Senior Accountant
Jawar Al Khaleej Shipping
Total years of experience :20 years, 10 Months
• General Ledger - Creating journal entries and assembling supporting documentation; Perform month-end account closing activities and reconciliations; Review financial reports to identify and explain variances.
• Accounts Payables & Receivables - Posting supplier and customer invoices; Processing payment for suppliers based on agreed credit terms; Posting payments received from customers.
• Fixed Assets - Recording the cost of newly acquired fixed assets (both tangible and intangible), tracking existing fixed assets, recording depreciation, and accounting for the disposition and transfer of fixed assets.
• Payroll - Perform payroll accounting for staff and crew, make payroll entries and maintain payroll files for the company employees and crew.
• Financials & Audit - Preparing monthly Financial Statement; Assisting in interim and annual audit by providing samples, schedules and documentations to external auditors (Grant Thornton).
• General Ledger - Creating journal entries and assembling supporting documentation; Perform month-end account closing activities and reconciliations; Review financial reports to identify and explain variances.
• Fixed Assets - Recording the cost of newly acquired fixed assets (both tangible and intangible), tracking existing fixed assets, recording depreciation, and accounting for the disposition and transfer of fixed assets; Track CAPEX in comparison to the capital budget and management authorizations.
• Payroll & Incentives - Perform payroll accounting, make payroll entries and maintain payroll files for the company employees; Perform payroll calculations, changes, deductions, and withholdings; Perform incentive calculations based on company approved incentive schemes; Secure approvals for additions and deletions of employees in the incentive schemes.
• Budget, Financials & Audit - Preparing the quarterly and annual budget report & FS, comparing it to actual results, and reporting on variances from the budget; Create a consolidated budget report and financial statements for management approval; Assisting in annual audit by providing samples, schedules and documents to external auditors (KPMG).
• Others - Perform calculation and processing of employee's leave settlement or final settlement; Monitors and perform deductions on employee's advance accounts.
• Prepares and records all accounting records; Maintains and balances subsidiary accounts by verifying, allocating, posting and reconciling transactions; Maintains general ledger by transferring subsidiary accounts; preparing trial balance; reconciling entries; Preparation of financial statements; Credit Control and inventory management
• Processing payroll through WPS
Note: resignation due to company closure
• Credit Control, AR Collection & Audit - Chasing debt by telephone and email and reducing debtor days; Credit releasing of orders placed on credit hold; Processing and generating reminder letters and monthly statements; Daily and month end reporting and account reconciliations; Investigating and resolving queries relating to non-payment of invoices; Working to strict monthly and annual collections targets; Providing documents and schedules to external auditors during annual audit (Ernst & Young).
• Others - Invoice printing, re-printing, monitoring and filing. (Sales Invoices); Payment processing and documentation (AP); Cash handling, Receipt posting (payment) and recording; Service Contract monitoring; Sales order booking for invoicing.
• In-charge of the daily business operation including 2 branches and franchise monitoring.
• Improve the operational systems, processes and policies in support of organizations mission -- specifically, support better management reporting, information flow and management, business process and organizational planning.
• Oversee overall financial management, Budgeting, planning, systems and controls.
• Spearheads training of technicians and office personnel.
• Part-time Life insurance agent (Insular Life Assurance Company)
• Prepares quarterly and annual financial statement to be reported to the Board of Directors.
• Substantiates financial transactions by auditing documents.
• Maintains accounting controls by preparing and recommending policies and procedures.
• Guides accounting clerical staff by coordinating activities and answering questions.
• Reconciles financial discrepancies by collecting and analyzing account information.
• Prepares semi-monthly payroll and reporting of tax withheld on a monthly basis.
• Receivables and Payables management
• As faculty, handled business related subjects such as Management, Business management, Accounting, Computerized accounting systems, Entrepreneurship and Basic Computer.
• Prepares quarterly and annual financial statement to be reported to the Board of Directors.
• Substantiates financial transactions by auditing documents.
• Maintains accounting controls by preparing and recommending policies and procedures.
• Guides accounting clerical staff by coordinating activities and answering questions.
• Reconciles financial discrepancies by collecting and analyzing account information.
• Prepares semi-monthly payroll and reporting of tax withheld on a monthly basis.
• Receivables and Payables management
• As faculty, handled business related subjects such as Management, Business management, Accounting, Computerized accounting systems, Entrepreneurship and Basic Computer.
Under the Master in Public Administration program with specialization in Organization and Management