Assem Mekdash

Managing the general ledger activities to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting in accordance with the company’s policies. Verify and post JVs into the ERP software. Coordinating the preparation of budgets. Monitoring performance vs. budgets. Ensuring supplier payments, customer collections, payroll, and month-end closing is done on time. Review monthly reconciliations of payables, receivables, & banks. Inventory management. Coordinating the response to internal & external audits. Management reporting.

Supervising and maintaining the accuracy of daily, weekly, and monthly activities to ensure compliance with policies: Timesheets, Calculation sheets, Interim payment certificates, Material requests, Cost Allocation, Invoicing, and logistics. Assisting in the preparation of periodic budgets & planning processes. Overseeing the monthly expenses control processes to help maintain cost control efficiency and ensure that expenditures are within approved budgets. Conducting Variance Analysis, Cost vs. Revenue reports. Inventory management. Liaise between the Accounting/Finance and Logistics, Procurement, Engineering, HR departments on administrative and operative tasks.

Controlling the correctness of accounting entries & cost center allocations. Preparing monthly manpower, equipment, cost, sales, accruals, cash flow, & other financial reports. Maintaining up-to-date billing system. Follow up, collect & allocate payments. Implementing cost control procedures. Managing the financial performance of projects. Preparing & submitting interim payment certificates. Control subcontractors’ certificates. Contract management. Procurement & Purchasing. Warehouse & inventory management.

Get quotations. Preparing and maintaining Purchase Orders. Matching invoices with relative Delivery Notes, POs, Quotations, Price-lists and Contracts. Allocating costs by projects and by Electro-Mechanical sub-divisions. Handling all basic accounting duties. Maintaining general ledger. Petty Cash management and control. Controlling labor wages. Executing internal audit. Schedule and preparing due payments. Handling bank activities (Transfers, Checks, L/C, L/G…). Monthly banks and suppliers reconciliations. Managing subcontractors’ accounts, files, contracts, interim payments, retentions and deductions. Preparing payroll. Preparing cost, cash flow, and budget reports for division manager. Assisting engineers with quantity surveying and BOQ reviewing.