Chief Accountant
Eastern Province Cement Company
Total des années d'expérience :17 years, 4 Mois
• Preparation of financial Statements and schedule for annual audit examinations.
• Review and post sub-ledger entries such as AP and AR, post the payroll entries to GL and reconcile any differences between payroll sub-ledger and GL
• Close periods after approving all journal entries and open the next one and ensure that the periodic account closing activities are done on a timely and accurate basis.
• Ensure effective and efficient functioning of monthly financial accounts for Operations
• Preparation annual budgets and analysis cost reports for departments level and products
• Present costing reporting and potential risk areas to senior management.
• Oversee accounting, financial reporting, analysis and preparation of the consolidated financial statements, including schedules for tax compliance.
• Ensure policies and procedures are in compliance with professional standards, state and federal regulatory requirements.
• Establish and maintain internal controls to support the financial infrastructure.
• Provides documentation for cost estimates, analysis, changes, costs impacts, budget tracking and planning support, whether for Product costing or for the departmental cost by each activity à ABC.
• Primary contact for business partners for functional areas of responsibility - and to work closely with operational excellence.
• Development of product cost: material usage, material cost, equipment requirements, and labor.
• Development of product cost: material usage, material cost, equipment requirements, labour requirements, cycle times, tooling and capital requirements for new business or changes to the current business.
• Review complex bill of materials for reasonableness.
• Review manufacturing assumptions for reasonableness.
• Updates data in financial planning tools as required.
• Conducts financial product cost modelling per company financial structures.
• Conducts cost improvement and Design to Cost meetings with an assist from PM, Engineering, Purchasing, and Sales teams when required.
• Monitors and makes recommendations regarding profitability and performance of existing products.
• Prepares reports, charts, graphs, and other statistical information.
• Create and review the controls needed for data accumulation and reporting systems.
• Coordinate physical inventory counts and cycle counts.
• Update standard costs in the bill of materials.
• Review standard and actual costs for inaccuracies.
• Investigate cycle counting variances and resolve issues.
• Accumulate and apply overhead costs as required by generally accepted accounting principles.
• Work with the materials review team to locate and dispose of obsolete inventory and to prepare accurate accruals for the same.
• Investigate cycle counting variances and resolve issues.
• Review and Evaluate business cycle, and provide recommendations to CFO
• Evaluate ERP-accounting system, and provide recommendations to IT team for improvements based on potential risks
• Prepare quarterly financial statements with full disclosure requirements, and ensure year end close.
• Ensures a solid, well designed and operating control framework in compliance with SOx/internal control standards
• Designing and implementing a system of internal control.
Directed and administered all audit activities per the stipulated schedules/audit plans.
Audited financial statements of industrial, services, Travel, Cargo, Treading, and construction companies.
Conducts interviews, reviews document, develops and administers surveys, compose summary memos, and prepares working papers.
Led Audit team and planned internal audits as well as tested and evaluated companies’ internal controls.
Assisted in the preparation of audit findings and issuance of management letters. Prepared financial analysis of financial statements.
Oversaw the finalization of accounts statement and prepared reports for group sister concern company and their respective branch.
Member of Oracle ERP Implementation Team as Key User in the Financial Modules for Manufacturing &Travel & Cargo Companies.
Developed and implemented internal controls training that was implemented globally for all key employees, leading to a 22% reduction in identified internal control deficiencies.
post-graduate studies, accounting and auditing, 2004 - 2005
BS Degree in business administration, 2005
BS Degree in Accounting, 1996 – 2000
