Junior accountant

With a team of smart people who like working hard and having fun too, we released the most disruptive enterprise management software in the world: Odoo. Fully open source, fully-featured with apps like Accounting, HR, CRM, Manufacturing, and 4,000 more. Odoos solution is 3 times more affordable than traditional competitors like SAP and Microsoft. With 1,000 employees in Dubai, we are one of the fastest growing IT companies in the GCC and are almost doubling our size every year.

Start a career with us. We offer you an extraordinary chance to learn and grow. Be involved with a very exciting product and a great team behind it!

Responsibilities:

Within a team of 8 people your main responsibilities will be:

Daily Accounting Management:

• Execute daily accounting operations, including detailed bookkeeping and the processing of invoices and vendor payments.
• Address specific accounting inquiries, providing comprehensive responses and solutions.

Accounts Receivable & Payable Oversight:

• Manage AR/AP activities: Ensure accurate preparation of journal entries and GL transactions.
• Generate detailed AR/AP aging reports. Proactively engage in the collection process and maintain communication with customers, suppliers, and partners.
• Review sales, service, or credit contracts meticulously to address overdue accounts.

Stakeholder Interaction:

• Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with banks, auditors, regulatory authorities, and other external parties.
• Act as a primary point of contact for all stakeholders, ensuring transparent and consistent communication.

Financial Closing & Audits:

• Coordinate and execute precise month-end and year-end closing processes.
• Support financial audit activities by providing necessary documentation and responses to external inquiries.

Payment Processing:

• Handle all aspects of internal and external vendor/partner payments, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.

Account Reconciliation & Reporting:

• Participate in thorough accounts reconciliation.
• Assist in the preparation of insightful analysis and reports as required by the business.
• Manage the upkeep of asset depreciation schedules.

Compliance & VAT Management:

• Take charge of VAT return preparation, ensuring accurate submissions in compliance with legal requirements.

Financial Analysis:

• Conduct in-depth analyses of financial statements, providing detailed explanations of findings.

Process Improvement:

• Contribute to streamlining and improving accounting processes for efficiency and accuracy.

Inter-Company & HQ Coordination:

• Facilitate inter-company transactions, maintaining clear and consistent liaison with the headquarters.
• Engage in matters requiring technical expertise, administrative work, autonomy, personal evolution, and customer relationship management.

About You:

• Ability to work in a fast-paced start-up environment with a proactive, hands-on attitude
• Open-minded, adaptable to change, quick, and autonomous learner
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a focus on initiating a career in accounting
• Contribution to a positive company culture

Must Have:

• Related Bachelor Degree or Higher
• 1 - 3 years of related experience
• Fluent in English
• Understanding of GAAP and IFRS, proficient in MS Excel and ERP systems
• UAE VAT experience
• Strong organizational & communication skills
• Based in the UAE

Nice to have:

• Passion for software products
• Finance-related certification (CPA, ACCA, CFA, etc.)
• Understanding of macroeconomics in the GCC
• Additional languages, Arabic or French proficiency is a plus
• Available to join immediately