Chief Accountant
Tahweel Building Trading Company
Total years of experience :18 years, 6 Months
• Chief Accountant, Tahweel Building Trading Company-Saudi Arabia-Riyadh (2013: Now): -
- Finance Department Responsibility such as and not limited to:
- Prepares and records asset, liability, revenue, and expenses entries by compiling and analyzing account information.
- Maintains general ledger by transferring subsidiary accounts; preparing a trial balance; reconciling entries.
- Summarizes financial status by collecting information; preparing balance sheet, profit and loss, and other statements.
- Develop and maintain financial accounting systems for cash management, accounts payable, accounts receivable, credit control, and petty cash.
- Maintain and prepare payroll for company employees.
- Petty Cash payments processing / reconciliations.
- Perform bank and cash reconciliation
- Provide support during external audit process.
- Avoids legal challenges by complying with legal requirements.
- Protects organization's value by keeping information confidential
Skills
- Ability to act and operate independently with minimal daily direction from manager to accomplish objectives.
- Experience in Preparing Monthly Financial Reports.
- Experience in preparing Payment Vouchers. And managing Payments to Suppliers.
- Good English verbal and written communication skills.
- High proficiency in Microsoft Office "Especially on Excel spreadsheet"
- Team player, Integer and loyal, Committed and responsible, Ability to work under pressure and deliver tasks within tight deadlines.
- Beymen Cairo Training Program from 8 to 30 August 2005: * Communication Skills + Customer Services (Care)
* Sales Techniques (By Promark Corporation Ltd. / PMC)
* Personal Care
* Visual Merchandising
* Textile product training
* Beymen - Man & Woman product training
* Imported Brands Man & Woman product training
* How to use Terminals & Terminals' application
-One week training in BEYMEN Turkey at Istanbul and I was selected to be a candidate for the position of a Team Leader.
-Selling Techniques Program from 9 to 10 July 2006, by Allied Consultants Group /ACG.
• Chief Accountant, Haiaty for Electromechanical Engineering and Contracting (2010: 2013): -
- Establish an accounting department system, and monthly and annual reporting system.
- Review of all daily, weekly and monthly reports, as well as preparation of Profit & Loss Accounts, Balance Sheet, and Bank Reconciliation.
- Supervise accounting staff & give them directions to use the company systems, policies, procedures & forms.
- Supervise & update the cash position of the company and manage the transactions of cash & banks (withdrawals, deposits etc.)
- Manage & supervise project accounts, which means updating projects costs (material, labor & expenses) and also issue the reports to the finance manager.
- Co-ordinate with procurement & purchases to manage the materials, projects & suppliers accounts to make sure that the materials will be delivered on time, suppliers accounts (price, quantity, specification of materials etc.) are as per the contracts with them & also to organize the payments to suppliers.
- Co-ordinate with the site or project manager to prepare bills for clients on time & as per the contract and to make sure that the bills are issued on time without any delay.
- Follow-up with clients about collection & receipts.
- Maintain account registers in computer as per company policy and systems, to manage the entries and do the posting accurately.
- Manage the payroll & staff accounts on daily basis to follow-up the daily changes of labor cost.
- Do adjustments and reconciliations of all accounts (banks, suppliers, inter-company accounts etc.) without delay to issue, updated & correct reports every end of the month.
• Chief Accountant, Egypt's Society for Integrated Services (2006: 2009): -
- Customer service involving close communication with clients for problem-solving and quality assurance in multiple projects
- Measuring company performance by setting up, maintaining the accounting system.
- Set up a monthly and an annual reporting system of the firm's financial transactions.
- Responsible for the verification and accuracy of the ledger account balances.
- Post the entries to computer system.
- Preparation of the trail balance, adjustments for trial balance accounts, and repreparation of the trial balance.
- Preparation of the balance sheet, income statement, and Cash flow.
- Preparing the Monthly payroll sheets.
- Preparation reports as per Management request.
