Deputy Accounting Manager
MCLARENS YOUNG SAUDI CO
Total years of experience :11 years, 9 Months
* Perform month-end reconciliations and closings of financial accounts.
* Conduct reconciliations of general ledger and prepare monthly balance sheet report.
* Monitor company's DSO as part of credit management for accounts receivables (AR) and work with business officers to resolve aged receivables.
* Ensure segregation of duties (SOD) are in place as part of the internal control management, and this includes periodical internal validations and
audit of samples accounts, and monitoring and approving daily accounting transactions to make sure accurate booking and complete adherence
with company accounting policies and procedures.
* Provide weekly cash-flow forecasting report to management to support business decisions and inline with working capital decisions.
* Monitor and verify company accounts payable (AP) and intercompany (IC) accounts to clear outstanding debt.
* Perform monthly variance analyses, actual financial performance against budget/plan and ascertain management input and justifications.
* Monitor and help to guide corporate officers on how to reduce WIP provisions.
* Participate in the annual external auditing assignments and support in addressing audit findings through various follow-ups.
* Prepare operational annual financial objectives covering financial and non-financial as part of the budgeting process.
* Manage regulatory reporting required by Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) covering the semi-annual performance.
* Produce quarterly value added tax (VAT) analyses, schedules and declarations in line of local ZAKAT requirements.
* Produce workload analyses to cover required billable hours report and monitor employees' efficiency.
* Provide best-practice support for administrative staff to help standardize the billing and claim registration process across the company.
* Update and maintain country finance standard operating procedure (SOP) manuals along with Company HQ financial survey reporting.
* Serve as the single point of contact (SPOC) to the implementation of company's claims management system to ensure standardisation of
administrative work (assigned as a stewardship to the system).
* Perform various claims work, which includes stock loss analysis, reports and confirmation of the accuracy of submitted date with claimed loss.
* Complete month-end reconciliations and closings of accounts. Reconcile of company general ledger; including intercompany and accounts payable accounts and prepare monthly balance sheet reconciliation. Prepare required bank reconciliations with weekly cash flow forecasting.
* Approving and monitor daily accounting transactions. Produce and report accurate monthly WIP and accounts receivable reports for country management. Attend to end of year auditing procedures. Produce required financials, schedules and documentations per specific standards to help with the launching of Saudi Arabia’s new accounting system (Deltek Vision). Prepare and maintain required documentation and schedules to open company’s Qatar branch.
* Basic accounting work: process payments, accounts payables and cash receipts in the bank & accounting system, issue invoices to clients, register new received claims, enter employee timesheets & expenses and maintain office petty cash. Manually produce and update UAE and Bahrain accounts receivable detailed and summarized reports to send to managers. Complete month-end closing of accounts for UAE and Bahrain.
* Prepare monthly head office Management Operating Report for Saudi Arabia, UAE and Bahrain. Assist in end of year auditing requests and schedules. Assist in the preparation of required documentations and schedules for the implementation of UAE and Bahrain new advanced accounting system (Deltek Vision). Trained all employees on how to be used for their timesheets and expenses
Completed hands-on professional training in the bank's investment division; which covered: prepare concept notes on investment proposals, market
research and analysis on countries the bank is looking to invest in, prepare required reports to help with investment decisions and attend various
client meetings.
courses: § Institute of Management Accountants (IMA), Certified Management Accountant, (CMA) -