Chief Accountant

Job Advert on behalf of our sister company Qima Coffee Ltd UK

About Qima Coffee:

Set up in the midst of Yemen’s raging civil war, Qima Coffee is Yemen’s largest specialty coffee exporter, and the country’s most impactful social enterprise.

With operations in Yemen and marketing offices in London, Dubai, and Beijing, Qima Coffee was set up with the aim of reviving Yemen’s once renowned coffee industry and in doing so improving the lives of some of the world’s poorest smallholder farmers. We believe that better coffee can offer better lives.

Established in 2016, Qima Coffee has grown its farmer supply portfolio to exceed 2,500 farming families, representing an equivalent of ~20,000 people from the rural community. Working directly with each and every farmer, the company operates with full traceability and transparency, with every bean traceable back to the individual farmer who grew it. We are Yemen’s first coffee fully vertically integrated coffee company, operating throughout the value chain – from seed to cup.

Staying true to its goal of livelihood generation, Qima Coffee offers farmers the highest prices in the market, and goes on to supplement that price by an additional revenue share from the exported coffee. This mechanism has translated to farmers potentially receiving up to 20 times their previous coffee incomes.

Yemeni specialty coffee is considered amongst the rarest and finest in the world. Yemeni coffee is notoriously difficult to source and highly sought after by coffee aficionados and connoisseurs the world over. With a robust supply infrastructure, local knowledge/network, and global trading capabilities, Qima Coffee is well placed to launch a global coffee revolution.

THE ROLE

We are looking for a high performing Chief Accountant to join our team in our newly established Dubai office to oversee the global Accounts function.

YOUR PROFILE

You are a self-motivated, ambitious, performance driven accountant with management experience. You are a high-level thinker; with attention to detail, a versatile communicator and you continuously seek opportunities to improve. You are comfortable in a start-up environment and are relentlessly persistent in seeking and achieving your goals.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Maintaining a system of managing and overseeing the day-to-day accounting functions of the company
• Monitoring and recording transactions and financial events in compliance with generally accepted accounting principles and company policy
• Maximizing return on financial assets by forming solid financial projects, procedures, policies, control, and reporting systems
• Maintaining expertise over accounting operations, such as accounts payable/receivable, general ledger, cash receipts, treasury, revenue and expenditure variance analysis, fixed asset activity
• Monitoring the activities of the accounting department, including the design suitable for realizing the department’s objectives and goals
• Delivering coaching and leadership to the Accounting team
• Ensuring accurate and timely accounting reporting; monthly, quarterly, and year-end close
• Preparing accounts for various companies on a monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis
• Achieving budget objectives by shuffling expenditures, initiating corrective measures, analyzing variances
• Maintaining the accurate and timely processing of general ledger reconciliation and journal entries
• Performing monthly and quarterly bank compliance activities in an accurate and timely manner
• Responding to inquiries from internal managers, and the CEO, in terms of accounting results and special reporting requests
• Assisting in the implementation and realization of new procedures and projects to improve the workflow of the department
• Utilizing business connections and intelligence to produce process enhancement and develop KPI reporting
• Maintaining consistency over-application of accounting procedures and policies
• Producing financial statements, filling and tax returns, and completing financial reporting
• Maintain a solid and effective relationship across all business groups
• Collaborating with others in managerial positions to realize overall objectives and goals
• Providing realistic, thoughtful, and candid insights into relevant business matters

KEY SKILLS:

• Fully Qualified Accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ACMA, CA) with solid post qualified experience
• Arabic language skills are desirable
• Strong, effective communicator, comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent excel skills
• Implementing and overseeing ERP systems in Start Up environments.

If you’re looking for the next step in your career, and want to work with a rapidly growing company at the forefront of revolutionizing the coffee industry, please send apply with CV and cover letter. Applications close 25th May.