- Track and reconcile the collections with banks and clients
- Reconcile and balance all cash and bank accounts and intra-fund transactions to assess the accuracy of the financial records.
- Review the monthly department financial reports for accuracy.
- Prepare schedules, such as expenditures, cash and liabilities in preparation of the annual audit operations.
- Assist the CFO with investigations, and resolution of audit findings.
- Provide supervisory guidance to other staff in detecting reoccurring problem areas within the overall accounting systems.
- Provide direct supervision for those positions involved in the Accounting Department, Supervisory duties include assign, coordinate, review work, establish schedules and priorities, as required to accomplish work load.
- Arrange for and provide training of accounting staff, evaluate work in progress and discuss problem areas; identify and recommend disciplinary actions; etc.
- Ensure compliance with required policies, procedures, rules, regulations, and internal controls within the accounting department.
• Team Leader for sales consultants, BEYMEN CAIRO Fashion Store-Four Seasons Hotel Nile Blaza \[Nile Bosphorus Retail and Trading Company (a joint venture between Beymen and the leading Egyptian conglomerate Talaat Moustafa Group) \] (2005: 2006): -
- Acting as a Floor Manager, Responsible for the Down Flour which includes the Jeans Department (for Men & Women wears), Kids, Accessories, T-Box and the Club Department and supervising 16 sales people in the team, and leading the team to achieve the flour target.
- Providing full services for the store customers using the sales skills. Having the responsibility for products movement inside the store - Sales Staff Shift and Vacancies Arrangement - Monthly Evaluation for sales consultants - Preparing Customer data and calling them to update with new arrivals and store special offers (Telemarketing) - Providing customer service through face to face communication or phone calls to answer the customer inquiries.
• Assistant Finance Manager, H.C. Securities & Investment (Morgan Stanley Middle East Inc. and International Finance Corporation (IFC) 's joint venture in Egypt) (1997: 2002): -
- Customer service involving close communication with clients for problem-solving and quality assurance in multiple projects
- General accounting responsibilities including recording companies' financial transactions in the book keeping, posting to the General Ledger, preparing Trial Balance, and any other internal accounts for the company
- Responsible for analyzing Debits and Credits Ledger as well as Profits and Losses Ledger for the company's accounts
- Analyzing Fixed Assets
- Set up a human resource information system including annual leave, sick leave, attendance, salaries etc.
- Set up a monthly and annual reporting system of the firm's clients including shares bought, shares sold, cash positions, and bank reconciliation
Funds under management of about L.E. 700 million over 120 portfolios
- Set up a custodian system to be used as a structure for the company's clients' custodian
- Set up an information system for portfolios, especially for those with huge investments
- Supervised junior staff members
- Portfolio management and back office responsibilities: * Clearance of clients accounts on cash position and shares available
* Follow up with brokers on execution of buy/sell orders against invoices
* Issue/collect checks upon execution of buy/sell transactions
* Reconciliation of clients' accounts with bank statements and custodian
- All the information systems, reporting systems, and custodian systems mentioned above are the developed solutions for the accounting, administrative, or any business problems that faced the Finance & Administration Department by using Excel programming capacities (Visual Basic for Applications built in programming languages)
• IT Specialist, Ministry of local Administration ( 1996: 1997) -Artisan & Small Business Project ( Social Fund for Development) - IT Department: - Built an information system to manage loan positions for each governorate in terms of loan balance, interest and principal repayment, and delayed payments
- Administration of computer data entry, data maintenance and reporting
• Sales Representative, Middle East Chemicals (1994: 1996): - Sales representative for various chemical and consumer products
- Generated new accounts and followed-up with existing clients for customer's satisfaction assurance
Finished CFA level 1_ Preparation Course, and now getting ready for taking the CFA Level_1 Exam on June 2015. - Diploma of fundamentals of Trading The Global Digital Analysis in Forex (Foreign Exchange) Market. - Diploma of fundamental and technical analysis in Forex (Foreign Exchange) Market. - Cairo University / Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting Dept. 1993 / good