Senior Corporate Accounting Specialist

🏗 We're Hiring: Senior Corporate Accounting Specialist

📍 Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)

🕒 Employment Type: Full-Time

💼 Experience Level: Mid-Level to Senior

🌐 Work Arrangement: Fully Remote

About Us

We are a construction-focused organization committed to delivering complex projects through disciplined financial management, commercial excellence, operational efficiency, and collaborative project delivery. Our distributed teams work across Project Management, Construction, Engineering, Procurement, Commercial, Legal, Finance, Human Resources, Design, Quality, HSE, Consultants, Contractors, Suppliers, Logistics, Administration, Information Technology, and Executive Leadership to maintain accurate financial records, strengthen corporate accounting controls, ensure regulatory compliance, and support sustainable business growth.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Corporate Accounting Specialist to support corporate accounting operations, financial reporting, general ledger management, month-end and year-end closing, intercompany accounting, balance sheet reconciliations, statutory reporting, and internal financial controls. The successful candidate will play a key role in maintaining the integrity of corporate financial information, ensuring compliance with applicable accounting standards and regulatory requirements, and delivering timely, accurate, and meaningful financial data to support management decisions across the organization.

The ideal candidate will possess strong technical accounting knowledge, excellent analytical skills, attention to detail, and experience managing corporate accounting activities across multiple entities, business units, projects, or jurisdictions.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day corporate accounting activities and ensure financial transactions are recorded accurately, consistently, and in a timely manner.
• Maintain and review general ledger accounts, journals, subledgers, and supporting financial records.
• Prepare, review, and post journal entries in accordance with approved accounting policies and procedures.
• Coordinate month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing activities across corporate entities and business units.
• Develop and maintain closing schedules, accounting checklists, and reporting calendars to ensure deadlines are met.
• Review financial transactions for completeness, accuracy, appropriate classification, and supporting documentation.
• Prepare corporate financial statements, including balance sheets, income statements, cash flow statements, and supporting schedules.
• Support the preparation of consolidated financial statements for group reporting purposes.
• Ensure financial reporting complies with applicable International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), relevant local requirements, and internal accounting policies.
• Interpret accounting standards and assess their implications for corporate transactions and financial reporting.
• Maintain accurate accounting records for corporate overheads, administrative expenses, shared services, and other central functions.
• Review and reconcile balance sheet accounts, ensuring balances are supported by appropriate documentation.
• Investigate unreconciled balances, unusual transactions, and long-outstanding reconciling items.
• Coordinate the resolution of accounting discrepancies with relevant finance teams and business stakeholders.
• Maintain clear audit trails for journal entries, reconciliations, adjustments, and other material accounting transactions.
• Review the accuracy and completeness of trial balances before financial reporting deadlines.
• Prepare supporting schedules for accruals, prepayments, provisions, deferred expenses, and other accounting adjustments.
• Calculate, review, and record accrued expenses and unbilled liabilities based on available supporting information.
• Maintain appropriate accounting treatment for prepaid expenses and ensure expenses are recognized in the correct reporting periods.
• Review provisions and estimates for reasonableness, consistency, and compliance with accounting policies.
• Monitor corporate expenses and ensure transactions are recorded in the correct accounts, cost centers, departments, and reporting periods.
• Support the preparation and review of intercompany transactions between subsidiaries, branches, departments, and related entities.
• Reconcile intercompany receivables, payables, loans, management fees, and other balances.
• Investigate intercompany differences and coordinate timely resolution with relevant entity finance teams.
• Ensure intercompany transactions are properly documented, authorized, and recorded consistently across entities.
• Assist with intercompany confirmations and balance matching during period-end closing.
• Support the elimination of intercompany balances and transactions during group consolidation.
• Maintain corporate accounting records for related-party transactions in accordance with applicable accounting policies and disclosure requirements.
• Assist in evaluating the accounting implications of reorganizations, entity restructuring, acquisitions, disposals, and other corporate transactions.
• Support the preparation of consolidated reporting packages and entity-level financial submissions.
• Review financial information submitted by subsidiaries and business units for accuracy, completeness, and consistency.
• Coordinate with local finance teams to resolve reporting issues and ensure compliance with group accounting requirements.
• Maintain standardized accounting templates, reporting formats, and submission procedures across the organization.
• Prepare corporate financial schedules and supporting documentation for internal and external reporting.
• Analyze fluctuations in corporate expenses, liabilities, assets, and other financial statement balances.
• Investigate significant period-over-period and budget-to-actual variances and document explanations.
• Provide management with clear commentary on material accounting movements, unusual transactions, and emerging financial reporting issues.
• Support the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual management reporting packages.
• Coordinate with FP&A and management accounting teams to ensure consistency between statutory accounting records and management reports.
• Maintain accurate records of corporate assets, liabilities, equity, income, and expenses.
• Support the accounting treatment and reconciliation of share capital, reserves, retained earnings, and other equity balances.
• Assist with the accounting and reporting of shareholder transactions, dividends, capital contributions, and distributions where applicable.
• Maintain supporting schedules for loans, financing arrangements, interest expenses, and other corporate funding activities.
• Coordinate with Treasury to reconcile bank accounts, cash balances, financing transactions, and related accounting entries.
• Review bank reconciliations and ensure outstanding items are investigated and cleared promptly.
• Support the accurate accounting of foreign currency transactions and period-end currency revaluation adjustments.
• Review foreign exchange gains and losses and ensure appropriate classification and presentation in financial statements.
• Assist with the preparation of foreign currency translation schedules for entities operating in different currencies.
• Support corporate tax accounting activities, including the calculation and recording of relevant tax provisions and balances.
• Coordinate with Tax teams and external advisers on corporate tax reconciliations, supporting schedules, and reporting requirements.
• Assist with the accounting treatment of deferred tax assets and liabilities where applicable.
• Maintain records supporting value-added tax (VAT) and other applicable indirect tax accounting entries.
• Reconcile tax-related general ledger accounts with relevant tax returns, assessments, and supporting schedules.
• Ensure tax-related accounting documentation is maintained in accordance with applicable recordkeeping requirements.
• Support the preparation of statutory financial statements and other required corporate financial submissions.