Jaafar Alsharif, Financial performance and planning manager

Jaafar Alsharif

Financial performance and planning manager

Key Rent a Car

Location
Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
Education
Bachelor's degree, Accounting, Business Administration
Experience
18 years, 7 Months

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Total years of experience :18 years, 7 Months

Financial performance and planning manager at Key Rent a Car
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • My current job since December 2017

Reporting to CFO.

* Business Plans and Performance:

·  Maintain business KPIs trends with full analysis to facilitate decision making process.

. Accountable and responsible for budgeting, planning process for company top down by channel / products ensuring proper alignment with Operations and CFO.

. Leading business managers in full understanding the business dynamics and making vital contribution in achieving the business targets by providing standard reports, plans and ensuring they are carried out in accordance with company Strategy

. Providing clear views & plans for overall business operations by identifying business drivers, Key Performance indicators.


** Financial Performance and Business intelligence Reporting

. Lead information delivery to all businesses through analyzed financial business modeling that increase levels of channels and products understanding, facilitating business decisions making.

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*** Business partnership support:

. Produce explanatory financial visibility studies with trend analysis to ensure covering all business requirements towards channels.

. Identify areas for improvements and coordinate with respective business to create an action plan and follow up on results/improvements.

Accounting Manager at Abdul Latif Jameel - ALJ
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • December 2014 to December 2017

* Reporting to Deputy CFO.

- Created executive analysis reports highlighting business issues, potential risks.

- Led the modeling, planning and execution of all financial processes.

-Employed detailed financial models and advanced analytical tools to facilitate variance analysis.

- Recommended innovative alternatives to generate revenue and reduce unnecessary costs.

- Analyzed complex regulation and policy documents that directly impacted budgetary and financial matters.

- Assist in financial statements & produce budget according to schedule

- Participate in financial standards setting and in forecast process

- Verify, allocate, post and reconcile transactions

- Produce error-free accounting reports and present their results

- Analyze financial information and summaries financial status

- Review and recommend modifications to accounting systems and procedures

- Direct internal and external audits to ensure compliance

- Prepare month-end and year-end close process

- Develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls

Senior Accountant at Eastern Industrial Company - EICO
  • Saudi Arabia - Dammam
  • September 2009 to November 2014

- Analyze and monitor the transactions and ensure that they are recorded according to the accounting standards to avoid any accounting discrepancies and irregularities.

- Coordinate the monthly closing of the General Ledger accounts.

- Reconciliation of the sub-ledger accounts with the General Ledger that are generated by the ERP System.

- Prepare the monthly management financial reports within the deadline.

- Oversee accurate and appropriate recording and analysis of the financial transaction.

- Review and ensure that All documents are maintained in compliance with accepted policies and procedures.

- Coordinate and work closely with the external auditors for the year-end closing and issuance of the financial statements.

- Assist in the Zakat and Tax filing through preparation of the needed documentation.

- Work closely with the human resource Department to process the monthly payroll.

- The assistant of CFO in preparing General Assembly meeting.

Accountant at Al Sorayai Trading - Dorrat Family Mall
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • September 2006 to October 2009

* Major Achievements

- Participate in developing management financial reporting system through spread sheets in the absence of ERP System which considerably reduced the time of generating the monthly financial reports which I used to prepare and submit to Management.

- Capitalizing on my strong experience and skill in MS office applications, I have developed, using EXCEL, a user friendly Accounting System for one of the small size companies that I worked for. The program was so easy to use and gives all financial reports in easy way.

- Also I have developed, using EXCEL, a sophisticated “Database software” for Sales and Inventory using EXCEL that enables the company to get various types of management reports in no-time that enables management to take a timely and appropriate business decisions.

* Responsibilities and Duties

** I have worked and got involved through a job rotation of the following functions with processing of all accounting transactions and generating and analyzing the appropriate management reports:

- Accounts Payable

- Inventory

- Cash Sales and point of sale with all related transaction

- Payroll

- Bank Reconciliations

- Reconciliation of warehouse accounts with the main accounts in the GL

- Assist the Chief Accountant in month end closing

- In addition to Marketing Research while was working in Marketing Dept.

Accountant at Beit Al-Mal Saving & Investment for Housing Co.
  • Jordan - Mafraq
  • September 2005 to July 2006

** That was my first Job. I used to assist customers in filling and processing investment application.

- Assist in the monthly registration of the investment profits.
- Processing the revenue payments
- I also worked in the customer service and marketing

Education

Bachelor's degree, Accounting, Business Administration
  • at University of Saad Dahlab - Blida
  • July 2005

Specialties & Skills

Business Intelligence
Business Analysis
Financial Reporting
Budget Formulation
Monthly Reporting
month end
marketing
sales tax
reconciliation
annual budgets
analysis
mis reporting
team management
accounting
microsoft powerpoint
teamwork
planning
ORACLE ERP
risk management
SAP ERP
auditing
payroll
Big data analysis
Business intelligence
Microsoft PowerBi
accounts payable
asset management

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
French
Beginner

Memberships

Saudi Aramco
  • Volunteer
  • November 2013
Saudi Arabian Motorsport Federation, KSA
  • Member in a Rally Team
  • January 2014
Wiley CMAexcel
  • Member
  • September 2014
Toastmasters - Almurjan
  • Co-ordination
  • November 2019

Training and Certifications

Risk management (Training)
Training Institute:
Almurjan training institute
Date Attended:
June 2020
Duration:
10 hours
دورة المحاسب الإداري المعتمد - Certified Management Accountant - CMA (Training)
Training Institute:
مورغان MORGAN INSTITUTE
Date Attended:
January 2015
Duration:
160 hours
Google Analytics Platform Principles - goo.gl/flJysR (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2014
Valid Until:
March 2014

Hobbies

  • Big data analysis
  • Dashboard using powerbi
  • Analysis and Reporting using excel
    I've creat an accounting system via excel using formulas and macros buiding high level reports using Pivot Table