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

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• 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.