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About the Senior Accountant Role

Red Sea Global is seeking a Senior Accountant to join its team in Riyadh. This full-time role is crucial for ensuring the integrity of accounting information by meticulously recording, verifying, consolidating, and entering financial transactions. The Senior Accountant will apply hands-on accounting experience and a deep understanding of accounting principles to execute complex accounting activities and comprehensive financial analyses.

Core Accounting Responsibilities

• Prepare and record asset, liability, revenue, and expense entries through compiling and analyzing account information.
• Maintain and balance subsidiary accounts by verifying, allocating, posting, and reconciling transactions, and resolving discrepancies.
• Maintain the general ledger by transferring subsidiary accounts, preparing a trial balance, and reconciling entries.
• Summarize financial status by collecting information and preparing balance sheets, profit and loss statements, and other financial reports.
• Produce payroll by initiating computer processing, printing checks, and verifying the finished product.
• Perform variance analyses and prepare account reconciliations.

Financial Analysis and Team Oversight

• Analyze complex financial reports and records.
• Provide recommendations based on the analysis and status of reserves, assets, and expenditures.
• Review journal entries prepared by junior accountants to ensure accuracy.
• Train and mentor junior staff members within the accounting team.
• Coordinate more complex accounting projects and initiatives with other members of the accounting and finance team or with other departments.

Compliance, Controls, and Continuous Improvement

• Assist with financial and tax audits.
• Document and monitor internal controls in support of the auditing team.
• Complete external audit requirements by analyzing and scheduling general ledger accounts and providing necessary information to auditors.
• Ensure legal compliance to avoid challenges.
• Secure financial information by completing database backups and maintaining confidentiality.
• Adhere to all relevant functional policies, processes, standard operating procedures, and instructions.
• Assist in the preparation of accurate and timely functional MIS statements and reports.
• Apply safety, quality, and environmental management policies and controls.
• Contribute to identifying opportunities for continuous improvement in departmental systems, processes, and practices.

Required Experience and Professional Attributes

Candidates for the Senior Accountant position should possess proven hands-on accounting experience and an in-depth understanding of accounting principles and company practices. The role requires the ability to perform complex accounting activities, conduct thorough financial analyses, and effectively mentor junior team members.

Employment Details

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh. Red Sea Global is committed to maintaining high standards of financial integrity and operational excellence.