School Accountant

7 days ago


Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Gulf Education Full time

We are seeking a **bilingual School Accountant** fluent in **Arabic and English** to join our client school's team in **Abu Dhabi**. The Accountant has overall responsibility for the day-to-day Financial Management of the school including, but not limited to, invoices, school fees, receipts, transfers, cash transactions, salaries, petty cash, and accounts, etc.

**Job Requirements**
- **Education**:Bachelor's degree in Accounting, additional qualifications is a plus
- **Experience**: 3+ years of accounting at the school experience preferable;
- High-level skill in Microsoft Packages, especially Microsoft Excel;
- **Languages**: fluent written and spoken English and Arabic; Russian is a plus;

**Responsibilities**:

- Manage all accounts, including bookkeeping;
- In coordination with HR administers the payroll for all school employees, ensures the wages transferred to the bank accounts, process the reconciliation;
- Administers employees’ addition to the WPS system;
- Ensure that the organization complies with government regulations with regards to financial operations, including, but not limited to, taxation and auditing;
- Prepare regular and separate as per the request financial reports for the Principal that include profit/loss, cash flow, and current balance, etc.;
- Attend meetings of the Board as well as meetings of school’s management where required;
- Advise the Principal on all financial matters including the preparation of financial reports and presentations;
- Assist the Principal / HR/ employees responsible for Extra curriculum activities, Language Center admin, etc. with the production of the annual budget, as well as with developing and implementing financial planning where required;
- Administer and record all invoices and all payments in accordance with procedures. Liaises with the suppliers, subcontractors and parents, etc. in finance related matters;
- Seek Principal’s approval for the payment of all invoices;
- Administer and record all revenue invoicing according to school procedures;
- Administer, maintain, and reconcile all banking and petty cash accounts;
- Prepare accounting vouchers, data entry, review and post all kinds of transactions;
- Prepare monthly bank reconciliations’;
- Match customer advances with issued invoices on monthly basis;
- Maintain proper register of fixed assets;
- Prepare and record monthly depreciation of ¬fixed assets where required;
- Analyze prepayments, accruals, and other assets and liabilities accounts and record necessary adjustments if needed each month;
- Maintain proper filing of accounting vouchers and electronic databases;
- Issue necessary cash and check settlements of school liabilities;
- Attend and assist in the internal and external audit processes, and provide required analysis;
- Complete other appropriate duties as assigned by the school’s Principal;
- Keep the accounting and reporting systems under constant review, including the
- software, ensuring that they are effective and efficient;
- Ensure the timely banking of cheques;
- Produce termly fee invoices and respond to invoice queries;
- Issues Finance related letters where required;
- Responds to Finance related queries in a timely manner;
- Responsible for Financial Analysis & Reporting;
- Responsible for Internal Controls & Compliance;
- Responsible Budgeting & Forecasting;
- Advices for Risk Management where is required.

**Salary**: Up to AED10,000.00 per month

Application Question(s):

- Are you willing to work in Abu Dhabi?

**Language**:

- Russian (preferred)
- Arabic (required)


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