Essam Barakat, Chief Operating Officer (COO)

Essam Barakat

Chief Operating Officer (COO)

Generations for Peace

Lieu
Jordanie
Éducation
Baccalauréat, Accounting
Expérience
24 years, 10 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :24 years, 10 Mois

Chief Operating Officer (COO) à Generations for Peace
  • Jordanie - Amman
  • Je travaille ici depuis octobre 2018

• Works closely with the CEO and serves a wide variety of high-level functions - Deputy CEO when needed.
• Managing Finance, grants and all other operations functions
• Overseeing internal control policies and procedures
• Producing required reports for donors, management and auditors
• Liaising across departments to ensure effective execution, quality, and compliance with GFP’s policies and standards and donors’ requirements and expectations.
• Serve as member of Senior Team Committee.

Director of Shared Services à Palladium Group
  • Jordanie - Amman
  • mars 2017 à septembre 2018

Managed seven departments: Finance, HR, Operations, IT, Security and Transport, Communications and Grants.

Deputy Regional Director ME à International Youth Foundation
  • Jordanie - Amman
  • novembre 2009 à février 2017

IYF is an American NGO that located in Washington, United States and it has offices in 37 countries in the world. Youth: Work Jordan is the name of the project that IYF manages here in Jordan and it’s a $30 Million Dollars USAID funded project in coordination with Jordan Ministry of Social Development.
I’m working as the Senior Finance & Admin Manager; my responsibilities are to manage all the accounting, admin, IT, HR, Grants, operations & financial issues. Preparing monthly and yearly financial reports and do required reports for the head office in Washington taking in consideration our budget & USAID regulations. Moreover, I do manage and supervise 20 Employees.
www.iyfnet.org

Director of Finance & Admin à Royal Health Awareness Society
  • Jordanie - Amman
  • juin 2008 à novembre 2009

Royal Health Awareness Society is an NGO that was established in 2005 under Her Majesty Queen Rania ALAbdulah patronage to work in the health awareness Projects which supported from many donors and many governmental bodies.
I was working as the Director of Finance & Admin; my responsibilities were to manage six different projects from all the accounting and financial sides, preparing monthly financial reports which include income statements, balance sheets, and statements of cash flows, making necessary JVs, prepare monthly bank reconciliations, check and review daily data (JVs, PVs, and RVs), sign and control cheques prepared for vendors and suppliers, control account payables and receivables balances, monthly salaries with employees income tax and social security, monitor and compare budgeted figures with actual and present variances report to the management and Board of Trustees and in the present of Her Majesty Queen Rania AL-Abdullah, manage seven employees, and do reporting for management, board of directors and the society’s donors. Moreover, I have managed everything related to HR, admin and office! I was also responsible for making contracts and implementing new polices and make sure we are applying Jordanian labor law. I was also a member in the purchasing committee.
www.rhas.org.jo

Financial and Operations Manager à ECODIT, Inc.
  • Jordanie
  • septembre 2004 à janvier 2007

My responsibilities were to manage all the accounting and financial issues. Preparing monthly financial reports, making necessary JVs and prepare monthly bank reconciliations. And do required reporting for the head office in Washington taking in consideration our budget and USAID regulations. Moreover, I have managed every thing related to the admin department like implementing necessary admin forms and supervising the following: getting bids, ordering supplies, hotel reservations, handling office files and supervising two Employees.

Financial Consultant / Part Time à State University of New York , SUNY
  • Jordanie
  • avril 2005 à mars 2006

My responsibilities were to prepare the monthly financial reports, making necessary JVs and payments, preparing the necessary monthly reports and prepare monthly bank reconciliations.

Financial Manager / Part Time à American Bar Association
  • Jordanie
  • septembre 2004 à mars 2005

My responsibilities were to prepare the monthly financial reports, making necessary JVs and payments, preparing the necessary monthly reports and prepare monthly bank reconciliations.

Office and Financial Manager à American Bar Association
  • Jordanie
  • juin 2003 à septembre 2004

My responsibilities were managing all the admin, accounting and financial issues. Preparing monthly financial reports, making necessary JVs and prepare monthly bank reconciliations. And do required reports for the head office in Washington taking in consideration our budget. Moreover, I managed every thing related to the office, getting bids, order supplies, hotel reservations, handling office files & supervising one Employee (Administrative Assistant).

