Senior Accountant
Rethink ME Ltd
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :11 years, 5 أشهر
• Verifies and reconciles accounting information posted by team members.
• Prepares, analyzes, and substantiates financial statements and management reports.
• Performs monthly accounting and reporting services, finance manager support, and business performance analysis for clients.
• Leads projects on accounting and tax implementation into the systems.
• Designs budgets, financial forecasting, and financial reporting tools for clients.
• Develops SOPs to document and improve business policies and procedures.
• Provides tax compliance and advisory report.
• Assists in year-end audit and tax audit.
• Manages a team of 8 Junior Accountants and Accounting Assistants.
Responsibilities:
• Carries out overall accounting functions such as Cash (petty cash management, wire transfers, bank reconciliation), Accounts receivable (quotes, invoices, credit control), Accounts payable (purchase orders, payment vouchers), Inventory (physical checks, inventory reconciliation), and Payroll (WPS)
• Prepares, analyzes, and substantiates periodic financial statements and management reports
• Assists in the logistics function of importing and exporting goods
• Liaises with a global operations team (Middle East, Central Asia, Africa, and America)
• Head accountant of a subsidiary (Sicuro International FZC)
Highlights and contributions:
• Functioned as the lead finance officer for a joint venture project with a major telematics company
• One of the project managers in acquiring ISO 27001 certification for the company
• Increased average cash collections by 22% by establishing a strategic credit control procedure
• Automated financial statement production by designing a template which reduced average handling time by 66%
• Analyzed cost of airtime and designed a consumption matrix which resulted to 28% cost savings
• Decreased overhead costs by 48% by analyzing employee’s mobile usage and consequently led the migration to new postpaid plans
Responsibilities:
• Accountable for production, validation, and delivery of net asset valuation to assess results of investment strategies
• Investigates profit and loss figures of financial securities breaching validation tolerances
Highlights and contributions:
• Designed KPI reports that measure timeliness, accuracy, and completeness of deliverables, eliminating meetings to discuss issues encountered
• Coordinated with operation teams to realign internal deadlines and workflows which resulted to more timely valuations of net assets
• Authored and revised standard operating procedures (SOP), best practices and transition guides
• Designed training modules enabling new hires to be trained with minimal effect on work force capacity
• Top 5% of School of Business and Management graduates of 2012 • Academic Scholar