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