Beirut, LB
Accounting Officer
CMA CGM Group, founded by Jacques R. Saadé, is a leading worldwide shipping & logistics group.
Now headed by Rodolphe Saadé, CMA CGM reinvents transport and logistics in order to offer an integrated maritime, port and land service that exceeds its customers' expectations.
Present in over 160 countries through 755 offices, 750 warehouses, equipped with a young and diverse fleet of 511 vessels, CMA CGM serves 420 of the world's 521 commercial ports and operates on more then 200 shipping lines. The group currently employs 110,000 people worldwide, including nearly 2,400 in Marseille, in its headquarters in Marseilles.
The Role
A General Ledger (GL) process is a chronological accounting that a business uses to keep track of financial transactions. A general ledger consists of recording all accounting transactions related to a entities assets, liabilities, equity, revenue, and expenses. The general ledger works as a central repository for accounting data transferred from all sub ledgers or modules like accounts payable, accounts receivable, cash management, fixed assets, purchasing and projects.
Responsibilities
- Prepare daily bank & cash reconciliation journal entries.
- Prepare monthly reconciliation for the accounts detailing the general ledger balances, research discrepancies, and prepare adjusting transactions necessary to make corrections to appropriate accounting records.
- Provide support to agency and head office with reconciliation along with their queries
- Prepare commission calculations, freight tax calculation and post journals
- Prepare and input other adjusting, monthly, recurring journal entries
- Arrange and support in audit both inter & external and in matters of compliance
- Maintenance of various accounting areas
- Fixed Assets
- Prepayment schedules
- Other accounting schedules
- Accruals
- Revaluation
- Matching of open Lines.
- Preparation of Monthly P&L Analysis and providing comments on the Variance.
- Monthly preparation of MGA and its reports.
- Providing assistance in Budget upload.
- Monthly Financial reporting in the Group consolidation tool.
- Closing ledgers and reporting the trial balance for consolidation.
- Prepare monthly reports – Withholding tax, ICP & MIS reports
- Provide research and problem-solving support for other accounting teams and business.
- Responding on timely manner to Queries from Agencies, Country manager and other department.
Profile and competencies
- You are fluent in English
- Have a good grasp of MS Office (Excel, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, etc.)
- Have a good time management skills and ability to work with deadlines,
- Not afraid of challenging assignments,
- Love to work with details and systems,
- Have good communication and social skills and positive mind,
- Ready to work with fixed and stable schedule.
- Experience in Finance(e.g. Banks, Hotels, Restaurants, Aviation, Cruise Ships, Retail, Travel agencies, etc.)
- Additional language is considered as an advantage
Come along on CMA CGM’s adventure !