Manager, Finance Center of Excellence - North Arabia Region & North East Africa Region
Ferring Pharmaceuticals
Total years of experience :6 years, 9 Months
- Ensure implementation and adherence to company’s F&A manual by the finance teams in the region.
- Managing the accounting function in the region (Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets, Cash & Payments, Reconciliations, end-month closing, payrolls and reporting) including reviewing and posting all accounting entries.
- Management of centralized account receivables, credit control, collections, reporting and analyses for all countries within MENA region.
- Ensure internal control implementation and compliance across the region by carrying out controls testing and reporting.
- Continuously identify areas for processes establishment, development and improvement and ensure compliance within accounting standards.
- Continuous review and development of SOP’s, controls and metrics.
- Carry out annual review and renewal of financial contracts.
- Carry out continuous training for finance teams in the region.
- Conduct monthly budget follow-up (actual versus budget)
- Provide required support and guidance during annual budgeting process.
- Support finance and accounting projects across the region.
- Account Receivables: Full management of AR function & cycle for all customers within Middle East Region. Accountable for: Follow up on, collect and allocate payments. Carry collection and reporting activities according to specific deadlines. Perform account reconciliations. Monitor customer credit limits. Follow up on non-payments, delayed payments and other irregularities. Research and resolve payment discrepancies. Continuous review of AR aging to ensure compliance. Investigate and resolve customer queries, communicate with customers via phone and email and maintain good relationship with them. Collect data, prepare monthly metrics and prepare required weekly and monthly reports including bad debts and cost of capital.
- Fixed Assets: accountable for recording the cost of newly-acquired fixed assets (both tangible and intangible), tracking existing fixed assets, recording depreciation, and accounting for the disposition of fixed assets, compliance with company’s fixed assets policies and procedures.
- Reporting: provide advice, support and assistance to other staff to enable their input to the preparation of budgets and plans. Identify development trends and institutes corrective measures when necessary. Identify and carry out investigations of variances against budgets/ standards. Produces routine reports, schedules and summaries for management.
- Cash and Bank tasks.
- Maintain general ledger, including preparing journal entries for local and regional expenses, accounts analysis, reconciliations and monthly books closing.
- Check & review local and regional expenses against the company’s policies and procedures, report and follow up on any deviations.
- Perform accounts payable duties, such as preparing check requisition forms, arranging settlements in accordance with their respective payment terms and instructions.
-Handling all Trade Finance transactions and ensure compliance with P&P.
(Letter of Credits, Banking Guarantees, Bills for Collection)
-Follow up pending issues with banks, branches and concerned departments and parties and ensure processing as per policies and procedures.
-Prepare periodic and annual required reports and statistics.
- Issuance, amendment and settlement of all types of L/Cs
- Check and audit the presented documents under L/Cs and communicate with correspondent banks in this regard.
- Letter of Guarantees & Bills of Collection
Master degree of Banking and Financial Sciences, Arab Academy for Banking and Financial Sciences
Bachelor degree of Business Economics, University of Jordan.