Financial advisor and consultant director
Audit bureau
Total des années d'expérience :21 years, 5 Mois
A confident and articulate Executive with 21 years of finance and operations experience gained in a
variety of locations worldwide. Strong leadership abilities; possessing well-honed management,
negotiation, and interpersonal skills. Experienced in operating across diverse business sectors
including Facilities Management, Health Care, Telecommunications, Real Estate Development, NGOs
, Construction & Hospitality.
- Establishes, maintains, and updates organizational financial policies and procedures to guide the work of project staff and management.
* Supervises and monitors the Finance Department activities ensuring that standard accounting principles are followed in carrying out all financial transactions consistently and promptly.
* Works with the program managers to develop annual budgets, projections, financial plans, costing estimates, and monthly cash forecasting.
* Maintains regular communication with the senior management team providing relevant and timely financial information for planning and decision-making purposes.
* Produces accurate and timely cash flow projections and other reports as required for internal management, the headquarters office, and international donors, as appropriate and requested.
* Works closely with Human Resources to implement monthly payroll accurately and on time, keeps accurate and updated records, and conducts regular reviews of staffing financial information.
* Oversees payments to vendors and contractors, consultants, and other relevant parties and ensures that proper documentation is present; tracks all tax withholding information that is readily updated and available to project leadership.
* Tracks and reports on Return to Project funds on a monthly basis and keep cumulative info on hand..
*Handles all financial procedures and records, including:
a. Budget Administration. Overseeing the annual budget and financial plan preparation, tracking budget execution.
b. Banking and Cash Management: Managing bank accounts and related records, cash disbursements, cash receipts, and cash count. Reports to senior staff on the status of accounts.
c. Financial Reporting: Preparing monthly and quarterly reports including budget variance reports, trial balance, cash flow reports, sales receipts, and banking reconciliation and balance sheets.
d. Accounting Procedures: Managing accounts payable, and accounts receivable summaries, journal entries for adjustment to the general ledger, chart of accounts, and financial coding structure
e. Payroll: Managing monthly payroll process and keeping payroll records.
* Performs other financial management and administrative duties, as needed and requested
Finance, Accounts & Grants:
- Prepare Monthly, Quarterly, and yearly financial reports.
- Manage the preparation of the organization's budget.
- Manage the preparation of the Donor's budget.
- Manage the preparation of budget proposal and budget narrative in line with Donor requirements.
- Manage all aspects of financial management of the country programs in the region (Afghanistan, Yemen, Iraq, Libya, Tunis, and Egypt) to ensure compliance with GHD-EMPHNET internal policies and procedures as well as donor regulations like CDC, USAID, UNICEF, etc.
-Manage the cash withdrawals from the PMS system on monthly basis.
- Ensure that financial resources are allocated in line with each grant and approved budget separately.
- Performing Business plans, and designing internal financial control systems.
- Supervise the preparation of separate financial reports for funding agencies by the terms of the contracts.
- Managing cash flow projections ensuring that they are by procedures, and managing the cash flow of the country program to ensure that sufficient funds are always available.
- Ensures the maintenance of accurate records of financial transactions of the country office (main and
field offices) to monitor the financial status of all activities.
- Provide management accounting reports in terms of cost accounting and forecasting.
- Payroll Management, including Tax and social security reconciliation.
- Liaise with internal and external auditors to ensure statutory records are accurate and up to date in line with IFRS requirements, USAID, and audit A133.
-Ensure that all project-related transactions are conducted, processed, and recorded.
- Maintain the financial health of the organization.
- Maintains the organization's system of accounts ensuring all accounting data are updated, reconciled
and fully supported
- Funds, and projects expenditures control and ensure control over petty cash fund operations.
- Cash management and control.
- Reconciliations
- Build different financial templates for account users.
- Support for Management and Operational Functions.
- Plans and monitors the review, scheduling, updating, and reporting of annual budget and quarterly budget estimates and variances.
-Responsible for implementing and maintaining the necessary internal controls.
-Responsible for maintaining relationships with banks and external stakeholders.
- Assist department directors in the preparation of annual department budgets.
- Trains and provides technical advice to lower-level management and accounting personnel.
-Identify the capacity-building needs of all the finance and accounts staff.
- Ensure timeliness and accuracy in all payments.
Treasury:
-Supervises all country office bank relations and bank account activities including interest and currency exchange rates.
-In compliance with EMPHNET policy establish country policies regarding cash holding limits, cash movements, and foreign currency holdings.
-Oversees the timely preparation, review, and approval of all monthly bank account and cash reconciliations.
-Establishes country policies on advance payments, credit terms, and use of bank payment instruments.
-Supervises the preparation of Cash Transfer Requests to office countries.
HR:
- Staff training
- Managing the funds allocated for each employee and international consultants.
- Training/ Capacity Building:
-Determine training needs for finance, admin, and human resources staff
-Train national and international staff to increase their responsibilities to build
Risk Management
- Work with the Executive Director on risk management, disaster recovery & contingency planning.
- Perform risk management by analyzing the organization’s liabilities and investments.
- Decide on investment strategies by considering cash and liquidity risks.
Compliance Management
Business strategy and development
Nonprofit Organization
http://laholmutangranser.com/
Laholm Without Borders (LUG) is a multi-cultural society for the residents of various nationalities in Laholm (Halland, Sweden).
- Develop financial models through benchmarking and process analysis
- Forecast quarterly and annual profits
- Prepare cost projections
- Analyze and report on current financial status
- Conduct thorough research of historical financial data
- Explore investment options and present risks and opportunities
- Compare anticipated and actual results and identify areas of improvement
- Participate in budgeting (for departments and projects)
- Reviews complex financial accounting work processes, systems, and procedures for efficient workflow and conformity with accounting principles.
- Policies and procedures consultant.
Statistics reports
- Pricing analysis
- Cost control
- Cost allocation
- Monthly, quarterly and yearly financial reports
- Products analysis
- Market analysis
- Monthly, quarterly, and yearly consolidated financial reports based on (IFRS) including actual vs. budget, with clear analysis.
- Lead relationships with banks, customers, and external auditors.
- Assist the audit preparation work to allow timely completion of the annual financial statements.
- P&L and balance sheet ratios analysis.
- Evaluate receipts, expenditure forms, purchase orders, distributions, and disbursement orders to ensure compliance with established regulatory standards.
- Bank reconciliation.
- Accounts payables and receivables control and reconciliations.
- Maintaining Accruals, Prepayments, and Advances.
- Evaluate budget variances and advise operations to rectify the reasons for negative conflicts and cost controls.
- Process fixed assets register for depreciation.
- Budget preparation, review, and presentation.
- Assist manager departments in the preparation of annual budgets and financial projections.
- Provide all departments with the necessary financial information to enable them to carry out their assigned responsibilities.
- Reviewing and monitoring cash received from (service charges and rent and ensuring that collections are deposited in the Bank timely.
- Managing accounts receivables including tenants’ reconciliation and preparing various analysis reports.
- Develop yearly department budget and organization budget based on overall plans of the organization, in coordination with the Management of the company.
- Assist in the formulation of the department’s budget in compliance with applicable budget policies and guidelines.
- Monitor expenditures to ensure that the department remains within the line of budget.
- Ensure that records for internal and external audits are prepared.
Dakkak tours is one of the biggest tourism companies in Jordan having three branches in Jordan, one in Palestine and one in USA. I joined them after graduation as an accountant for one and half year.
Accounting and control, Financial risk management