Mutaz Bakri, Senior General Ledger Accountant

Mutaz Bakri

Senior General Ledger Accountant

Aspire Zone Foundation

Location
Qatar - Doha
Education
Bachelor's degree, accounting
Experience
14 years, 9 Months

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Total years of experience :14 years, 9 Months

Senior General Ledger Accountant at Aspire Zone Foundation
  • Qatar - Doha
  • My current job since January 2017

Using Oracle ERP Fusion:

• Manage monthly closing process and prepare complete reporting package to the Finance Manager within tight deadlines.
• Analyse monthly financial statements to highlight red flags on financial results.
• Prepare and compile financial and investment-related presentations for Management.
• Ensure that the general accounting team operates effectively and maintains service level agreements.
• Review all month end reconciliations, journal entries, bank reconciliations, payroll reconciliation, loan schedules, management fees, etc.
• Monitor all government grants revenues and related grants receivable.
• Responsible for the analysis of Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables, Affiliate Accounts, Inter-company Accounts and Financial Statements.
• Responsible for the record of inter-company and affiliates transactions.
• Verify that transactions comply with financial policies and procedures.
• Handle external and internal auditors, answer and resolve audit queries as well as compile information and prepare schedules required by them.
• Focal point for all system issues and controls relating to the financial modules as well as arrange with IT team for the setup of any new reports in Oracle ERP Fusion.

Acting Head of Financial Accounting at Aspire Zone Foundation
  • Qatar - Doha
  • March 2015 to December 2016

• Manage monthly closing process and prepare complete reporting package to the Head Office within tight deadlines.
• Analyse monthly financial statements to highlight red flags on financial results.
• Prepare and compile financial and investment-related presentations for Management.
• Ensure that the general accounting team operates effectively and maintains service level agreements.
• Handle external and internal auditors, answer and resolve audit queries.
• Review bank reconciliations, loan schedules, management fees, etc.
• Focal point for all system issues and controls relating to the financial modules.
• Prepare the annual Budget for Head Office and consolidate it with all subsidiaries Budgets.
• Prepare Actual vs Budget analysis for the Head office and the consolidated report, and report on significant variances
• Examine capital budget requests and issue recommendations to the approval committee.
• Responsible for the analysis of Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables, Affiliate Accounts, Inter-company Accounts and Financial Statements.
• Verify that transactions comply with financial policies and procedures.

Financial Accounts Manager at Abdul Latif Jameel Motors
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • October 2014 to February 2015

Using Oracle ERP:

• Prepare the annual Budget for used cars centers and the monthly Actual vs Budget analysis reports.
• Prepare and review the quantitative and qualitative KPI’s reports for all used cars centers on quarterly basis and report them to management.
• Control the costing process of stock all during the receiving process.
• Review the trial balance, general ledger and stock taking reports for the centers on a regular basis to prepare monthly financial reports.
• Report to management of any deviations from procedures such as sales and revenue analyses and expense trends on a regular basis by monitoring the daily cash and bank movements to be able to prepare sales financial report.
• Responsible for ensuring that all financial transactions are conducted as per company policies and procedures by directing the activity of the accounting staff in the sub-region and ensure tasks are completed as per schedule.

Fixed assets & inventory team head at Umniah
  • Jordan - Amman
  • August 2011 to September 2014

Using Oracle ERP:

• Control of all assets additions and disposals as well as all inventory stock receiving and issuing transactions.
• Approve and post the recorded invoices of fixed assets & inventory transactions.
• Monitor proper financial reflection to the fixed assets & inventory operations in addition to resolving the accounting discrepancies and redirecting the charging accounts.
• Preparation of month-end reconciliation of accounts & transactions for both fixed assets & inventory.
• Reconcile the fixed assets & inventory accounts to the general ledger and having the register of fixed assets reconciled with the related accounts.
• Control of all fixed assets & inventory GL accounts (Cost of goods sold, items under consignment, depreciation and all clearing accounts) by having them reconciled with modules.
• Prepare and analyze the reports being requested by management including the inventory slow moving items, fixed assets movement and the financial ratios (inventory turnover ratios).
• Manage, control and supervise the periodic stock-taking of fixed assets & inventory items for (Warehouse, shops and others if needed).
• Contribute in the fixed assets insurance yearly project.
• Responsible for the security, confidentiality & integrity of all information related to the fixed assets & inventory in accordance with the company’s information security policies.
• Review, validate and approve the prepared bank reconciliation.
• Review, validate and approve the deferred revenues before being posted.

Financial Accountant at Zain - Jordan
  • Jordan - Amman
  • July 2009 to July 2011

Using Oracle ERP, Great Plains ERP, RSS billing and CRM systems:

• Reconciling receivable accounts across external & internal evidences; by applying the existence and completeness concepts on different systems; billing and accounting.
• Preparing and managing the monthly services revenue reports.
• Fixed assets depreciation, disposal & acquisition schedule maintaining.
• Managing A/P on a timely and regular basis by Processing of vendors invoices, credit notes and payments.
• Preparing the bank accounts reconciliations.

Education

Bachelor's degree, accounting
  • at hashemite university
  • December 2008

- Completed my bachelor's degree in 3 years with excellent rating and second ranking in faculty

Specialties & Skills

Budgeting
Financial Reporting
Inventory
Fixed Assets
General Accounts
computer skills

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Dip IFRS Course (Training)
Training Institute:
Sarh
Date Attended:
December 2013
Duration:
60 hours
JCPA Course (Training)
Training Institute:
Hashemite University
Date Attended:
September 2007
Duration:
100 hours
CMA Course (Training)
Training Institute:
Sarh
Date Attended:
August 2010
Duration:
100 hours