Senior Accountant

Description:

The Aviation Finance Role
Join as Senior Accountant to manage airline accounting, airport services finance, and aviation fuel operations for a major aviation operator. This role combines complex revenue recognition, route profitability, and aviation-specific regulations in KSA's rapidly expanding aviation sector.

🔹 Aviation Accounting:
• Passenger revenue – ticket sales recognition, interline billing, proration agreements, BSP reconciliations

• Cargo operations – freight revenue, mail services, cargo handling fees, warehouse charges

• Ground handling – ramp services billing, passenger services, cargo handling, into-plane fees

• Fuel accounting – fuel inventory, IATA pricing, fuel hedging, into-plane operations, fuel farm management

• Aircraft costs – leasing costs, maintenance reserves, engine overhauls, AOG expense tracking

• Regulatory compliance – GACA reporting, IATA compliance, SITA billing, aviation authority audits

• Route profitability – sector analysis, load factor metrics, yield management support, route costing

• Interline settlements – IATA clearing house, multilateral agreements, settlement reconciliation

🔹 Who You Are:
✓ 5-7 years accounting experience with aviation, airlines, or airport operations background

✓ KSA aviation experience – airline finance, ground handling, GACA regulations, IATA procedures

✓ Aviation systems – IBS Software, Amadeus, SAP for Aviation, or airline-specific ERP

✓ English fluency (business) + Arabic (professional, aviation terminology helpful)

✓ CPA, CMA, or aviation certification (IATA Finance courses advantageous)

✓ Saudi national preferred for GACA regulatory access and aviation security clearance