Job Description – Accounts & Finance Officer

Department: Finance & Accounts
Position: Accounts & Finance Officer
Reporting To: Group Manager / Designated Management
Coverage: Group / Multi-Entity Operations
Employment Type: Full-Time

Job Purpose:

The Accounts & Finance Officer is responsible for maintaining accurate, timely and controlled accounting and financial operations across multiple entities and jurisdictions. The role will manage end-to-end bookkeeping for eight accounting books across multiple countries and accounting systems, while supporting invoicing, accounts receivable and payable, reconciliations, month-end closing, financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, cash-flow management, intercompany accounting, statutory compliance and audit readiness.

Key Responsibilities:

Multi-Entity Accounting & Bookkeeping:

Manage end-to-end bookkeeping for eight accounting books across multiple countries and systems.

Maintain accurate financial records across QuickBooks, Zoho Books, and other approved accounting/ERP platforms, as applicable.

Ensure transactions are accurately classified, supported and posted to the appropriate General Ledger accounts, entities, cost centres and accounting periods.

Maintain accurate General Ledger and Trial Balance records for assigned entities.

Ensure financial information remains complete, traceable and supported by appropriate source documentation.

Support independent month-end and year-end closing activities for assigned entities.

Invoicing, Accounts Receivable & Collections:

Ensure timely and accurate issuance of invoices in accordance with approved billing cycles, contracts, service completion records and supporting documentation.

Maintain complete visibility of billed unbilled, due and overdue receivables.

Monitor AR ageing and actively follow up on outstanding balances.

Investigate and resolve billing disputes, missing documentation, invoice discrepancies and payment-allocation issues.

Ensure customer receipts are accurately allocated and reconciled against outstanding invoices.

Maintain accurate customer account reconciliations.

Accounts Payable & Payments:

Review supplier invoices and supporting documentation for completeness, accuracy and appropriate approval.

Maintain accurate vendor accounts and resolve discrepancies promptly.

Prepare and maintain payment schedules in accordance with approved payment terms and cash-flow priorities.

Bank, Balance-Sheet & Account Reconciliations:

Perform monthly bank reconciliations for all assigned entities and bank accounts.

Reconcile customer, vendor, intercompany and other material balance-sheet accounts.

Investigate reconciling items and ensure timely resolution.

Ensure all material bank, receivable, payable, intercompany and balance-sheet accounts are reconciled before final monthly reporting.

Month-End, Year-End & Financial Reporting:

Operate a controlled monthly and year-end closing process across assigned entities.

Complete required journals, accruals, prepayments, provisions, reconciliations and supporting schedules.

Provide weekly finance and revenue snapshots to management.

Prepare Flash Revenue & Financial reporting to management.

Budgeting, Forecasting & Financial Analysis:

Coordinate budgeting and forecasting activities with department heads and relevant finance resources.

Maintain rolling cash-flow forecasts covering expected receipts, payments and material financial commitments.

Tax, Statutory & Regulatory Compliance:

Ensure required returns, filings and supporting information are prepared accurately and within prescribed deadlines.

Promptly identify and escalate potential tax, regulatory or compliance exposures, together with supporting information and recommended action.

Maintain documentation required to demonstrate compliance with applicable finance policies and statutory requirements.

Finance Systems, Billing Platforms & Automation:

Maintain accurate financial records across the Group's approved systems.

Identify opportunities to automate repetitive accounting and reporting processes.

Support development and use of dashboards, workflow controls and system integrations to improve financial accuracy, efficiency and management visibility.

Eliminate unauthorised parallel records, offline financial records and unnecessary duplication.

Ensure financial information remains traceable from management reporting back to the accounting system and underlying source evidence.

Audit, Controls & Governance:

Maintain complete and audit-ready financial records.

Ensure adequate documentation and audit trails are maintained for all material transactions.

Support internal and external audit requirements and provide requested schedules and evidence.

Qualifications & Experience:

Bachelor's degree in accounting, Finance, Commerce or a related discipline.

Professional accounting qualification or progress toward ACCA, CA, CMA, CPA or equivalent is preferred.

Approximately 5 years of relevant accounting and finance experience, preferably involving multi-entity or multi-country operations.

Demonstrated experience in General Ledger, AR, AP, bank reconciliations, month-end closing and financial reporting.

Experience with QuickBooks, Zoho Books, Oracle or comparable ERP/accounting systems.

Strong Microsoft Excel and financial-analysis capabilities.

Exposure to budgeting, forecasting, cash-flow management and management reporting.

Experience supporting tax, audit and statutory compliance requirements is preferred.

Experience in a service-based, professional-services or multi-jurisdiction organization would be advantageous.

Essential Qualifications & Experience:

The ideal candidate must meet the following requirements:

ACCA qualified or ACCA Affiliate. If you specifically want fully qualified only, state “ACCA Member/Qualified – mandatory.”

Proven professional experience in Accounting and Finance, with strong hands-on accounting knowledge.

Strong practical experience in Accounts Receivable (AR), including invoicing, AR ageing, collections, customer reconciliations, receipt allocation and follow-up of overdue receivables.

Hands-on experience with General Ledger, bookkeeping, bank reconciliations, Accounts Payable and month-end closing.

Practical working knowledge of Pakistan FBR requirements and applicable tax/VAT/sales tax requirements, including preparation of supporting schedules and compliance documentation.

Strong hands-on experience with Zoho Books and QuickBooks; experience working across multiple accounting books/entities will be preferred.

Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and financial reporting.

Experience in a multi-entity or multi-country finance environment will be highly preferred.

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