Senior Accountant📣 إعلان

About the Senior Accountant Role at Apave International

Apave International is seeking a Senior Accountant to join their team in Dammam, Eastern Region. This full-time position is central to ensuring accurate financial reporting, statutory compliance, and robust internal controls, while providing essential support to the Finance Manager in operational accounting. The role encompasses the entire accounting cycle, from maintaining the trial balance to preparing financial reports and supporting audits.

Core Responsibilities

The Senior Accountant will manage end-to-end accounting processes, ensuring timely and accurate financial operations. This includes maintaining the trial balance, preparing and posting monthly journal entries, performing month-end close activities, and conducting balance sheet and bank reconciliations. The role also involves overseeing transactional accounting processes, preparing financial reports, maintaining audit-ready records, and ensuring compliance with accounting standards and internal policies.

Financial Accounting and Reporting

• Perform month-end closing activities, including journal entries, accruals, prepayments, and adjustments.
• Maintain the accuracy of the general ledger and trial balance.
• Prepare monthly balance sheet reconciliations for accounts such as bank, intercompany, WIP, AP, and accruals.
• Support timely financial reporting to Group/HQ, including preparing monthly management reports and supporting schedules.
• Maintain fixed asset registers, CAPEX accounting, and depreciation schedules.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.

Accounts Management and Treasury Operations

• Review customer invoices and ensure timely billing in accordance with contractual requirements.
• Support collection activities and monitor outstanding receivables, including reviewing monthly AR ageing reports and reconciliations.
• Review supplier, subcontractor, and intercompany invoices for accuracy, coding, and documentation, collaborating with the shared service center.
• Prepare reconciliations for unprocessed invoices and resolve discrepancies, supporting payment runs and supplier account reconciliations.
• Perform bank reconciliations and resolve variances, supporting cash flow forecasting and liquidity planning.
• Liaise and maintain bank guarantees and related records.

Compliance, Audit, and Internal Controls

• Ensure compliance with IFRS, accounting policies, and internal controls.
• Prepare VAT workings and support VAT return filings.
• Prepare WHT calculations and support WHT filings.
• Ensure compliance with statutory, tax, and corporate requirements, including supporting IKTVA/local content reporting.
• Support statutory, internal, and external audits, maintaining audit-ready financial records and documentation.
• Ensure adherence to internal controls and company policies.

Candidate Profile and Experience

The ideal candidate will possess 5 to 10 years of relevant experience in accounting. This role requires a detail-oriented, organized, and proactive individual committed to continuous process improvement and operational excellence within the finance function. A strong understanding of IFRS and local content compliance is essential.