Required Store Accountant for a leading retail chain. Suitable candidates should have minimum 1-2 years of experience in supermarkets or other convenient store experience. The concerned personnel are responsible for recording transaction activity, reconciling accounts, reviewing summary information and communicating with operating personnel as it relates to financial reporting. Also responsible for assisting Accounting Manager at the Holding Firm in various aspects of accounting/reporting as necessary.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Prepare and input assigned monthly journal entries.
• Prepare, review and assess general ledger account reconciliation.
• Perform a comprehensive review of balance sheet and income statement account activity and balances to identify and correct misclassifications, errors and omissions.
• Provide inventory gross margin analysis and review.
• Assist Store Manager in the resolution of inventory/daily report issues.
• Interface directly with supermarket store personnel on variance review, exception item research and account classification.
• Prepare ad hoc analysis/reporting.
• Review daily store reports for assigned stores to detect exceptions.
• Process store paperwork as needed and ensure accurate financial reports:
• Accounts Payable invoices
• Inventory adjustments and transfers
• Cash Paid In/Cash Paid Out
• Provide error notification to Store and Accounting Managers (Accounts Payable, store daily report entry, etc.).
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND OTHER QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:
• Strong PC/systems skills.
• Good communication (written and oral) skills.
• Good problem solving/analytical skills.
• Ability to maintain confidential information.
• Basic knowledge of accounting concepts and principles.
• Ability to adapt and multitask in a changing environment.
• Ability to assess and adapt processes to increase proficiency.
• Ability to work well with others.
EDUCATION/TRAINING:
3 years degree with major in Accounting preferred; 2 year Accounting Certificate (or comparable) required. 1-2 years general accounting experience a plus (convenience store industry helpful).
Pay scale: AED/2,000 – 2,500 per month all inclusive, based on experience.
Resume Keyword Practices to Avoid
We’ve established that using resume keywords throughout your application boosts your chances of a human hiring manager seeing it.
However, be careful not to overdo it.
Packing your resume full of keywords is almost as bad as not including any at all.
Don’t forget that a real person will (hopefully) see your resume at some point. So use natural language that engages that person.
Tip
Make sure you balance hard skills vs soft skills on your resume to show you’re a rounded candidate.
Otherwise, they’ll think you’re either a bad writer — which indicates your communication skills aren’t good — or assume you’re trying to beat the ATS, making you seem dishonest.
Keyword Stuffing
Keyword stuffing refers to using the same keyword again and again in an unnatural way to get your resume past the ATS.
People engage in keyword stuffing because some ATS software gives applications a higher ranking when it detects a keyword is used more. For instance, an ATS might assign a higher score to a candidate who mentions “search engine optimization” six times over one who mentions it three times.
Here’s an example of how one applicant tried to stuff the keyword “customer satisfaction” in their resume:
Boosted customer satisfaction by 47% by implementing customer satisfaction methods as part of company-wide effort to increase customer satisfaction rates.
Trained 7 new staff members in all aspects of housekeeping, ensuring that they meet health and safety standards
An applicant stuffs the keyword “customer satisfaction” on their resume.
See how extreme this is?
This technique might get your resume past the ATS, but will immediately turn off the hiring manager — ruining your chances of getting hired.