Firas Abu Ghoush, Financial Controller

Firas Abu Ghoush

Financial Controller

El Ajou Holding Company

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Bachelor's degree, Accounting
Experience
21 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :21 years, 8 Months

Financial Controller at El Ajou Holding Company
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since July 2021

-Manage all accounting operations including Billing
-Coordinate and direct the preparation of the budget and financial forecasts and report variances
-Prepare and publish timely monthly financial statements
-Coordinate the preparation of regulatory reporting
-Research technical accounting issues for compliance
-Support month-end and year-end close process
-Ensure quality control over financial transactions and financial reporting
-Develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls
-Additional controller duties as necessary

Accounting Manager at AL Jeel Medical Company
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • January 2013 to June 2021

-Managing and overseeing the daily operations of the accounting department:
* month and end-year process, accounts payable/receivable, cash receipts, general ledger, payroll and utilities treasury, budgeting, cash forecasting, revenue and expenditure variance analysis, capital assets reconciliations, check runs, fixed asset activity, and debt activity.
-Monitoring and analyzing accounting data and produce financial reports or statements
-Establishing and enforcing proper accounting methods, policies and principles
-Meet financial accounting objectives
-Review the VAT transactions and the monthly VAT declaration
-Review the Zakat declarations and submit it to the concerned department
-Supervise yearly physical count for the warehouses
-Manage the annual external audit process

Chief Accountant at El Ajou Group Company
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • February 2010 to January 2013

-prepare incomes statement and Balance sheet for all closing months
-prepare the financial reports for the year end
-review the employee salaries
-make control for the personal loan budget
-make control for the car loan budget
-make control on the expenses budget
-approved all supplier reconciliation
-physical count for the main ware house
-prepare all the external auditor documentation
- make control on the accountant by approval for each transaction in the system

Finance Application Consultant at El Ajou Group Company
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • January 2009 to January 2010

-control the system
-fix any issue related to finance and business
-preapre the required report for the business
-add new accounts
-create versions for the report
-prepare menu
-control the users security
-make training
-make month closing
-make year closing
-make integrity report

Finance ERP Key User at El-Ajou Group Comany
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • February 2008 to December 2008

-prepare business requirement
-make documentation for the requirement
-make the GAB documentation between business requirement and JDE system
-make the company set up
-make the finance setup
-make the finance integrity with another application ( sales, inventory and CSMS)
-make the security structure
-prepare the chart of account
-review the data migration
-training the end user
-make test for the application

Head office Accountant at Elajou group trading company
  • Saudi Arabia
  • November 2006 to March 2008

-make journal entries
-make supplier reconciliation
-make checks for supplier and employee
-prepare the employee salaries
-make control for the personal loan budget
-make control for the car loan budget
-make control on the expenses budget
-prepare the financial reports for each month
-make the closing entries in the end of the year
-prepare the financial reports for the ending the year

Finance ERP Key User at Elajou Group Trading Company
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • September 2004 to November 2006

-People Soft Application Help Desk
-make the closing month and year
- One year training in People Soft
- Working As Finance Key User.
-Building The Finance Setup.
-Making securities for users
-Making chart Of account For the company
- making manual for training

Internal Audit at El- Ajou Group Trading Company
  • Saudi Arabia
  • October 2003 to September 2004

- involving in auditing of all departments through the group of companies
- Review all financial Documents including Journal Entry, Receipts, expenses, invoices and vouchers.
- Checking and review Banks Reconciliations
- Checking the Balance sheet monthly and annual
- involve inventory auditing and control
- control the liquid cash flow

External Auditor at Al karaki Office
  • Jordan
  • August 2002 to October 2003

-Review all financial Documents including Journal Entry, Receipts, expenses, invoices and vouchers for Customer .
- Checking and review Banks Reconciliations
- Checking the Balance sheet monthly and annual
- involve inventory auditing and control
- control the liquid cash flow.
- Make Journal Entries For some Customer
- calculate Sales Tax And prepare the Form For It
- Make Internal Audit For Customers

Accountant at othman company
  • Jordan
  • August 2002 to November 2002

-make Journal Entries
- Make Invoices
- Make Receipts
- Make Income statement
- inventory control
- Make Purchases
-Prepare Bank Reconciliation
- Make LC's

Education

Bachelor's degree, Accounting
  • at yarmook University
  • July 2002

major accounting and finance sub

Specialties & Skills

ERP design
Auditing
Financial Reporting
Accounting
ERP CRM
Microsoft Word
working in Accounting program Quickbox
working in Accounting program Mainfram
working in Accounting program People soft
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Power Point
Microsoft Outlock
Microsoft Access
Computer Hardware
Process Plan Mangment

Languages

English
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Training in the Quick books program (Training)
Training Institute:
Yarmouk Univercity
Date Attended:
July 2002
Business Process Management (BPM) (Training)
Training Institute:
El Ajou group company
Date Attended:
September 2009
Manal Future Training (Training)
Training Institute:
Manal Future Training
Date Attended:
June 2005
Accounting by Computer (Training)
Training Institute:
Salam Center
Date Attended:
June 2002