Mazen Mortaza, Financial Manager

Mazen Mortaza

Financial Manager

ACMAVED Group

Location
Syria - Damascus
Education
Master's degree, MBA - Finance
Experience
28 years, 8 Months

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Total years of experience :28 years, 8 Months

Financial Manager at ACMAVED Group
  • Syria - Damascus
  • My current job since February 2010

Company Activities: Veterinary & Human Medicines Industry and Trading, Chemical Raw Material Industry and Trading, Animal Feed Industry and Trading, Slaughterhouse & Poultry Equipments, Generators, Tractors, and Cars Spare Parts.

Job Description: The scope of this position is to be responsible for providing financial advice, providing clear budgetary planning for the short and long term, assessing the financial implications of any decision before proceeding, ensuring that financial practices are in line with all statutory legislation and regulations.
On the other hand this position is responsible for auditing all Group financial, marketing, human resources, operations management including but not limited to audit all business planning, budgeting, and reporting; to initiate and comply high management and departments policies, procedures, rules, and regulations.
Responsibilities:
• Conduct risk assessment of assigned department or functional area.
• Plan and execute risks based on auditing engagements.
• Determine scope of review and review the suitability of internal control design.
• Conduct audit testing of specified area and identify reportable issues and dimension of risk.
• Determine compliance with policies and procedures.
• Verbally communicate findings to the high management and draft comprehensive and complete report of audit area.
• Analyze financial situation and suggest solutions.
• Recommend to develop the departments’ processes, collection policy, and coordination among departments.
• Recommend on investments and reserves.
• Collating, preparing and interpreting reports, budgets, accounts, commentaries and financial statements.
• Undertaking strategic analysis and assisting with strategic planning.
• Producing long-term business plans.
• Undertaking research into pricing, competitors and factors affecting performance.
• Controlling income, cash flow and expenditure and managing budgets.
• Developing and managing financial systems/models.
• Carrying out business modeling and risk assessments.
• Supervising staff and liaising with managerial staff and other colleagues.

Accounting Expert at MASC - Syria
  • Syria - Damascus
  • February 2009 to February 2010

Company Activities: Management Advisory Services and Consultancy

Job Description:
• Contribute in Arabizing Curriculums of several Professional Accounting Certifications.
• Execute Internal Auditing Engagements on the revenue, receivables, payable, cost of production, cost of goods, inventory (raw material, semi finished goods, and finished goods), cash and banks, pricing, purchasing, distribution, marketing, human resources, and financial statements preparation processes.
• Establishing Costing and reporting systems.
• Creating Internal Business Structuring and Restructuring of operational manual, policies and procedures.
• Valuation of Business Performance.

IT Exposure: • Windows XP and office XP in depth of Word, Excel and Access.
Notice: In this company we had audited Veterinary and Human Pharmaceutical, Telecommunications, Furniture, Printing & Packaging Industries

Chief Accountant at Saleh Trading Company
  • Syria - Damascus
  • February 2000 to February 2009

Company Activities: Electronics & Leather Products

Job Description:
• Built the accounting system from the scratch.
• Managed the company finance and cash flows to meet the payments deadlines and speed up the company turnover.
• Improving the use of internal controls over business cycles.
• Issuing the regular quarterly and final Financial Statements, Payroll Statement.
• Costing imported products.
• Review Processes and develop the procedures & polices.
• Managing Payable and Receivable Accounts.
• Following up bank and tax formalities.
• Dealing with Auditors.

IT Exposure: • Windows XP and office XP in depth of Word and Excel.
• Al-Edari Accounting Package & Sahli Soft Accounting Package.

Accountant at El-Manar For Graphic Arts
  • Syria - Damascus
  • September 1995 to January 2000

Company Activities: Printing and Packaging Industry

Job Description:
• Record Daily Entries.
• Prepare Invoices of Clients.
• Prepare Payroll Statement.
• Control Credit and collect Debts.
• Following up bank formalities.
• Contribute in preparing financial statements.

IT Exposure: • Windows 98 and office 98 in depth of Word, Excel and Access.
• Al-Edari Accounting Package.

Education

Master's degree, MBA - Finance
  • at University of Lincoln
  • November 2002

November 2002: Master of Business Administration (MBA - Finance), University of Lincoln, UK.

Bachelor's degree, Economics - Accounting
  • at Damascus University
  • November 1998

November 1998: Bachelor in Economics, Department of Accountancy, Damascus University.

Specialties & Skills

Internal Audit
Financial Administration
Accounting
Costing
Management Control
OFFICE XP
WINDOWS XP

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Certified Internal Auditor (Training)
Training Institute:
PDI
Date Attended:
September 2007

Hobbies

  • Swimming