Muath Hijaz, Finance Controller

Muath Hijaz

Finance Controller

Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority

Location
Jordan - Amman
Education
Bachelor's degree, Accounting
Experience
24 years, 5 Months

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Total years of experience :24 years, 5 Months

Finance Controller at Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since December 2009

Financial Controller:

• Managing all finance and accounting operations.
• Oversee all company accounts and investments.
• Overseeing and preparing income statements.
• Create monthly and annual reports to identify results, trends, and financial forecasts.
• Coordinate and direct the preparation of the budget and financial forecasts and report variances.
• Prepare and publish timely monthly financial statements.
• Coordinate the preparation of regulatory reporting.
• Research technical accounting issues for compliance.
• Support month-end and year-end close process.
• Ensure quality control over financial transactions and financial reporting.
• Manage cash flow by tracking transactions and regularly reviewing internal reports
• Develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls.
• Supervise and manage financial department staff, including accountants and financial assistants
• Suggest updates and improvements for accounting systems, including payroll and invoicing
• Ensure that all financial transactions are properly recorded, filed, and reported
• Establish and implement financial reporting systems to comply with government regulations and legislation
• Collaborate with auditing services to ensure proper compliance with all regulations
• Develop budgets and financial plans for the company based on research and data reports
• Review all financial plans and budgets regularly to look for cost reduction opportunities
• Create systems to prevent errors in data collection and calculations
• Assist the Management in presenting reports to senior executives, stakeholders, and board members.
• Manage and comply with localand federal government reporting requirements and tax filings

Budget Section:

• Collaborates with executives and project managers to develop a budget.
• Evaluates and approves or rejects budget proposals and funding requests.
• Conducts cost-benefit analyses to determine value.
• Determines whether budget proposals are in compliance with regulations.
• Defends budget recommendations and developing a final budgetary agreement with management.
• Monitors spending to ensure it remain within budget.
• Estimates and forecasts future financial need and supports programs with financial analytics.
• Participates in establishing and defining program plan requirements and conducts program plan studies.
• Prepares estimates to complete (ETC) and spend plans, audits subcontractor invoices, and provides briefings and related documentation and reports for financial assessments.
• Forecasts and tracks financial results throughout the year to meet budget projections.
• Organizes budget templates and data in a clear and intuitive manner.
• Helps identify financial or operating risks associated with the execution of the contract or project.
• Provides project summary status reports to management as required or requested.
• Prepare all financial analysis reports for the expenses and revenue on monthly basis for the management.
• Manage the relation with our suppliers, customer and service provider and discuss and negotiate for the facilities and contracts.
• Guide the budget in line with the management vision.
• Insure to set the financial mission and objective to be in line with the company vision.
• Set up the KPI’s of the financial operation with the process and procedure for all finance department.
• Work with external and internal auditors to facilitate their work and targets.

Finance Manager at Potential Real Estate
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2006 to November 2009

• Controlling all the accounts and financial department
• Handling the accounts up to finalization
• Prepare all financial report for the management directors.
• Prepare all final financial statements for audit.
• Managing the relationships with the local banks and facilities.
• Prepare Cash Flow statement, budgetingand all financial analysis.
• Create the Policy and procedure, documents recycle and full structure of the company

Credit Controller at Eagle Electromechanical Co
  • United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
  • January 2000 to January 2006

SENIOR ACCOUNTANT. / PAYABLE CONTROLLER

• Controlling payable section.
• Payment to suppliers & preparing statements to clients and follow up the dues.
• Supplier statement reconciliation.
• Bank reconciliation.
• Materials cost control of the projects and cost distribution.
• Engineers cost control of the project and cost distribution
• Preparation of salaries of staff,
• Preparation of leave settlement as well as final settlement of the employee.
• Checking the transactions of posting of Journal Vouchers, supplier's Invoicesand payment vouchers etc.
• Provide all accounting services in an efficient and cost-effective manner.
• Maintain financial and accounting records of the company and ensure that accounting transactions are processed properly in the accounting system
• Adhere to accounting policies and procedures manuals and ensure that the department staffs apply them.
• Maintain control over cash in banks and cash collections accounts receivable and payable.
• Ensure that suppliers provide the company with statements of accounts monthly basis and that these are reconciled to accounts payable in the sub-ledger.
• Review the bank reconciliation and get it approves by the department manager

Education

Bachelor's degree, Accounting
  • at Al Najah National University
  • September 1999

accounting

Specialties & Skills

Cost Reduction
Strategising
Problem Solving
Hardwork
Team Building
accounting
team management
corporate finance
planning
annual budgets
microsoft excel

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Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
Expert
Urdu
Beginner
Hindi
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Hobbies

  • readings
  • Fishing