Account Manager

About WOSOOL Transportation & Logistics

WOSOOL Transportation & Logistics provides integrated logistics services, including road transportation, customs clearance, freight forwarding, warehousing, and yard operations. The company is seeking an experienced Accounts Manager to lead its accounting function in Dammam, Eastern, Saudi Arabia.

Role Overview

The Accounts Manager will lead the company’s day-to-day accounting activities, including general ledger, customer invoicing, receivables, payables, bank reconciliations, employee advances, job costing, and period-end closing. This full-time, hands-on management role requires strong experience in logistics accounting, financial control, team supervision, and ERP systems. The successful candidate must ensure that transactions are supported, balances are reconciled, deadlines are met, and financial information is reliable. The role operates within the approved financial authority matrix and supports the CFO or Finance Manager in financial planning, cash-flow management, and decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and supervise the accounting team, assigning responsibilities, establishing work schedules, and reviewing the quality and timeliness of accounting entries.
• Maintain an organized chart of accounts and consistent coding by legal entity, branch, department, customer, and job where applicable.
• Ensure transactions are recorded accurately, supported by valid documentation, and reviewed under appropriate controls.
• Review billing files, verify approved quotations, contractual rates, completed services, and authorization for additional charges.
• Ensure invoices and approved adjustments are issued accurately and promptly, tracking completed-but-unbilled jobs.
• Maintain accurate customer ledgers, prepare statements of account, and oversee balance reconciliations and confirmations.
• Review receivables aging, develop collection action plans, and follow up on overdue balances.
• Review supplier and subcontractor invoices against approved purchase orders, contracts, agreed rates, and evidence of service delivery.
• Control petty cash, employee advances, driver advances, and operational funds, ensuring timely settlement and reconciliation.
• Maintain daily visibility of receipts, payments, bank balances, cash balances, and outstanding commitments.
• Prepare a daily closing report and complete bank reconciliations, investigating unmatched or unusual transactions.
• Maintain job-costing records for transportation, customs clearance, freight forwarding, storage, and related services.
• Lead monthly and year-end closing, including reconciliations, accruals, prepayments, depreciation, and other adjustments.
• Prepare financial statements, supporting schedules, management reports, and actual-versus-budget analysis for review.
• Maintain accounting records for VAT, zakat, withholding tax, and other statutory obligations.
• Oversee accounting-side compliance with ZATCA e-invoicing requirements.
• Coordinate external-audit requests, maintain organized audit evidence, and follow up on findings.
• Ensure accounting transactions are processed through the approved ERP and that operational and accounting records reconcile.
• Improve integration between job files, invoicing, collections, supplier costs, payroll inputs, and financial reporting.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance.
• Proven experience managing a full-cycle accounting function and supervising an accounting team.
• Previous accounting experience in transportation, logistics, freight forwarding, customs clearance, or a closely related service business.
• Demonstrated experience in job costing, receivables management, bank reconciliations, financial closing, and audit coordination.
• Practical experience working with Saudi accounting and tax-compliance requirements.

Required Skills

• Strong accounting knowledge, analytical ability, attention to detail, and professional integrity.
• Ability to identify discrepancies, investigate their causes, and ensure corrective action.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and hands-on ERP experience are essential.
• Ability to prepare clear financial reports, manage closing deadlines, and communicate effectively with operational departments.
• Confidentiality and adherence to approval controls are essential.

Preferred Qualifications

• A relevant professional accounting qualification, such as SOCPA Fellowship, CPA, ACCA, or CMA.
• Experience with multi-branch or multi-entity accounting, logistics ERP implementation, financial dashboards, internal-control improvement, and reconstruction of incomplete accounting records.