Finance Manager
Abram Foodstuff Trading
Total years of experience :13 years, 1 Months
Preparation of all monthly financial statements and reports.
Developing and implementing plans for budgeting, forecasting, and reporting.
Developing cash flow projections, managing debt and financing, and managing relationships with banks and other financial institutions.
Advise colleagues and executive management on decisions related to the company’s finances.
Create strategic business plans based on the analysis of the company’s status and financial forecasts.
Ensuring compliance with all statutory accounting; external & internal audit.
Tax compliance; and accounting, tax, and treasury requirements.
Responsibility of creating, monitoring, and updating financial related policies and procedures.
Prepared monthly financial statements, budgeting, and forecasts.
• Providing financial planning & analysis that drives correct decisions and
actions for the Business.
• Prepared monthly and annual projected cash flows.
• Ensuring compliance with all statutory accounting; external & internal audit
• Tax compliance; and accounting, tax, and treasury requirements
• Assisting the Financial Director in creating, checking, and updating
financial related policies and procedures
• Achieved prompt financial reporting through diligent preparation and
analysis of monthly, quarterly, and annual reports.
• Oversaw relationships with external vendors, ensuring prompt payments
and correct recording of expenses
Prepared monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements with detailed
analysis to ensure compliance for timeframes, accuracy, and consistency
and matters relating to statutory requirements with external auditors and for
management reporting.
• Performed accounts reconciliations to ensure that all general ledgers were
correct and complete.
• Reduced monthly closing period by 30%, by improving report in the system
with the help of the help desk, also working with the payroll officer to
reduce errors in the uploading payroll process.
• Developed inventory analysis reports, investigated the variance, and
recommended adjustments.
• Finalized the annual audit with the external auditors (One of the Big Four
Audit Firms)
• Finalized the income tax and Zaka audit with government for 3 years with
Zero penalties.
• Team management: coaching, review, monitoring, motivation, leading by
example (helped two of them to get promotions).
Verify, post, and reconcile accounts payable.
• Prepared monthly ageing report.
• Leading the physical count team.
• Monitored cost standard performance to confirm that costs met budget
cost parameters.
• Reduced one the cost components by 10% (by negotiating with our
supplier to reduce the Price of fuel, which use as a basic operating part.
• Ensured prompt completion of month-end closing procedures by diligently
reviewing account reconciliations and journal entries related to cost
accounting activities.
• Conducted variance analyses to find areas of improvement in production
efficiency and recommend corrective actions
Analyzing complex financial reports and records
• Reviewed journal entries of junior accountants to ensure accuracy.
• Perform variance analyses and prepare account reconciliations.
• Reconciled complex general ledgers accounts, verifying correct GL
balances, and ensured proper and relevant support documentation.
• Maintained general ledger, prepared tax returns, and performed other
accounting duties as assigned.
• Supervised the transition of the new ERP system and ensured it’s aligned
and covered organization needs (reporting & analysis) and covering all
modules.
• Updated FA register and post all fixed assets related JVs.
• Entering financial data such as accruals, deferrals, and interdepartmental
entries into the ledger monthly.
• Reconciled inventory between warehouse management reporting system
and ERP system.
• Providing detailed explanations for G/L variances including A/P, A/R, intercompany & prepay accounts.
• Implemented financial analysis & reports.
Reconciled various bank accounts by compiling and balancing financial
information.
• Provided support for the controller with period-end close accruals and
journal entries.
• Reviewed accounts, resolved coding areas, and tracked recurring
expenses for accrual entry
keeping a correct record of all internal and external financial transactions.
• Recording of AP /AR invoices, checking bank statements and recording
bank transactions.
• Follow up on bank notices and make accounting adjustments to prove all
bank movement
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