General Accountant - Dubai, United Arab Emirates - APL
1 week ago
Description
Led by Rodolphe Saadé, the CMA CGM Group, a global leader in shipping and logistics, serves more than 420 ports around the world on five continents.
With its subsidiary CEVA Logistics, a world leader in logistics, and its air freight division CMA CGM AIR CARGO, the CMA CGM Group is continually innovating to offer its customers a complete and increasingly efficient range of new shipping, land, air and logistics solutions.
Committed to the energy transition in shipping, and a pioneer in the use of alternative fuels, the CMA CGM Group has set a target to become Net Zero Carbon by 2050.
Through the CMA CGM Foundation, the Group acts in humanitarian crises that require an emergency response by mobilizing the Group's shipping and logistics expertise to bring humanitarian supplies around the world.
Present in 160 countries through its network of more than 400 offices and 750 warehouses, the Group employs more than 155,000 people worldwide, including 4,000 in Marseilles where its head office is located.
THE ROLE:
Role is to work on various finance functions for APL regional office covering Middle East and Africa locations and other locations outside of the USA in general.
Responsibilities to include but not limited to accounts receivable, treasury management, bank reconciliations, accruals & closing, accounts payable, billing & recoveries.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Handling of complete Accounts Receivable functions which involves invoicing, tracking customer invoices, coordinating with various agency offices in Middle East and Africa countries to get collections status and updating invoice status in APL finance system upon receipt.
Preparing and sending weekly AR reports to all country locations under regional office scope and coordinating and following up with each respective country location for collection status.
Coordinating on AR issues with the Director of Finance and working on reports to be sent to the US head office.
Handling of Accounts Payable functions for vendors providing assorted services of freight forwarding, stevedoring, agency fucntions, & other related services.
Managing Treasury and bank accounts for payment receipts from customers and agency offices to ensure payments are allocated to respective customer account & invoices to finance system.
Working on bank reconciliation to clear any differences due to FX etc. by preparing requried entries in finance system as per standard operating process.Working on monthly accruals and closing activities to be prepared as per deadlines and sent to corporate finance team.
Working on billing and recovery activities for any incidental costs recovery from global key accounts.
Providing guidance & support to agency offices under regional office scope on various AP & AR related issues.
QUALIFICATIONS AND PROFILE:
Must have:
Bachelor degree preferably in finance.
- 3 years of working experience in finance or similar capacity.
Computer / IT skills.
MS office expertise especially in MS Outlook, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint.
Nice to have:
Working experience with Middle East and African countries.
French, Arabic, Portuguese and / or African languages.
Prior experience in shipping and logistics.
SAP proficiency.
Come along on CMA CGM's adventure
