Job Purpose

At Emirates Group, we connect the world through our global hub in Dubai, ensuring our customers always Fly Better. As one of the most recognised and admired brands globally, we're driven by innovation and excellence. Join us as an Accountant and play a key role in driving financial strategy and decision-making for a global business. Experience a fast-paced, multicultural environment where your financial expertise will be central to shaping the future of aviation while making a meaningful impact on a global stage.

As an Accountant, your role will be to ensure timely processing, accounting and payments of supplier invoices, incentive and refunds. Carry out processing and reconciliation of Sales/Revenue Recognition/Interline transactions and non-airline partner billings by providing assurance on completeness and accuracy through internal control and review. Identify discrepancies through audit, raise undercollections, investigate movements in balances and ensure accurate reconciliations with minimal exceptions and adjustment needs. Manage a team of Junior Accountants and monitor performance, productivity, and effectiveness of the designated section (Non airport including IFS or Airport area) in cash management and other Customer Services Analyse and report flight revenue yields, ensure all functional units are aligned with the Group Financial Policies and Procedures, update related masters accurately and on timely basis. Compile, monitor and follow up on the accounting and control reports from the outstations and validate contents through appropriate analysis.

In This Role, You Will

Review processes, analyse high risk areas, handle quality checks, and ensure adequate maintenance of prevention and detection controls to ensure completeness, timelines of processing, accounting, billing and accuracy of computation and settlement.
Resolve disputes, queries, discrepancies with internal and external stakeholders.
Identify areas and ensure active involvement in projects, system enhancements testing and process changes and thereby acquire in depth knowledge and enhance business processes.
Check the integrity of interfaces and completeness of data generated by the system. Provide support on key processes and deliverables in the absence of Finance Officer and assist the Finance Officer/Controller in month closing reviews by investigating movements in balances to ensure quality/accuracy of reporting and to ensure that month/year end adjustments are kept to the minimum.
Provide data analytical support for Management Information Systems (MIS), KPI and Revenue Assurance.

Specific for Interline and Revenue Recognition

Ensure the revenue processing and accounting is completed as per the timelines for reporting and overall revenue recognition for the month.
Manually prorate complex coupons which have been rejected by the Revenue Accounting system in order to process in a timely and accurate manner and clear prorate exceptions for Emirates and other airline documents so that the fare collected can be allocated to each coupon of the document and sales liabilities on own document sales and revenue from OWN & other airlines uplifts can be established and accounted.
Complete the processing and accounting of interline invoices, sales, commissions, discounts, rejection values and other related accounts to ensure that the inward billing control account has a justifiable outstanding balance.
Process interline Prime invoices (including Flight Interruption Manifest billing) and recharges in accordance with Prorate Manual, and Special
Prorate Agreement with the help of proration modules in Revenue Accounting. Accept and or reject for the overbilled or billed values as per the norms of IATA Resolutions and or Revenue Accounting Manual, including correspondence with Other Airlines on Interline Billing Disputes.
Examine, analyse and interpret passenger special prorate agreements, tax, fare circulars for clarity and completeness to ensure that there is no ambiguity in the proration and revenue booking process and applied appropriately to billing/billed transactions. Recover under-billings due to ticketing discrepancies including incorrect fare collected on the ticket, non/under-collection of fuel & insurance surcharge and tax underbillings and obtain clarifications/confirmation from pricing and take corrective action.

Qualification

To be considered for the role, you must meet the below requirements:

Graduate - preferably in Finance
Experience in Finance and Insurance Accounts
Additional Finance related qualification preferable (4+ years relevant experience)

You'll Have An Edge If You Have

Accounting knowledge preferably from an airline background.
High level of computer literacy and good knowledge of office automation like Word, Excel, MS Access and PowerPoint.
Good analytical and investigative skills
Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with various stakeholders across the business.
Ability to function independently within an established framework.

Specific To EK Revenue Services

Knowledge of fares, ticketing, proration and interline rules/agreements (preferable with IATA qualification and /or cargo knowledge. working
Knowledge of Global Distribution Systems (GDS) would be an added advantage.

At Emirates Group, we're committed to providing our employees with opportunities to grow and develop their careers. If you're looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity, apply today and join our team!

Salary & benefits

Join us in Dubai and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary and travel benefits that are exclusive to our industry, including discounts on flights and hotel stays worldwide.

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