General Accountant
Barari Natural Resources
Total years of experience :13 years, 11 Months
-Abu Dhabi
Industry - Environmental, Agriculture Services
•Handling of Key suppliers accounts like insurance, fuel and electricity
•Coding of non PO & services invoices after review and approvals as per company’s policy
•Cost allocation of employees, rentals and services as per supplier invoices
•Handling prepaid expenses and its scheduling
•Intercompany accounting and reconciliation
•Related Party accounting and reconciliation
•Accounts payables reporting and liaison with stores, fuel department, engineering department accounts payable accountant and procurement (goods to receive, advances paid, commitment cost & payment certificate or milestone completion)
•Part of tender opening team for civil projects
•Review of purchase orders (Services, Civil and Materials) with quotations and tenders
•Liaison with HR dept. on deductions on employee’s personal expenses, fines and accommodations
•Handling Civil and construction contracts
•Handle accrued expenses in vehicle rents and reports
•Oversee accounts department monthly supplies and stationary
•Monthly Tax reporting
•Monthly and year end closing and cut-off entries
•Yearly and midterm stock takes
•Works as advised by Accounts manager
•Assist with annual audit requirements, by preparing schedules, Balance sheet reconciliations
•Support accounts payables team
•Assist external and internal auditors
•Achievement: Migrating supplier and related party balances in JDE from previous system with GL reconciliation and liaison with procurement department, reduce paper wastage in accounts payable by implementing stamps and almost trying to have paperless entries.
• Collecting monthly reports from payable accountants
• Ensuring invoices and accrual entries are booked within the desired timeframe
• Coordination with Treasury department for payments
• Coordination with banks for overdraft, short financing facilities and other related queries
• Monthly reconciliation of invoice to receive, supplier interim, goods in transit and matching of accounts payable balances with general ledger
• Building good relationship with supplier, promptly resolving their queries
• Authorizing payment vouchers
• Handling all Civil payments
• Calculation of budget cash flow for projects, allocation of budgets as per regional controller’s approval
• Implementation of controls over cash out flows for projects in the system
• MIS on accounts payable using SER and IBM cognos finance modules
• Monthly Accounts payable closing entries i.e. revaluation, intercompany charges and validation of payable balances
• Attending meetings with IT and Finance head for Accounts payable reforms
• Assist auditors in interim and final audit for accounts payables i.e. providing them balances of interim, goods in transit, WIP interim, advances, AP balances and Invoice to receive listings
• Part of investigation team in yearly stock counts
• Drafted numerous payable policies and procedures for effective controls
• Achievement - Mapping and automation of AP module in ERP system and SER reporting with help of IT. Draft many procedures for accounts payable controls.
Industry: Advertising and Publishing
•Assessing credit worthiness of customers before releasing any order
•Authorization on commercial invoices
•Introduction and implementation of new accounting software in the company
•Introduction of new forms
•Preparation of chart of accounts in the system
•Calculations of project viability to secure a reasonable profit margin
•Ensuring the filling system is up to date and maintained properly
•Part of the recruitment team in recruiting potential candidates
•Meetings with government sector for bids, proposals
•Follow ups with major customers, debt collection, legal notices to companies which are unable to pay
•Monthly reporting to higher management profit and loss account
•Report on monthly basis to higher management about companies’ current situation and detailed view on sales
•Audited previous manual billing with bank, cash books, with previous computer accounting data.
•Preparation of payroll and deposit into bank for WPS
•Strictly Implementation of financial and administration rule
•Proposals and recommendations to higher management
•Monitoring inventory movements via system
•Maintaining petty cash and cash on hand
• Cross verification of different transactions which involves JV to sales receipt and adjusting entries
Achievement: - Overall system development, implementation and reporting for QuickBooks entrepreneur edition.
Finance Project
Finance Project
Pandora Tech Management Solution LLC
Financial Consultation for SMEs’ (6 Months)
•Proposals for different accounting software to SME’s in Abu Dhabi and Alain according to their requirement,
•Structural designs of accounting systems which involved drafting chart of accounts, integration with warehouse and POS systems.
•Accounting policies. (internal controls, forms, work authorization and approvals, filling system)
•Development of accounting system and first month implementation and training to clients’ staff.
courses: Accountant Technician – ACCA UK •ACCA part 2 qualified •BSc in Finance - CIM •Post graduate diploma in