Chief Accountant

Job Description

We are a renowned travel and tourism agency based in Dubai. Our company is hiring for a Chief Accountant to join our growing team.

CORE TASKS:
– Liaise with external auditor and finalizing the yearly audit
– Month-end closing
– Providing company monthly forecast
– Preparing and monitoring daily cash flow
– Yearly budget

RESPONSIBILITIES:
– Responsible for the month-end closing
– Provide company monthly forecast
– Prepare and monitor daily cash flow
– Responsible for the yearly budget
– Liaising with external auditor and finalizing the yearly audit
– Upload employee files onto system and save all related files of each and all employees.
– Audit (check) T&E claims
– Training team on system and process changes.
– Analyzes and reconciles central suppliers and agents accounts
– Process Travel Agent Commissions and incentives using our Lodging Management System.
– Work with the reservations, accounts payable, and vendor setup departments to ensure accurate and timely payments to travel suppliers and airlines.
– Ensure that system books daily accounting entries correctly.
– Responsible for travel accounting processes including suppliers payments
– Complete monthly journal entries to ensure accurate accounting within standards.
– Prepare and Posting for Daily and Monthly Manual Sales, Bonus, Leave Provision and expenses accruals
– Follow up and send out reminder to traveler for payment collection.
– Complete system testing and integration testing for new audit rules/changes in configuration.
– Solving of issues occurred while getting final bookings confirmed after issuing and re-issuing airline tickets and other travel services, and making final report of gross and net profit.
– Handle higher level concerns, complex tasks such as detailed reporting, data presentation and analysis.
– Complete ad-hoc or periodic analysis and reporting projects to summarize various items such as expense activity, sales performance, trending destinations and/or policy compliance issues, and share with high management as applicable.
– Proactively identify areas of opportunity, recommend solutions and implement improvements for achieving optimal efficiency and effectiveness in a controlled environment.
– Partner with manager to maintain departmental metrics, service level agreements and benchmarking
– Work closely with the audit team regarding periods trial balance, ledgers for all accounts, journal entries with complete filing, suppliers and agents statements.
– Holding a strong knowledge of all accounts software – Travlogix