Senior Accountant
REVLON
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :11 years, 5 أشهر
Coordinated and performed the full month end procedure, including preparation of balance sheets, income statements, and trial balance statements.
• Maintain, analyze, and reconcile the Prepayment account, prepare the monthly amortization and capture all trade show costs for the period.
• Update, compute, verify and finalize vacation accruals.
• Performed monthly and quarterly SOX compliance procedures and answers all queries with regards to the compliance and any deviations
• One of the main participants in the improvements of the SOX control in the shared service.
• Prepared reconciliations for monthly closings.
• Primary responsible for the integration of Revlon Australia and New Zealand markets to finance shared service in Barcelona
• Assisted two junior Accounts payable accountants and provided them with accounting advice.
• Responsible for the monthly calculation and submission of VAT (GST) and income tax.
• Cooperated with internal and external auditors and liaise with them for any questions and furhter requirements.
• Main accountable for the fixed assets and permanent displays accounting and processes.
• Responsible for liaison with headquarters and calculation of royalties for different company brands.
• In charge of the intercompany accounts, accounting and reconciliations, as well as coordinating with company´s different markets for any issues.
• Coordinating with treasury for over all payments and receivable of intercompany accounts.
• In control of all manual invoices and credit notes issuance.
responsible for the suppliers, agencies and consultants invoices are properly received and correct.
•Preparation of payments to suppliers.
•Coordinating with the payroll responsible for the payroll preparation for more than 100 employees and consultants.
•Interacting with the consultant care and account managers to make sure the timely receipts of the consultants’ timesheets.
•Supplier reconciliation is ensured.
•In charge of employees and consultants expense checking and payment.
•Ensuring the timely payments to consultants.
•Liaising with suppliers and consultants for any disputes.
•Responsible for the creation and make certain the correctness of the customer invoices.
•Booking of invoices in the customer portals.
•Follow up for customer payments.
•Reconciliation of customer accounts.
•Provide necessary data to the external accountants.
•Always highlighting the need for improvement in the department.
•Involved initially with the company accounting system implementation.
•Handles the bank reconciliation.
Accounts payable best practices in the MO’s in FCC scope and look for continuous process improvements.
•LPE for AP for the ByD markets in META region, FICO lead support in new ByD.
•Implementations(new release, testing, new MO implementations) in META region
•Run accounting control reports.
•Underline the need for improvements to bring productivity in FICO processes (mainly AP)
•Maintain up to date the master data for vendors.
•Monthly reconciliation of Vendor accounts with the vendor statements, BOIC uploads & reconciliation
•Responsible for providing relevant data for year-end audits.
•Ensure that all goods received have been posted with a proper invoice to the vendor account.
•Booking of payables (e.g. Employee travelling expenses), accruals of liabilities on a monthly basis.
•Responsible to ensure that all the invoices are released on time in the webcycle, verification process
and follow up on all scanned invoices on hold.
•Ensuring the Payment run is done as per the agreed date and that all the vendors have been credited
•Provide inputs/amounts for Budgeting (esp. Cash outflows).
•Provide backup for other functions during leave, absence (e.g. GL accounting, OTC Accountant).
•Drive NWC improvement in Account payables, cash flow management.
for finance controlling in our office in Bahrain, managing the monthly, and yearly general ledger closing and reporting to management.
•Responsible for the general ledger booking, intercompany invoicing and operational expenses reporting for the regional office.
•One of the responsible for the roll out of the company’s SAP by design system for FICO implementation for Middle East, Turkey and Africa region.
•Responsible for the accounts receivable for Abu Dhabi office. (Coordination with sales force, following up the payments with customers, reconciliation with customer accounts, booking payments in the system, preparation of collections for deposits. Inputting of PDC collected in the system.)
•Involve in implementation and improvement of new cash and check collections for the company that improved the finance’s productivity.
•Daily bank clearings for all deposits and reconcile disputed amounts with sales and hilti centers.
•In charge of the customer and general ledger accounts clean up.
•Managing the petty cash for Abu Dhabi office which includes the replenishment and reimbursements to employees.
for internal accounts payable within regional office (LPO generation, coordination with suppliers, booking of invoices and payment processing and reconciliation of vendor accounts.
•Handling the shipment process for the regional office to the 12 different markets.
•Improvement of process by implementation shipping in order to increase the productivity.
•Facilitate the administration needs for upper management involving travel arrangements, visa processing, and project management.
•Generated monthly business reports for the region, including: Value cockpit chart, Monthly sales report.
•Assisting in accounts receivable process by generation of invoices and communicating it to the customers as well as its reconciliation.
•Managed the petty cash, replenishment of the fund as well as the booking thru GL upload.
•Handling the bookings of monthly reports of the company in its JAFZA operations.
•Served as a team leader for the employee handling the warehouse, to facilitate the warehouse’s marketing supplies and shipments to markets as well as tracking of marketing supplies.
•Supporting the finance controller for the month and year end closing of the books for the regional office.
and responsible for the entire process of accounts payable: LPO generation, booking of the invoice, preparation and releasing of payments to vendors as well as the reconciliation of vendor accounts.
•Coordination and preparation of payments to the regional office and interaction with regional office for the collection of the receivables.
•Booking of transactions (e.g accruals and depreciations) in general ledger accounting during month and year end and responsible for its accuracy.
•Prepared the monthly and yearly Financial Statements for presentation and discussion with General Manager.
•Preparation of monthly payroll and reconciliations of employee accounts, as well as computation of quarterly bonus.
•Responsible for bank reconciliation.
•Preparation of daily cash report and deposits.
•Responsible and handled the petty cash of the company as well as the replenishment of it.
•Cash collections of the Hilti centers reconciliation
•Reconciliation of customer and Supplier (mainly the main office payable account)
•Implemented process for correct sending of invoices and follow up of payments from customers.
•Overseeing the administration needs of the office.
monthly financial statements, analyzing them for recommendations in the improvement of the operations
•Check and analyze daily reports: sales report and gross profit analysis report to monitor the any discrepancies and check the proper reporting to management.
•Conducted audits, focusing in sales audit, cash and inventory counts in the company service stations and prepare audit report.
•Supervised and managed the accounting department and making sure that the reports are accurate and being sent on time.
•Check and verifies the disbursements and payroll to make sure that the disbursements were properly approved and journal entries were properly made.
•Help the chief finance officer in establishing controls for the improvement of the accounting department.
•Maintains and keeps confidential accounting documents.
•Handles and interacts with external auditors to make sure that they have all the documents needed for the audit.
•Attend BIR seminars and/or updates on any new regulations.
•Implemented processes addressing and monitoring the “stolen money” that resulted in reduction of the loss.
courses: ACHIEVEMENT Certified Public Accountant