Accounts & Finance Officer

The Accounts & Finance Officer will play a critical role in managing accurate and timely financial operations across multiple entities and countries. This full-time position involves handling end-to-end bookkeeping for eight accounting books using various systems, including QuickBooks and Zoho Books. The role supports invoicing, accounts receivable and payable, reconciliations, month-end and year-end closing, financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, cash-flow management, intercompany accounting, statutory compliance, and audit readiness. Reporting to the Group Manager or designated management, the officer ensures financial integrity and compliance across group and multi-entity operations.

Key Responsibilities

Multi-Entity Accounting & Bookkeeping:
Manage comprehensive bookkeeping for eight accounting books across multiple countries and systems. Maintain accurate financial records in QuickBooks, Zoho Books, and other approved ERP platforms. Ensure all transactions are properly classified, supported, and posted to the correct General Ledger accounts, entities, cost centres, and accounting periods. Maintain General Ledger and Trial Balance records, ensuring all financial information is complete, traceable, and supported by source documentation. Support independent month-end and year-end closing activities.

Invoicing, Accounts Receivable & Collections:
Issue invoices timely and accurately according to billing cycles, contracts, and service completion records. Maintain visibility of billed, unbilled, due, and overdue receivables. Monitor AR ageing and actively follow up on outstanding balances. Resolve billing disputes, invoice discrepancies, and payment allocation issues. Ensure customer receipts are correctly allocated and reconciled, maintaining accurate customer account reconciliations.

Accounts Payable & Payments:
Review supplier invoices and supporting documents for accuracy and approval. Maintain vendor accounts and promptly resolve discrepancies. Prepare payment schedules aligned with approved terms and cash-flow priorities.

Bank, Balance-Sheet & Account Reconciliations:
Perform monthly bank reconciliations for all assigned entities and accounts. Reconcile customer, vendor, intercompany, and other material balance-sheet accounts. Investigate and resolve reconciling items promptly. Ensure all material accounts are reconciled before final monthly reporting.

Month-End, Year-End & Financial Reporting:
Manage controlled monthly and year-end closing processes. Complete journals, accruals, prepayments, provisions, reconciliations, and supporting schedules. Provide weekly finance and revenue snapshots and prepare flash revenue and financial reports for management.

Budgeting, Forecasting & Financial Analysis:
Coordinate budgeting and forecasting with department heads and finance teams. Maintain rolling cash-flow forecasts covering receipts, payments, and significant financial commitments.

Tax, Statutory & Regulatory Compliance:
Prepare required returns and filings accurately and on time. Identify and escalate potential tax, regulatory, or compliance risks with supporting information and recommended actions. Maintain documentation to demonstrate compliance with finance policies and statutory requirements.

Finance Systems, Billing Platforms & Automation:
Maintain accurate financial records across approved systems. Identify opportunities to automate repetitive accounting and reporting tasks. Support development of dashboards, workflow controls, and system integrations to improve accuracy and efficiency. Eliminate unauthorized parallel or offline records and ensure traceability from management reporting to source evidence.

Audit, Controls & Governance:
Maintain audit-ready financial records with adequate documentation and audit trails for all material transactions. Support internal and external audits by providing requested schedules and evidence.

Required Qualifications

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 five years of relevant accounting and finance experience, ideally involving multi-entity or multi-country operations. Strong hands-on experience with General Ledger, AR, AP, bank reconciliations, month-end closing, and financial reporting. Proficiency with QuickBooks, Zoho Books, Oracle, or comparable ERP/accounting systems. Advanced Microsoft Excel and financial analysis skills. Exposure to budgeting, forecasting, cash-flow management, and management reporting. Experience supporting tax, audit, and statutory compliance is advantageous.

Preferred Qualifications and Benefits

ACCA qualification or ACCA Affiliate status is highly preferred, with fully qualified ACCA members considered mandatory in some cases. Proven expertise in Accounts Receivable processes, including invoicing, ageing, collections, reconciliations, and receipt allocation. Practical knowledge of Pakistan FBR tax, VAT, and sales tax requirements, including compliance documentation preparation. Experience working across multiple accounting books/entities and in a multi-entity or multi-country finance environment is strongly preferred. Familiarity with service-based or professional services organizations is advantageous. Strong proficiency in Zoho Books, QuickBooks, and Microsoft Excel is essential.