Ashraf Darwazeh, Planning Manager

Ashraf Darwazeh

Planning Manager

Shaker Group

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Bachelor's degree, Economics & Administration Sciences
Experience
11 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :11 years, 9 Months

Planning Manager at Shaker Group
  • Saudi Arabia
  • My current job since April 2015
Accounts Supervisor at Kabbani Group
  • Saudi Arabia
  • June 2000 to December 2002

Maintaining Payroll and employees other benefits (vacations, final settlements, housing and other benefits).
* Supervising General ledger transactions and adjustments.
* Preparing operational provisions (slow moving goods, bad debts... etc.).
* Reconciling and confirming the balances and accounts (banks, petty cash accounts, advance payments, agents,
customers, vendors and employees).
* Maintaining fixed assets register and transactions (acquisition, depreciation and disposals).
* Controlling banks transactions (bank facilities, overdrafts and forex treatments).
* Maintaining accruals and prepaid accounts.
* Controlling inventory reconciliations and adjustments.

Financial Manager at Nashr Group (Member of Saudi Research & Marketing Group SRMG)
  • Saudi Arabia
  • June 2012 to

Managing the preparation process of the group budget.
* Report to management on variances from the established budget, and the reasons for those variances.
* Member of Windows Dynamics ERP system implementation project team for the group, responsible of the
business view, finance module and the required customization on financial reports & operations.
* Oversee the operations of the treasury department, including the design of an organizational structure adequate
for achieving the department's goals and objectives.
* Assist management in the formulation of its overall strategic direction.
* Support overseeing financial risks and analyzes cash flow, cost controls, and expenses to guide management
team for future plans. Analyzes financial statements to pinpoint potential weak areas.
* Responsible for overseeing the corporate accounting department including receivables, payables, payroll,
general ledger and fixed assets.
* Supervising and follow up with auditors (External & Internal) providing them by all needed data, ensuring the
satisfactory completion of their examination.

Accounting Manager at Jazeera Pharmaceutical Industries (Member of Hikma PLC Group)
  • Saudi Arabia
  • January 2003 to

Core team member in the SAP ERP system implementation during the year 2009, full overview of FI/CO module and
other modules, arranging all accounting master data migration and the chart of accounts, creating the needed financial
reports, training the end users in finance team.
* Manage and supervise a team of 10 accountants and supervisors in accounting department.
* Integrating all activities toward achievement of established goals and objectives including checking, reviewing and
posting the daily entries to books and system from supporting records and passing the needful adjustments.
* Preparing critical fiscal documentation regarding accounting activities, weekly, monthly and annual reports.
* Maintaining and reconciling balance sheet accounts for all funds with assistance from accounting support personnel.
* Maintaining and reconciling inter-companies accounts with assistance from accounting support personnel.
* Planning, managing, coordinating, and implementing the year end closing processes and procedures for the assigned
accounting records; conducting year-end closing process; providing information to financial auditors; conducting
standard internal audits of various accounting records.
* Providing technical accounting support and interpretation to management and employees.
* Attending and representing department at various executive meetings for the dissemination of information; preparing
management meetings for dissemination of information; serving as a member of various employee committees.
* Preparing of the annual statement of accounts and the financial reports such as IFRS pack.
* Costing experience on manufacturing industry which related to pharmaceutical production with ABC basis and
activities.
* Responsible for preparing and follow up the working of Zakat & Tax for the company.

Business process owner at SAP
  • United Arab Emirates
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Education

Bachelor's degree, Economics & Administration Sciences
  • at Yarmouk University
  • January 1999

courses: & Certification: * Certified Management Accountant (CMA), 2014. (Member of the institute of management accountants (IMA) since 2012.

High school or equivalent, Economics & Administration Sciences
  • at Yarmouk University
  • January 1999

courses: & Certification: * Certified Management Accountant (CMA), 2014. (Member of the institute of management accountants (IMA) since 2012.

Specialties & Skills

ACCOUNTANCY
ACCOUNTING
ACCRUALS
ACTIVITY BASED COSTING
ADMINISTRACIÓN DE BENEFICIOS
BUDGETING
CASH FLOW
CLOSING
DATA MIGRATION
MICROSOFT OUTLOOK

Languages

Arabic
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English
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