Chief Accountant, Acting Financial Manager à Jordan River Foundation
  • Jordanie
  • février 1999 à janvier 2003

I worked as a Chief Accountant acting Financial Manager; my responsibilities were to manage nine different projects from all the accounting and financial sides, preparing monthly financial reports which include income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flow, making necessary JVs, prepare monthly bank reconciliations, check and review daily data (JVs, PVs, and RVs), sign and control cheques prepared for vendors and suppliers, control the account payables and receivables balances, monthly salaries with employees income tax and social security, monitor and compare budgeted figures with actual and present variances report, manage four employees, and do reporting for management, board of directors and the foundation’s donors.
I was a member in the purchasing committee.

Financial Consultant Assistant à Allied Business Advisors
  • Arabie Saoudite - Jeddah
  • octobre 1999 à mars 2001

Special Experience. I assisted Jordan River Foundation’s financial consultant in preparing a new financial and administration system for the Foundation that included designing new chart of accounts, costing system, budgeting system, documentation system, new accounting circle of operation, founding a salary scale system and new form for the yearly plan. Moreover, I worked with him in many other projects in Jordan & Saudi Arabia.

Accountant à Red Rose Hotel Suites
  • Jordanie
  • mars 1998 à février 1999

I have worked as an Accountant and I did all the accounting and financial issues related to hotels accounting system and I was responsible for the following:
-Make the necessary Journal Vouchers, Payment Vouchers, and Receipt Vouchers that related to our daily operations.
-Preparing the monthly closing JVs and presents the monthly reports to the Director.
-Preparing the necessary bank reconciliations and JVs.
-Hotel Store keeping and I was responsible to do (IN - OUT) for the store items and according to the store keeping system and vouchers, and doing the yearly stock take.
-Checking the daily report that was presented from the front office department and prepare the necessary reports to the general director accordingly.
-All other things that related to the accounting department work, like handling the petty cash, writing the necessary financial memos and letters, social security and income tax reports and following up.

Accountant à General Engineering Maintenance CO
  • Jordanie
  • novembre 1997 à mars 1998

I have worked as an Accountant; my responsibilities were the payment arrangements and account receivables matters by:
-Receive the Daily invoices and do the sales sheets that indicate the cash and the credit sales along with a receipt voucher.
-Follow up the account receivables settlements with costumers.
-Receive the Vendors invoices and arrange the payments according to the receivables collection and the bank statement.
-Do the vendors checks and sign it from the Director, deliver these checks to vendors with the regular procedures.

Éducation

Baccalauréat, Accounting
  • à Applied Science University
  • novembre 1997

I finished my bachelor degree of accounting from ASU.

Diplôme, Scientific
  • à Kaled Bin Waled High School
  • juin 1993

I finished my high school degree, scientific section in 1993 from Khaled Bin Waled High School.

Specialties & Skills

Presentation Skills
Grants Administration
Daily Operations
Cash Flow Management
Microsoft Office
MS Excel, and Word
Power Point Presentation
Accounting Computer Systems

Langues

Arabe
Expert
Anglais
Expert

Formation et Diplômes

Training course on Business Report Writing (Formation)
Institut de formation:
AMIDEAST - Amman
Date de la formation:
April 2002
Techniques of Successful Management (Formation)
Institut de formation:
SHUA’A
Date de la formation:
November 2002
Computer Based Practical Financial Analysis Course (Formation)
Institut de formation:
Joint Efforts Group
Date de la formation:
July 2001
Certified Management Accountant (CMA) (Formation)
Institut de formation:
Becker Center
Date de la formation:
May 1999
Stratiegic Plan & Budgeting Course (Formation)
Institut de formation:
Interaction for Consulting
Date de la formation:
September 2000
Certified Public Accountant (CPA) course (Formation)
Institut de formation:
Roger Philip
Date de la formation:
August 2003
USAID & NGOs finance, grants and human resources. (Formation)
Institut de formation:
Inside NGO
Date de la formation:
December 2011