Mahmoud Said, Chief Accountant

Mahmoud Said

Chief Accountant

Beyout Investment Group

Location
Kuwait
Education
Bachelor's degree, Accounting
Experience
9 years, 11 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :9 years, 11 Months

Chief Accountant at Beyout Investment Group
  • Kuwait
  • My current job since December 2021

With my team …
• supervise the activities related to accounts and general ledger management with effective use of information systems ensuring that financial procedures and internal control techniques are carried out and aligned to the business plan.
• Review journal entries as assigned and ensure accurate and complete entries are tracked and recorded journals on a timely basis. Intercompany reconciliation and confirmation on monthly base
• Manage and lead a team of 4 juniors, 1 senior 1 doc controller.
• Lead closing processes. met the deadline (max 4 days after month end).
• Lead, coach and develop a team of analysts.
• Lead my team to be more efficient, accountable, proactive and passionate.
• Monitor GL daily for movements in Assets / Liabilities / Income / Expenditure and initiate corrective action on irregularities.
With my leaders (CFO & FM)
• Gathering data from subsidiaries.
• Manage inter-Company accounting.
• Perform financial analysis packages, and business plans.
• Present monthly IS, BS and cash flow projection.
• To FM and CFO, provide highly accurate on time management reports along with disclosures/analysis. ad hoc reports


• Build efficient financial models for: -
- Project financing linked with group facilities room.
- Monthly flexible management report along with disclosures arranged in consolidate and SA by clicking only 1 button.
- Group portfolio.


• Monitor Aging reports and authority to open/close clients based on credit limit/dues.
• Consolidate financials.
• Assist in Business opportunities valuation.
• Assist in feasibility studies and market research.
• Full responsible in dealing with audit and their requirements (PWC & RSM).

Corporate Financial Analyst at Gulf Group Co.
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • January 2019 to January 2022

• Develop financial models, forecasting, projections, budgeting and planning reports to support business decisions.
• Prepared a dynamic model for group operating Cashflow with forecasting as we have many facility types (Cash, LCs, LG, project financing, LC vs LC, and others) with different banks (AUB, KIB, KFH, WARBA)
• Analyze past results, perform variances analysis, identify trends, and make recommendations for improvements.
• Monitor and interpret financial performance, provide regular comparative analysis, variance analysis and guidance to Senior Management. and make recommendations for improvement.
• Improve productivity by developing automated reporting/forecasting tools.
• Prepare market research, data mining, business intelligence.
• Business valuation and Equity valuation
• Coordinating with other members of the finance team, such as a risk analyst when required to review financial information and forecasts.
• Evaluating capital expenditures and asset depreciation.
• Prepare data for annual/monthly closing.
• Full responsibility for group annual closing, dealing, and giving required data for external audit.
• Feasibility study.

Senior GL Accountant at Gulf Group Co.
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • June 2014 to January 2019

Daily/Monthly duties: -

• Played a massive role in implementation of oracle fusion (ERP) in 2018
• Managing and analyzing financial data for 10 different business units with supporting departments
• Designing effective budget models for departments and the entire company
• Verify, allocate, post, and reconcile accounts payable and receivable.
• Spot posting errors and provide the best solutions.
• Fixed Asset register, run calculate process, and post.
• Monthly asset detailed list includes addition, disposal, Transfers.
• Ledger scrutiny and timely reconciliation of all accounts
• Prepare prepaid Expense journals.
• Prepare provisions journals.
• Maintains and balances subsidiary accounts by verifying, allocating, posting, and reconciling transactions and resolving discrepancies.
• Passing all Intercompany journals and preparing intercompany reconciliations.
• Lead month/quarter and annual end closing process with colleagues.
• authorized to approve opening new GL accounts.

Analysis/reporting duties:

• Trial Balance, Monthly
• P&L with analysis package. Monthly
• Related parties accounts analysis, Monthly
• Partners account analysis, Quarterly
• Unbilled aging, receivables aging. Monthly
• Actual Cash flow comparing with forecasting cash flow. Monthly
• Maintain lead sheet for contracting business with fully historical analyzed data, Monthly.
• Interim financial statement, Quarterly
• Consolidated BS & IS Quarterly
• ECL IFRS19 assessment, annually
• Consolidated budget, Annually
• Exit figure Annual.
• Consolidated forecasting cash flow, Annually
• OE statement, Annually
• Lease assets IFRS16 assessment, annually.
• Prepare annual presentation for accounting, finance & credit dep.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Accounting
  • at Ain Shams University
  • June 2013

B.COMM

Specialties & Skills

Microsoft Excel
Communication
Management skills
Accounitng Softwares
Transferable skill
Planning

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Financial Modeling and valuation analyst (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2021

Hobbies

  • Aviation docummentary