General Accountant

Job Description

Transguard Workforce Solutions continues to lead the UAE market as a trusted partner for innovative and fully integrated HR services. With more than a decade of experience and a highly skilled team, we are proud to support organizations across the region with tailored workforce solutions.

We are currently hiring a General Accountant on behalf of a prestigious client, based in their Dubai office.

Job Purpose:

Capable of supporting daily accounting operations and ensuring efficient financial documentation and reporting.

Job Description:

• Manage day-to-day accounting entries, invoices, and payment records accurately.
• Maintain financial data and updated accounting software with high attention to detail.
• Prepare bank reconciliations, petty cash statements, and expense reports.
• Process vendor payments efficiently.
• Assist in monthly closing activities and preparation of financial reports.
• Enter large volumes of data with accuracy while meeting deadlines.
• Verify and corrected accounting discrepancies and data inconsistencies.
• Maintain organized digital filing systems for financial documents.
• Generate reports using Microsoft Excel, including formulas, pivot tables, and VLOOKUP.
• Coordinate with suppliers regarding billing and payment matters.
• Ensure confidentiality and security of financial and company records.
• Support auditors by providing required financial documents and records.
• Improved data accuracy by regularly reviewing and validating entries.
• Prepare general ledger journal entries and reconciliations while managing accounting transactions and maintaining ledger accuracy.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with finance teams, internal stakeholders, suppliers, and auditors.

Competencies:

• Business Partnering - Collaborates with stakeholders and develops partnerships to drive performance that aligns to organizational goals and strategies; influences the organization by demonstrating knowledge of the business to provide guidance to support the decision making process and guiding the business towards positive results and organizational alignment; evaluates business environment using measures to mitigate risk and capitalize on opportunities.
• Action oriented - Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Communicates effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Customer focus
• Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.

• Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder.
• Drives results - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Self-development - Actively seeking new ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels.