Accountant

About Salla and the Role

Salla is a leading e-commerce platform in the MENA region, empowering merchants with innovative digital solutions to start, manage, and grow their businesses. As our logistics and shipping operations scale, we are seeking a full-time Accountant – Logistics to join our Finance team in Makkah, Makkah Province. This role is central to ensuring accurate accounting, reconciliation, and reporting across all logistics operations, including revenue and cost management, billing, collections, merchant compensations, and financial controls.

Revenue Management Responsibilities

• Accurately calculate logistics-related revenues and track financial performance metrics.
• Reconcile generated revenues against issued invoices and systematically resolve any discrepancies.
• Record, monitor, and manage deferred revenue in compliance with accounting standards (IFRS).
• Investigate significant fluctuations in logistics revenue, costs, volumes, and margins.

Cost Management and Financial Reporting

• Reconcile vendor and logistics partner invoices against internal operational records (*, AWBs and shipping rates).
• Process and accurately record Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) and direct shipping cost entries.
• Identify potential revenue leakage, excess vendor charges, and incorrect pricing.
• Ensure timely and accurate payments to logistics vendors and shipping partners.
• Prepare periodic reconciliations for all logistics transactions, shipping gateways, and clearing accounts.
• Generate analytical reports on billing, collections, logistics margins, and revenue analysis.
• Maintain fully audit-ready financial records compliant with accounting standards.
• Ensure timely response to and fulfillment of auditors' requirements and data requests.
• Contribute to Month-End Closing and Financial Reporting processes.
• Support monthly variance analysis and management reporting relating to Salla's shipping business.

Process Optimization and Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Proactively evaluate, optimize, and streamline shipping and logistics accounting workflows.
• Collaborate directly with Operations, Product, and Account Management teams to resolve pending requests, unmapped transactions, and operational bottlenecks.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• Minimum of 3 years of accounting or finance experience, preferably within logistics, shipping, or e-commerce.
• Hands-on experience with revenue and cost accounting, vendor invoice reconciliation, COGS, and financial reconciliations.
• Experience supporting month-end closing, variance analysis, and financial reporting.
• Working knowledge of IFRS, including revenue recognition, accruals, and deferred revenue.
• Understanding of shipping and logistics transactions, including AWBs, shipping rates, vendor billing, and shipping margin analysis.

Key Skills and Competencies

• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and hands-on experience with ERP/accounting systems.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify financial discrepancies, revenue leakage, and incorrect charges.
• High attention to detail and ability to work accurately with high-volume transactional data.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams.
• Ability to adapt quickly to changing processes, priorities, and workflows in a fast-paced environment.