Accounting Manager
Somabay Developments Company
Total des années d'expérience :14 years, 8 Mois
✓ Lead and develop the Accounting team. Set goals and objectives for the team that drive increased value and efficiency in support of the business. ✓ Coordinates and actively engages in the month end and quarter end close processes in line with timelines. ✓ Supports budget and forecasting activities in coordination with the company main strategy. ✓ Oversee general ledger and ensure balances are correct through the review and approval of journal entries, monthly account reconciliations, ledger account reviews. ✓ Direct the monthly and year end close accounting cycle activities, including meeting all corporate close and consolidation deadlines. ✓ Initiate and implement cost savings and process improvement projects. ✓ Oversee payroll and bonus. ✓ Prepare and deliver executive level presentation materials for capital and leased asset program initiatives. ✓ Lead development of divisional tax reporting throughout the year. ✓ Lead the annual capital and depreciation budgeting process. ✓ Lead internal and external audits ✓ Lead and implement business system conversion for multiple modules. ✓ Lead for multiple corporate projects.
Lead development of institutional planning and budgeting process (both revenue and cost), including the development of the budget manual and templates, creation of tools to develop work plans, work with programs developing budgets, and reconciliation of budgets with programmatic work plans and organizational goals.
Lead the production of financial analyses and presentations for company’s management throughout the year.
Develop regular financial reports and analysis forecasting and trending budget performance and institutional financial positioning.
Lead processes and communications regularly working with department/region budget owners across the organization to monitor and revise budgets throughout the year and life of projects.
Ensure compliance with current budget and spending policies, and propose improved policies and systems regarding spending guidelines, cost savings, cost allocation, and annual planning.
Develop and maintain templates and SOP’s related to budget management.
Provide training to staff on budget management processes and systems
Preparing business plan for five years and making the necessary update of the plan according to any material changes in the business or the regulations which may affect forecasts.
Manage the Middle East and African countries customers’ portfolio
Working closely with sales to meet past dues and DSO targets
Follow global guidelines on assessing customer risk and risk mitigation of own portfolio of accounts.
Apply policy and procedures for collections, credit hold and credit risk in order to meet cash targets.
Establish and ensure monthly collection goals are integrated with Ferro global goals and targets flow to individual collectors.
Implement strategies to meet collection targets and objectives.
Drive sustained collections process improvement through the organization by changing behaviors around collections management.
Establish and maintain effective internal and external working relationships; including sales, supply chain, customer services, finance, customers’ relationships.
Perform customer risk assessments with appropriate policies to limit the risk exposure with specific customers.
Ensure collection processes are documented and followed in compliance with Ferro requirement.
Develop succession planning for team, identifying training requirements and milestone targets.
Provide meaningful commentary as part of monthly requirements for bad debt and top overdue reporting.
Prepare standalone & Consolidated Budget Modules.
Leading Budget preparation, Formulation, Presentation and execution.
Cash Flow Management.
Develop forecasting scenarios modules and 5 years’ business plan modules
Actual Vs Budget & Last Year Variance report. (Vertical & Horizontal)
Profitability report per project.
Enhancing the monthly financial actual report along with its related analysis.
Deploying a dynamic forecasting system for the revenues and costs.
Prepayment Approval for all OPEX & CAPEX in all regions.
Giving approval for any new project business plan.
Reviewing and approving the financial clauses in any contract.
Reviewing the processes, Procedures & implantation of any business cycle.
Responsible for all of Accounts Receivables cycle (From Sales orders till Collections)
Reviewing Sales Orders and prices
Settlement all customers’ accounts
Approve all Sales updates
Prepare monthly/yearly bad Debts provision based on the company policy
Responsible for Accounts Receivables, Accounts payables, Fixed Assets, Costing & Financial Analysis.
Acting as an accounting team leader and report directly to the finance manager.
Make a credit control for all customers’ accounts.
Follow up all customers’ collections.
Make weekly reports about the customer’s positions.
Make weekly updated cash inflow.
Settlement all customers’ accounts by making a monthly reconciliations.
Making a Quarterly balances confirmations with the customers.
Make a monthly Revenue report and business analysis.
Prepare and analyze the accounting records using Accpac ERP system.
Evaluate customers’ positions in order to know the risky degree of dealing with them.
Making monthly profitability report by customers.
Prepare monthly/yearly bad Debts provision based on the company policy.
Using the global ratios in order to evaluate the companies receivables position like( DSO, CEI, BDSO)
Make a monthly material purchases report.
