Rody BOU ABDOU, CHIEF ACCOUNTANT

Rody BOU ABDOU

CHIEF ACCOUNTANT

Collège Notre-Dame de Nazareth

Location
Lebanon
Education
Master's degree, Business Administration
Experience
21 years, 0 months

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Total years of experience :21 years, 0 months

CHIEF ACCOUNTANT at Collège Notre-Dame de Nazareth
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • My current job since October 2011

- Settling a modern Accounting unit with the creation of a separated Cash Unit.
- Customizing new accounting software.
- Creation and Customisation to the school’s environment of the Lebanese Accounts Table.
- Managing and training the unit (3 persons) to the new settled procedures.
- Reporting weekly to the School’s Administrator.
- Preparation of the expected annual budget for 2012.
- Preparing and executing monthly the payroll for 200 employees and professors.
- Auditing and controlling all data-entries in accounting (Accounts Payables and Receivables).
- Monthly Banking reconciliation.
- Preparing and Presenting Monthly the NSS and Tax Forms.
- Participation to a seminary on the « Private Schools laws and their implementation» organized by the “General Secretary of Catholic Schools” in Lebanon.
- Cooperation and collaboration with the “College of Kfarzeina” (Lebanon North) Accounting Unit.
- Unificating the accounts' procedures between the both Schools.

Financial Controller at Ministère du Budget, des Comptes publics et de la Fonction Publique
  • France
  • My current job since June 2010

- Register and fill in the database the real estate public contracts.
- Follow up the implementation of real estate strategy.
- Follow up works in the state buildings.
- Review public contracts, works statements related to real estate contracts.
- Control prices, juridical clauses, bank account information
- Control account entries.
- Report new fixed asset entries and endings.

Financial Controller at Ministère du Budget, des Comptes publics et de la Fonction Publique
  • France
  • March 2006 to May 2010

From 2006 to 2008,
Heading the hospital’s recovery unit (near 10000 taxpayers)
Coordinating and Supervising a team of 5 agents;
- Major achievements :
- Improvement of the recovery rate.
- Reviewing Accounts receivable.
- Clearance of the taxpayers’ database.
- Planning and evaluating each civil servant activity weekly.
- Developing team skills (training on new installed professional softwares: PAI, HELIOS, Excel, Outlook, Word).
- Reporting monthly all litigation actions and evaluating the effectiveness of their results.

October 2007:
Promoted as Vice Manager and Coordinator of the Revenue sector:
- Cooperating with other heads of unit in order to coordinate the Final financial statements.
- Supervising Cash-Flow sector.
- Monitoring daily account entries.
- Representing the Treasury at the procurement call committee.

September 2008:
Manager of Hospital Expenditures’ sector
(50 million Euros budget) from September 2008 to June 2010.
- Payment of the hospital employees’ wages (1000 employees).
- Controlling monthly the tax report (TVA, Social Security, retirement tax).
- Internal Audit (respect of the defined suppliers’ payment delay, reviewing external cash transfer, controlling Accounts payable)
- Hospital debt and treasury management.
- Controlling quarterly the balance sheet.
- Consolidating the Hospital’s accounts before sending it to the National Audit Office.

Back and Middle Office Administrator at Banque CARDIF- Groupe BNP Paribas
  • France
  • March 2005 to February 2006

Client Profile : Institutional Investors.
- Deutsche Bank, Banco San Paolo.
- Executing Buy / Sell Mutual Fund Equities clients’ orders on French and European stock markets.
- Average order: 1 million Euros.
- Adjusting on a daily basis, the Mutual fund Restated Net Asset Value (RNAV).
- Following up financial transactions’ accounting entries.
- Market reconciliation;
=> Settling and delivering securities by using:
- Euroclear for France,
- Clearstream for Great Britain and other European markets.

Account Administrator at Groupama Banque
  • France
  • September 2004 to February 2005

Client Profile: Private individuals.
- Receptions of securities transfer from other French banks.
- Analysing client files before opening securities accounts.
- Opening current and securities account for private clients (60 openings per day).

Back Office Administrator at CORTAL CONSORS - Groupe BNP Paribas
  • France
  • April 2003 to December 2003

Client Profile: Private individuals.
- Managing the securities accounts and portfolios transfer (Mutual Funds, bonds, shares portfolios) between banks;
- Analysis of transfer requests in close coordination with the financial advisers of the Bank.

Member of the International Bonds Unit at Credit Agricole Indosuez
  • France
  • July 2002 to October 2002

Client Profile : Institutional Investors.
- Training on the Settlement/delivery system on bond markets.
- Managing Fixed-Income securities issued on the primary and secondary market.
- Management of Sovereign bond issues on the market: amounts had reached 250 million Euros with a short-term maturity date (generally one month).

Accounting Unit at SA Aux Pains Dores
  • France
  • March 2001 to July 2001

- Entering movements on the suppliers internal accounts;
- Monthly Bank reconciliation;
- Purchase Orders Treatment;
- Accounting records as the quarterly balance sheet.

Education

Master's degree, Business Administration
  • at Université de La Sorbonne
  • June 2002

Final Report on SA Pains DORES Activity

Bachelor's degree, Economy and Management
  • at Université Paris - X - Nanterre
  • June 2000

Report on e-commerce development.

Diploma, 2 year degree in Economy
  • at Université Paris - X - Nanterre
  • June 1999

Specialties & Skills

Middle Management
Middle Office
Gestion de la trésorerie
Controllers
General Ledger
MS Outlook
MS WORD
MS POWERPOINT
MS EXCEL

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
French
Expert

Memberships

Foi et Lumiere
  • Active Member
  • July 2010

Hobbies

  • Sports: Football,Tennis and Basketball
    Goalkeeper in Futsal team Middle amateur Level in Tennis