Job description

Job Summary

Al-Futtaim Group Finance Shared Service Centre (FSSC) is currently seeking a finance professional to join their team in the capacity of Senior Accountant – O2C.

As an (O2C) Senior Accountant in Group Finance Shares Service Centre (FSSC), he/she will focus on supporting the day-to-day activities of the O2C function whilst complying with organization’s policies and procedures and ensuring necessary checks and balances to mitigate risks:

This position will be responsible for the following.

• Provide daily partnering support to business operations by assisting in O2C activities.
• Collateral Security Management, which includes PDCs, Bank Guarantees, Security Cheques etc.
• Identify, highlight, and expedite timely action to resolve exceptions / interface fallouts by performing review, reconciliation, and substantiation of O2C accounts and reports.
• Highlight receivables and overdues position to business to facilitate their follow-up and collection activities.
• Ensure adequate provision is created for doubtful debts as per company Policy and IFRS standard.
• Highlight risks and exceptions based on daily review of Collection control accounts and ensure resolution of exceptions within SLA by escalating in a timely manner.
• Create and maintain various master record for the O2C activities.
• Perform assigned month end book closing tasks within O2C.
• Monitor the ongoing automated activities and ensure continuity of daily tasks.
• Support with resolution of audit requests (Internal and External) within the submission timelines.
• Identify and support on standardization and improvement initiatives within the O2C function.
• Manage projects/testing as and when it is required by the department or SBUs.
• Support colleagues while they are on leave.

Key Accountabilities

• Timely O2C partnering support to Business in day-to-day operations.
• PDC Management, which includes PDC collection, Warehousing, Banking, Maturing, Hold / Postponement etc.
• Daily collection control account monitoring and exception management.
• Perform monthly / periodic reconciliation and substantiation of O2C accounts and highlight exceptions and related risks to the Business.
• Preparation and circulation of periodic O2C exception reports & dashboards to stakeholders.
• Perform assigned month end book closing tasks within O2C.
• Computation of Provision for doubtful debts in accordance with Policy.
• Identify and support process standardization and improvement initiatives to improve efficiency and quality of reporting for FSSC O2C processes.
• Manage projects/testing as and when it is required by the department or SBUs.
• Any other O2C activities assigned from time to time.

Qualifications, Experience, & Skills

Education Qualification:
• Finance Graduate or Semi-qualified or Qualified or equivalent qualifications.

Minimum Experience and Knowledge:
• Minimum 2-5 years’ similar experience, with a good knowledge of ERP systems.

Job-Specific/Technical Skills required to complete the tasks:
• Good accounting knowledge (IFRS knowledge is preferred).
• Analytical as well as Process oriented.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Prior working knowledge in ERP systems (ex: SAP).
• Knowledge of Excel, Power Point and other Microsoft office tools.
• Detail-oriented and organized.

Behavioral Competencies:
• Organization: Must possess the drive to learn, prioritize and manage workload with minimum supervision.
• Communication: Effectively communicate/liaise with internal/external contacts.
• Team Player: Should enjoy working in a team and be able to solve problems and resolve issues in an amicable manner.
• Should have interpersonal and delegation capabilities.
• Should comply with Al-Futtaim core values: Respect, Integrity, Collaboration and Excellence.