Senior General Accountant

Job Description

We are seeking to hire a dedicated, organized, and efficient “Accountant and legal counseller” to join our team in this role, you will work closely to coordinate and complete position tasks as follow:

Job Purpose

• Being responsible for accounting (and legal counselling) in Egypt.
• Support the leadership team of Egypt. The role entails reporting to the Project Management.

Principle Accountabilities

• Manage all accounting operations including Counsel, Cost Accounting, Inventory Accounting and Revenue Recognition
• Manages legal matters, such as contracts, litigation, government enquiries, complaints and others.
• Review, prepare and write contracts.
• Coordinate and direct the preparation of the financial forecasts and report variances
• Prepare and publish timely monthly financial statements
• Coordinate the preparation of regulatory reporting
• Research technical accounting issues for compliance
• Support month-end and year-end closing process
• Ensure quality control over financial transactions and financial reporting
• Manage and comply with local, state, and federal government reporting requirements and tax filings
• Develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls
• Additional controller duties as necessary

Job Requirements

General Qualifications

• Accounting, or Law degree from a reputable school in Egypt.
• Registered to the Bar Association.
• Fluency in English.
• 4+ years of professional experience.
• Experience in Rolling Stock and /or Logistics is an advantage.
• Capable of working independently and collaboratively.
• Good judgement for legal risk management.
• Good communication skills.
• MENTAL AGILITY Comfortable with complexity and ambiguity, finds solutions to tough problems, has broad interests, highly curious.
• RESULTS AGILITY Delivers results (even in tough situations), resourceful, inspiring, has significant presence, builds high performing teams
• PEOPLE AGILITY Can work easily with a diversity of people, politically agile, skilled communicator, manages interpersonal conflict well
• CHANGE AGILITY Constant thinker (never satisfied), introduces novel perspectives, enjoys leading change efforts, willingly takes heat of any resistance to change
• SELF-AWARENESS Insightful, reflective, clearly understands personal strengths and weaknesses, actively seeks feedback, sensitive of impact on others