The Chief Accountant leads the company’s day-to-day accounting operations and owns the integrity of the general ledger, monthly and year-end close, reconciliations, transaction controls, statutory schedules, and audit evidence. Reporting to the Finance Manager, the role supervises the accounting team, reviews accounts receivable and payable activity, validates payroll and treasury-related accounting, and ensures that all legal entities maintain accurate, complete, and timely records in Microsoft Dynamics 365. The position prepares financial statements and compliance files for management review, resolves accounting exceptions, strengthens procedures, and maintains an audit-ready control environment.

 Duties and Responsibilities:

• Plan and manage the accounting close calendar; assign work to the Senior Accountant, Accountant, receivables, payables, and other accounting contributors and review completion, accuracy, evidence, and deadlines.
•  Review daily sales, accounts-receivable, online-channel, credit-card, cash, and store reconciliations and ensure errors, missing records, and unexplained balances are corrected before close. 
• Control accounts-payable accounting for store and corporate expenses, ensuring approved invoices, correct coding, posting, payment support, vendor allocation, and complete files.
• Review accruals, prepayments, deferred charges, recurring entries, and period allocations monthly and ensure balances are supported and released in the correct accounting period.
• Validate purchasing and landed-cost accounting, including exchange rates, supplier invoices, customs declarations, VAT allocation, charges, inventory value, vendor balances, and journal entries.
• Review general-ledger and manual journal entries for account, entity, cost-center, tax, currency, period, description, approval, and supporting-document accuracy before posting or final close. 
• Complete or review bank, credit-card, cash, petty-cash, vendor, customer, store, branch, and intercompany reconciliations and ensure aged or unexplained items are cleared promptly.
• Review supplier and customer statements against Microsoft Dynamics 365, investigate differences, prepare authorized debit or credit corrections, and confirm reliable closing balances. 
• Maintain general-ledger integrity by reviewing account movements, unusual balances, suspense items, exchange differences, and system exceptions and preparing required corrections for approval. 
• Control fixed-asset additions, disposals, transfers, classifications, depreciation, and supporting records and reconcile the fixed-asset register to the general ledger. 
• Review inventory, consignment, landed-cost, cost-of-sales, stock-adjustment, and related branch accounting, including Iraq activity, and resolve differences with operational owners. 
• Coordinate accounting inputs for annual income-tax and year-end closing, including trial balance review, supporting schedules, closing entries, and resolution of auditor queries. 
• Prepare monthly trial balances, balance-sheet schedules, profit-and-loss support, cash and working-capital schedules, and draft financial statements for Finance Manager review.
• Provide internal and external auditors with complete reconciliations, schedules, explanations, and source documents; record approved adjustments and close accounting findings by deadline. 
• Maintain accounting policies, close checklists, account-reconciliation standards, authorization evidence, and segregation of duties and immediately escalate material control breaches. 
• Maintain disciplined accounting in Microsoft Dynamics 365, monitor master and transaction data quality, reduce unsupported manual entries, and support approved system and automation improvements. 
• Coach accounting staff, review recurring errors, provide practical guidance, document procedures, and build team capability in closing, reconciliation, tax support, and system use. 
• Monitor the accounting close, reconciliation, posting, statutory-preparation, and audit calendars and communicate status, blockers, and corrective actions to the Finance Manager. 
• Prepare clear explanations of accounting movements, variances, unusual balances, overdue reconciliations, and control issues to support management reporting and decision making.
• Coordinate with Treasury, HR, Buying, Logistics, stores, e-commerce, and other departments to obtain complete and accurate accounting inputs within agreed deadlines. 
• Maintain complete, confidential, and audit-ready electronic and hard-copy records for journals, invoices, vouchers, statements, approvals, reconciliations, declarations, receipts, and closing files. 
• Recommend improvements to accounting workflows, controls, documentation, and reporting and track approved corrective actions through completion. 
• Perform other accounting-control and financial-close responsibilities assigned by the Finance Manager within approved authority and segregation-of-duties requirements. 

QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field. 
• CPA, CMA, ACCA, or equivalent, or active progress toward one, is strongly preferred.
• 6-9 years of progressive accounting, audit, or financial-control experience, including at least 2 years in a senior accounting, closing, or team-supervision role. 
• Demonstrated experience in general ledger, accounts receivable, accounts payable, accruals, reconciliations, payroll accounting, fixed assets, inventory accounting, and year end close. 
• Hands-on experience preparing VAT, income-tax, salary-tax, social-security, fiscal-stamp, and other statutory schedules and supporting external audits. 
• Experience in retail, distribution, multi-branch, multi-entity, consignment, or another transaction-intensive environment is strongly preferred.
• Experience supervising accounting staff and strengthening ERP-based close, reconciliation, documentation, and internal-control processes. Technical Skills 
• Advanced financial accounting, general-ledger ownership, journal review, accruals, prepayments, fixed assets, inventory accounting, closing, and financial-statement preparation. 
• Accounts-receivable, accounts-payable, vendor, customer, bank, petty-cash, credit-card, store, branch, consignment, and intercompany reconciliation. 
• Accounting controls for treasury, payments, payroll, commissions, purchasing, landed cost, cash, and supporting authorization evidence. 
• Strong working knowledge of Lebanese VAT, income tax, salary tax, fiscal stamps, National Social Security Fund requirements, and related accounting schedules.
• Trial-balance analysis, balance-sheet substantiation, month-end and year-end schedules, audit support, and preparation of draft financial statements. 
• Advanced Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance capability across general ledger, receivables, payables, purchasing, fixed assets, VAT, journals, close, and reporting.
• Advanced Excel skills for reconciliations, data validation, analysis, schedules, controls, trial-balance review, and financial reporting. 
• Internal-control implementation, segregation of duties, accounting-policy application, audit-evidence preparation, and corrective-action follow-up. 
• Strong professional English and Arabic communication, team supervision, and ability to explain accounting issues clearly to finance and non-finance colleagues. 

Working Hours/Days: Monday to Friday from 9:00 AM till 6:00 

How to Apply:
Submit your CV to careers@trexlebanon.com.