General Accountant — Full Cycle (Al Ahsa, KSA or Remote from Egypt)

A Saudi company based in Al Ahsa is hiring one General Accountant to own the company's full accounting cycle single-handedly. hiring one General Accountant to own the company's full accounting cycle single-handedly.

This is not a data-entry seat. You will hold billing, collections, expenses, bank reconciliations, the monthly close, VAT and Zakat data, payroll and GOSI data and annual audit support yourself — and you will write the procedures and templates that make the work handoverable, then train any accountant added as the company grows.

The role can be filled either way, and we are reviewing both in parallel:

• Option 1 (preferred): on-site at our Al Ahsa head office. Overseas recruitment, or sponsorship transfer if you are already in the Kingdom.
• Option 2: full-time remote from Egypt, available on Saudi working hours.

WHAT YOU WILL OWN

• Issue sales invoices daily and match customer collections to bank accounts the same day, keeping customer balances accurate enough for the sales team and management to rely on without manual review.
• Post expense and payment entries daily on the accounting system, every entry supported by an approved document and booked to the correct account and period.
• Prepare monthly bank reconciliations for all accounts and clear custody, receivable and payable balances — reconciliations complete within 5 working days of month end, with no unexplained differences.
• Prepare monthly sales data for payroll and commission calculation, and quarterly sales and purchase data for VAT return preparation, delivered ahead of the deadline and agreeing to the general ledger.
• Summarise and present revenue, expense, receipt and payment data to management on request, answer sales-team queries on customer balances and invoices with a figure from the system, and coordinate with the external accountant and auditors.
• Build the checklists, templates and written procedures for all of the above, and train later hires on them.

WHAT WE OFFER

• Full ownership of the finance function and direct working contact with executive management.
• You define how the work is done, rather than inheriting someone else's process.
• A technical environment that actively encourages automation and approved AI tools.
• A stated intention to build a long-term relationship — this is a role we do not want to reopen.
• Al Ahsa option: package, housing, transport and medical insurance per Saudi labour law and company policy, set on contracting according to experience and practical test result.

ملخص بالعربية

شركة سعودية بالأحساء تبحث عن محاسب عام يمسك الدورة المالية كاملة بنفسه: الفوترة اليومية، تحصيلات العملاء، المصروفات، التسويات البنكية الشهرية، الإقفال، بيانات ضريبة القيمة المضافة والزكاة والرواتب والتأمينات، ودعم المراجعة السنوية. ودعم المراجعة السنوية — ويبني الإجراءات والقوالب ويدرّب من يأتي بعده. الوظيفة متاحة حضوريًا بالأحساء (الخيار المفضل) أو عن بُعد بدوام كامل من مصر بتوقيت السعودية. الجنسية: مصري أو سوداني. الراتب يُحدد بحسب الخبرة ونتيجة الاختبار العملي.

MUST HAVE

• Egyptian or Sudanese nationality.
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting.
• 3–7 years in full-cycle accounting with direct personal responsibility for billing, collections or bank reconciliations — not a single-silo AP or AR role.
• Working knowledge of Saudi VAT and e-invoicing (ZATCA / Fatoora).
• Proficiency in a recognised accounting system. SMACC preferred; QuickBooks, Odoo or Zoho Books accepted with proven fast-learning ability.
• Strong Excel: XLOOKUP/VLOOKUP, pivot tables, SUMIFS, filters and conditional formatting. Tested practically.
• Ability to complete a full bank reconciliation and explain the differences yourself. Mandatory, and tested practically.
• Genuine day-to-day use of AI and automation tools in your work, with clear judgement about what financial data never goes into an unapproved tool — and never treating a tool's output as a tax rule without verifying it at source.
• Professional written Arabic for correspondence with management, sales and auditors; practical English for system interfaces and reports.
• Willingness to commit for a minimum of two years, and for Option 1, to relocate to Al Ahsa.

STRONG ADVANTAGES

• Hands-on SMACC experience, or a well-known ERP (Odoo, QuickBooks, Zoho, Microsoft Dynamics, SAP Business One).
• Practical exposure to Zakat, GOSI and WPS alongside VAT.
• Written SOPs, checklists or templates you built yourself, or experience training junior accountants.
• Power Query, Power BI, or documented automation of a recurring accounting task.
• Professional certification (SOCPA, CMA, CPA, ACCA) or completed VAT courses — an advantage, not a requirement.
• Prior experience inside Saudi Arabia or the GCC, with a transferable iqama.

PLEASE DO NOT APPLY IF

• Your experience is limited to data entry, or to accounts payable or receivable alone.
• You have not personally performed a bank reconciliation.
• You do not have practical Saudi VAT knowledge.
• You have changed more than three jobs in three years without a clear reason.

SELECTION PROCESS

CV screening → 20–25 minute video interview → 60–75 minute practical test (bank reconciliation, journal entries, VAT data preparation, a "train a new accountant" task, and an AI-usage task) → department manager interview → executive management interview.