Fresh Graduate - General Accountant

Job Purpose

Perform preparing, recording, reconciling and analyzing general payments efficiently, in timely manner and quality standards as per the defined policies and procedures to achieve departmental operational plans and developments.

Key Accountability Areas

Financial Data Entry:

• Accurately enter financial transactions into the accounting system, including invoices, accounts payable/receivable, and expense reports.

Bank Reconciliation:

• Assist in reconciling bank statements with the general ledger to ensure accurate recording of transactions and identify any discrepancies.

Accounts Payable/Receivable:

• Assist with processing vendor invoices, employee expense reports, and customer payments. Help in maintaining accurate records of outstanding balances and follow up on collections if required.

Journal Entries:

• Assist in preparing and posting journal entries to record financial transactions, ensuring accuracy and adherence to accounting principles.

Financial Reporting:

• Support the preparation of financial statements, including balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements. Help in gathering and organizing relevant financial data.

Assisting in Audits:

• Provide necessary documentation and assist in the preparation of audit schedules during internal and external audits.

Budgeting Support:

• Assist in creating and maintaining budgets by collecting and analyzing data, and preparing budget reports for review.

General Administrative Tasks:

• Provide general administrative support to the accounting department, such as filing documents, organizing records, and responding to inquiries.

Role Accountability

HR Proficiency:

• Ability to recruit, recognize and cultivate high performers and expose them in order to create a robust second line of management.
• Ability to recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them.
• Ability to treat subordinates equally without any discrimination.
• Assessment criteria of subordinates is performance that leads to planned results.
• Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix to have sufficient delegations as per company policy.

Responsibility:

• Must take full responsibility for his operation as per the job description and the required deliverables from this position, taking into consideration the general company guidelines.
• Able to anticipate problems and make the necessary proactive steps to prevent them
• Ability to take necessary and proper timely decisions.

Delivery:

• Deliver the required results in timely manner with required quality and cost.
• Making a Tangible Difference:
• Must make a tangible difference to his area of operation. and exceed business expectations.

Business Planning and Performance:

• Able to transform the corporate goals into business plans.
• Able to Plan, follow-up and execute those plans, whether they are annual or development plans.
• Monitor the plan performance and initiate action to strengthen results and take the corrective action accordingly.
• Provide periodic work progress reports.
• Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve the optimum cost efficiency.

Organizational Development:

• Develop the organizational structure according to the current requirements taking into consideration future and development plans.
• Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deployment.

Business Process Improvements:

• Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automations opportunities as much as possible.
• Should be conversant and able to navigate through IT solutions especially those relevant to his job and business.
• Promote the automated systems and using them fully, to spread its culture.

Quality:

• Quality is considered as alfanar’s prime competitive advantage as such, managers are expected to act accordingly.

Adaptation:

• Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.

Health, Safety and Environment:

• Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per the standard regulations.

Academic Qualification

Work Experience

Technical / Functional Competencies