Abraham Agopian, Finance Manager

Abraham Agopian

Finance Manager

Deloitte & Touche Middle East

Location
Lebanon - Beirut
Education
Master's degree, Masters of Business Administration
Experience
19 years, 0 Months

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Finance Manager at Deloitte & Touche Middle East
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • My current job since August 2013

Management of finance and accounting of Deloitte ME.
-Revision of monthly financial reports and ensuring targets are achieved through budget variance analysis.
-Oversee all accounting processes and ensure they are up to date and reconciled on a monthly basis.
-Cash management of Deloitte ME.
-Ensure intercompany accounts of all Deloitte offices are well maintained and reconciled with Head Office balances.
-Revision of Deloitte KPIs and ensure targets are achieved.
-Review of financials of all Deloitte offices in the Middle East to ensure consistency of financials.
-Internal Audit of Deloitte offices in the Middle East region.

Financial Planning & Reporting Senior Analyst at MTC Touch
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • May 2005 to July 2013

Went through different units, Financial Planning & Reporting and Accounting:

1- Financial Planning & Reporting Senior Analyst: January 2011 - Present
-Responsible for annual budget and quarterly forecasts initiation and generation in addition to liaising with all the departments for budget planning, input and final output.
-Responsible for the generation and review of monthly financial and non-financial reports to the Ministry of Telecommunications, mtc touch management and Zain group management.
-Generation of monthly variance reports and providing management with the corresponding analytics.
-Responsible for the maintenance and control of the company budget and a key approver in the procurement cycle.
-Assist the Finance Director in all management requests, letters, contracts and customized reports in addition to financial support to all departments.
-Coordinate with the external auditors to generate the quarterly reviews and the annual audit reports through attending to their requests in addition to the review and verification of the final drafts.
-Key involvement in various studies and projects conducted by the company (in house or outsourced).
-Key member of the Management Contract renewal committee in the negotiations with the MOT.

2- Financial Planning & Reporting Analyst: November 2008 - December 2010
-Development of the budget cycle, budget templates and the budget reporting.
-Generation of financial statements and trend and variance analysis of the trial balance.
-Generation of reconciled monthly MOT reports for review by the Finance Director.
-Reconciliation of financials between revenue data (trial balance) and IT data.
-Reconciliation of accounting reports to trial balance figures.
-Maintaining records of the company CAPEX budget and CAPEX spending.

3- Accounts Payable Coordinator (Team Leader): April 2007 - October 2008
-Managed a team of three accountants.
-Validate all payments made to external suppliers and other stakeholders.
-Responsible for the maintenance of the Trial Balance through monthly trend analysis and accounts verification of entries made by the Accounts Payable team.
-Responsible for end of month closing of Payables, Receivables and General Ledger.
-Verification of all system reconciliations (AP vs. GL, AP vs. AR) made by the Accounts Payable team before end of month closing.
-Generation of accounting reports to management and other departments.
-Setup of Oracle Financials ERP (Payables, Receivables, General Ledger) and maintenance of its accounting accuracy.

4- Accounts Payable Agent/Officer: May 2005 - March 2007
-Booking of invoices and preparation of payment requests to be reviewed by the AP team leader.
-Preparation of system reconciliations and supplier reconciliation to be reviewed by the AP team leader.
-Preparation of accounting reports (account breakdown, statement of account).

Education

Master's degree, Masters of Business Administration
  • at American University of Beirut
  • June 2010
Bachelor's degree, Business - Finance and Operations & Information Management
  • at American University of Beirut
  • June 2004

Dean’s Honor List in Fall 2001, Fall 2002 and Fall 2003

High school or equivalent, Lebanese Baccalaureate in Life Sciences
  • at Rawdah High School
  • May 2001

Specialties & Skills

Financial Modeling
Budget Development
Financial Control
Financial Reporting
Financial Analysis
MS PowerPoint
MS Word
MS Excel
MS Visio
Oracle Financials
Microsoft GP

Languages

English
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Arabic
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Hobbies

  • Football, Travel, Movies, Music, Baskteball, Tennis