Junior Accountant

Junior Accountant

Dubai South Business Park, A1 Building, 5th Floor

With a team of smart people who like working hard and having fun too, we released the most disruptive enterprise management software in the world :
Odoo. Fully open source, fully-featured with apps like Accounting, HR, CRM, Manufacturing, and 4,000 more. Odoo's solution is 3 times more affordable than traditional competitors like SAP and Microsoft. With 1,000 employees in Dubai, we are one of the fastest growing IT companies in the GCC and are almost doubling our size every year.

Start a career with us. We offer you an extraordinary chance to learn and grow. Be involved with a very exciting product and a great team behind it.

Within a team of 8 people your main responsibilities will be :

• Execute daily accounting operations, including detailed bookkeeping and the processing of invoices and vendor payments.
• Address specific accounting inquiries, providing comprehensive responses and solutions.

• Manage AR / AP activities :
  Ensure accurate preparation of journal entries and GL transactions.
• Generate detailed AR / AP aging reports. Proactively engage in the collection process and maintain communication with customers, suppliers, and partners.
• Review sales, service, or credit contracts meticulously to address overdue accounts.

• Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with banks, auditors, regulatory authorities, and other external parties.
• Act as a primary point of contact for all stakeholders, ensuring transparent and consistent communication.

• Coordinate and execute precise month-end and year-end closing processes.
• Support financial audit activities by providing necessary documentation and responses to external inquiries.

• Handle all aspects of internal and external vendor / partner payments, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.

• Participate in thorough accounts reconciliation.
• Assist in the preparation of insightful analysis and reports as required by the business.
• Manage the upkeep of asset depreciation schedules.

• Take charge of VAT return preparation, ensuring accurate submissions in compliance with legal requirements.

• Conduct in-depth analyses of financial statements, providing detailed explanations of findings.

• Contribute to streamlining and improving accounting processes for efficiency and accuracy.

• Facilitate inter-company transactions, maintaining clear and consistent liaison with the headquarters.
• Engage in matters requiring technical expertise, administrative work, autonomy, personal evolution, and customer relationship management.

• Ability to work in a fast-paced start-up environment with a proactive, hands-on attitude
• Open-minded, adaptable to change, quick, and autonomous learner
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a focus on initiating a career in accounting
• Contribution to a positive company culture

• Related Bachelor Degree or Higher
• 1 - 3 years of related experience
• Fluent in English
• Understanding of GAAP and IFRS, proficient in MS Excel and ERP systems
• UAE VAT experience
• Strong organizational & communication skills
• Based in the UAE

• Passion for software products
• Finance-related certification (CPA, ACCA, CFA, etc.)
• Understanding of macroeconomics in the GCC
• Additional languages, Arabic or French proficiency is a plus
• Available to join immediately

• A team of intelligent, hard-working, and fun colleagues.
• Open culture with no bureaucracy or rigid working hours.
• Significant responsibilities and challenges in a rapidly growing company.
• Opportunities for quick career advancement for motivated individuals.

Get ready for some serious responsibilities and the freedom to shine in a rapidly evolving company. You'll be part of an awesome team in a friendly and open work culture.

Expect diversity in your projects, giving you a chance to dive into various business industries and broaden your horizons. And here's the cherry on top : you'll get two weeks of intensive functional training, culminating in a shiny certification.

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