Job Description

Job Summary
Al-Futtaim Group Finance Shared Service Center team is currently seeking a finance professional to join their team in the capacity of Senior Accountant O2C.
As a Senior Accountant O2C in Group Finance Shares Service Centre (FSSC), he/she will focus on supporting the day-to-day activities of the O2C function whilst complying with organization's policies and procedures and ensuring necessary checks and balances to mitigate risks through his team members:
This position will be responsible for the following.

• Ensure strong control and governance to the activities involved in Order to Cash process in compliance with company policies and procedures.
• Drive further development and enhancement of the current process.
• Carry out daily/weekly/monthly partnering support to business units.
• Perform GL Reconciliations.
• Ensure risks/exceptions / interface fallouts are resolved on a timely manner by performing review, reconciliation, escalations, and substantiation of O2C accounts and reports.
• Review Accounts Receivables and overdues position shared with business to facilitate their follow-up and collection activities.
• Perform customer accounts reconciliations.
• Calculate and review provision working for various risks including doubtful debts as per Policy.
• Post various accounting entries.
• Review and comply with the department check list for month end and year end book closing.
• Identify standardization and automation initiates and drive as a project for cost saving.
• Ensure Support with resolution of audit requests (internal and external) within the submission timelines.
• Review GL Schedules from the Balance Sheet Substantiation perspective as per the group initiative.
• Support management with ad-hoc reporting requirements.
• Liaise with IT Team, System, Process & Compliance Team, Divisional Controlling Team, and various Business Units to resolve issues, escalations, projects, and other initiatives.
• Conduct review meeting with BUFCs.
• To play an active role in transition and integration.
• Create customer master data based on business unit's request.
• Review customer KYC documents and update customer master.

Key Accountabilities

• Timely O2C partnering support to Business in day-to-day operations.
• Review GL Reconciliations.
• Daily collection control account monitoring and exception management.
• Perform monthly / periodic reconciliation and substantiation of O2C accounts and highlight exceptions and related risks to the Business.
• Preparation and circulation of periodic O2C exception reports & dashboards to stakeholders.
• Perform assigned month end book closing tasks within O2C.
• Computation of Provision for doubtful debts in accordance with Policy.
• Identify and support process standardization and improvement initiatives to improve efficiency and quality of reporting for FSSC O2C processes.
• Any other O2C activities assigned from time to time.
• Actively participate in Transition activities.

Qualification, Experience, & Skills
Minimum Qualifications and Knowledge

• Finance Graduate or Semi-qualified or Qualified or equivalent qualifications.
• Good accounting knowledge (IFRS knowledge is preferred)
• Analytical as well as Process oriented.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Prior working knowledge in ERP systems (ex: SAP)
• Knowledge of Excel, Power Point and other Microsoft office tools.
• Detail-oriented and organized.

Minimum Experience

• At least 2 to 5 years relevant experience within a large organization in a supervisory level, with a good knowledge of ERP systems.

Behavioral Competencies

• People Management: Must have experience in handling teams.
• Organization: Must possess the drive to learn, prioritize and manage workload with minimum supervision.
• Communication: Effectively communicate/liaise with internal/external contacts.
• Team Player: Should enjoy working in a team and be able to solve problems and resolve issues in an amicable manner.
• Should have interpersonal and delegation capabilities.
• Should comply with Al Futtaim core values: Respect, Integrity, Collaboration and Excellence.

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