Financial Shared Services Accountant - North East Africa
NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS
Total years of experience :15 years, 5 Months
FSS (Financial Shared Services) Accountant - North East Africa “NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETTORKS”
\[Nov 12 - Present\]
General Purpose: is Processing, monitoring and reporting accounting transactions in accordance with process design, concept and service levels defined in the FSS Service Description.
Proactively performing preventive quality controls and taking corrective actions when errors occur.
Additionally, responsible for supporting financial and external accounting in the defined responsibility area.
Prepare B/S reconciliations monthly for R2R accounts by the given deadline. Update the Deviation report per each company code monthly and save it to Sharenet. Follow and solve deviations. Issue resolution based on Balance Sheet deviation report including proposals for actions.
Accounting closing, BS validation, reconciliation and attestation and other accounting quality assurance processes.
Follows NSN Global F&C reporting guidelines and uses appropriate systems to meet financial reporting requirements.
Complies with NSN Global F&C accounting principles, procedures (including SOX and Internal Controls) and IFRS/local GAAP accounting principles for the defined responsibility area.
Provides accurate and timely technical accounting support (IFRS/local GAAP accounting principles and, in some cases, in fiscal matters)
Ensures that the right process exists in own responsibility area and that process is compliant with NSN global policies and processes.
Ensures availability of processes knowledge and technical competence in own responsibility area.
Responsible for NSN Egypt AP Processes & related reconciliations.
Balance sheet reconciliations for NSN Egypt and related deviation reports.
Responcible for AP Cycle & processes for NSN Lybia & NSN Sudan.
Supports, cooperates and contributes to the Internal and External audit process.
Responsible for Balance Sheet Reconciliations, Travel Ledger Recinciliations, Payroll reconciliations and related deviation reports for NSN Lybia, NSN Sudan & NSN Ethiopia.
Supports for accurate and timely NSN group reporting.
Work on monthly, quarterly & annually closing & reporting on SAP.
Period end closing related activities and accruals.
Monthly & Quarterly Withholding Tax report and related clearing & reconciliations.
Provides support for statutory accounting external reporting and related audit and governance: execution, control and results
Preparing WHT reports in order to summit them to the TAX AUTHORITY.
Invoicing Process using Nokia AP-PORTAL tool, follow up with the global team the posting, proceeding the payments using Bank-Link, Other NSN tools or Manual payments & Clearing the vendors accounts.
Customs Duty & VAT manual posting.
Clearing of the Sales Tax, Salary Tax, Custom clearance, Social Insurance, WHT checks & related coding problems.
Provides support and coordination of global process implementation and tool deployments in own responsibility area.
SAS Accountant, “ NOKIA INTERNATIONAL LLC. ”,
SAS is the Shared Accounting Service contact for NOKIA & NSN (NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORKS entities) business in the countries, SAS is responsible for compliance for NOKIA, NSN & MOTOROLA \[Dec 10 - Oct 12\]
Responsible for AP Processes & related reconciliations.
Balance sheet reconciliations for NSN Egypt and related deviation reports.
Work on monthly, quarterly & annually closing & reporting on SAP.
Period end closing related activities and accruals.
Monthly & Quarterly Withholding Tax report and related clearing & reconciliations.
Cooperate with the external auditors in auditing activities and Tax inspections.
Preparing WHT reports in order to summit them to the TAX AUTHORITY.
Invoicing Process using Nokia AP-PORTAL tool, follow up with the global team the posting, proceeding the payments using Bank-Link, CITI-Direct or Manual payments & Clearing the vendors accounts.
Employee travel ledger claims processing posting, settling & Clearing.
Manage manual payments, issue cheque.
Customs Duty & VAT manual posting.
Clearing of the Sales Tax, Salary Tax, Custom clearance, Social Insurance, WHT checks & related coding problems.
Local payment request check and post.
Clearing accounts reconciliations.
Coordinate for master data creation e.g. vendor, customer, GIC, WBS and tax code etc. and maintain interface related mapping tables.
Perform the daily processing of accounts payable transactions to ensure that municipal finances are maintained in an effective, up to date and accurate manner.
Issues LCs and follow up with the exporter and the issuing bank.
Reviews LCs’ documents, verify terms of credit, such amount of insurance coverage, and conditions to determine compliance with established standards.
Issues and follow up the Documentary Collection with the collecting\presenting bank.
Respond to suppliers’ inquiries about order status, changes or cancellations.
Contact suppliers to schedule or expedite deliveries and to resolve shortages, missed or late deliveries, and other problems.
Processing and monitoring payments and expenditures. Insure that staff is paid in a timely and appropriate manner and those suppliers and vendors are paid within established time limits.
Receive and verify invoices and requisitions for goods and services.
Verify that transactions comply with financial policies and procedures.
Reconcile accounts payable with the trial balance & Prepare related financial reports every quarter.
Contact the suppliers to reconcile the statement of accounts on a timely basis.
Maintain accounting records and other related duties in daily administration of the Export & Accounting department.
Handle all the financial process for export shipments & Follow up with clients abroad.
Follow up logistics shipments, Freight forwarder as well as all related documents.
Make entries in the accounting system (Alpha).
Create reports for accounts receivable & accounts payable.
Participate in the financial closing process.
Carry out monthly and year-end closing tasks.
Trainee
Responsible for incoming transfers that are ordered by another party through correspondence.
