Senior Financial Accountant
Sidra Medical and Research Center
Total years of experience :17 years, 0 Months
Analyse and reconcile revenue data interfaced from Cerner to Lawson.
Identify system-related issues affecting the reliability of revenue data and colaborate with Revenue Cycle Team and IT Team in enhancing the system.
Participate in identifying and performing the tasks related to year-end activities.
Analyse assigned expenses accounts, ensure their correctness, and investigate abnormalities of their movement if there is any.
Maintain schedule of prepayments/advances to suppliers and follow-up for the long outstanding items.
• Supervise financial accounting team; review every transactions and journals created by each of the financial accounting staff members.
• Significantly involve in the monthly financial close process including accrual journals, account analysis, and account reconciliations; ensures all journals from sub-ledgers are accurately recorded and interfaced with general ledger.
• Responsible for ensuring timely, accurate and complete accounting records of all activities which relates, but not limited to cash, accounts payable, payroll, accounts receivables & revenue, inventory and fixed assets.
• Provide monthly financial reports (based on accrual accounting) such as Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss Statement and Schedule of Accounts.
• Provide monthly/quarterly/annual expenditure reports (based on cash accounting) necessary for the management and for Ministry of Finance.
• Assist the manager in the preparation of the quarterly/annual trend analysis report.
• Largely involve in providing reports/information being requested by the auditors (both external and internal).
• Significantly involve in the implementation of ERP (Lawson and Oracle) and its enhancement based on the financial accounting needs.
• Handle the financial records of other entities such as Anti-Doping Laboratory Qatar (ADLQ) and Naufar during their start-up until they establish their own financial accounting department.
• Prepare performance evaluation of each financial accounting staff, listen to their concerns and give them advices on how they improve their performance.
• Administer the entire Accounting Section which is composed of three divisions, namely, payroll, accounts payable and general ledgers.
• Largely involve in the daily operations of the organization by managing the accounting functions and ensuring that the transactions entered by the accounting staff members are accurate.
• Prepare weekly and monthly financial reports.
• Responsible for the year-end closing process and audit requirements.
• Coordinate with the managers of other sections within finance department and with the concerned person in the other departments regarding the necessary information affecting the accounting operations.
• Provide financial analysis reports to the hospital management as requested through the director of finance.
• Preparation, implementation and updates of accounting policies and procedures.
• Co-signatory of payroll and disbursement cheques/wire transfers of the organization for amounts less than SR100, 000.00.
• My knowledge and proficiency of the ERP Great Plains Program has enabled me to achieve the following:
o Manage the whole work flow process of the finance department
o Monitor all expenses and revenue generated from all the cost centers and revenue units of the hospital
o Consolidated all financial information necessary for the creation of financial reports required by the management
• Update the outstanding invoices into the ERP Great Plains.
• Monitor the due invoices and process the payments.
• Prepare all the necessary reports and reconciliations affecting the payables.
• Prepare bank reconciliation
• Prepare reconciliation of other general ledger accounts.
Assigned in general accounting which includes payable, disbursement, receivable, and general ledger. I was also a petty cash custodian and an assistant to the accounting manager. Prepared financial reports generated from the in-house developed accounting system powered by Microsoft Access. I provided requirements requested by the auditors concerning general accounting.
Plipinas Shell Petroleum Company Scholarship Grantee. Finished the Accountancy Course in three-and-a-half years instead of four due to getting advances subjects during summer class.
Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Company Scholarship Grantee