Financial manager
Freelancer
Total years of experience :42 years, 2 Months
Auditing a private school accounts, systems, procedures, trial balance, detailed school fees in order to set and update school SOP and procedures.
Managing all Financial activities for 4 companies that owns and runs a 4 star Hotel and around 14 fine dining and fast food restaurants and bars.
I have established a cluster accounting and purchasing office that runs and controls all outlets and companies.
Preparing yearly forecast financial budgets for all companies and monthly compared with actual P&L in addition to the yearly financial statements.
Deals with all tax issues and reporting in coordination with advisors.
I have established a full acoounting department for a newly opened hotel, configuered all accounting systems with all other hotel systems, established chart of accounts, daily and monthly entry sheets, designed and established full P&L and A&L reporting system on Vision Excell module, training and monitiring all accounting positions, established inventory and stores systems, have prepared full year budgets in adition to monthly forecasting preperation.
Also monthly closing of books, reporting and reconceliation of all accounts.
Managing the credit department in terms of Billing and Collection, managing Staff, reporting to management, maintained good relations with the clients. Maintaining A.R. percentages up to standards at all times.
Established policies and trained new staff in addition to Other jobs practiced such as; Bank Reconciliations, Inventory Controls Accounts Payable & General Cashier.
Moreover, working on Month end reporting of P&L and A&L Reconciliation, Working on FoxPro & Access full Inventory & Accounting systems. During this period I achieved an International award for the best DCSO, achieved Manager of the Quarter certificate as well I achieved the (Manager of the Year 2000) certificate.
As part of this position, I was sent on special assignments to help in other Marriott Hotels opennings to establish the credit department such as; Bucharest Marriott Hotel, Doha Marriott, Colombo Marriott and Athens Marriott.
Acting Assistant Controller assigned for opening a new resort in the Jordan Valley where I established an accounting department, trained staff, in addition to the regular month end reporting and procedures. The assignment also included handling pre-opening accounting practices.
Acting Assistant Controller In addition to working as Credit Manager at Amman Marriott, practiced a takeover process for the hotel, established systems and procedures, experience in payroll, accounts payable, inventories, month end closing process, A & L full reconciliation in addition to sales tax preparation.
Converted manual operation to computerized system (PMS) and kept the Hotel between the first top hotels in the region concerning AR standards
Auditing all hotel revenues and producing daily revenue reports.
A specialised Hospitality accounting certificate (2 years diploma).
One course of accounting for Hospitality Industry.
A 2 years credited diploma in hotel management.