infrastructure and Natural Resource sectors across six legal entities across 5 Countries.

The ME Finance team are reorganising internally, and a vacancy has arisen in the UAE, where we have the greatest volume of business.



Finance Assistant - reporting to the ME Finance Controller

The role will be working within the Shared Service function, supporting the Accounts Payable team. The successful candidate should have an accounting background and a desire to pursue a career in Finance & Accounting. Experience is an advantage but not essential as we will provide training.

This successful candidate will be a strong team player but will also be required to work on their own initiative when needing to manage unusual and ad-hoc requirements. More important attributes for the role are enthusiasm, communication, personality, and an ability to contribute to business improvements.

Key Selected Accountabilities:

Account Payable

• Ensuring all invoices received are recorded on the invoice register and digital copies are saved on the server for record keeping purposes.
• Confirming that Purchase Orders have been Goods Receipted.
• Matching of invoices with Purchase Orders
• Follow up with Purchase Order creators and resolution of workflow issues.
• Ad Hoc tasks related to the efficient processing of supplier invoices.

Expense Claims

• Bi-weekly processing of employee expense claims.
• Assisting employees in the resolution of any expense claim related issues.

Qualifications

Core Behavioral Skills:

The successful candidates will possess the following characteristics:

• A challenging mind-set, analytical, methodical with the ability to investigate and interrogate data
• Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate well with all levels within the organization.
• Must be comfortable with working in a fast-moving, dynamic environment.
• Team player. The team support each and work together where requirements can be simultaneous and conflicting. The ability to work with the team, agree the priorities and manage time pressures are paramount.
• Accounting month-end close is a notoriously challenging period for all accountants and the successful will be expected to support with paid overtime as and when required.

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

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