SPECIALIST ACCOUNTING - UAE

Area:                                                                                       Emerging Markets- GCC

Department:                                                                           Finance

Direct Reporting Line:                                                           Senior Specialist Accounting - UAE  

Subsidiary/country:                                                               Dubai, UAE                                         

Location:                                                                                Dubai, UAE

GSMS Grade:                                                                          P2                               

Number of Personnel Managed:                                           N/A                                         

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation:

To ensure financial data is kept up to date by booking, reconciling accounts and preparing the necessary reports.

Key Responsibilities:

• • Booking of trade and non-trade related expenses.
  • Fixed Assets: creation, booking, disposal, depreciation and tagging
  • Perform Fixed asset yearly physical count and FA reconciliations
  • Capex tracking for all retail stores and tracking capex POs
  • Capex Request (CAR) handling and submission
  • Perform IFRS 16 valuations and reconciliation for leases and post prepayments & provisions
  • Create store lease commitment tracker
  • Create SPOMA cost tracker for booking committed liabilities
  • Approving and checking T&E expenses submitted through Concur
  • Business Amex administrator for any amendments or setup requirements.
  • Enforcing the T&E policy and ensure company compliance 
  • Employee Vendor account reconciliations and clearing
  • Providing detailed review of Travel allowances per department on monthly basis
  • Support in annual external audit
  • Payroll accounting and reconciliations
  • Retail store tender reconciliations for 60+ stores, managing tender, sale reconciliations
  • Petty cash handling and booking for (Finance, HR and facilities) and cash counts
  • Monthly Balance sheet reconciliations for GCC companies per month
  • Reconciliation of intercompany accounts and run payments for related parties
  • Handle inventory and GIT ageing and reconciliations
  • Prepare reconciliation of cost of sales per month
  • Issue OOH reports for GCC per function for month end review
  • Ensure accuracy of all retail store & overheads on P&L
  • Support with month end activities (SAP / CFIN)
  • Ad-hoc requests for general accounting

Controlling:

• • Measure progress on own KPIs.
  • Monitor all allocated reports.
  • Ensures adherence to group accounting policies and procedures.

KPI’s:

• Data Accuracy
• Policy Enforcement
• Time management
• Stakeholder management

Key Relationships:

• All local departments
• Retail Stores
• FP& A Team
• Other adidas group finance teams

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

IT skills

• Outlook: intermediate
• Word: intermediate
• Excel: advanced
• PowerPoint: basic
• SAP: basic/intermediate experience is preferred.

Language skills

English (written and verbal)

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree in finance, ACCA or CA
• Qualitied accounting/audit background with accounting experience
• 3-5 years of accounting experience with good record in result driven performance