Charbel Wakim

Tasks:
 Prepared Monthly financial statements and progress analysis.
 Supervised 2 accounting employees.
 Prepared monthly and yearly budgets and managed cash flow accordingly.
 Prepared monthly salaries and commissions.
 Liaised with external auditors and provided them with detailed financial information for end of
year financial report.
 Monitored and controlled daily transactions and bank account statements.

Tasks:
 Prepared Monthly financial statements and progress analysis.
 Implemented new control and auditing procedures.
 Supervised 4 accounting employees.
 Followed and complied with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and IFRS standards for financial statements.
 Prepared monthly and yearly budgets and managed cash flow accordingly.
 Prepared monthly salaries and commissions.
 Prepared monthly, quarterly and yearly Taxes and Social Security declarations.
 Liaised with external auditors and provided them with detailed financial information for end of year financial report.

Achievements :
 Supported by the decision of the CEO to apply a new sales strategy aiming to reduce direct cost, we managed to reduce fixed expenses and salaries by 50%, and have a growth in sales for 30% by raising sales commission, motivating sales department and recruiting external sales entities. These progresses were achieved by paying attention to details and literally conduct cash flow management to meet with provisioned budget.
 Implemented new accounting procedure to reduce latency in work progress, which enabled accounting department to accomplish its duties with 4 accounting employees instead of 8.

Tasks:
 Helped with the establishment of the company.
 Liaised with lawyers and external auditors providing them with necessary documents and information.
 Established work procedure and policy.
 Implemented control and auditing procedures.
 Supervised 7 accounting employees.
 Prepared monthly salaries and commissions.
 Prepared monthly and yearly budgets and managed cash flow accordingly.
 Prepared Monthly financial statements and progress analysis.

Achievements:
Early 2008 was the booming startup in North of Iraq, Erbil precisely; mid 2012 I had the chance to be the representative of one company among numerous other newly established organizations. I carried both Administrative and accounting management positions, helped with the establishment of the company, organized procedures and insured the application of CEO recommendations and strategies. Leaded the company for around four years, and generated high net profit on equity.

 Generated Monthly financial statements.
 Rectified fixed assets and inventory exposure in accounting books.
 Coordinated the financial planning and budget process, analyzed and corrected estimates.
 Implemented new control and auditing procedures.
 Recruited, organized, trained and managed Accounting staff.
 Liaised with diverse governmental tax inspectors and provided necessary documents.

Tasks:
 Implemented work in progress reporting procedure.
 Rectified and enhanced data entry operation.
 Applied activity based costing.
 Generated monthly Financial Statements.

Achievements:
Reinforced with extensive experience in construction entities accounting, I managed to convince site engineers to provide the accounting department with daily work in progress report by site, including (working personnel by function, material purchase and usage by function, quantity of accomplished work or work in progress). Information from site reports was translated to weekly accounting reports covering accomplished work value and related direct cost. By monitoring and inspecting daily site reports we reduced sites expenses and cost by 15%, won extra tenders by applying activity based costing.

 Supervised 3 accounting employees
 Prepared monthly financial statements.
 Performed accounts audit and reconciliation.
 Issued monthly work in progress invoices using bill of quantity format (BOQ).
 Prepared monthly salaries and wages.
 Prepared quarterly VAT declaration.