Financial Controller
El-seif Engineering Contracting Co
Total des années d'expérience :9 years, 8 Mois
• Create accurate, understandable, timely internal financial statements, internal operational analyses including recommendations. that supports the management decisions
• Create/Generate reports for executive management
• Ad hoc analyses - generate Excel models for various scenarios and specific activities, create Excel models to assist Accounting with closing the books, etc.+
• Work closely with Construction Project Managers from beginning to end of project to ensure receivables and payables are handled properly and timely accounted for.
• Use the cost and schedule plan to determine if project objectives are achievable.
• Communicate project risks related to costs to key stakeholders.
• Assist in the closeout process of a project with other departments. Work closely with Project Management to determine required deliverables and expected dates to achieve closeout.
• Manage project funding orders and ensure all required documentation is entered and/or correct in tracking documentation systems.
• Analyze and validate unauthorized costs to projects and report to Project Managers and Supervision.
• Track KPIs and prepare financial reports. Investigate variances versus prior period actuals, forecasts and budgets, document explanations
• Partner with department managers and budget owners to create/generate monthly budget vs. actual reports, discuss and analyze results and KPIs, and drive periodic forecast updates
• Work with Accounting to ensure actual results are captured properly to measure against budgets/forecasts and for analysis purposes
• Assist with high-level company forecasts and weekly cash forecasting
• Participate in Workday system development efforts, write reports in Workday and Adaptive Insights system.
• Maintain all the Accounts Receivable duties including Billing, Reconciliation, and Reporting.
• Handle full spectrum of financial and cost accounting role eg. AR, AP, GL, forecasting, budgeting
etc
• Responsible for day to day finance and accounts operations
• Perform full set of accounts and ensure timely closing of accounts.
• Perform project cost forecasts/budgets, cost tracking, monitoring and controls.
• Responsible for timely monthly financial statements, payments, cash-flow management reporting .
•Review & approve payment vouchers & journal entries
• Perform cash flow forecasting, budgeting and working closely with the operations and project
teams in analyzing margins, variances and cost analysis.
• Issue project cost reports for review and approval.
• Develop and maintain internal control and effective accounting system and policies for the set up.
• Support the management in ensuring that inter-company cost allocations are in line with management
agreements and policies.
• Establish and maintain systems for cost-sensitivity analysis and early-warning of cost-overruns
• Work conservatively with the respective departments on cost reduction initiatives
- Prepare, analyze and report weekly, monthly, quarterly gross margin analysis by brand by customer type
- Assist in month-end closing, prepare journal entries as necessary, analyze inventory evaluation, inventory roll forward
- Prepare collateral reporting
- Coordinate with IT department for system issues, maintenance and development such as production, purchasing, import/export, accounts payable, accounts receivable, import/export IT, receiving, shipping, and other.
- Analyze cost accounting data and assist with cycle count/physical inventories
- Maintain internal control documentation and test internal controls
- Prepare detailed account analysis and reconcile sales, cost and inventory, liability accounts by customer type by division
- Review and analyze inventory and margin reports, conduct research and perform analytical studies in regards to cost analyses and profitability
- Work in special projects as required
- Support and assist internal department reporting requirements such as audit schedules, tax schedules and others
- Ensure timely submission, accuracy and validity of inventory, gross margin schedules to management.
- Prepare bills and invoices for sales or services rendered. These payment requests list information such as a description of the product or service, the date of the transaction, the price, fees or shipping charges, and discounts applied.
- Collect on accounts by sending bill reminders and communicating with customers via phone, email, fax or mail. At large companies, you may coordinate with the collections department or a third-party collection agency for severely delinquent accounts.
- Record payments by entering them into a ledger or accounting software. In general, you must include the date paid, amount, method of payment and any balance due.
- Prepare cash and check payments for bank deposit. This usually requires totaling and recording the deposit amounts, filling out deposit slips, and bundling the funds and slips. You may also be responsible for making deposits at the bank.
- Reconcile the accounts receivable ledger to ensure that all payments are accounted for and properly posted. Research any discrepancies by checking bills, invoices, sales receipts and bank deposit records. You may perform this duty daily, weekly or monthly.
- Generate monthly, quarterly or annual financial statements and reports detailing paid and unpaid invoices and other accounts receivable activity. Reports typically list active accounts, the status of the accounts and collection costs.
- Responsible for all daily income of the Hotel;
- On a daily basis, verify that the daily-created Opera night audit spool files are working correctly and closely audit the trial balance. Verify that there are no control sums for Guest Ledger, City Ledger and Deposit Ledger. Report any discrepancies to the Assistant Controller and investigate the differences.
- Sort and file all back up received in the night audit file/box from night receptionist. Read the night handover log and action if applicable. Liase closely with night audit and review night audit work daily for accuracy.
- Work closely with Front Office (FO) and Food & Beverage (F&B) to ensure postings are accurate and any discrepancies are resolved in a timely manner.
- Create, review and save a draft daily Gross Revenue Report (GRR) for management by 09:00 AM.
- Review all rebates and allowances and ensure they are properly authorized and to report all deviations from prevailing policies and procedures;
- Verification of sales from Rooms, Food and Beverage and other Operational Departments and rectify any discrepancies;
- Ensure timely preparation and distribution of daily revenue and statistics report;
- Post all transactions in the revenue and allowance journal and any adjustments after sales receipts are confirmed;
- Verification of all Food and Beverage discounted checks are justified, properly recorded into POS system and to prepare utilization report for Management.
The main focus of a night auditor is the guest ledger, which is the collection of accounts for all currently registered guests of the lodging establishment. The night auditor ensures the accuracy of information on the guest ledger, makes sure all guests have checked out at the appropriate time and gathers all paperwork necessary to successfully complete the audit. Hotels and motels often have computerized management systems to aid the auditor in accounting for guests and transactions.
responsible for and sure that
- All billings must be machine-printed on the guest checks. In the case of machine failure, F&B Cashiers would have to carry on with the billing process manually (i.e., guest checks will have to be hand-written). However, when the machine is back in use, all balances in respect of manual billings will have to be entered into the machine.
-When there is a machine failure, F&B Cashiers will have to report to their senior immediately. F&B Cashiers may contact the Technician themselves if they cannot get in touch with the Chief F&B Cashier.
-Where there is void, cancellation or alteration of guest checks, these must be prior approved and signed by F&B Manager or his designate. The void card and/or void code must be handed only by the F&B Manager or Assistant F&B Manager or Restaurant Manager or his designate whom should be supervisor or higher.
-All refunds must be generated through the cashier’s machines and must tally to the report generated by the machines at the end of the shift.
* and when I moved to the the next position ( Restaurant Auditor ) I turned to revising the revising and To Revise the all work of the cashiers and
- To prepare the cashier report.
-Make sure that Cashier to prepare the cashier’s report envelope and seal the envelope with the daily cash collection.
-make sure that Every cashier has turned in their collections for the day immediately to the General Cashier through the drop safe. All turn-ins must be witnessed by the senior position on duty or an independent staff in the front office.
- Clean and reset the machine to zero balance every night .
- make the restaurant Report transfer it to the night auditor every night .
IFRS Diploma
Certified Management Accountant from the Institute of Management Accountants in United States
Bachelor of Commerce Accounting Department in May 2007 . studied Financial , Management and Cost Accounting . Also studied banking,Governmental,Tax accounting and management at all levels and Economic and Statistics and risk and insurance in Arabic And English