Accountant
Al-Karam Al-Arabi catering services
Total years of experience :18 years, 8 Months
Apr 2021 to date: store accountant.
• Review daily cash & credit purchases against material requests (MR) & local purchase orders (LPO).
• Update the daily cash purchases of all stores.
• Update the daily sales of all stores.
• Conduct a monthly count of all stores.
• Generate monthly reports: stores inventory, Central kitchen stock.
• Review all cash purchases of custodians of all purposes.
Nov 2010 to date: Accounting Supervisor of ALBABTAIN Foundation of Arabic poetry & Literature (Central Library, The Prize Foundation, The Missionary Foundation, Al-Bawady Channel & ALWAQF Tower).
Activities:
• Oversee the General Accounting processes of Inter-company, Fixed assets and financial reporting of all entities.
• Responsible for the monthly closing as well as the maintenance of accounting ledgers entries and reconciliations.
• Preparation of all financial reports, including Profit and Loss Statement, Balance Sheet and Statement of Cash Flows, as well as the year-end financial reports.
• Provide timely explanations of variances between actual results and forecasts/budgets; provide corrective action recommendations to management if necessary.
• Work with internal and external auditors during reviews and audits to ensure full cooperation from accounting staff and compliance with all qualified requests.
Nov 2009 to Oct 2010: Senior Accountant of the Cigarettes retail division.
Activities:
• Updating the daily stock of inventory (6 stores); (FTZ, main, exchange, transfers, distributing & electronics).
• Rising & posting journal entries of daily transactions.
• Conducting monthly inventory counting.
• Maintaining & updating the monthly report of Philip Morris (Cigarettes Franchiser).
• Conducting monthly bank & associate companies reconciliation.
• Quarter closing & Preparation the financial reports of the respected period (reconciliations, exp, budget, IS & BS.
• Implement the migration from manual to automation systems for General Ledger, Electronic billing reporting based on excel and Access database design
June 2008 to October 2009: senior accountant in the Projects division.
Activities:
• Raising journal entries & reconciliation.
• Maintaining and updating receivable accounts; collections, refunds, transfers & RV deposits.
• Revising local and foreign payables and receivables accounts.
• Maintaining and updating the Projects Order Intake for all Project divisions (contracting, lighting, elevators, furniture and home automation).
• Conducting suppliers and subcontractors monthly reconciliation.
• Revising and authorizing LPOs issued from the Purchasing Dep.
• Generating the weekly Sales Report for all Project divisions (contracting, lighting, elevators, furniture and home automation).
• Authorizing Store to Service Application (STS); coordinating between the stores accountants and Operation engineers and between the engineers and the clients in order to release the required items when the receivable balance is collected for the related job.
• Quarter store counting.
April 2007 to May 2008: Accounting key person of the consumer elevators & escalators division of the Engineering Group.
Activities:
• Updating elevators order intake, time sheet, processing supplier's payment, petty cash, refunds, closing jobs, maintenance updating and revision and coordinating between installation, supplying and billing.
• Generating weekly and monthly financial reports; warranty, cost against billing, billing rejected, W.I.P, monthly closing, cost incurred after closing, est. cost against actual cost and year quarter report of full project financial analysis (presentation performed).
• Founder and main contributor of developing the integrated Elevator Financial Manager software currently functional; consists of financial & operational management and control.
• Contributed in the new documentation system of engineering group currently functional.
• Claiming student’s fees, issuing receipts and full data registry and cash auditing on daily bases.
• Monthly auditing sales, allowances, discounts and inventories.
• Conducted daily journal entries and updating students, staff and A/P balances.
• Helped establishing a new LAN connected accounting software and record keeping and cycling system.
• Supported sales team and front line management in promoting customer satisfaction.
• Showroom, on-line and Dubai’s annual computer exhibit Salesman.
• Maintained bad debt analysis report and provided A/R support for posting allowance journal entries.
• Conducted daily journal entries and updating bad dept and aging reports.
• Generated customer call details records and updated server files of daily operations and transactions under senior accountant supervision.
