Chief Accountant – Egypt

What you’ll be doing:

• Ensure correct Record to Report activities as per the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).
• Key responsibility is to ensure COE R2R team performs all necessary accounting activities and company reporting according to the statutory and corporate requirements. Annual financial statements and all tax requirements are done timely and accurately. MEC is performed timely and accurately.
• General managers and Finance Directors are confident to sign financial statements.
• Cooperates with internal and external auditors, 3rd party advisors, General Managers, Finance Directors, GBS service delivery team, GBS and Corporate Controllers, Cluster & Central Tax and FP&A.
  
  
  

Key responsibilities:

Perform accounting tasks to ensure the company’s monthly reporting

• Ensure accurate, complete and up-to date accounting records according to statutory and corporate requirements for Commercial Market
• Review monthly closing financial reports for Corporate purposes for CM
• Keep control over USGAAP vs Statutory adjustments, own the process for CM
• File annual (as per local regulations frequency) statutory financial statements for CM
• File all other statutory local filings as per local rulings and frequency for CM
• Organize and lead annual statutory audit for CM
• Manage inspections
• Prepare commentary for quarterly Certification process (attend the call, understand the reports, sign off)
• Comments actuals variances for FPA purposes
• Prepare statutory forecasts
• Review balance sheet reconciliations performed by GBS (Third Party Provider and CoEs)
• Control owner for related activities (i.e. USGAAP to statutory adjustments 942 and other applicable) – file samples to the Audit board, ineffective controls remediation, apply SOX matrix changes
• Ensure compliance with internal global and local procedures as well as assigned SOX controls
• Monitoring of local rulings and timely implementation to company processes
• Maintain relationship with local statutory services providers (i.e. EY, BDO and similar)
• Tax advisory for projects
• Cooperate with CoE team, GBS service delivery, GPO, finance in the markets, controllers, tax and internal control teams in order in order to improve processes, sharing knowledge and building positive relations
• Look for new ways of improving efficiency and quality of the processes within and outside the remit of the role
• Widen financial and accounting knowledge by taking part in trainings, studying internal and external best practices.
  
  
  

Work Experience

• 4 year+ experience in finance/accounting structures, preferably in the multinational company
  
  
  

Education

• Diploma in Finance/Accounting and professional accounting certification
  
  
  

Skills & Competencies Required

• Very good knowledge of accounting systems and experience in working with them
• Strong knowledge of IFRS, US GAAP standards
• Ability to be self organized and disciplined, work under pressure and with the strict deadlines
• Very good knowledge of English (both written and spoken)
• Understanding of multi cultural work environment
• Leadership skills ensuring ability to develop efficient and motivated team
• Great learning agility
• Proactiveness, ability to maintain high quality performance in the changing environment
• Curiosity and willingness to constantly seek self improvement and improvement of the processes
  
  
  

The company supporst reasonable adjustments both within the recruitment process and job design when required to empower you to work in a way that works for you.

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