Mahmoud Al Ali, Accountant

Mahmoud Al Ali

Accountant

Médecins Sans Frontières

Location
Lebanon - Beirut
Education
Master's degree, BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Experience
7 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :7 years, 4 Months

Accountant at Médecins Sans Frontières
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • My current job since September 2021

• Controlling the daily cash and check management and ensuring that all receipts and documentation meet MSF requirements (procedures, deadlines, information, signatures ...). Tracking bills/vouchers, invoices and other running costs and analyzing the related information (costs, service contracts ...) in order to give reliable and updated information.
• Controlling cash advances and cashbook movements for each petty cash box, recording all IN and Out transactions, ensuring that cashbox balances always reflect the actual amount of money kept in the cashboxes and investigating any discrepancy. Ensuring strict compliance with cash control procedures for each cashbox / currency (daily cash control, weekly cash inventory and reconciliations)
• Performing currency exchange operations in accordance with the country's exchange rate policy
• Ensuring a monthly account report in accordance with MSF procedures, checking individual entries and preparing the necessary administrative documents (originals) as a basis for justification and explanation of payments and receipts made.
• Preparing the timely payment of taxes.
• Being responsible for the processing of accounting software peripheral accounting (project and capital) including checking the quality of the mission accounting allocations and their conformity (correct encoding of salaries, following up and matching of internal transfers and advances in the mission, checking invoices and their allocations, preparing payment order documents to be sent to HQ). Analyzing the problems of the cash box discrepancies and giving technical help to find solutions.
• Being responsible for filing accounting documents and their annexes, preparing documents for audits, organizing the scanning of documents and archiving mission financial documents

Junior accountant at Makhzoumi Foundation
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • February 2017 to August 2021

• Perform data entry tasks that are related to OMT, Invoices, JV’s, PV, and RV.
• Assist in performing bank reconciliations.
• Responsible for documents control.
• Revising and entering Petty cash.
• Receives money from departments” Health and TC” and make sure that it complies with the financial software as a part of his safe keeper’s responsibility and record the suitable revenue for each program (Health care and training center).
• Participate in performing fixed assets modules (monthly depreciation/disposal and recording new assets in the software).
• Prepare quarterly reports for VAT to facilitate the process and assist in income tax declaration.
• Assist in preparing the yearly financial statements in addition to ministry of interior and ministry of finance declarations.
• Contact suppliers, prepare suppliers’ account reconciliations, and arrange check’ transactions including its submission to the supplier.
• Make monthly reconciliations for some projects that are recorded in different companies to make sure that all transactions are recorded correctly.
• Handling project transactions prepare checks and monthly financial report.

Education

Master's degree, BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
  • at Beirut Arab University
  • August 2023

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Bachelor's degree, ACCOUNTING
  • at Beirut Arab University
  • January 2016

120 credit of business administration courses focusing on accounting

High school or equivalent, ACCOUNTING
  • at Beirut Arab University
  • July 2014

courses: International Computer Driving Licence

High school or equivalent, sociology & Economic
  • at Al Makassed
  • January 2012

lebanese baccalaureate

Specialties & Skills

Record Keeping
Cash Control
Bank Reconciliations
Accounting
ACCOUNTANCY
ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE
ADMINISTRATION
CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
DOCUMENTATION
FILE MANAGEMENT
FINANCIAL
INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
MICROSOFT EXCHANGE
MICROSOFT MONEY

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

Accounting workshop (Training)
Training Institute:
PWC
Date Attended:
October 2017
NSSF , VAT and taxation (Training)
Training Institute:
FORMATECH CENTERS
Date Attended:
February 2018

Hobbies

  • Walking