Job Description

SPECIALIST ACCOUNTING - UAE
Area: Emerging Markets- GCC
Department: Finance
Direct Reporting Line: Senior Specialist Accounting - UAE
Subsidiary/country: Dubai, UAE
Location: Dubai, UAE
GSMS Grade: P2
Number of Personnel Managed: N/A
Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation:
To ensure financial data is kept up to date by booking, reconciling accounts and preparing the necessary reports.
Key Responsibilities:

• Booking of trade and non-trade related expenses.
• Fixed Assets: creation, booking, disposal, depreciation and tagging
• Perform Fixed asset yearly physical count and FA reconciliations
• Capex tracking for all retail stores and tracking capex POs
• Capex Request (CAR) handling and submission
• Perform IFRS 16 valuations and reconciliation for leases and post prepayments & provisions
• Create store lease commitment tracker
• Create SPOMA cost tracker for booking committed liabilities
• Approving and checking T&E expenses submitted through Concur
• Business Amex administrator for any amendments or setup requirements.
• Enforcing the T&E policy and ensure company compliance
• Employee Vendor account reconciliations and clearing
• Providing detailed review of Travel allowances per department on monthly basis
• Support in annual external audit
• Payroll accounting and reconciliations
• Retail store tender reconciliations for 60+ stores, managing tender, sale reconciliations
• Petty cash handling and booking for (Finance, HR and facilities) and cash counts
• Monthly Balance sheet reconciliations for GCC companies per month
• Reconciliation of intercompany accounts and run payments for related parties
• Handle inventory and GIT ageing and reconciliations
• Prepare reconciliation of cost of sales per month
• Issue OOH reports for GCC per function for month end review
• Ensure accuracy of all retail store & overheads on P&L
• Support with month end activities (SAP / CFIN)
• Ad-hoc requests for general accounting

Controlling:

• Measure progress on own KPIs.
• Monitor all allocated reports.
• Ensures adherence to group accounting policies and procedures.

KPI's:

• Data Accuracy
• Policy Enforcement
• Time management
• Stakeholder management

Key Relationships:

• All local departments
• Retail Stores
• FP& A Team
• Other adidas group finance teams

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
IT skills

• Outlook: intermediate
• Word: intermediate
• Excel: advanced
• PowerPoint: basic
• SAP: basic/intermediate experience is preferred.

Language skills
English (written and verbal)
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree in finance, ACCA or CA
• Qualitied accounting/audit background with accounting experience
• 3-5 years of accounting experience with good record in result driven performance

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