General Accountant – Dubai | Finance & Accounting

Company Overview:

The enterprise operates as a premier, highly successful fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) distribution conglomerate, elite supply chain manager, and leading regional innovator in high-volume general trade distribution, international commodity sourcing, and integrated retail logistics networks scaling its financial operations divisions in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Built upon world-class fiscal metrics, rigid regulatory compliance setups, and progressive working capital optimization models, the group governs vast multination trading tracks, coordinates complex global supplier pipelines, and ensures absolute corporate alignment with Federal Tax Authority (FTA) laws, international accounting parameters, and modern trade directives.

Job Description:

We are executing a strategic professional appointment within our core financial control branch and are seeking an experienced, detail-oriented General Accountant to govern day-to-day accounting pipelines and direct commercial compliance pathways in Dubai. Configured for systematic financial solutions builders who possess an exceptional analytical command of general ledger integrity and excel at processing transactional data loops within fast-moving general trade environments, this full-time track focuses on accelerating month-end close velocities, auditing tax documentation queues, and maximizing reporting accuracy metrics across our integrated commercial divisions.

🔹 Key Responsibilities:

• Manage daily double-entry corporate accounting operations and ensure absolute data integrity across all general ledger balances.
• Handle Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable cycles, tracking collection performance and maintaining structured aging schedules.
• Prepare and maintain comprehensive financial transaction reports, variance analyses, and all matching sub-ledger documentation tables.
• Process, audit, and monitor specialized import and export documentation files connected to transnational trade payments and customs clearings.
• Ensure absolute corporate compliance with local value-added tax (VAT) regulations, preparing precise periodic return calculations and filing steps.
• Support month-end and year-end close sequences, directing thorough balance sheet reconciliations, bank trace matches, and accrual tracking updates.
• Reconcile daily cash management sheets, checking invoice matching lines, vendor allocation files, and customer deposit entries to maintain clean registries.

🔹 Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, or a matching corporate finance discipline from an accredited university, establishing an advanced theoretical grasp of financial control parameters, corporate auditing steps, and transnational trade tax logic.
• 3 to 6 years of high-performance professional history driving general accounting operations, heading transactional ledgers, or directing tax compliance tracks within the UAE. Prior tenure managing financial workflows within the FMCG, distribution, or high-volume wholesale general trade industry is strongly preferred, with immediate readiness for workspace deployment in Dubai.
• Advanced technical workspace data literacy with sharp capabilities tracking ledger entries, structuring pivot models, and cataloging complex asset depreciation tables inside Microsoft Excel databases.
• Deep, comprehensive operational knowledge across the following primary functional dimensions:
  • Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable mechanics, credit monitoring setups, and generalized double-entry accounting principles.
  • VAT compliance metrics, tax reconciliation procedures, audit file preps, and standardized multi-currency financial reporting frameworks.
  • Import and export documentation validation paths (including bills of lading, customs declarations, and letters of credit), cost tracking, and inventory valuation logic.
• Outstanding verbal articulation, writing, and analytical reporting talents, sharp situational problem-solving habits under compressed closing timelines, absolute attention to alphanumeric billing detail, and a highly polished executive presence under a unified corporate management framework.

What We Offer:

• Competitive baseline fixed monthly salary package structured from AED 4,000 to 5,000, determined entirely by past fiscal portfolio defense, live ledger reconciliation assessments, and corporate case study challenges during panel interviews.
• An elite opportunity to capture total operational custody over core sub-ledger files, import-export validations, and value-added tax reporting loops within a major FMCG group.
• Stable career advancement tracks backed by major portfolio diversification and clear internal channels for senior finance directors, regional financial controllers, internal audit managers, or specialists moving toward organizational training and internal hr jobs networks.