Arwa Ali, finance officer

Arwa Ali

finance officer

Tract Consultants pty ltd

Lieu
Arabie Saoudite - Jeddah
Éducation
Master, Masters of Business Management
Expérience
7 years, 4 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :7 years, 4 Mois

finance officer à Tract Consultants pty ltd
  • Australie - Melbourne
  • Je travaille ici depuis septembre 2023
Senior Finance à Tract Consultants Pty Ltd
  • Australie - Melbourne
  • Je travaille ici depuis septembre 2023

RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Managing all aspects of financial operations, including budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting.
• Led annual audit processes and liaised with external auditors to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Maintaining fixed Asset Register and performing bank reconciliations
• Processing daily and monthly journal entries including preparing payroll journals, salaries and FTE analysis and end of month payroll reconciliations.
• Processing payroll on a bi-monthly basis for over 350+ employees
• Managing all aspects of payroll including, payroll tax, Workcover, and superannuation calculations.
• Analysis and review of financial statements to ensure compliance with Accounting Standards.
• Preparing financial management reports on a monthly basis including planning and forecasting.
• Preparing monthly management accounts for the executives review including cashflows, income budgets, and expenses breakdown.
• Preparing and on charging monthly recoverable expenditure for the FY onto the tenant account.
• Preparing quarterly Business Activity Statement (BAS) and annual Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT).
• Conduct internal audits for finance processes and controls as required.
• Attending the day to day queries from the internal and external stakeholders.
• Working with the CFO and COO on the development, implementation and review of the organisations financial and performance reports, policies, systems, and procedures.
• Performing credit card administration, routine journals entries and monthly reporting. Following up on un-coded credit card transactions.
• Conducting variance analysis and provided actionable insights to senior management, resulting in improved decision-making and cost control.

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:
• Developed a customized financial model to track project expenses and revenues, enabling better decision-making and increasing overall project profitability by 15%.
• Identified ineficiencies in procurement processes and negotiated vendor contracts, resulting in a 10% reduction in material costs.
• Implemented standardized financial reporting templates and dashboards for project managers, improving transparency and enabling timely decision-making.

Finance Oficer à Juilliard Group
  • Australie - Melbourne
  • janvier 2022 à septembre 2023

RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Preparing monthly management accounts for the executives review including cashflows, income budgets, and expenses breakdown.
• Preparing and on charging monthly recoverable expenditure for the FY onto the tenant account.
• Managing end to end debtor management function and ensuring tenant accounts are regularly reconciled as per lease contract and industry regulations. Reconciliation of the debtors subledger to general ledger on a FN basis.
• Providing regular support to senior accountant and finance manager to prepare month end accounts.
• Monthly credit card reconciliations of business cards - coding transactions to relevant GL and following up on unidentified/uncoded transactions and performing routine journal reconciliation.
• Working closely with asset managers to ensure accurate financial reporting for each property/assets.
• Working independently to manage the cash flow of multiple capital and fit out projects simultaneously.
• Preparing monthly statement of financial position for MD review consisting of personal investments, projects, and family loans.
• Assisting Finance Manager in preparing income budget for the asset managers that includes projected income and expenses for the upcoming year, based on historical data and current market trends.
• Performing regular General Ledger Reconciliation / General Accounting.
• Performing weekly bank reconciliations for multiple business entities and daily bank account administration - providing daily bank transaction report to MD.
• Facilitating drawing down on tenants bank guarantee by organizing meetings with bank managers and collection of cheques.
• Preparation of provision for doubtful debts including detailed analysis and commentary on each debtor.
• Assisting with the preparation and reconciliation of building outgoings, issuing statement to the tenants, and making related adjustments to their tenancy ledgers.
• Assisting with other areas of management reporting as required such as month end accruals and prepayments.

Credit Analyst à 1st Energy Pty Ltd
  • Australie - East Melbourne
  • mai 2019 à janvier 2022

RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Oversee portfolio of 450+ residential and business accounts on a daily basis from billing through to payment
• Managing accounts for payment dispute, discrepancies, credit enquiries and disconnections
• Handled customer service calls and inquiries from customers across Tasmania, NSW, QLD and SA
• Conducting disconnections on a daily basis for over 50 residential and commercial customers
• Issuing field visit requests through third party and regularly liaising with Field agency to contact established and payment obtained.
• Prioritized and organized work assignment of approximately 200 closed accounts to meet deadlines before issuing out to DCAs.
• Initiated hardship assistance program to assist customers undergoing financial dificulty during the lockdown - ended up successfully achieving 80% overdue payments.
• Improved accuracy of customer accounts by implementing new auditing process to check for inaccurate or unusual account statuses, addresses, payment terms and pending arrangements.
• Maintain proficiency in data entry via Customer Information Control System (CICS) and other technologies and resources.
• Created and published training material on companys portal for new staf and inter department access.
• Reviewed and processed customer and business payments, including direct debits and check deposits whilst following up with the customers to collect information and verifying details.
• Reduced bad debt by 10% by analysing delinquent accounts by creating customer survey and regularly updating CFO of the payment problems.
• Regularly attended DHHS seminar and trainings with senior compliance manager and trained team members on the industry changes
• Assisted senior sales manager in designing new posters, web designs, system design, ofice set up for all utilities and services.

