Senior Accountant
SICK FZE
Total years of experience :13 years, 9 Months
Johnson Arabia is a Mobile Crane and Aerial Work Platforms (AWP) hire company based in the United Arab Emirates which offers cost-efficient and versatile lift engineering solutions to the petrochemical, civil engineering, construction, industrial, utilities, aviation, marine and other industries and clients.
• Managing Overall Accounting Department activities in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Oman Branches and reporting to Finance Director in the Dubai Head office
• Supervision and Guided 10+ Accounting staff on their day-to-day activities and month
end closing activities
• Posting Monthly Closing Entries to the ERP system and Finalizing Control Accounts
• Closing Monthly Accounts in the ERP system and preparing Monthly Management Reports and presenting to the Board of Directors
• Preparation of Annual Consolidated Budget for the company
• Preparation of Various analyses and Forecast based on Management requests (Equipment Profitability report, Material Consumption report, Cost Saving Report, 5 Year Forecast)
• Handling audits for all three branches
• Maintaining Company Accounting Records Which Included processing daily Invoices, Bank Transactions, Journal Entries, and petty cash entries
• Tracking Daily Bank Transaction and reporting quick liquidity to management daily basis
• Handling & Coordinating Transition to SAP ERP system from QuickBooks accounting system which includes the creation of relevant accounting processes in the SAP system and Data Transition
• Preparation of financial statements for the company and preparation of financial statement analysis
• Calculation the project-wise profit and loss with amendments and updating the management on relevant deadlines and calculating penalties on supplier
• Calculate and Manage the Commission/Dividend Schedule for the Shareholders and update the Management on regular basis on developments
• Handling Annual Audits for the company with external Auditors
1) Day-to-day and month-end accounting activities
• Process all incoming invoices, daily bank transactions
• Create month-end journal entries (provisions, manual invoices, (re)charges, …)
• Trial balance review and results upload in HFM
2) Reporting
• Monthly outlook preparation and reporting
• Annual budget reporting
• Monthly actual result reporting in HFM, flux analysis vs outlook, budget and PY
• Monthly AR reporting, bi-weekly cash reporting
3) Accounts receivable
• Process all AR related transactions (incoming payments, checks, …)
• Reconcile, review and follow-up internally on AR and aging (resolve payment differences, pen credits / debits)
• Maintain customer credit files
4) Accounts payable
• Process invoices, match purchase receipts, maintain AP invoice files
• Maintain relationships with vendors
• Maintain suppliers credit applications
• Prepare and process payments for suppliers by electronic payments, checks
• Complete new supplier set-up in system
5) Cash Management
• Manage bank relationships
• Daily cash deposit, daily/weekly/monthly bank reconciliation
• Manage monthly intercompany netting process
• Apply payments to open invoices, follow up on old credits/debits
• Strategically manage cash positions to ensure adequate cash flows
6) Payroll
• Complete bi-monthly payroll file to include PTO requests, time cards, WPS and expense reports reimbursement
• Manage employee benefit administration, incl medical insurance renewal
• Process personnnel change requests
• Manage YTD accrued and used PTO
• Resolve issues on payroll, employee benefit issues as needed
7) Recruitment
• Assists managers with drafting the hiring request form
• Supports the departmental head with the recruitment activities
• Set up the contract for all new starters
8) General HR
• Support HR HQ with special projects like performance assessments for the Middle East region.
Handling Bank accounts for Corporate and Employee services and pension fund in a leading Insurance Company, USA.
Preparation of Daily and Monthly Bank of New York reconciliations and reports.
Identifying variances in reconciliations and communicate with onshore and resolving issues.
Daily General Ledger and Financial Controller balancing.
Suspense clearing and posting journals.
Carrying out training for newly joined Associates and management of Associate team.
Preparation of Ad hoc analysis reports depending on the requested scenarios by the Group Manager.
Preparing, Consolidating & Reviewing Financial Statements
Preparing and monitoring monthly positions of debtors and Creditors.
Manual & Computer Accounting up to Finalization and Monthly & Yearly Trial Balance.
Preparation of monthly pay roll.
Preparing Budgets / Cash Flow Statement and Management accounts
Checking & verifying all vouchers maintaining & organizing all account and other subsidiary records.
Preparation of Letter of Credit and Bank Guarantees.
Preparation of periodic accounts & Stock statement.
Maintaining Trail Balance, Profit & Loss Account and Balance Sheet.
Co-ordination and clearing queries of Auditors.
Maintaining, General ledger, Cash, Bank, Petty Cashbook and all Journal Books and analysing & Preparing schedules for Financial Statements.
Preparing fixed assets statements with due Dep. Rates.
Reconciling Income and prepare Schedules
Preparing Tax Schedules as per Sri Lanka Tax law
Preparing Final Audited Accounts Including Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow Statement, Tax Computation and other statutory reports.
Recording transaction to General Ledger, Cash Book, Bank Book & Prepare Monthly Accounts.
Prepare financial information for management Including Budget, Cash Flow, Variance Analysis.
Monitor payments and banking transactions.
Involved in day today all accounting activities.
Involved in Internal Auditing
B.Sc. Applied Accounting Degree(2015) – CA Sri Lanka Successfully completed on December 2015
Passed the Intermediate Certificate in Accounting & Business II Examination of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of Sri Lanka. Registration No: 001246010 Index No : 7095