Group Chief Accountant/Group Accounting Manager
Shaker Group
Total years of experience :11 years, 2 Months
● Manage and oversee the entire accounting team.
● Assist in implementing SAP S/4HANA, developing the chart of accounts, and reviewing the work after implementation to ensure effectiveness, no errors and irregularities.
● Prepare and analyze financial reports and statements to management for review.
● Analyze balance sheet accounts and reconcile assets and liabilities accounts (the provision, accruals and prepaid accounts).
● Perform and finalize the month-end and year-end accounting activities.
● Analyze financial discrepancies and recommend effective resolutions.
● Monitor expenditures, analyze revenues and determine budget variances and report the same to the respective department and management.
● Assist in budget preparation and expense management activities.
● Assist in auditing activities by providing necessary information, submitting required reports and preparing requested documentation.
● Manage financial planning and budgeting (with focus on growth) by preparing monthly financial forecast and controlling the company’s financial position.
● Consolidate department responsibilities and streamlined accounting system.
● Participating and presenting strategies to the Board of Directors regarding the entire accounting department (AR, AP, GL).
● Restructuring the system and departments, where a specialization was made for each department, and the link between the Finance Department and the Supply Chain Department was also organized and improved.
● Assist to implement IFRS (9, 15 and 16) as well as to update and prepare IFRS reporting packages to comply with the new requirements and assisting with external audit.
● Generate a detailed monthly report for the Board of Directors showing the company’s status vs budget with analysis of customers profitability, financial ratios, margins, and credit history.
● Weekly meeting with other work teams within the company when necessary to ensure goals are achieved.
● Setting objectives for the finance department that aligned with the management goals and the company KPI.
● Responsible for all escalated matters for any operational or strategic issues.
● Monitor the Trade Promotion and Marketing expenses accruals and actuals procedure.
● Reviewing and analyzing current procedures in order to recommend and implement changes to standardize activities and integrate into shared services.
● Update daily cash position through analysis, investigation and reporting on key movement and trends in the P&L lines.
● Provide financial guidance to business and assist in decision making, contributing to a 30% reduce in accounts receivable turnover and the company days sales outstanding.
● Review financial statements and analyze sales revenue, costs, expenses, and tax rates for business units and provide recommendation on customers profitability, rebates and trade promotion.
● Designed and created weekly and monthly comprehensive spending reports, abstracts, and charts to present data and guide investment strategies.
● Maintained and monitored the fund and equity investment, including inflow, outflow, valuation, risk ratings, performance analysis and records maintenance.
● Assist the financial control team to prepare a report to address and manage collection expectations versus actual.
● Bank inflow/outflow report has been implemented using Microsoft Excel to get a greater view of the daily cash movement which has improved the weekly cash availability.
● Handle full spectrum of financial and accounting role ex. AR, AP, GL, forecasting and budgeting using ERP accounting system.
● Create, update, and ensure compliance to fiscal policies and procedures.
● Oversee billing and A/R collections processes for any issues.
● Interface with auditors, banks and IT consultants, government agencies, and vendors.
● Reconcile accounts on a monthly basis including operating, savings-unclaimed wages, and investment bank accounts.
● Prepare all monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports.
● Performs monthly adjusting entries, accruals, amortization, and depreciation schedule for all depreciable equipment’s.
● Monitor expenditures, analyze revenues, and determine budget variances and report the same to management
● Prepares monthly bank and petty cash reconciliation.
● Review and resolve difference in Intercompany balance at the month end and ensure that intercompany cost allocations are in line with management agreements.
• Post and process journal entries to ensure all business transactions are recorded (expenses, purchasing, petty cash, and invoice).
• Update accounts receivable and issue invoices.
• Update accounts payable and perform reconciliations.
• Follow up with customers & Vendors for payment.
• Sales Tax-Income Tax For employee.
• Assist in the processing of balance sheets, income statements and other financial statements according to legal and company accounting and financial guidelines.
• Prepare and submit weekly/monthly reports
• Assist senior accountants in the preparation of monthly/yearly closings.
• Employee Subscription with social security.
studied accounting and graduated in 202