Accountant – Dubai | Cello Restaurant

Company Overview:

Cello Restaurant is a premier, highly successful hospitality corporation, multi-concept fine dining enterprise, and leading culinary solutions network expanding its high-performance financial management operations in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Built upon world-class operational metrics, strict food-cost optimization frameworks, and progressive accounting design infrastructures, the organization operates elite dining venues, handles massive retail inventory supply networks, and ensures absolute corporate compliance with municipal health protocols, federal tax frameworks, and regional financial reporting benchmarks.

Job Description:

We are executing a strategic professional appointment within our central accounting division and are seeking a detail-oriented, dependable Accountant to govern complex hospitality data pipelines and direct full-cycle cash management pathways in Dubai. Built for analytical financial specialists who possess deep operational knowledge of ingredient yield evaluations and excel at structuring high-precision point-of-sale reconciliations, this full-time position focuses on accelerating daily ledger closing speeds, auditing multi-tiered supplier logs, and maximizing bottom-line restaurant profitability under our integrated corporate management framework.

🔹 Key Responsibilities:

• Record daily financial transactions, check food-and-beverage sales registers, and maintain highly accurate accounting journals within primary ledgers.
• Prepare and process high-volume procurement invoices, commercial supplier payments, client receipts, and internal expense documentation.
• Manage end-to-end Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable sub-ledgers, protecting vendor relations and commercial credit arrangements.
• Reconcile complex daily bank statements, multi-channel payment gateway accounts, third-party delivery service credits, and petty cash balances.
• Support strict culinary inventory tracking, recipe cost control audits, stock variance investigations, and comprehensive month-end closing procedures.
• Assist in preparing monthly and quarterly management report packs, variance evaluations, and operational food-cost dashboards for executive review.
• Ensure uncompromised organizational compliance with modern UAE VAT guidelines, federal Corporate Tax frameworks, and legal accounting metrics.
• Handle monthly workforce salary processing, internal payroll structures, and statutory WPS postings through banking portals and integrated ERP environments.

🔹 Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, or a matching fully accredited business discipline, with professional certifications like CMA, CIMA, CA, or an MBA considered an advantage.
• A minimum of 2 to 5 years of verified professional experience operating inside an active accounting desk, with mandatory tenure in the F&B, high-volume restaurant, or premium hospitality sectors.
• Advanced data literacy with extensive practical proficiency deploying financial balancing grids, pivot tables, and automated formula blocks inside specialized restaurant management engines, modern ERP systems, and Microsoft Excel.
• Deep, comprehensive operational knowledge across the following financial areas:
  • Hospitality accounting standards, point-of-sale (POS) data configurations, cash management practices, and balance sheet mapping.
  • UAE VAT compliance codes, transaction tax auditing habits, filing workflows, and Corporate Tax registration rules.
  • Culinary cost control principles, raw material inventory methods, yield tracking, and food-and-beverage margin management.
  • WPS banking portal sequences, automated payroll structures, and internal labor cost analysis methods.
• Outstanding analytical capabilities, strict attention to numerical detail, high mathematical precision, and robust problem-solving traits under fast-paced service timelines.
• Excellent verbal and written English communication habits paired with the professional confidence to interface smoothly with restaurant floor managers, culinary directors, and executive suppliers.

What We Offer:

• Competitive baseline fixed salary package structured from AED 5,000 to 6,000, determined entirely by past hospitality portfolio defenses, spreadsheet modeling evaluations, and food-cost analysis screening performance.
• An elite opportunity to assume complete financial ledger ownership of a prominent restaurant operation and expand your professional profile with an established brand leader in the Middle East hospitality landscape.
• Stable professional advancement channels supported by expanding multi-concept food portfolios and active internal lines for finance managers, operational controllers, and specialized corporate hr jobs or hospitality talent managers.