Senior Accountant
SDAC Consulting DMCC
Total years of experience :20 years, 11 Months
Promoted to senior accountant position to direct accounting function for a growing consultancy company. Hiring, training, and motivating accounting staff members while supervising and overseeing the daily operations of the accounting department. Develop and manage external financial relationships (e.g. banks, auditors, clients) and constantly look for ways to strengthen overall financial performance. Monitoring and analyzing accounting data and produce financial reports. Assign projects and direct staff to ensure that all projects, month-end, and year-end reports are completed accurately and on time. Managing ESR notifications and report submissions. VAT registration and VAT return filing (average of 8 companies per month). Tax Residency Certificate application. Meet financial accounting objectives.
Effectively communicate with Project Managers (PM), regarding contract documents, change orders and other contract variations, approvals, and any additional services-related to billing. Prepare final invoice package containing draft and final invoices for all billable projects, including all applicable backup for approval by the Chief Accountant. Maintain the billing folders for all projects, with all the appropriate documents, including expenses, consultant invoices, and monthly invoices, in accordance with standard procedures. Establish internal controls and procedures to protect the assets of the company as well as establishing new controls or procedures that address the growth of the company. Designs and/or revises forms, tools, and procedures to improve efficiency. Monitors and analyzes specific accounts payable operations, such as: invoice research and follow-up; problem documentation; standardization of input; coordinate vendor contact and issue resolution. Responsible for general accounting functions, completion and maintenance of general ledgers and financial reports, payroll and accounts payable processing and review
Conducted financial, compliance, information system, fraud and operational audits resulting in improved controls and operating efficiencies. Analyze data for internal audit. Determine the adequacy and effectiveness of the systems internal accounting and operations control. Review operations and programs to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and goals and whether the operations or programs are being carried out as planned. Conduct interviews, review documents, develop and administer surveys, compose a summary of memos, and prepare working papers.
Key result:
• Formulates recommendations that will help enhance and strengthen the company’s internal
control.
• Review operations to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and goals and whether the operations or programs are being carried out as planned.
- Perform sales audit using Centralized Sales Audit System (CSA)
-Responsible for cycle count, data & inventory integrity at store level.
- Conducting Retail Audit in different branches.
- Checking and observing if standard operating procedures are being followed.
- To ensure store compliance with all relevant regulations and auditing standards
- Prepare audit findings and make recommendations to all concerned.
- Variance Analysis.