Mohamed Raouf Askar, Accounting Manager

Mohamed Raouf Askar

Accounting Manager

Cargill

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Diploma, Management & Financial accounting (CMA)
Experience
22 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :22 years, 10 Months

Accounting Manager at Cargill
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since March 2008

• Supervision of accounting & reporting functions in accordance with applied policies.
• Managing the monthly bank & balance sheet reconciliation process.
• Prepare monthly P & L and periodic comparative statements (US GAAP & EAS).
• To lead annual budget preparation process and quarterly rolling forecast
• Analyzing sales & cost of sales accounts & related mark to market valuations.
• Handling Company tax position & supervise inspections.
• Managing periodic internal & external audits.
• Preparing feasibility studies for expansions & new projects.
• Managing a team of 5 accountants

Chief Accountant at Cargill
  • Egypt - Alexandria
  • July 2004 to February 2008

• Maintaining control over the plant financial activities, expenditures & production statistics
• Preparing monthly plant performance evaluation & key indicators report, cost of production & variance analysis vs. budget reports
• Setting the plant manufacturing cost chart of accounts (fixed & variable) & cost centers.
• Managing the plant production cost budget setting process& prepare periodic budget reviews
• Ensuring the proper allocation of the plant expenditures to the correct accounts /cost centers.
• Maintaining control of the plant spare parts inventory items & related reconciliation to GL.
• Maintaining control over the purchasing-payables cycle & related documentations.
• Preparing plant daily & month end production, deliveries, stocks & utilities consumption statistics reports.
• Reviewing cost of sales & accruals made according to the available month sales & materials consumption data.
• Maintaining fixed asset register & monthly plant capital spending report vs. budgeted figures.
• Maintaining control of petty cash expenditures & balance.
• Supervising 2 accountants / 4 cashiers.

Senior accountant at the Costing & Financial Planning section at Alex Portland Cement Co - LAFARGE/TITAN group
  • Egypt - Alexandria
  • July 2001 to June 2004

• Annual budgeted financial statements & cost analysis.

• Periodic budget reviews.

• The consolidated monthly shareholders & plant management reports for 2 legal entities(income statement, financial position (Balance sheet), Cash flow, plant key performance indicators, Cost elements analysis over the production stages & responsibility centers, Cost allocation over products for the product unit cost & inventory change calculation, doing all the necessary intercompany eliminations to issue consolidated financial statements).

• Monthly variance analysis reports for the actual vs. budgeted figures.

• Also responsible for the plant control functions on J.D.Edwards applications & a member in the ERP project implementation team (responsible for setting the plant new chart of accounts, responsibility centers & cost centers to reflect the various production stages).

Education

Diploma, Management & Financial accounting (CMA)
  • at Institute of Management Accountants (IMA)
  • March 2007

CMA

Bachelor's degree, Accounting
  • at Faculty of commerce English section - Alexandria University
  • August 1999

Very good

Specialties & Skills

Budgeting
Financial Planning
Oracle financial applications “Accounts payable & general ledger modules
AS-400 GTPS applications

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Plant accounting rule (Training)
Training Institute:
Cargill corporate training center
Date Attended:
June 2007
Fundamentals of management (Training)
Training Institute:
Achieve global training institute
Date Attended:
June 2006
Creative thinking & Problem solving techniques (Training)
Training Institute:
Achieve global training institute
Date Attended:
June 2009