General Accountant

Job description: Job Purpose

Perform the accounts Tax activities efficiently, in timely manner and quality standards as per the defined policies and procedures to achieve departmental operational plans and developments.

Key Accountability Areas

VAT :

• Prepare monthly VAT audit plan.
• Prepare VAT return report.
• Perform VAT audit according to the sampling criteria.
• Perform the audit timely and with high quality.
• Coordinate with all departments to get the samples documents.
• Obtain the needed approvals on the VAT return.
• Submit VAT return report draft on GAZT website.
• Ensure VAT payments are transferred to GAZT account on time.
• Report any incompliant transaction with VAT regulations with the analysis of the reason and the preventive action.
• Reply to inquiries of departments received by phone and e-mail.
• Coordinate with all departments to ensure that GAZT audit requirements are timely and correctly met.
• Continuously review and monitor the adequacy of systems, procedures and other relevant records to ensure compliance with VAT regulations.
• Understand the operations of the business, policies procedures, and accounting records to ensure correct and timely compliance with tax legislation.
• Participate in the enhancement of ERP systems to facilitate tax compliance.
• Identify risk areas which can impact on the timely and accurate compliance with tax laws and use the appropriate communication channels to escalate issues.
• Collaborate and coordinate the VAT consultation process on time.
• Check for any notification from GAZT on daily basis.
• Prepare audit report on monthly basis.

Withholding Tax (WHT):

• Prepare monthly WHT audit plan.
• Prepare WHT return report.
• Collect WHT data from all divisions.
• Analyze the differences of WHT.
• Perform WHT audit of all documents timely and with high quality.
• Coordinate with all departments to get the sample documents and clarifications on all unclear transactions.
• Get the needed approvals on the WHT return.
• Submit WHT return report draft on GAZT website.
• Ensure WHT payment are transferred to GAZT account on time.
• Report any incompliant transaction with WHT regulations with the analysis of the reason and the preventive action.
• Prepare monthly/yearly WHT report.
• Reply to inquiries of departments received by phone and e-mail.

ZAKAT:

• Prepare Zakat report according to GAZT template.
• Coordinate with all departments to gather the required information, documents, and reports correctly and on time.
• Prepare the needed documents to get Zakat payment approval.
• Ensure Zakat payment are transferred to GAZT account on time.
• Follow up to get Zakat certificate before 29 of April.
• Follow up with the GAZT regarding the assessments operations.

Role Accountability

HR Proficiency:

• Ability to recruit, recognize and cultivate high performers and expose them in order to create a robust second line of management.
• Ability to recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them.
• Ability to treat subordinates equally without any discrimination.
• Assessment criteria of subordinates is performance that leads to planned results.
• Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix to have sufficient delegations as per company policy.

Responsibility:

• Must take full responsibility for his operation as per the job description and the required deliverables from this position, taking into consideration the general company guidelines.
• Able to anticipate problems and make the necessary proactive steps to prevent them
• Ability to take necessary and proper timely decisions.

Delivery:

• Deliver the required results in timely manner with required quality and cost.
• Making a Tangible Difference:
• Must make a tangible difference to his area of operation. and exceed business expectations.

Business Planning and Performance:

• Able to transform the corporate goals into business plans.
• Able to Plan, follow-up and execute those plans, whether they are annual or development plans.
• Monitor the plan performance and initiate action to strengthen results and take the corrective action accordingly.
• Provide periodic work progress reports.
• Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve the optimum cost efficiency.

Organizational Development:

• Develop the organizational structure according to the current requirements taking into consideration future and development plans.
• Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deployment.

Business Process Improvements:

• Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automations opportunities as much as possible.
• Should be conversant and able to navigate through IT solutions especially those relevant to his job and business.
• Promote the automated systems and using them fully, to spread its culture.

Quality:

• Quality is considered as alfanar’s prime competitive advantage as such, managers are expected to act accordingly.

Adaptation:

• Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.

Health, Safety and Environment:

• Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per the standard regulations.