Senior Accountant

Location: Cairo, Egypt

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.

Thales has built a presence in Egypt for over 40 years and has today over 100 employees. Thales in Egypt is part of our Middle East business that has 1,800 people across Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, KSA, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar and UAE.Together We delivered fare collection and control and communication systems for the first metro line in Africa, Metro Line 1 in Cairo. Since then we have continued to bring growth and security and safety to the country by upgrading these transportation systems as well as providing solutions for customers in air traffic management, air defence and Navy.

**Roles & Responsibilities**:

- Have the Ownership of data accuracy in the books.
- Manage smooth closings of the books across the scope of entities.
- Provide accurate, timely and appropriate accounting information to meet Corporate Reporting requirements (Magnitude tool).
- Maintain GL Reconciliations for audit purposes (including but not limited to bank reconciliations, payroll, prepayments, accrued liabilities).
- Review regularly the balance sheet with the Regional Chief Accountant and associated CFO.
- Lead, coordinate with and train the accounting shared services center team (Infosys based in Bangalore, India) for the associated scope.
- Prepare the withholding Tax Return in Liaison with Tax manager.
- Prepare VAT Return in liaison with Tax Manager.
- Prepare payroll Cost Booking.
- Prepare the social Security Booking and checking on the payments.
- Ensure that suppliers are managed to meet contractual obligations.
- Maintain accurate accounting records and timely payments
- Follow-up and coordination with Shared Services Centre (Infosys based in Bangalore)
- Liase with Treasury for payments
- Get supplier / Interco. invoices booked
- Manage the netting campaigns for all entities under scope
- Incorporate YAL and ICQ principles into the accounting processes and measure its effectiveness as an identified control measure.
- Actively participate to the annual external audit process, including relationship with external auditors, preparing financial statements, schedules and reconciliations.
- Comply with international (IFRS) and local financial legal requirements by studying existing and new legislation, enforcing adherence to requirements, and advising management on needed actions.
- Actively contribute to supporting other departments as Finance business partner (Purchasing process, payment process, HR/Finance related topics, etc).

**Work Experience Requirements**:

- Minimum 5-7 years of experience in financial accounting, preferably in a multinational environment.
- Excellent knowledge of IFRS
- Extensive experience with SAP or Oracle
- Audit background is a plus.

**Qualification, Certification & Educational Requirements**:

- CPA Degree or CMA equivalent (ACCA, DSCG, etc)

**Preferred Skills**:

- Ability to work independently and remotely
- Good command of Excel
- Good command of ERP’s (incl. SAP or Oracle)
- Ability to speak English and Arabic.
- French is a plus
- Ethic Awareness, Confidentiality, Organizational skills (Data & Time reliability).
- Good communication, interpersonal and relationship building skills.
- Self -motivated and able to manage multiple assignments as well as capacity to meet deadlines.

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