Amr Shawqi Halawa, Financial Manager

Amr Shawqi Halawa

Financial Manager

Alarabia Electrical co.

Location
Kuwait - Hawali
Education
Master's degree, High Diploma in Accounting
Experience
27 years, 5 Months

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Total years of experience :27 years, 5 Months

Financial Manager at Alarabia Electrical co.
  • Kuwait
  • My current job since May 2011

Managing the day-to-day accounting activities to ensure timely, comprehensive and accurate accounts in accordance with the law and the company's approved policies and procedures and international financial reporting standards.
Generate, review & analyze MIS reports for the purpose of reporting on key performance indicators.
Preparation of all the various financial reports and submit to GM.
Prepare budget estimates for the company before the beginning of each year, through communication with the departments and the financial results of current and past and projected.
Interact with auditors to ensure timely completion of audit related issues.
Ensure prompt collection of all credit sales and slow paying customers.
Successfully set credit limits for customers. Monitoring the work of collection dept
Set budgets along with the dept. heads, compare with casual's, analyze the variance and recommend necessary actions .
Ensure compliance with budgetary control and providing management explanation for major deviations from budget.
Regulate the relationship between the company's departments and private management, distribution and financial management, which can form the financial management of the settlement of accounts, distributors and publishers (clients) at the end of each month.
Generate MIS reports on monthly profitability of each publisher, fund flow statements.
Liaise with the collection dept for monitoring receivables, slow paying customers and bad debts.
Settlement of current accounts with the parent company and sister companies

Financial Manager at Alarabia Electrical co.
  • Kuwait
  • My current job since May 2011

Managing the day-to-day accounting activities to ensure timely, comprehensive and accurate accounts in accordance with the law and the company's approved policies and procedures and international financial reporting standards.
Generate, review & analyze the reports for the purpose of reporting on key performance indicators.
Preparation of all the various financial reports and submit to GM.
Prepare budget estimates for the company before the beginning of each year, through communication with the departments and the financial results of current and past and projected.
Interact with auditors to ensure timely completion of audit related issues.
Ensure prompt collection of all credit sales and slow paying customers.
Successfully set credit limits for customers. Monitoring the work of collection dept
Set budgets along with the dept. heads, compare with casual's, analyze the variance and recommend necessary actions .
Ensure compliance with budgetary control and providing management explanation for major deviations from budget.
Regulate the relationship between the company's departments and private management, distribution and financial management, which can form the financial management of the settlement of accounts, distributors and publishers (clients) at the end of each month.
Generate the reports on monthly profitability of each publisher, fund flow statements.
Liaise with the collection dept for monitoring receivables, slow paying customers and bad debts.
Settlement of current accounts with the parent company and sister companie

Financial Manager at Kuwaiti Group for Publishing and Distribution Co.
  • Kuwait - Hawali
  • December 2009 to March 2011

- Managing the day-to-day accounting activities to ensure timely, comprehensive and accurate accounts in accordance with the law and the company's approved policies and procedures and international financial reporting standards.
- Generate, review & analyze MIS reports for the purpose of reporting on key performance indicators.
- Preparation of all the various financial reports and submit to GM.
- Prepare budget estimates for the company before the beginning of each year, through communication with the departments and the financial results of current and past and projected.
- Interact with auditors to ensure timely completion of audit related issues.
- Ensure prompt collection of all credit sales and slow paying customers.
- Successfully set credit limits for customers. Monitoring the work of collection dept
- Set budgets along with the dept. heads, compare with casual's, analyze the variance and recommend necessary actions .
- Ensure compliance with budgetary control and providing management explanation for major deviations from budget.
- Regulate the relationship between the company's departments and private management, distribution and financial management, which can form the financial management of the settlement of accounts, distributors and publishers (clients) at the end of each month.
- Generate MIS reports on monthly profitability of each publisher, fund flow statements.
- Liaise with the collection dept for monitoring receivables, slow paying customers and bad debts.
- Settlement of current accounts with the parent company and sister companies.

Financial Manager at Larissa Universal Group Co
  • Kuwait - Hawali
  • July 2007 to November 2009

- Reviews the monthly trial balance and investigate any discrepancies
- Review and approves all documents and agreements with Financial impact, from all departments.
-Analyze the cash flow plans to ensure maintaining adequate liquidity
- Supervise and coordinate work of subordinates in the finance and accounting functions and ensure the efficiency and the quality
- Prepare the monthly financial and accounting work plan and ensures its proper implementation
- Manage the implementation of new financial, accounting and budgeting system.
- Prepare and report to The Executive Manger "periodic reports regarding the finance and accounting status of the company" and the various functions.
- Coordinate with the external auditors .
- Review external and internal audit results and implements recommended actions.
- Controls the financial activities of the company in accordance with the policies and procedures .
- Study, analyze and recommend better ways to invest the company's funds.
- Undertakes any other duties as assigned by THE Executive Manger

Senior Accountant" at Kuwait Airways co
  • Kuwait - Hawali
  • November 2002 to July 2007

- Preparing the adjustments of the journal entries.
- Reviewing financial data entering process.
- Figuring out as well as reconciling differences between variant accounts and Reporting discrepancies.
- Following up the work in the department.
- Auditing monthly payroll and bank transfers
- Member of yearly inventory committee for cashier on offices of Kuwait AIRWAYES CO. in Kuwait.

Chief Accountant at ART LAND For Microfilm And Information Technology CO
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • September 1996 to August 2002

- Recording in account books.
-The control on receivables and the checking the cash flow.
- The control on the credit balances accounts and the debit balances accounts.
-The control on main stores accounts and the branches.
- Closing the imprested system petty cash with cashier and another staff.
- The control on accounts receivable and banks accounts.
- Doing documentary credits and closing it with the banks.
- Doing financial statements and the coordinating with auditors in final accounts
- Member in committee which to do the balance sheet, the financial statements.

Education

Master's degree, High Diploma in Accounting
  • at Ayn Shams University
  • July 1999
Bachelor's degree, Business Administration
  • at High Institute of Management Studies and Cooperative - Cairo University
  • June 1996

Specialties & Skills

Administration
Financial Accounting
Accounting
Internal Audit
Oracle Identity Manager
Computer Software

Languages

English
Expert

Memberships

UK BOARD
  • CFM
  • October 2010

Training and Certifications

CMA certificat (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2008
Valid Until:
November 2009
Computer science (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2002
Valid Until:
March 2002
Zakat Accounting (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2010
Valid Until:
September 2010