Reviews accounts payable documents prepared by subordinate for accuracy, completeness and conformance to policy; authorized for payment.
Responsible for the rational allocation of the company expenses over the appropriate cost centers, to get accurate results for each business unit & product separately.
Prepare weekly payables ageing report according to the company's policies and procedures.
Prepare quarterly reconciliation with vendors.
Maintain and analyze of vendor contracts.
Review and process vendors claims, returns and follow up on claim deduction
Creates and implements changes to work assignments, methods or procedures to meet operational needs, improve accuracy and efficiency of the accounts payable system.
Manages monthly closing of financial records and posting of month end information; ensures accuracy of financial statements.
Provides accounting assistance to finance managers and operations staff; responds to financial questions/concerns to meet business needs.
Run monthly Fixed Assets depreciation.
Maintain and review all fixed assets purchases on monthly basis.
Make a monthly analysis for all the company expenses and compare it with the budget.
Make monthly profitability reports by customers/activity.
Make cost control for all company’s expenses and make sure that is matched with the budget.
Allocating the indirect costs to the warehouse and then to the activity and then to the customers.
Applying the FSA ratios on the company’s monthly financial statements.
• Make a credit control for all customers’ accounts.
• Managing a team of Accounts receivables accountants.
• Follow up all customers’ collections.
• Make weekly reports about the customer’s positions.
• Make weekly updated cash inflow.
• Settlement all customers’ accounts by making a monthly reconciliations.
• Making a Quarterly balances confirmations with the customers.
• Make a monthly Sales report and business analysis.
• Prepare and analyze the accounting records using SAP ERP system.
• Make a Daily credit management report.
• Evaluate customers’ positions in order to know the risky degree of dealing with them.
• Making monthly marketing expenses analysis.
• Making monthly Damages analysis report.
• Making monthly profitability report by customers.
• Using the global ratios in order to evaluate the companies receivables position like( DSO, CEI, BDSO)
• Follow up all foreign customers’ collection by a direct communications with them.
• Make weekly reports about the customer’s position.
• Make weekly updated cash inflow.
• Settlement all customers’ accounts and make a monthly authentication with the customers in order to insure that our company and their company in the same page.
• Make a monthly FX reports.
• Make a monthly Sales report and business analysis.
• Prepare and analyze the accounting records.
• Checking with the banks for the new incoming by using internet banking devises.
• Follow up all foreign suppliers payment by a direct communications with them.
• Make weekly reports about the vendors position.
• Make weekly updated cash outflow.
• Settlement all vendors accounts and make a monthly authentication with them in order to insure that our company and their company in the same page.
• Make a monthly purchases report.
• Checking with the banks for the SWIFTs by using internet banking devises or by a direct communication with the banks.
• Using the factoring and insurance programs in order to finance part of the companies debits and credits.
• Reviewing all cheques, banking Transfers & LCs before proceed.
• Reviewing all treasury journals after the recordation cycle and make the adjustment entries.
• Reviewing financial interests and commissions for all banks and make a monthly report about it.
• Reviewing banking interests and commissions for all banks and make a monthly report about it.
• Reviewing all the banking reconciliations and a make a monthly report about it.
• Reviewing all the company's contracts and also the companies expenses and make a monthly report about it.
• Review the budget vs. the actual (revenue, expense, invoicing)
• Maintain, and coordinate the implementation of accounting system.
• Supervision of accounting system and maintain it.
• Compile and analyze financial information to prepare the entries to be entered to the company system.
* Making the daily accounting journals.
* Reconcile the company accounts
* Month end closing using the accounting standards.
It's a professional diploma in Credit & Risk Management which contained the below subjects : - Introduction to Finance and Accounting. - Economic / Industry Analysis. - Trade Finance. - Lending Rationales : Asset Conversion and Asset Protection Lending. - Financial Statements and Ratio Analysis. - Cash Flow Mechanics / Projection Assumptions. - Credit Structuring and Problem Loans. - Legal Aspects of Credit. - Project Finance and Syndication. - Risk Management. - Financing and Evaluating SME'S - Graduation Project.
CMA: Certified Management Accountant (International certificate) which focuses specifically on financial planning, analysis, control, and decision support, as well as professional ethics—the critical skills for today's complex and changing business environment.
7 subjects : ( Accounting principles , Financial management , Business economics , Financial reporting , Banking operations , Computerized accounting & Management accounting )
