Ahmed Younes, Assistant Manager Finance And Accounting

Ahmed Younes

Assistant Manager Finance And Accounting

Talabat General Trading and Contracting

Location
Kuwait - Hawali
Education
Bachelor's degree, Administration and Finance
Experience
9 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :9 years, 0 Months

Assistant Manager Finance And Accounting at Talabat General Trading and Contracting
  • Kuwait - As Salimiyah
  • My current job since January 2023

- Led and managed a team of 4 professionals, overseeing their daily activities, monthly closing
procedures, and annual performance objectives.

- Spearheaded and collaborated on multiple projects aimed at enhancing operational efficiency and
streamlining processes within the organization

- Conducted three weekly bank transfers for diverse client base exceeding 3, 000, ensuring timely and
accurate financial transactions.

- Executed invoicing and refunding processes with meticulous attention to detail.

- Conducted General Ledger (GL), Accounts Receivable (AR), and Accounts Payable (AP)
reconciliations and statements, ensuring accuracy and compliance.

- Established robust internal controls to mitigate financial risks, contributing to the overall stability of
the organization.

- Collaborated with internal and external auditors, ensuring seamless communication and providing
necessary documentation to meet audit requirements.

- Prepared and reviewed various financial statements, ensuring accuracy and compliance with
accounting standards.

- Calculated and reviewed customized reports and KPIs, including costs and gross profit, contributing to
strategic decision-making.

- Served as the finance business partner to the managing director, providing insightful reports and analysis to support key business decisions.

- Cultivated and maintained strong relationships with clients, addressing their concerns and needs
promptly and effectively.

- Managed comprehensive monthly closing activities, overseeing revenue reconciliation and recording
across 20+ Profit and Loss (P/L) accounts, totaling 250, 000+ entries per month.

- Ensured compliance with specific contract requirements for key clients, maintaining a high level of
customer satisfaction.

- Oversaw correct bank account reconciliation with 20, 000+ transactions per month, ensuring financial
accuracy and integrity.

- Approved and posted journal entries, maintaining precise financial records.

- Generated reports on Accounts Receivable (AR) aged balances, contributing to strategic planning for
debt collection in the following month.

- Developed and implemented effective strategies for the planned collection of debts, optimizing cash
flow and minimizing financial risks.

Senior Accountant AR at Talabat General Trading and Contracting
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • April 2020 to December 2022

Leading a team of 4 accountants in their day to day activities, monthly closing activities, and their yearly performance objectives.

In charge of the accounts receivable of 3, 000+ clients.
- Bi-weekly transfers
- Invoicing and refunding
- Account reconciliations and statements
- Maintaining a good relationship with the clients and addressing their issues and needs

Closing activities 40+ including:
- Revenue reconciliation and recording, of over 5 million orders per month, spread through 20+ P/L accounts
- Ensuring VIP clients’ specific contract requirements
- Ensuring correct bank account reconciliation that includes 20, 000+ transactions per month
- Approving entries for a team of 4
- AR aging report and bad debts reporting

Senior Accountant at Alghanim Industries
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • May 2018 to March 2020

include the following:
* Monthly closing tasks including expenses and provisions, charge to and from related business units.
* Workings of insurance policies for 30+ locations, including property, business interruption, money, and
fidelity.
* Insurance claims handling.
* Validating and adjusting confidential intercompany related charges.
* Intercompany reconciliations for 20+ business units.
* Monitoring and validating corporate credit cards and prepaid petty cash cards.
* Bank reconciliations for 10 bank accounts with complex and high volume of transactions.
* GL & PL trend validation, for assurance of correct reporting.
* Schedules for all balance sheet items (90+ GL accounts), with aging and reasons, to insure adequate
accounting.

Accountant at Murabahat for Real Estate Solutions
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • April 2016 to April 2018

Work duties for 10 related companies include the following:

- Recording of all types of tansactions and entries; GL, AP, AR.

- Provision calculations and adjustments including, salaries, annual leaves, sick leaves, air tickets, indemnities, and uncollectable debts.

- Sales commissions calculations and payments.

- Reconciling accounts between inter companies and branches as well as banks.

- Bank transfers for vendors, and clients.

Other skills:

- Preparing trial balances, balance sheets, income statements, and statements of cash flow.

- Scatter diagrams of past trends to forecast future trends for more efficient decision making.

- Calculating the expected values of potential investments.

- Cost calculations of manufacturing cycles, retail goods, and real estate using process costing, activity-based costing, standard costing, absorption and variable costing.

- Measuring the performance of the operations through analysis performed on the income statement and comparing them with the budget.

- Preparing budgets for future measuring of the performance and what is the extent of achieving the goals.

- General knowledge about risks, risk appetites, and internal controls to mitigate those risks.

Judge at Microsof
  • United States
  • March 2014 to October 2014

Optimizing bing.com in the middle east, by identifying, comparing, and authorizing the different search queries
with their respected results. This included the use of a specific system designed by

Travel Agent at Expedi
  • Egypt
  • September 2011 to November 2011

The company is based in Canada, however the call centre was located in Egypt. Handled the different Canadian
customers in reserving and modifying their existing reservations in terms of plane tickets, hotels, car rentals,
and vacation packages. This was done with the use of Sabre RED Workspace system which required more than
three weeks of training.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Administration and Finance
  • at College
  • June 2011

University of New Brunswick

Specialties & Skills

Customer Service
Real Estate
Administration
Local Search
Finance Sector
CLOSING
BANK RECONCILIATION
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
Microsoft Excel
Financial Control
Financial Analysis
Accounting
Auditing
Team Management

Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

CertIFR - Certified in International Financial Reporting Standards (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2022
CMA (Training)
Training Institute:
CIMA

Hobbies

  • financial modeling