Job Descriptions
The Senior Professional RTR will provide accounting services for MENA & APAC countries, which includes coordinating month-end general ledger close within MENA cluster, preparing and review balance sheet reconciliations, and providing profit and loss analysis. In this role, you will be part of a cultural shift in how the company operates, gets work done and drives efficiency. The job holder has to ensure that reports are completed in accordance with reporting deadlines set by Area and Regional Office (monthly, quarterly and annually) and internal accounting controls are reviewed periodically and make recommendations to enhance them further.
Principal Accountabilities
- Ensure all transactions (revenues, provisions, operating expenses etc) are recorded properly and in accordance with the definition set on DPDHL Accounting Manual and International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS).
- Participate in process improvement projects, lead cross trainings of more junior associates and new team members and cross train with other team members to provide backup for critical tasks.
- Drive financial reporting operational and improvement activities.
- Assist team in trouble shooting and decision making.
- Identify process improvements to generate productivity within the team by improvising current process.
- Take initiatives and provide support for multiple roles in the area of Record to Report.
- Act as primary point of contact for selected partners located in countries and selected processes for which you are the primary accountant and ensure all internal controls are in place and monitored and financial processes are performed timely and accurately.
- Review general or nominal ledger entries regularly to minimize if not eliminate adjusting entries and to detect any under or over statement of expenses on time.
- Analyze and compare month on month expenses to attain uniform distribution of cost during the year and make an accrual when appropriate to have consistency in reporting expenses.
- Prepare schedules to support balance sheet accounts and ensure that these are reconciled against general or nominal ledger balances immediately after month-end closing (i.e. fixed assets, prepayments, payroll reconciliation, accruals, duty transitory, GRIR reconciliation & etc). Back up all files as part of the disaster recovery plan.
- Ensure preparation and distribution of required financial and accounting reports, including management information, in a timely manner. Ensure that all reporting deadlines are consistently met.
- Organize and plans work schedules independently to meet service delivery level with minimum guidance and able to take appropriate actions to resolve issues independently without much supervision.
- Work according to internal controls (CRSIP) requirement and ensure works are submitted on time to Team Leader or Team Manager for review.
- Act as primary point of contact for selected partners located in countries and selected processes for which you are the primary accountant and ensure all internal controls are in place and monitored and financial processes are performed timely and accurately.
- Responsible for intercompany accounting as per service level agreement and highlight or rectify anomalies encountered
- Track and resolve billing disputes and route to affiliates as and when required
- Liaise with finance team across various regions for reconciliation, debit/credit notes and any agreed offsets
- Responsible for daily bank entries booking, bank transitory clearing and monthly bank reconciliation for high transaction volumes or larger countries.
- Ensure timely and accurate deal settlement and posting of treasury related transactions including intercompany foreign exchange, loan, accrual and actual interest, bank charges and etc.
Qualifications
- Educated to Diploma/Degree level with an appropriate Finance and/or Accounting major.
- Minimum 3 years experience in Finance.
- Experience in managing and leading teams for service delivery.
- Experience in finance operations with work experience in Record to Report and related processes.
- Experience in SAP FICO modules, workflow tools.
- Good Knowledge of MS Office including strong command on MS Excel.
- Ability to use formal and informal methods to persuade and influence others.
- Establishing a course of action to accomplish specific goals.
- Excellent communication and report writing skills in English
- Ability to express well-thought concise and timely oral and written information.
- Good team player.
- Ability to effectively explore alternatives so as to reach common results.
- Demonstrating a high level of commitment, energy, resilience and tenacity in doing the job.
- Attention to detail.
- Tolerance to stress.
- Passion for delighting customers
