General Accountant

Location: Cairo, Egypt

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.

Thales has built a presence in Egypt for over 40 years and has today over 100 employees. Thales in Egypt is part of our Middle East business that has 1,800 people across Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, KSA, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar and UAE.Together We delivered fare collection and control and communication systems for the first metro line in Africa, Metro Line 1 in Cairo. Since then we have continued to bring growth and security and safety to the country by upgrading these transportation systems as well as providing solutions for customers in air traffic management, air defence and Navy.

• ACCOUNTS PAYABLE
• Ensure that Suppliers are managed to meet contractual obligations
• Booking suppliers invoices and associated taxes
• Booking employees expenses
• Maintain monthly accurate accounting records and timely payments
• ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE
• Prepare invoices, associated taxes and follow up the collection process on due time matching with Treasury targets
• Manage and maintain e-invoicing platform
• GENERAL LEDGER AND REPORTING
• Provide accurate, timely and appropriate accounting information to meet Corporate Reporting requirements
• Maintain GL Reconciliations
• Support audits
• Support CFO in central cost control tasks
• Prepare ad-hoc financial reports
  
  

• CASH MANAGEMENT
• Initiate online payments and cheques to suppliers
• Manage petty cash and expenses to employees
• Admin relation with banks and cash reconciliation
  
  

• TAX
• Provide ERP information to tax advisors
• Support tax inspections
  
  

Required Experience & Skills

• 5 years experience in financial accounting inside industrial companies, preferable multinationals
• Ethic Awareness, Confidentiality, Organizational skills (Data and Time reliability), Good communication, interpersonal and relationship building skills
• Self -motivated and able to manage multiple assignments
• Arabic native, English fluent and French if possible
• Advance user in SAP