fares chahrour

Remote
• Creating and monitoring budgets.
•Managing cash flow to meet operational and capital expenditures.
•Preparing financial statements and providing business insights through analysis and visuals.
•Ensuring compliance with financial and tax regulations.
•Oversee accounting team and procurement.
•Cooperate with stakeholders not limited to auditors, banks, vendors and clients.

1.. Preparing Payrolls and Calculating the Subcontractors Fees
2. Responsible for all Regional Tax aspects
3. Consolidating Projects financial reports
4. Managing and coordinating monthly Management reporting
5. Preparing cash flow statement & OPEX reports, Projects CAPEX reports
6. forecasting future revenues and expenditures to establish cost structures
7. Performing Ad hoc tasks not limited to bidding, pricing, and administration
8. Leasing with Banks, insurance, and other services providers.

• Led accounting operations including GL, AP, AR, and payroll for multiple
projects.
• Managed project costing, revenue recognition, and monthly financial
reporting.
• Prepared rolling budgets based on contract and project completion
forecasts.
• Worked with project management staff ensuring proper compliance with
accounting procedures, and analyzing job cost estimates and reports
monthly
• Collaborated on external audits and ensured compliance with taxation
requirements.

Data entry for project cost and expenses not limited to creditors invoices, prepayments, purchase orders, credit and debit notes
- Handle account receivables through issuing clients’ SOA, receipts, debit notes and assist in collection by tracking received bank transfers then reporting the same to the collection department
-Performing Monthly accounting closing procedures (Accruals recording & provision, recurring entries, importing data and balance sheet account reconciliation)
-Preparing tax returns and payments and work with Tax consultant in yearly tax filling
-Corporate with internal and external audits to ensure financial compliance
-Assist in yearly budgeting process and variance analysis
-Perform physical inventory audit and count, maintaining fixed asset and reconcile physical items with assets register
-Assist in closing producer at the end of the year, review and adjust trial balance and prepare management report drafts
-Perform other assignments requested by the Head office

Perform chart of account maintenance through creating and analyzing balance sheet accounts, ledgers & sub-ledgers)
-Updating and creating cost centers, cost groups and revenue centers
-Assist in Monthly closing procedure through booking lease expanses, prepayments, provisions, and accruals
-Booking the purchase invoices in the inventory module
-Monthly reconciliation of goods suppliers’ accounts
-Monthly reconciliations of creditors accounts, auditing and approving their rates and payments
- Audit and approve than post for accounting transactions done by the branches
-Inter-branch and sister companies’ reconciliation and auditing inventory transfers between them
-Preparing monthly expenses reports by company and consolidated
-Prepare reports related to LCs status and daily banks positions
-Assist in the end of year closing through synchronizing accounting P&L accounts with cost/revenue centers, reviewing trial balance and year closing entries
-Assist in preparing balance sheet and income statement
-Assist with a team in business plan studies

brands SAL (Advertising), Beirut
Duties:
• Billing and collection
• Accounting data entry and filling
• Monthly Reconciliations of Banks, suppliers and main clients accounts and correcting errors
• Prepare VAT declaration and NSSF monthly declaration and assist in tax filling
• Preparing Payroll and payroll tax declarations
• Assist the financial controller in preparing financial statements through quarterly closing and quarterly reporting
• Corporate with external auditors and submit their requests in quarterly basis
• Assist in Preparing business plans and cost/revenue studies

development Sal (Coffee shop), Beirut
Duties:
-Handling petty cash
-Performing income audit
-Preparing sales reports
-Preparing suppliers reconciliations
-Monthly accounting closing
-Provide monthly profit and loss statement
-Preparing payroll and its taxes calculation
-Assist in cost controlling