Finance and Administration Manager
FCC Aqualia SA
Total years of experience :11 years, 8 Months
o Steer directly the HR, Finance and Administration team, offering professional guidance to all its members.
o Ensure compliance of Finance, Administration and HR standards to Aqualia policies, best local market practices, ensuring their appropriate and timely
implementation.
o Supervise the design and correct implementation of appropriate accounting, reporting and payroll systems, and an adequate analytical accounting and
cost-center structure.
o Supervise and act as interface in the regular work of auditors, financial consultants, HR consultants or tax advisors.
o Coordinate the preparation of the budget and financial plans.
o Monitor that the whole accounting cycle is running properly, all transactions are properly and timely booked, and the legal requirements related to the
preparation of the FFSS are fulfilled.
o Design and implement the right reporting system following Aqualia standards, best local market practices, and the requirements of the local
management.
o Ensuring that the periodic financial reports are timely prepared, consistent, and the variances fully analyzed.
o Ensure that the company has funds enough to face its current liabilities, the cash inflows and outflows are managed properly, as well as monitor the
daily relations with financial institutions.
o Coordinating with the tax advisors, if necessary, the fulfilment of the regular obligations in front of the tax authorities.
o Ensure compliance with labor, immigration and related legal requirements, and that the necessary formalities are applied and the right systems
implemented.
o Ensure that data related to the employees are properly recorded, stored and processed in the HR and payroll systems.
o Ensure that the employees have the right means to perform their regular duties according to their specific positions such a company mobile phone,
computer, company car, accommodation, and the necessary allowance.
December, 2020
o Take all reasonable discounts on supplier invoices checking with SOA of supplier.
o Coordinate physical inventory counts.
o Collect Withholding taxes from customers and remit them to the Department Zakat and Income Tax.
o Cross-checking with Tax Advisory to ensure all statuary and tax reporting requirements are met and complete required tax reporting in a timely
manner.
o Finalizing account's for presentation and reporting to the top management.
o Ensure that periodic bank reconciliations are completed.
o Calculate variances from the budget and report significant issues to management.
o Provide information to the external Auditor for the annual Audit.
o Issue timely and complete financial statements.
In addition to my regular tasks in Controlling & Internal Auditing, I was in charge of the following:
o Follow up the national and international AML/CTF regulations updates.
o Filtering the transactions sending/receiving to perform controls of indicators of money laundering activity.
o Follow up on suspicious transactions (reports).
o Updating the correspondents’ licenses.
o Follow up on e-mails (correspondents) and provide them with our licenses.
o Insure the quality of data recorded to detect invalid/improper data.
o Updating the Black List.
o Customers database (customer files, hard copy, soft copy, excel sheet)
As a relevant member of the control and internal audit team, I was mainly engaged in the following tasks:
o Effectiveness and efficiency of operations.
o Compliance with laws and regulations.
o Safeguarding of Assets.
o Report problems identified and negotiate action plans with management to address the problems.
o Follow-up on reported findings at appropriate intervals.
▪ Others - Jordan (up to
▪ Courses and Seminars: Attending several courses and seminar among which I would highlight the following ones;