דרושים Accounting Coordinator ב-Adidas ב-Pakistan, Lahore

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

This includes, but is not limited to, project accounting co-lead or participation, accounting process review, internal and external audit liaison for accounting topics, review financial records, month-end closing, participation in the financial statement preparation in compliance with international and local accounting standards and statutory requirements, and contact with Finance and the Global Business Services (GBS) teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, review and maintain proper and adequate accounting records for operation of the company, consistent with corporate policy and requirements of law.
• Manage the monthly, quarterly, and annual closing of the financial statements to ensure accuracy.
• Attends to queries from internal departments in relation to Finance policies and procedures.
• Maintains financial security by adhering to internal controls.
• Manage the preparation of specific internal and external audit requests.
• Manage the preparation and review of general ledger account reconciliations and analysis as part of the monthly close process to ensure the Company’s financial records are accurate.
• Drive application and provide guidance on accounting policies to ensure compliance with IFRS for both existing and future implemented initiatives.
• Review processes and identify and drive improvements in alignment with global and market business partners.
• Participate in work streams or medium-to large-sized projects or key initiatives as part of the Retained Accounting/Corporate Finance Department.
• Manage the preparation and review of general ledger account reconciliations and analysis as part of the monthly close process to ensure the Company’s financial records are accurate.
• Oversee and maintain the ERP system and its interfaces with other applications
• Provides training to workers in both orally and writing form on accounting systems, principles and practices

Key Relationships:

• Global and Market Finance teams
• GBS teams
• Group Accounting
• Other teams in the local market
• Internal and external auditors

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Adaptable, flexible, and able to deal with ambiguity in an ever-changing environment while maintaining a positive attitude and working collaboratively within the team.
• Ability to mediate and bring different stakeholders with different objectives to agree on a consensus and drive decision making
• Deadline driven, results-oriented, highly responsible and accountable.
• Must be extremely proactive, have strong initiative and be self-motivated. High integrity, ethics, and strong values; excellent organizational skills, detail-orientation, and a high degree of accuracy are all essential.
• Good problem-solving skills; strong decision-making skills; innovative use of IT tools and new technology; and good time management and priority setting skills required.
• Must have strong accounting skills.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in accounting and/or Finance.
• Fluency in written & spoken English.
• Advanced in Excel/Word/PowerPoint.
• SAP Experience (Required).
• Power BI is a plus.

SPECIALIST ACCOUNTING - UAE

: Emerging Markets- GCC

: Finance

Direct Reporting Line: Senior Specialist Accounting - UAE

: Dubai, UAE

Dubai, UAE

Number of Personnel Managed: N/A

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation:

To ensure financial data is kept up to date by booking, reconciling accounts and preparing the necessary reports.

Key Responsibilities:

• • Booking of trade and non-trade related expenses.
  • Fixed Assets: creation, booking, disposal, depreciation and tagging
  • Perform Fixed asset yearly physical count and FA reconciliations
  • Capex tracking for all retail stores and tracking capex POs
  • Capex Request (CAR) handling and submission
  • Perform IFRS 16 valuations and reconciliation for leases and post prepayments & provisions
  • Create store lease commitment tracker
  • Create SPOMA cost tracker for booking committed liabilities
  • Approving and checking T&E expenses submitted through Concur
  • Business Amex administrator for any amendments or setup requirements.
  • Enforcing the T&E policy and ensure company compliance
  • Employee Vendor account reconciliations and clearing
  • Providing detailed review of Travel allowances per department on monthly basis
  • Support in annual external audit
  • Payroll accounting and reconciliations
  • Retail store tender reconciliations for 60+ stores, managing tender, sale reconciliations
  • Petty cash handling and booking for (Finance, HR and facilities) and cash counts
  • Monthly Balance sheet reconciliations for GCC companies per month
  • Reconciliation of intercompany accounts and run payments for related parties
  • Handle inventory and GIT ageing and reconciliations
  • Prepare reconciliation of cost of sales per month
  • Issue OOH reports for GCC per function for month end review
  • Ensure accuracy of all retail store & overheads on P&L
  • Support with month end activities (SAP / CFIN)
  • Ad-hoc requests for general accounting

Controlling:

• • Measure progress on own KPIs.
  • Monitor all allocated reports.
  • Ensures adherence to group accounting policies and procedures.

KPI’s:

• Data Accuracy
• Policy Enforcement
• Time management
• Stakeholder management

Key Relationships:

• All local departments
• Retail Stores
• FP& A Team
• Other adidas group finance teams

IT skills

• Outlook: intermediate
• Word: intermediate
• Excel: advanced
• PowerPoint: basic
• SAP: basic/intermediate experience is preferred.

Language skills

English (written and verbal)

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree in finance, ACCA or CA
• Qualitied accounting/audit background with accounting experience
• 3-5 years of accounting experience with good record in result driven performance

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

Key responsibility is to support the preparation and delivery of the local tax reporting and similar to the respective authorities and to be ready for the year-end audit. In parallel this role is to support the processes concerning adopting global rules to local accounting and tax requirements and to play an active communication role between the Accounting & Tax Department and Global Business Services, Group Accounting, the various Finance Teams, and other local and Group Business Departments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Understanding of all processes in the company and how they are recorded through SAP and reflected in reporting of local legal entity,
• Coordination and verification of all bookings done in the company’s financial information program (ERP), according to the legal provisions and to the requirements of Group Accounting,
• Actively ensure sustainability of the local GAAP books and General Ledger structure,
• Ensure smooth and timely day-to-day accounting,
• Monitor accounting operations and report on irregularities immediately,
• Support delivery of local reports and delivery of exceptional financial analysis and reports for internal purposes on requests,
• Verifies and performs the tax income calculation, and takes part in VAT settlement
  (including VAT SAFT submission), as per local legislation.
• Drafting some of the tax statements and their submission in due time to the competent bodies in accordance with the legal provisions,
• Perform local tax reporting to the authorities in case of Tax Authorities requests,
• Taking part in performing other statutory reporting to: the statistical office and other authorities,
• Ensure that all taxes and charges are paid in full and on time; perform periodic reconciliations of the accounting balance of these accounts with tax authorities,
• Support country Accounting & Tax Manager in external statutory and tax audits by coordinating with the local team on the information and documents requested by the audit teams,
• Support country Accounting & Tax Manager in monthly/quarterly/yearly Group Reporting specifics,
• Verify Fixed Assets records and reporting, support FA stocktaking,
• Monitor accounting and tax operations & report on irregularities, to country Accounting & Tax Manager,
• Participation in projects for the implementation, testing, and modifying ERP in the accounting - tax fields,

Internally:

• Country Accounting & Tax Manager
• Global Business Services
• Group Accounting
• Group Taxes
• Local Business Departments

Externally:

• Consultants, Tax advisors, Internal and External Auditors, Tax office, Statistical office.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong accounting knowledge of local GAAP and Polish tax legislation (IFRS knowledge as advantage).
• Strong process understanding of accounting and finance relevant processes
• Advanced SAP Knowledge
• Advanced experience with MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team and take on new tasks.
• Deadline driven and results oriented with excellent organizational and analytical skills.
• Adaptable and flexible in a changing environment.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University Degree in Accounting/Finance
• Minimum5 years of Accounting similar position experience preferably in a multinational environment
• Advanced English (written and spoken).