Finance Manager
Seven Icons Group ( Restaurants
Total years of experience :14 years, 11 Months
• Managed and supervised directly and through subordinates, to handle full
spectrum of financial and cost accounting role e.g. Accounts Receivables,
Accounts Payables, General Ledger, forecasting, budgeting etc.
• Coordinated monthly, quarterly, and annual closing activities.
• Provided support in preparation of IFRS reporting and related
bridge between statutory reporting.
• Perform financial analysis and reporting to management as needed.
• Trained and mentored employees/staff; many of whom have
advanced within the organization.
• Developed new and complex Excel sheets to help produce the
monthly management accounts much quicker, reducing the
production time from five days to two.
• Supporting in ensuring that company cost allocations are in
line with management needs and pricing policy
• Forecasted of weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly cash flow
statement and actual cash flow.
• Perform month-end accounting activities such as reconciliations
and journal entries
• Maintained integrity of general ledger including the chart of accounts.
• Administered reconciliation and journal entries.
• Investigated and resolved outstanding issues.
• Implemented accounting standards.
• Advised on resource operations, tax policies, accounting
procedures and budget forecasts.
• Prepared data, analyses, and variance explanations and coordinated
with the sales and marketing departments with required reporting.
• Managed to reconcile Accounts Receivable, deferred revenue, and
balanced cash and reserves.
• Reviewed monthly inventory reports and calculated usage costs
tracking purchases.
• Prepared financial statements for subsidiaries in coordination
with external auditors
• Managed the team of 15 accounting specialists responsible for payroll, accounts
payable and receivable, and billing, stock control, costing and taxation
• Analyzed monthly and quarterly financial statements and presented the
reports to the senior management.
• Performed budget forecasts and consistently worked on costs reductions.
• Establishing all accounting and control systems and procedures on ERP
programs in accordance with accounting and auditing standards and the
nature and size of activities such as preparing all cash exchange regulations,
checks, disbursement and liquidation of advances and covenants.
• Preparing and developing the financial management structure according to
the nature and size of activities and performance evaluation criteria KPIs .
• Prepared documentation for annual external audits.
Report and interact with other BUs in order to reconcile all inter-company transactions on a monthly basis.
▪ Manage quarterly and annual audits
▪ Ensure that the collections are on time and DSOs are maintained at industry levels or better
▪ Responsible for ensuring the monthly closing is completed 3 calendar days all modules related to AR and 4 calendar days for all modules related to AP and FA and 7 days for all remaining modules
