Senior Accountant and Payroll Controller
Arabian Attieh for Steel
Total years of experience :18 years, 10 Months
Highlights:
• Singlehandedly managed payroll for more than 60 employees while managing the payroll registers for finance department.
Key Responsibilities:
• Responsible for overseeing payroll related matters while assisting with payments, calculations, reconciliations, and issuance of pay slips on time.
• Keeping continuous liaison with all internal and external stakeholders while corresponding through letters to consulates, banks, housing, education, and other departments.
• Fulfilling important HR related functions involving recording of leaves, ensuring complete filling forms, and carrying out other administrative tasks as required.
• Generating reports about headcount and other matters to keep senior management and finance department informed about the costs.
• Assisting in all audits conducted by internal or external auditors while answering their queries and providing them with transactional evidences as required.
• Preparing month end general ledger, overseeing closing and presenting balance sheets as well as income statements to Finance Controller for critical future business decisions.
• Overseeing important financial matters including passing of journal entries, management of books of accounts, and accounting policies followed in the organization.
• Reviewing all important internal control procedures deployed while offering recommendations to improve them over time.
Key Responsibilities::
• Responsible for management of different financial accounting functions using Oracle including Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Cash Flow Management, General Ledger, and Inventory Management.
• Prepared in-depth financial statement analysis while generating detailed reports to advice the company on future business decisions.
• Managed flow of cash from debtors and towards creditors by preparing detailed lists and prioritizing payments to efficiently management flow of funds.
• Ensured all accounting policies set by the company were correctly enforced while making any adjustments required to improve company’s overall productivity and efficiency.
• Assisted in preparation of month end financial statements by overseeing all transactions involving, making required reconciliations to product Profit & Loss Statement, Trial Balance, and Balance Sheet.
• Responsible for preparation of annual budget while taking care of all other departments’ particular needs and contributions towards the business in perspective.
• Conducted variance analysis against different cost estimates to monitor the differences while offering recommendations which would help bridge the gap and ensure better future cost estimates.
Key Responsibilities::
• Oversaw, managed and improved company operations by streamlining work processes, working on improving customer service deliverables and decreasing turnaround time.
• Delegated individual sales targets to junior staff in order for them to ensure their maximum contribution towards company’s business development efforts.
• Prepared detailed marketing budget while keeping available budget constraints in perspective without affecting the efficacy of the sales efforts delivered.
• Created and maintained charts of accounts to ensure company’s financial reporting complied with local accounting standards and legal obligations for tax declarations.
• Responsible for efficient management of available company funds involving handling petty cash transactions, preparing bank reconciliation statements and smartly utilizing external funding sources to keep their costs at a minimum.
• Carried out other important tasks including reviewing adequacy of provisions, verification of transactions, and management of taxable income.