Job Description
The Senior Accountant is responsible for leading the accounting department and developing a plan that will deliver the requisite level of service. He/she will manage accounting processes including general ledger, balance sheet account reconciliation, payables, receivables, treasury, and credit and collection.
Key Responsibilities
- Processing of balance sheets, income statements and other financial statements according to legal and company accounting and financial guidelines
- Post and process journal entries to ensure all business transactions are recorded
- Record and process of expenses, payroll etc.
- Improve financial data in databases to ensure that information will be accurate and immediately available when needed
- Upgrade & update accounts receivable and issue invoices
- Update accounts payable and perform reconciliations
- Performing weekly bank reconciliations
- Update financial data in databases to ensure that information will be accurate and immediately available when needed
- Develop and maintain productive working relationships with stakeholders to foster business improvement and objective achievement
- Ensure compliance with local tax laws and regulations in order to manage risk and minimize tax exposure
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or accounting. Master’s Degree is a major plus
- 4 to 6 years of experience in accounting out of which 4 years in a supervisory role
- Proficiency in MS Office
- Fluency in English
Competency
- Attention to Details
- Analytical Thinking
- Decision Making
- Driving & Achieving results
- Developing & Motivating others
- Customer Focus
- Communication Skills
Required Skills
financialmodeling
financialaccounting
abilitytodiagnoseandanalyzeproblems
criticalthinking
analyticalaccounting
Company Profile
Ostaz is the leading educational platform in the MENA region that offers premium learning services for all school subjects, languages, prep tests, and soft skills workshops.
Ostaz team is committed at providing a personalized learning journey tailor-made to each learner’s goals and needs with the firm commitment of enhancing academic and professional performance.
Since our inception in 2017, we have supported over 60,000 students, vetted and onboarded 1,000 experts’ teachers and mentors, and conducted more than 90,000 hours of teaching. Our vision is to build the #1 online learning platform and to enhance the academic performance of millions of students.