AP, Costing and Treasury Manager
Jotun Paints
Total years of experience :27 years, 10 Months
• Manage ( Monthly, quarterly and yearly reports ) meet the deadline and requirements.
• Evaluates and makes recommendations relating to business performance.
• Manage the effective achievement of the finance department objectives through setting individual objectives, managing performance, developing staff and providing formal and informal feedback in order to maximize overall performance and team motivation.
• Foster an effective working relationship with auditors both internal and external to ensure that all recommendations and findings identified by audit are acted upon promptly with the necessary action implemented.
• Recommend improvements to departmental policy, and manage the implementation of procedures and controls, covering all areas of finance and accounting activity, so that all relevant procedural requirements are fulfilled while delivering a quality, cost-effective service.
• Manage costing process including landed cost for foreign and local purchases, custom clearance, freights, and any others related to costing of raw material, work in progress and finished goods.
• Manage Inventory control, valuation, stock taking..
• Manage and control overhead cost for the company, Update managements with higher overhead items that exceed budget limit.
• Manage all suppliers’ accounts.
• Manage evaluation of inventory according to raw material received.
• Maintain effective and efficient control over all expenditure.
• Follow up monthly progressive report for all inventory items showing the trend of the costing progress compared with the previous months.
• Maintain and control all company overhead cost to match with company policy and ensure that all overhead cost is full documented.
• Evaluate and provide recommendations on the financial implicit Maintaining effective and efficient control over all expenditures of proposed company policies and activities
• Provide expertise and advice to department heads to help them develop budgets, understand financial reports, and manage their financial responsibilities.
• Update Jotun Group company’s balances in cartesess.
• Follow up suppliers confirmation of accounts (monthly and quarterly).
• Manage credit facility arrangements with banks.
• Daily Forecast cash requirements and execute daily financing decisions.
• Monitor bank charges and address quality issues.
• Manage and control interest rate/currency risk.
• Evaluate opportunities to reduce banking and debt service fees.
• Maintain correct customer statements for all JOTUN customers by reviewing all customer transactions entered by Credit Control team and enhance Jotun's collection cycle by providing periodic statutory reports of customer records to Sales force and Credit Control team members as well as control customers masters file on BPCS. .
• Take necessary action to investigate for new customers .
• Review sales figures and made ACR monthly provision by customer ( JAS - IFRS )
• Revise credit limit and credit days requested per each customers .
• Follow up checks in banks ( PDC ) .
• Prepare periodic receivables reports, analysis and customers’ bounced cheques status .
• Ensure Proper Controls are set and risk analysis is being carried concerning ACR and DSO.
• Follow up legal actions with lawyers .
• Make ABC customer analysis per segment ( customer profitability ).
• Follow up DSO as company policy to meet KPI.
• Monthly sales report per segment.
• Cost Control for Resupply Projects.
• Responsible for all financial reporting (Local reports, HFM, flash reports, divisional and regional reports)
• Daily reconcile receivable sub-ledger against main ledger .
• Handle and maintain MCM & Spare Parts inventory .
• Review costing calculation and documentation with senior costing accounting.
• Inventory evaluations , stock taking, inventory controls .
• Advice managements with productions waste factors.
• Follow up tax exemptions documents for export and exempted sales invoices .
• Supervise payroll for 1200 Hotel employee.
• Review income tax & insurance for the employees and the Hotel.
Handel to keep accounts of three Company of the group.
• Closing and review all accounts, make expenses & revenue reports.
• Keep banks accounts and make reconcile with ours book.
• Reconcile our accounts with the sister company accounts monthly.
• Keep assets accounts ., make the depreciation monthly, and review the provisions for assets, leave & indemnity .
• Review trail balance and make income statement and balance sheet.
• Following up the consignment stock for all reseller.
• Make daily cash report, Monitoring cash flow.
• Process all accounting cycle.
• Make & Review the trail balance and make the balance sheet & income statement .
• Monitoring cash flow .
• Closing and review all accounts, make expenses & revenue reports.
• Handling the accounts of multinational computer suppliers ( HP - Compaq - MS ……..)
• Controlling cost and pricing of all items.
• Participated as an internal audit.
• Handled the contact with banks for credit facilities.
• Monitoring cash flow .
• Handle Tax Vat account and make Tax Vat report Monthly .
• Make & Review the trail balance and make the balance sheet & income statement .
• Participated in the examination and evaluation of the accounting systems of internal controls.
• Served a variety of clients