Accountant / Finance Analyst

Job Purpose

This role focuses on keeping bank transaction records accurate and current across Aldar Corporate, Aldar Development, Aldar Investments, and Aldar Projects. The position supports timely updates in the ERP system, carries out month-end bank reconciliations, assists auditors with their inquiries, and manages the accounting and reconciliation of corporate credit card payments.

Key Responsibilities

• Retrieve bank statements from the banking portal and monitor MT940 file uploads in the ERP cash management module. Work with the ERP team to fix missing files, failed uploads, and other processing issues so bank transactions are updated correctly and on time.
• Partner with the ERP team to enable MT940 uploads in the cash management module for newly opened bank accounts.
• Examine unreconciled items created after automated clearing in the ERP and investigate differences to ensure they are resolved accurately and without delay.
• Support the Payables team by preparing SWIFT advice for completed payments. Coordinate with banks to collect information on direct customer deposits when the Receivables team does not have all the required details.
• Assist with month-end reconciliation of more than 250 bank accounts across Aldar Corporate, Aldar Development, Aldar Investments, and Aldar Projects. Coordinate with the relevant departments to ensure unreconciled items are recorded and cleared in a timely manner.
• Match bank statements with credit card proceeds reports received through Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to confirm that all transactions are uploaded for auto-clearing. Monitor unreconciled entries in the RPA reports and manually clear transactions that the automation cannot reconcile. Coordinate with the relevant teams so pending items are receipted and remitted in ERP without delay.
• Follow up with the respective banks to secure any credit card proceeds reports that have not yet been received.
• Address questions from the Customer Department and Aldar Development Finance regarding uncleared receipts and related matters. Provide Aldar Development Finance with detailed summaries of intergroup transfers between corporate and escrow bank accounts.
• Post payroll entries and other unreconciled transactions that are not processed through the Payables or Receivables modules in Oracle.
• Download monthly credit card statements from the bank portal, share them with the assigned card custodians, and follow up with custodians who are late in submitting their payment claims to keep the process on schedule.
• Manage the reconciliation and accounting of corporate credit card payments within the ERP and share details of intercompany items included in those payments with the relevant entity.

Additional Information

This position is based in Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates, and is a full-time onsite role.

No salary, stipend, opening count, start date, or application deadline was provided in the source information.

Entity Names Mentioned in the Role

Aldar Corporate, Aldar Development, Aldar Investments, and Aldar Projects are referenced as part of the operating scope for this role.