Abobakr Mahmoud, Regional Senior Accountant – North Africa & Levant

Abobakr Mahmoud

Regional Senior Accountant – North Africa & Levant

MAGRABI RETAIL - Corporate Office

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Bachelor's degree, Faculty Of commerce (Accounting major) - Grade: Very good
Experience
17 years, 2 months

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Total years of experience :17 years, 2 months

Regional Senior Accountant – North Africa & Levant at MAGRABI RETAIL - Corporate Office
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since November 2010

Job Responsibilities

General accounting responsibilities

•Prepare accurate and timely financial reports and statements and ensure appropriate accounting control procedures.
•Ensure financial records are maintained in compliance with accepted policies and procedures.
•Prepare profit and loss statements and monthly closing and cost Center reports.
•Preparation of monthly, quarterly and year end closing activities.
•Prepares monthly closing accounts including GL journal entries.
•Prepare periodic financial/management reports.
•Prepare account reconciliations for all balance sheet accounts.
•Ensure financial reporting deadlines are met.
•Intercompany billings to foreign subsidiaries.
•Prepare audit schedules for yearly and government audits.

Tax responsibilities

•Ensure that the company records are in compliance with local laws and regulations including corporate tax, salary tax, stamp duty tax, and local & offshore withholding tax.
•Provide tax treatment for various types of tax according to the local tax laws and regulations for different types of activities performed by the company.
•Handling the tax inspection process for various types of tax including all procedures for the inspection process.
•Provide tax consultant with the required reports and analysis to Prepare the following:
A.Tax returns as well as their periodic amendments including corporate tax returns.
B.Payroll tax returns.
C.Withholding tax forms.
D.Sales tax.
E.Stamp tax.
F.VAT (Lebanon)

GL Accountant at MAGRABI RETAIL - Corporate Office
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • April 2009 to October 2010

Job Responsibilities

•Handling all the Company’s Payable. (Foreign & local)
•Handling inter-company operations with sister companies in Egypt and other regions.
•Review and maintain the vendors & Sister companies aging.
•Record the expenses, payments, inventory items journals in the accounting software.
•Prepare the sales tax statement.
•Prepare & record the accrual & adjustments journal entries.
•Prepare the journal entries to record the inventory items & company's Expenses.
•Responsible for recording all of the fixed assets Additions journals.
•Receive all the purchase orders, invoices, review them to be sure that all of the invoices match the purchase orders & it was not paid before to avoid any duplication.
•Prepare the payment vouchers to pay for the suppliers, subcontractors & for service contracts.
•Establish good relation with the suppliers.
•Prepare the company's withheld tax statement (Form 41).
•Monitor accounts to ensure payments are up to date.
•Responsible for preparing bank reconciliation reporting.
•Responsible for fixed asset registration (i.e. creation - acquisition - capitalization).

AR Accountant at United Investment Group (UNIVEST)
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2008 to March 2009

Job Responsibilities

•Responsible for preparing sales reports on the level of customer, product and sales persons.
•Responsible for preparing AR aging reports.
•Responsible for Preparing customer advance reports.
•Responsible for preparing customer accounts reconciliation.
•Responsible for Identification job order with permission of delivery with price list to issue the sales invoice.
•Responsible for Issuance of sales invoices.

GL Accountant at EL Sewedy steel
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • February 2007 to December 2007

Job Responsibilities

•Responsible for registering in the American journal register books.
•Responsible for registering in the book of taxation.
•Responsible for registering withholding tax (form 41).
•Responsible for preparing sales analysis reports.
•Responsible for Issuance of letters of guarantee and credits.
•Responsible for preparing daily entries that related to daily banks operation.
•Responsible for preparing bank reconciliation reporting.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Faculty Of commerce (Accounting major) - Grade: Very good
  • at Cairo University
  • May 2006

Specialties & Skills

Financials
sap fico
Tax Accounting
Account Reconciliation
Financial Reporting
Microsoft office
SAP ( ERP System )
Willing to work hard and learn more
Ability to work effectively in teams and provide support to other department members

Languages

English
Intermediate
German
Beginner
Arabic
Expert

Training and Certifications

Presentation skills (Training)
Training Institute:
logic-consulting
Date Attended:
October 2012
Duration:
18 hours
Problem solving (Training)
Training Institute:
American Chamber of Commerce
Date Attended:
June 2014
Duration:
18 hours
Communication Skills (Training)
Training Institute:
logic-consulting
Date Attended:
September 2011
Duration:
18 hours
Personal effectiveness (Training)
Training Institute:
Quest
Date Attended:
November 2014
Duration:
20 hours