Accountant-non-permanent Worker

4 weeks ago


Sharjah, United Arab Emirates British Council Full time

Accountant-Non-Permanent Worker

**Date**:17 Apr 2024

**Location**: Sharjah, Middle East and North Africa, AE

**Company**:British Council

We support peace and prosperity by building connections, understanding and trust between people in the UK and countries worldwide.
We work directly with individuals to help them gain the skills, confidence and connections to transform their lives and shape a better world in partnership with the UK. We support them to build networks and explore creative ideas, to learn English, to get a high-quality education and to gain internationally recognised qualifications.
Working with people in over 200 countries and territories, we are on the ground in more than 100 countries. In 2021-22 we reached 650 million people.

**Location**: United Arab Emirates

**Contract**: Hourly Paid (Non-Permanent Worker)

**Start Date**: as soon as possible

**Company**: British Council

**Role Purpose**

The Accountant will be responsible for supporting the end to end accounting process in the country; including month and year end close, and ensures consistent, accurate and robust financial accounting processes in line with accounting practices and corporate policies.

This post will be part of the Financial Accounting Team supporting Gulf Cluster, handling countries UAE, Qatar, and Bahrain.

**Main accountabilities**- Complete all financial tasks required for the financial month-end pre-closing steps and provide support as required for the financial month-end closing steps.-
- Complete all financial tasks required for the financial year-end pre-closing steps and provide support as required for the financial year-end closing steps.-
- Maintain financial records as per corporate policy and internal audit.-
- Provide support as required on accounting transactions and adjustments (accruals, deferrals, and provisions), including Intercompany accounting.-
- Provide support as required with manual journals and off-system payments requests ensuring accuracy and compliance with relevant policies.-
- Assist with reconciliation of all relevant accounts and ensure that this is completed to corporate standards.-
- Assist Senior Accountant / Financial Controller with provision of information to internal / external auditors.-
- Assist in the implementation of audit recommendations.-
- Complete daily cash reconciliations.-
- Responsible for ensuring integrity of cash collection process.-
- Responsible for ensuring integrity of customers refund process.**Regional and Functional Team Working**:
- Ensure compliance with treasury policy.-
- Contribute to ensuring the policies, procedures and systems are delivered with integrity.-
- Work closely and effectively as part of the regional and global finance teams.-
- Actively support equality and diversity and work to the British Council’s EDI policy.**Person Specification**

**Language requirements**-
**Qualifications**- University Degree (Minimum/essential)-
- Accounting qualification (Desirable)**Key relationships**- Regional Financial Accounting team-
- Shared Services Centre-
- Corporate Finance-
- Bank relationship manager-
- Country admin team-
- Country Customer Services team**Role Specific Knowledge & Experience**- Proven accounting experience. (Minimum/essential)-
- Experience in working with a diverse team. (Minimum/essential)**Role specific skills**- Accounting Knowledge (Minimum/essential)- **British Council Core Skills**Analysing Data and Problems Level 1**: Is systematic - Breaks down problems into a list of tasks to be done and decides on appropriate action.-
**Communicating and Influencing Level 2**: Relates communications to circumstances - Displays good listening, writing, and speaking skills, setting out logical arguments clearly and adapting language and form of communication to meet the needs of different people/audiences.-
**Managing risks Level 1**: Follows good practices - Demonstrates understanding of risk management policies and procedures and record of following them.-
**Planning and Organising Level 1**: Is methodical - Able to plan own work over short timescales for routine or familiar tasks and processes.-
**Managing People Level 2**:Supervises a small team - Supervises a small team of people doing similar jobs to deliver short term tasks to agreed quality and time standards.- Highly organised and deadline oriented.-
- High level of accuracy and attention to detail.**Further Information**- Number of positions :01-
- Pay Band: H/4-ARE-
- Payment terms - Hourly paid rate-
- Contract type
- Hourly paid Contract-
- Contract duration
- 6 MonthsApplication Closing date**:24 April 2024**

**_Note: -_**- There is no relocation or sponsorship support.A connected and trusted UK in a more connected and trusted world.

**Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Statement**

The British Council is committed to policies and practices of equality, diversity and inclusion across everything we do. We support all staff to make sure their behaviour is con


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