Senior Accountant

About the role

beond is looking for a detail-oriented, proactive Senior Accountant to join its finance team in Dubai. The role owns day-to-day accounting operations, ensures accurate financial record-keeping and supports month-end and year-end closing. It is a hands-on position with significant manual accounting work, involving manual data entry, manual journal entries and Excel-based accounts and reconciliations alongside the accounting system.

Key responsibilities

• Process high-volume vendor invoices and handle daily manual data entry in Excel and the accounting system
• Prepare and post manual journal entries (accruals, prepayments, reclasses, adjustments) and maintain accounts and schedules in Excel
• Reconcile AP, GL, bank and intercompany accounts across multiple entities and currencies
• Classify costs and allocate expenses across departments and entities
• Own month-end, quarter-end and year-end closing activities
• Manage vendor relationships: maintain vendor records, resolve queries and discrepancies, and ensure timely payments
• Support audits with schedules, reconciliations and documentation
• Ensure compliance with internal controls, company policies and accounting standards (IFRS)

Required profile

• 7-10 years of hands-on accounting experience, preferably in a fast-growing, multi-entity environment
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or a related field; ACCA, CPA or CMA is a plus
• Experience processing high volumes of vendor invoices and managing vendor relationships
• Solid understanding of multi-company, intercompany and multi-currency accounting and reconciliations
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail and ability to meet deadlines

Required skills

• Advanced Excel (Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, SUMIFS, data cleaning)
• Working knowledge of accounting systems, preferably Oracle NetSuite
• Manual journal entries and manual data entry