Senior General Ledger Specialist

We're Hiring: Senior General Ledger Specialist
Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Experience Level: Senior
Work Arrangement: Fully Remote
About Us
We are a globally focused organization committed to maintaining strong financial controls, accurate accounting records, reliable financial reporting, and disciplined financial operations across diverse markets.
Our Finance teams collaborate across General Accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Treasury, Tax, FP&A, Procurement, Operations, and senior management to ensure financial information is complete, accurate, timely, and compliant with applicable accounting standards and internal policies.
The Role
We are seeking an experienced Senior General Ledger Specialist to lead general ledger accounting activities, month-end and year-end close processes, account reconciliations, journal entries, financial reporting support, intercompany accounting, and financial-control activities.
The ideal candidate will combine strong technical accounting knowledge with analytical capability, attention to detail, and process discipline to maintain accurate general ledger records, resolve accounting discrepancies, strengthen controls, and support timely and reliable financial reporting.
Key Responsibilities
Manage day-to-day general ledger accounting activities across assigned entities, business units, or markets.
Prepare, review, and post accurate journal entries in accordance with accounting policies and applicable standards.
Review journal entries for completeness, accuracy, appropriate supporting documentation, and correct account classification.
Process recurring, standard, accrual, adjustment, reclassification, and correcting journal entries.
Prepare and review monthly accruals, provisions, prepayments, depreciation, amortization, and other accounting adjustments.
Perform detailed general ledger account reconciliations and investigate outstanding reconciling items.
Reconcile balance-sheet accounts and ensure all material differences are identified and resolved promptly.
Maintain accurate supporting schedules for key general ledger accounts.
Perform monthly, quarterly, and annual close activities in accordance with established deadlines.
Coordinate month-end close requirements with Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Treasury, Payroll, Fixed Assets, Tax, and other Finance teams.
Review trial balances and investigate unusual or unexpected account movements.
Analyze general ledger activity to identify errors, inconsistencies, unusual transactions, and potential control issues.
Ensure accounting transactions are recorded in the correct period in accordance with applicable accounting principles.
Perform cut-off reviews for revenue, expenses, accruals, purchases, and other relevant transactions.
Prepare financial reporting schedules and supporting analysis for management and external reporting.
Support preparation of income statements, balance sheets, cash-flow information, and other financial statements.
Ensure general ledger balances reconcile appropriately to subledgers and supporting systems.
Reconcile Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, fixed assets, inventory, payroll, cash, and other subledger balances to the general ledger.
Investigate and resolve discrepancies between subledgers, operational systems, and the general ledger.
Manage intercompany accounting activities, including intercompany charges, balances, confirmations, reconciliations, and eliminations.
Coordinate intercompany balance confirmations with related entities and business units.
Investigate intercompany differences and ensure timely resolution of unmatched transactions.
Support foreign-currency accounting, including revaluation, translation, and exchange-rate adjustments where applicable.
Review foreign-exchange gains and losses and investigate significant movements.
Maintain appropriate accounting treatment for multi-currency transactions and balances.
Support fixed-asset accounting, including additions, disposals, depreciation, transfers, and asset reconciliations.
Review capital expenditure transactions and ensure appropriate capitalization and classification.
Support lease accounting activities and related general ledger entries where applicable.
Prepare and maintain accounting schedules for provisions, reserves, accruals, prepayments, and other balance-sheet accounts.
Monitor aged reconciling items and ensure outstanding balances are investigated and cleared within established timelines.
Maintain clear documentation and audit trails for accounting entries, reconciliations, and adjustments.
Ensure accounting records comply with internal policies, accounting standards, and applicable regulatory requirements.
Support implementation and maintenance of accounting policies, procedures, and control frameworks.
Identify control weaknesses within general ledger processes and recommend corrective actions.
Perform periodic review of general ledger accounts to identify inactive, duplicate, unusual, or potentially misclassified balances.
Support financial statement preparation and ensure underlying general ledger data is complete and accurate.
Assist with statutory reporting, regulatory reporting, and tax reporting requirements where relevant.
Coordinate with Tax teams to provide accounting data, schedules, reconciliations, and supporting documentation.
Support internal and external audits by preparing account reconciliations, schedules, transaction samples, explanations, and supporting evidence.
Respond to auditor queries and coordinate timely resolution of audit requests.
Track audit adjustments and ensure approved corrections are accurately reflected in the general ledger.
Support accounting for acquisitions, disposals, restructuring, new entities, or other significant business events where applicable.
Assist with chart-of-accounts maintenance, account mapping, and general ledger structure improvements.
Review account classifications and recommend improvements to ensure consistent financial reporting.
Support ERP implementations, finance-system upgrades, chart-of-accounts redesigns, and accounting-system integrations.
Perform user acceptance testing for general ledger and financial-system enhancements.
Identify opportunities to automate reconciliations, journal-entry processes, reporting, and other accounting activities.
Improve close processes through standardization, automation, workflow optimization, and better data controls.
Maintain accurate accounting master data and ensure appropriate access and segregation of duties.
Monitor general ledger processing performance and identify bottlenecks affecting financial close.
Prepare management reports covering close status, reconciliation performance, outstanding items, adjustments, and accounting issues.
Provide technical accounting guidance to junior finance team members.
Review accounting work prepared by junior team members and provide constructive feedback.
Mentor junior accountants and support development of technical accounting capabilities.
Maintain awareness of changes in accounting standards, financial regulations, tax requirements, and industry practices.
Provide senior Finance leadership with timely information regarding accounting risks, control issues, reporting impacts, and process-improvement opportunities.
Key Performance Indicators
Month-end close completion rate
Month-end close cycle time
Journal-entry accuracy
Journal-entry processing timeliness
General ledger reconciliation completion
Balance-sheet reconciliation accuracy
Reconciliation aging
Outstanding reconciling-item resolution rate
Trial-balance accuracy
Subledger-to-general-ledger reconciliation accuracy
Accrual accuracy
Provision accuracy
Prepayment accuracy
Depreciation and amortization accuracy
Accounting cut-off accuracy
Intercompany reconciliation accuracy
Intercompany difference resolution time
Foreign-currency revaluation accuracy
Fixed-asset reconciliation accuracy
Lease-accounting accuracy
Financial-reporting accuracy
Financial-reporting timeliness
General ledger error rate
Manual journal-entry exception rate
Accounting adjustment rate
Audit adjustment rate
Audit finding rate
Audit-request response time
Accounting-policy compliance
Internal-control compliance
Chart-of-accounts accuracy
Account-classification accuracy
Statutory reporting timeliness
Tax-support accuracy
Financial close issue resolution time
ERP data accuracy
Accounting-system uptime and reliability
Automation adoption
Reconciliation automation rate
Finance process efficiency
Close-process improvement completion
Finance stakeholder satisfaction
Junior team development
Training and professional-development completion
Ideal Candidate
The successful candidate should have strong experience in general ledger accounting, financial accounting, record-to-report, month-end close, balance-sheet reconciliation, or corporate accounting, preferably within a complex, multinational, multi-entity, commercial, industrial, professional-serv

Work arrangement
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