Accountant - Arabic Speakers

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Role: Accountant - Arabic Speakers only

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Employment Type: Full time

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Client Industry: Realestate

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Location: Abu Dhabi

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Start Date: Immediate / As per availability

Key Responsibilities:

• Record approved receipts, invoices, credit notes, journals, accruals, prepayments, fixed-asset movements, and other transactions in the correct company code, fund, property, cost centre, GL account, and accounting period.
• Prepare monthly bank reconciliations, cashbook reconciliations, corporate-card and petty-cash reconciliations, and follow up on outstanding or unidentified items.
• Maintain AR ledgers and owner / customer accounts; support service-charge billing, receipt allocation, collections reporting, ageing, statement issuance, dispute tracking, and reconciliation of owner and developer balances.
• Maintain AP ledgers; validate invoice support, PO / contract references, receipt confirmation, tax details, and coding; prepare supplier reconciliations, ageing schedules, accrual inputs, and payment-support packs for independent review and approval.
• Prepare monthly schedules for accruals, prepayments, deposits, fixed assets, intercompany balances, VAT, restricted funds, reserve / sinking funds, and other assigned balance-sheet accounts.
• Support monthly and year-end close by completing assigned postings and schedules within the close calendar and resolving review comments promptly.
• Assist in preparation of budget-versus-actual reports, forecasts, cash-position reports, collection dashboards, audit schedules, and variance explanations.
• Maintain organized electronic records and audit trails for all postings, reconciliations, invoices, receipts, approvals, contracts, and correspondence in line with retention requirements.
• Support ERP data cleansing, master-data validation, migration, UAT, reporting, and process-improvement initiatives.
• Respond professionally to internal departments, owners, customers, suppliers, auditors, and other stakeholders within agreed service levels.
• Immediately escalate duplicate invoices, unsupported requests, unusual transactions, conflicts of interest, suspected fraud, unreconciled differences, and transactions outside the approved DOA.
• Do not approve own postings or payment requests and do not act as sole bank authorizer; comply with maker-checker controls at all times.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline.
• Part-qualified ACCA, CMA, CPA, or equivalent is an advantage.
• Minimum 3–5 years of relevant accounting experience; property management, community management, OA, real estate, or service-charge accounting experience is preferred.
• Good knowledge of double-entry accounting, reconciliations, AP, AR, VAT, accruals, prepayments, fixed assets, and month-end closing.
• Strong Excel skills and practical experience using ERP or property-management accounting systems.
• Good written and spoken English; Arabic is an advantage.