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Michael Page

GL Accountant - 1 year contract

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Job Description

  • Ideal for candidates seeking ERP project exposure combined with core accounting
  • Great opportunity for immediately available talent looking for a dynamic role.

About Our Client

Our client is an international organisation with operations across multiple regions, currently undergoing a finance systems transformation. They operate in a fast-moving environment and are enhancing their financial infrastructure to support continued growth. The business offers strong cross functional exposure and the opportunity to work closely with a core finance team on a high impact project.

Job Description

  • Support finance activities related to the implementation of a new ERP system, ensuring accuracy and completeness of financial data.
  • Participate in data cleansing and validation work prior to system migration.
  • Assist with reconciling legacy ledger balances, ensuring all opening balances and open items are correctly identified ahead of migration.
  • Contribute to mapping existing accounts and transactions to the updated chart of accounts.
  • Support the incorporation and alignment of financial dimensions within existing datasets.
  • Validate migrated data and perform post migration reconciliations to ensure ledger integrity.
  • Assist with user testing for finance related processes and workflows within the new ERP system.
  • Document finance processes, testing outcomes, and workflows as part of the implementation programme.
  • Perform general ledger accounting tasks including reconciliations, reviews, and ledger clean up as required.
  • Provide day to day support to the Finance Core Team throughout the transformation period.

The Successful Applicant

  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline.
  • 2 to 5+ years of General Ledger accounting experience.
  • Strong background in account reconciliations and ledger analysis.
  • Experience in ERP implementation or system migration is essential.
  • Hands on experience with Microsoft Dynamics is highly preferred.
  • Advanced Excel skills including pivot tables and data analysis.
  • Candidates do not need prior UAE experience but must be currently based in the UAE and immediately available.

What's On Offer

  • Opportunity to contribute to a major ERP transformation project.
  • Hands on involvement in finance systems, data migration, and process enhancement.
  • Exposure to a collaborative finance function working on high impact deliverables.
  • Potential contract extension based on performance and business needs.

Contact: Cheyenne Coutinho

Quote job ref: JN-022026-6955160

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