Accountant

Department - Accounting & Advisory Services

Reports to - Senior Accountant / Auditor

Location - Deployed full-time in the UAE; working hours 8 hours

Employment type - Full-time, permanent

Experience - Minimum 2–3 years in accounting; UAE experience preferred

Education - BCom, MCom or CA Inter (minimum)

Job Description – Accountant

Role purpose - The Accountant works daily at company premises. The role handles day-to-day bookkeeping, reconciliations, periodic VAT filing, month-end and management reporting, and support for annual audits. It reports to the Tax Director, who oversees quality and compliance, while following the client's day-to-day priorities.

Key responsibilities Daily bookkeeping and accounting

• Record daily transactions, including sales, purchases, expenses, receipts, payments and payroll entries, in the client's accounting system.
• Post journal entries with proper narration and maintain supporting documents in an organised filing system.
• Maintain ledgers, fixed asset registers, petty cash, and accrual and prepayment schedules.
• Process supplier invoices and customer billing, and track payables and receivables.

Reconciliations

• Prepare bank reconciliations for all client bank accounts and follow up on unreconciled items.
• Reconcile supplier and customer accounts against statements and resolve differences.
• Reconcile intercompany, petty cash and other control accounts as required.

Month-end and management reporting

• Complete month-end closing, including accruals, prepayments, depreciation and provisions.
• Prepare the monthly trial balance, profit and loss account and balance sheet.
• Prepare management reports to the client's requirements, such as budget vs actual, cash flow, receivables and payables ageing, and cost analysis.

VAT filing

• Assist team to prepare periodic VAT returns (VAT 201) with output and input VAT reconciliations.
• Check tax invoices for VAT compliance and input VAT eligibility.

Annual audit support

• Prepare year-end schedules, reconciliations and supporting documents for the external auditors.
• Respond to auditor queries and post agreed audit adjustments.
• Provide reconciled data to support the client's Corporate Tax return.
• Share periodic status updates and escalate accounting, tax or control issues to the Tax Director.

Qualifications and experience

Required

• BCom, MCom or CA Inter (minimum qualification).
• Minimum 2–3 years of experience in bookkeeping, accounting and reconciliations.
• Hands-on experience with month-end closing and preparing financial reports.
• Experience with accounting software Zoho Books
• Good Excel skills, including Pivot Tables and VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP
• Good written and spoken English.

Preferred

• UAE experience, ideally in an outsourced accounting or consultancy firm.
• Experience supporting external audits.
• Basic awareness of IFRS and UAE Corporate Tax.
• Valid UAE driving license preferred.

Skills and competencies

Technical - Bookkeeping, journal entries, reconciliations, month-end close, financial and management reporting, VAT returns, audit schedules

Tools - Accounting/ERP software (Tally, Zoho Books, QuickBooks, Xero, SAP), FTA EmaraTax portal, Microsoft Excel, basic AI tools for productivity

Analytical - Identifying reconciliation differences, spotting errors or unusual entries, preparing reports suited to client needs

Communication - Professional client-facing manner, clear coordination with client staff and auditors, timely reporting to PGA, fluent English (Arabic or Hindi an advantage)

Work style - Reliability and independence on client site, accuracy, adaptability to different client systems, confidentiality and a client-service mindset

Key performance indicators

KPI - Target

Books up to date

Daily transactions recorded with no backlog

Reconciliations

Bank, supplier and customer accounts reconciled monthly

Month-end close

Monthly accounts and management reports delivered by the client's deadline

Audit support

Audit schedules ready on time, with minimal audit adjustments

Client satisfaction

Pay: AED2,500.00 - AED3,000.00 per month

Work Location: In person