• MAJOR

Credit Controller (Casual à Cengage Learning Australia &
  • Australie - Melbourne
  • mars 2019 à mai 2019

RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Accounts and query management of 700+ high profile and enterprise clients including universities, bookstores, apple, amazon etc. via interstate and international portfolio through AS400. Constantly contacting delinquent customers to secure payment.
• Manually calling, investigating, and resolving any enquiries regarding account or payment irregularities
• Initiating collections proceedings against accounts past due more than 6 months
• Generating invoices, statement of accounts, credit, and adjustment notes, resolving high volume payments and finance related discrepancies during peak season time.
• Responsible for providing an optimum level of customer support and service to the internal and external customers of Cengage with proven experience and confidence in phone collection.
• Reconciling accounts in USD and AUD on a daily basis.
• Working with customers in order to develop repayment plans for delinquent accounts.
• Processing credit card payments, direct debits and reconciliation of weekly credit card payments.
• Tracking all money received and preparing deposits on a daily basis along with data compilation.
• Anticipating customers needs, handling inquiries, solving problems by negotiation whilst utilising interpersonal skills and building and maintain relationship with the customers.
• MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:
• Successfully contacted over 500+ customers in a months time and collected payments worth $500k.
• Followed up with regions personnel on all Final Accounts Presented Not Settled and reported to Accounts. Receivable Manager in ATB review each Friday obtaining 35% of the payments by EOFY.

Credit/Risk Assessment Oficer à PFD Food Services Australi
  • Australie - Scoresby
  • juin 2018 à mars 2019

RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Ensure that processes and procedures between the new takeover and business are done in an efective and timely manner through review and communication.
• Conducting and analysing credit checks on a daily basis for over 45-50 businesses, individuals and public bodies including schools, health/aged care centres, hospitals, airlines, universities etc.
• Opening new credit and cash accounts in the system after obtaining suficient information to assess the creditworthiness of newly proposed and existing customers ensuring company policies are always adhered to.
• Setting up child accounts in the system for major businesses like Woolworths, Metcash, IGA, Red Rooster, Emirates etc.
• Preparing comprehensive reports describing credit limit recommendations to the key accounting managers on a weekly basis.
• Generated daily banking deposits, verified balance receipts, and reconciled banking transactions daily.
• Processing and uploading bank statements in a timely manner for the managers and credit team to view first thing in the morning.
• Setting up direct debits on the ANZ portal on a weekly basis whilst reconciling credit card and COD receipts.
• Investigated account transactions to identify and resolve discrepancies relating to short payments, over payments and unidentified cash receipts.
• Keying in unapplied payments to the relevant account after thorough research and analysis.
• Keying in the BPAY payments daily
• Running unallocated report twice a week and keying in the payments after investigation ensuring all receipts and credits are correctly allocated.
• Processing refunds on a weekly basis
• Looking after 4xGeneric mailboxes, sorting, and distributing credit emails
• Preparing remits for the next day through generic mailbox and ANZ payment portal.
• Maintaining unidentified (EFT clearing) account, transactions, and spreadsheet.

• MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:
• Successfully completed credit checks for over 3k accounts after the takeover and assisted senior manager with additional ad-hoc duties.
• Revamped A/R procedures and filing systems by creating spreadsheets to enhance the tracking of receivables.
• Achieved both individual and team goals of clearing up the backlog in a timely manner during high pressure time as the business had just taken over was undergoing many internal changes.

Data Analyst à Probe Group Australi
  • Australie - Caulfield
  • février 2017 à juin 2018

RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Credit Management of 5000+ commercial business accounts for Telstra, Optus, AGL, Origin and numerous other clients financially worth AUD 10 Mil+ via SAP whilst resolving queries over the phone and via 3xGeneric Electronic Mailboxes to administer and resolve accounts related queries for customers nationally and internationally.
• Setting up new accounts and conducting credit checks, washing, and validating the data to ensure accurate information is available.
• Raising and Generating invoices, statements, credit, and adjustment notes in a timely manner to resolve any queries via phone and over the email.
• Payment allocation and receipting daily, Unallocation and Reallocation per customers requests whilst resolving payments and finance related discrepancies in a fast-paced environment via extensive reconciliations including invoice and account/ledger reconciliations for external and internal reporting purposes.
• Reconciliations of 40-50 accounts daily in SAP for processing of any under and over payments.
• Updating and setting up automated processes for invoices, statements, and reports for external and internal clients.
• Perform journal entry for refunds, credits and payments processed on the customers accounts.
• Processing credit card payments, direct debits, and reconciliation of weekly credit card payments for online payment portal - SecurePay.
• Provide assistance in the preparation of financial statements (ATB, Cash Flow Statement) and monthly budget for month-end reporting and accruals.
• Ensuring efective and eficient internal controls within business units are in place.
• Analysed financial condition of high risk and high visibility customer and recommended courses of action to legal team including necessary risk mitigation.
• Conducting regular data wash and data validation on accounts referred on a daily basis to ensure all data received from client is up to date.
• Maintaining daily activity tracker and data collector report to make decisions that will improve the eficiency of work.
• Maintain, complete, and accurately record all the financial correspondence, and general ofice duties.

Éducation

Master, Masters of Business Management
  • à Monash University
  • janvier 2025
Etudes secondaires ou équivalent, Diploma in Accounting
  • à Monarch Institute
  • janvier 2024

Specialties & Skills

Asset Finance
AP Accountant
P&L Management
Financial Statements
Financial Analysis
AUDITING
CREDIT MANAGEMENT
CUSTOMER SERVICE
BANK RECONCILIATIONS
ACCOUNTING
ACCRUALS
DATA ENTRY
BILLING
CUSTOMER INFORMATION CONTROL SYSTEM (CICS)
DRAWING

Langues

Arabe
Expert
Anglais
Langue Maternelle

Formation et Diplômes

Certified Management Accountants Australia (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
January 2024
Institute of public accountants (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
January 2023