Senior Accountant
AWJ Holding
Total years of experience :12 years, 3 Months
• Maintaining accounting policies, procedures and controls in accordance with sound accounting principles, applicable regulations and laws as well as best practice.
• Proficient in ERP Systems, Dynamic 365, SAAB, SAGE.
• Guiding accounting staff by coordinating activities, answering questions, and resolving discrepancies for critical customer issues.
• Responsible for timely monthly consolidated financial statements, payments, cash-flow management reporting for submission to GCFO & SR. accounting manager.
• Preparing financial statements, managing accounting transactions, reviewing general ledger functions, and administering strict timeline for tasks.
• Fixed asset physical counts.
• The coordination of the monthly and year end closing.
• Monthly analysis of financial reports.
• Financial oversight of Holding and subsidiaries.
• Prepares supporting schedules for specific general ledger accounts. Analyzes and reconciles specified balance sheet accounts on a monthly basis.
• Processes and posts journal entries for routine transactions in Dynamic 365 System and ensures accuracy of the General Ledger.
• Maintains the fixed assets register.
• Maintain petty cash registration and control.
• Prepares payment requests and ensure supporting documents attached along with them before submitting to Accounting Manager.
• Prepares periodic financial, fund and administrative reports, group consolidation reports.
• Performs other duties as requested.
•Manage vat declaration on Monthly basis.
• Experience with budget preparation and budgetary control.
• Effective time management skills, self- motivated, critical attention to details and deadlines.
• Solid & Proficient understanding of accounting practices and principles.
• Being a key member in the implementation of Microsoft Dynamics D365 cloud “ERP system”
• Being a key member in the implementation of MenaITeck “HR Payroll system”
• Reconciles processed work by verifying entries and comparing system reports to balances.
• Charges expenses to accounts and cost centers by analyzing invoice/expense reports.
• recording entries.
• Pays vendors by monitoring discount opportunities; verifying federal id numbers; scheduling and resolving purchase order, contract, invoice, or payment discrepancies and documentation.
• insuring credit is received for outstanding memos; issuing stop-payments or purchase order amendments.
• Verifies vendor accounts by reconciling monthly statements and related
• purchase order amendments.
• Verifies vendor accounts by reconciling monthly statements and related transactions.
• Maintains historical records by microfilming and filing documents.
Prepare monthly bank reconciliation for all company accounts.
• Generate daily, monthly and annual reports in Payroll and Cashiering.
• Accomplishes payroll human resource objectives by selecting, orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising job contributions; recommending compensation actions; adhering to policies and procedures.
• Meets payroll operational standards by contributing information to strategic plans and reviews; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving problems; identifying system improvements.
• Meets payroll financial standards by providing annual budget information; monitoring expenditures; identifying variances; implementing corrective actions.
• Updates records by reviewing and entering changes in exemptions, insurance changes, deductions, paid-time not worked, status, and pay; calculating vacation earned.
• Prepares pay by verifying time records; calculating and producing checks or electronic transfers; calculating and producing quarterly incentive bonuses.
• Balances payroll accounts by auditing information; identifying and resolving discrepancies; initiating journal entries.
• Determines payroll liabilities by entering federal and state income and social security tax information, 401k transfer and direct deposits, wage assignments and garnishments.
• Fulfills wage garnishment requirements by completing forms; adjusting payroll records, documenting and transmitting withholdings; negotiating with collection agencies to convert garnishments to wage assignments.
• Maintains life insurance by updating calculations; preparing check requests; initiating disbursements.
• Remits tax payments by collecting and verifying data; preparing federal, state, and local tax reports, and W2 statements; initiating payment.
• Audited and reconciled due backs, petty cash, overage/shortage from all properties on a daily basis.
• Maintained a close working relationship with the General Manager and Front Office personnel.
• Conducted quarterly front desk cash bank audits, identified deficiency and enacts procedures to reduce future losses.
• Improved workload by utilizing an EXCEL based worksheet which organized and reduced the amounts of reports generated for the use of the Bank Reconciliation Department and Assistant Controller.
• Daily process cash/check deposits from all outlets throughout the hotel properties and work resolve any posting errors or discrepancies that arise.
• Reconcile daily credit card transactions with the use of reports compiled by the night audit team and information retrieved from an online merchant account.
• Other duties include: performing monthly cash audits; updating foreign exchange rates in hotel system; emailing/faxing guest folios as requested; assisting with month-end closing by posting entries to the general ledger.
• Supervised and audited monthly, over 15 cashiers with banks ranging from $100-$1000.
• Manages and maintained a petty cash vault of $20, 000