Senior Accountant

Company Description

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.

Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 130 countries worldwide.

Our team is dynamic, innovative and client-focused, supported by an inclusive and fun company culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting projects in the world.

Job Description The Saudi business currently employs circa 475 staff across the Real Estate, Infrastructure, and Natural resource sectors, and is forecast to continue growing.

The KSA business has a vacancy for a Senior accountant to help manage the Finance function and be a Business Partner to the local leadership team.

Job Purpose

Senior Accountant reporting to the KSA Finance Director.

We require a qualified and technically strong accountant preferably with at least 5 years post qualification experience that includes preparing Management Accounts, Forecasts, Project Accounting and will act as a Business Partner.

This person will be a strong team player with experience working in an environment with conflicting pressures and heavy workloads and they will be required to work on their own initiative when needing to manage unusual and ad-hoc requirements.

The role will require frequent interaction with the senior management to ensure objectives are aligned, therefore strong communication skills are also required.

The successful candidate will be a key Business Partner to the KSA Management and Sector Managers in addition to ensuring minimum financial governance standards are met. A minimum of 5 years post qualified experience, ideally KSA based with MNC consultancy/construction industry experience is highly preferable.

Key Selected Responsibilities

Accounting & Reporting

• Deliver clear & accurate month end reporting requirements to timetable. Working closely with Commission Leads and the Finance Leads to ensure Management Accounts, Financial reports & Forecasts are as accurate as possible.
• Business Partnering, Project profitability, Project Revenue Trackers, Project Accounting & WIP analysis are key reports to the business.
• Ensure balance sheet reconciliations are maintained with any reconciling variances articulated and managed in accordance with financial reporting standards.
• Supporting other ad-hoc month end reporting in line with group timetable, including providing support on commentary for variance analysis.
• Revenue Trackers, Income Statement accurately recorded and maintained.
• Assisting with annual statutory audit.
• Support the annual Budget submission.
• Processing General Ledger journal transactions for both Income Statement and Balance Sheet.
• Client invoicing – a critical requirement occurring at a critical time requiring the candidate to manage conflicting time and workload pressures.
• Intercompany account reconciliations with relevant action then being taken where necessary.
• Ensure compliance with accounting policies – both external reporting standards and internal policies.

Payroll

• Support preparation of monthly payroll.
• Generation of payroll journals and relevant payroll recons.
• Responding to payroll queries as and when required.

Tax

• Good knowledge of KSA VAT and Tax laws and practices will be a significant advantage.

Qualifications

Core Behavioural Skills:

The successful candidates will possess the following characteristics:

• A challenging mind-set, analytical, methodical with the ability to investigate and interrogate data. (Strong excel skills).
• Confident accounting skills (qualified, CIMA, ACCA and equivalent, with post qualified experien