Chief Accountant
Al Sharbatli Group
Total years of experience :30 years, 6 Months
I am currently working with this enterprise as chief accountant, I have so many responsibilities including, but not limited to : follow up day to day accounting transactions relating to business, dealing with local banks, perform VAT reconciliation and preparation of VAT returns. and manage the accounting office with two assistants, I am working closely with management and provide them with half monthly, monthly, and end of year reports, and make regular reconciliation to ledger accounts, customers and suppliers accounts, and also prepare cash flows and budgets for, and perform regular audit for all accounts, and deal with external auditors for yearly auditing preparations.
• Consolidation of financial reports.
• Follow up day to day accounting operations.
• Verifying financial document and payments.
• Internal auditing.
• Assets management.
• Budgeting, forecasting and cash flow.
• Bank reconciliation.
• Follow up customers and vendors accounts, and make regular reconciliation for the two accounts to keep updated data.
•Managed and balanced accounts for the Design and Construction Departments for an engineering and construction company.
•Performed regular reconciliations for the general ledger and bank accounts.
•Consistently review and approve invoices, accounts payable and receivable, and payroll processing.
•Devised, developed, and implemented necessary budgets and forecasted foreseeable expenses.
•Served as Account Manager and oversee operations within cost centres.
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Maintained open lines of communication with other departments in regards to cost reduction kick off.
•Fostered and cultivated open lines of communication with external Auditors in regards to year end reports.
•Supported financial needs of this international humanitarian organization.
•Began tenure as a Senior Accountant, quickly demonstrating capabilities to take on the role of Finance Officer.
•Completed monthly reports to disburse to donors.
Trained and coached the Accounting Team.
•Led all forecasting needs for organisation.
•Successfully reconciled and consolidated all vouchers manufactured at different bases.
•Served as the primary point of contact for the
Logistics sector in regards to payment procedures.
•Regularly liaised with external auditors from UK.
•Coordinated complex accounting operations within the
head office of this petroleum-base company.
•Employed extensive financial expertise across the General Ledger, Account Receivable, Accounts Payable, and Logistics departments.
•Employed expertise to facilitate assets management.
•Coordinated the consolidation of reports from various bases.
•Supervised personnel as Chief Accountant in the financial needs of this medical instrumentation import company.
•Represented company at official meetings and conferences.
•Managed and maintained a complex database of confidently personnel files, contracts, and salary-related materials.
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April 1999 - April 2001: Chief Accountant
Two Wings Pegasus Co. Ltd
Gaba St.Kht west-Khartoum-Sudan,
I worked with them in the position of chief accountant, this company works in steel market, the steel (Pars, Sheets, etc) were processed in Ukraine and sold in Sudan market. My job as accountant, was to follow and monitor all postings and control daily accounting transactions since the preliminary entries of the journal and ledger up to extraction of financial reports, and balance sheet at the end of the financial year, I was responsible for: 1/GL as payments for all expenses, cheques, petty cash, salaries for the staff and bank reconciliation 2/AR, controlling customer accounts regarding collecting of proceeds of sales in both cash and cheques deposits to bank account & debit/Credit notes 3/AP controlling all vendor accounts regarding payable invoices, purchases on credit basis, employees advances for company expenses and D/C notes.
July 1991 - March 1997: Banker
Saudi Sudanese Bank
Baladya st. Khartoum-Sudan,
I worked with them as a banker for six years and rotated all bank departments, and promoted to post of controller sharing the management of a branch with a manager.
July 1990 - July 1991: Banker
Sudanese Islamic Bank
Gamaa St. Khartoum-Sudan,
After graduation I worked with them in position of a banker, I spent one year with them and worked in general/current account, internal/External and transfers departments.
October 1989: Khartoum Polytechnic, Al Khartoum, Sudan Bachelor's degree / higher diploma, Financial accounting-Managerial accounting-Audit-Statistics-Costing GPA: 2.55 Class Grade Credit Class 1 C 55 Class 2 C 60 Class 3 B 70 Class 4 B 70