Accountant - Account Receivable

**INSPIRE | EXHILARATE | DELIGHT**

For over six decades, Chalhoub Group has been a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East. The Group, in its endeavour to excel as a hybrid retailer, has reinforced its distribution and marketing services with a portfolio of eight owned brands and over 300 international brands in the luxury, beauty, fashion, and art de vivre categories. More recently, the Group expanded its expertise into new categories of luxury watches, jewellery, and eyewear.

Every step at Chalhoub Group is taken with the customer at heart. Be it constantly reinventing itself or focusing on innovation to provide luxury experiences at over 750+ experiential retail stores, online and through mobile apps, each touch point leads to delighting the customer.

Today, Chalhoub Group stands for 14,000 skilled and talented professionals across seven countries, whose cohesive efforts have resulted in the Group being ranked third in the Middle East and first in Saudi Arabia as a Great Place to Work.

To keep the innovation journey going, the Group has set up “The Greenhouse”, which is not just an innovation hub, but also an incubator space and accelerator for start-ups and small businesses in the region and internationally. This is just one of the several initiatives taken by the Group to reinvent itself, catalyzed by forward thinking and future-proofing. The Group has also been embedding sustainability at the core of its business strategy with a clear commitment towards people, partners and the planet, and by being a member of the United Nations Global Compact Community and signatory of the Women's Empowerment Principles.

**What you'll be doing**

The job holder of this position is responsible for the recording of supplier invoices and reconciliation of supplier statements in line with related policies and procedures. The job holder is also responsible for financial and KPI reporting.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Organizational:

- Follow all relevant accounting policies, processes and standard operating procedures so that work is carried out in a controlled and consistent manner
- Operational:

- Implement activities under close supervision
- Escalate complex problems to the relevant person to ensure case/issue is closed efficiently and in timely a manner
- Accounts Payable
- Check the completeness of all documentation provided by document controller/accounting desk control
- Prepare reconciliation for assigned suppliers, freight forwarders, customs, with the required supporting documentation and submit to Senior/Chief Accountant
- Adhere to the reconciliation schedule for all assigned suppliers or companies as the case may be
- Escalate all reconciling items as per the escalation matrix
- Responsible for providing all supporting documentation required for processing any payment for assigned suppliers
- Assume responsibility for insurance claims for lost and damaged goods for assigned suppliers
- Responsible for allocation of all prepayments made to assigned suppliers
- Responsible for working on AP aging particularly items/suppliers which are overdue
- Participate in month-end and book closure procedures & provide assigned reports to senior/chief accountant
- Participate and support the implementation and maintenance of the Oracle ERP
- Provide assistance in ensuring the work and deadlines of fellow team members is completed during periods of leave as directed by the Senior & Chief Accountant - Non-Allied Goods P2P
- Prepare/update travel expense forms
- Verify tourney, actual trip, advance provided and all supporting documents with appropriate approvals
- Prepare the trip reimbursement summary and input all travel expenses in EBS - Oracle
- Assist in corporate credit cards management in coordination with Financial Analysts
- Update employees accounts for all expenses every month and forward employees statement to payroll team
- Provide monthly summary of unliquidated employee trip advances to reporting accountant for accruals
- Provide employee GL details, after monthly closing, to the reporting accountant to be included in their monthly schedule
- Coordinate with MDM team for the creation of new employee segments in EBS
- Request IT to create new employee as supplier in EBS and check if this should be transferred to AP Accountant
- Receive and process HR requests for advances, and forward for approval
- Reconcile advances and expenses booked on monthly basis
- Sales & Collection, Rents and Reporting:

- Prepare consolidated credit card and cash collection reconciliation relating to the previous business day for the assigned shops
- Identify discrepancies in expected cash collection and actual cash deposited in the bank by Trans Guard
- Identify discrepancies in expected credit card collection and actual settlement by the acquiring bank;
- Prepare all journal entries relating to cash and credit card collections and submit to the Chief Accountant - Retail Accounting for review
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