Nabih Safawi, Senior Accountant

Nabih Safawi

Senior Accountant

Qatar Information & Marketing

Location
Lebanon - Beirut
Education
Bachelor's degree, Accounting & Auditing
Experience
11 years, 5 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :11 years, 5 Months

Senior Accountant at Qatar Information & Marketing
  • Qatar - Doha
  • January 2013 to January 2018

• Maintain the accounting data and accurate processing of General Ledgers entries.
• Managing accounting operations and responsible for timely monthly consolidated Financial Statements, Payments and Cash-Flow management reporting.
• Projects accounting functions including preparing the budget and cash flow forecast.
• Monitor expenditures, analyze revenues and determine budget variances and report the same to management.
• Coordinate with finance team to complete assigned accounting tasks within deadlines.
• Collaborate extensively with auditors during preliminary and year-end audit processes.

Accountant at Qatar Information & Marketing
  • Qatar - Doha
  • May 2008 to December 2012

• Processing customer invoices, recording bank related vouchers as well as reconciled records of bank transactions.
• Executed accounts receivable reporting enhancements and reconciliation procedures for accounts payables for the entire group.
• Credit controlling customer balances and following up on sales team collections.
• Processing all monthly, quarterly and year end closings and ensuring all prepayments and accruals are recorded.
• Coordinating budgeting and financial forecasting activities.
• Preparing routine and special reports for Sales Revenues, Pricing Strategies, Printing Costs and others.
• Handling the accounting operation for “Havas Worldwide Doha” an international advertising agency as sister company for QIM group and being responsible for preparing monthly Income Statements and reporting for Regional Headquarters (Dubai).
• Interact with internal and external auditors in completing audits

Accountant at Jimmy Toys
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • May 2007 to April 2008

Issuing invoices, inputting collections and other routine accounting duties.
Store and Inventory Control.
Preparing analysis reports on Daily Sales, Weekly Earnings and Collections for the sales team.

Accountant Trainee at Fawwaz Bros
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • November 2006 to April 2007

Book keeping, Preparation of Annual Accounts and Balance Sheets, to be presented to creditors and Government Taxation.
Consulting clients on conforming to Taxation Laws.
Auditing & supervising clients’ accounts and transactions for submission to Taxation Authority.

Trainee at Bank Misr Liban
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • August 2005 to September 2005

Worked in most banking operations (Teller, Customer Service, Credit, Loan Facilities, and Importing & Exporting Letters of Credit).

Education

Bachelor's degree, Accounting & Auditing
  • at Lebanese University
  • July 2006

Specialties & Skills

Government
Issuing
Pricing
Reconciliation
Reconciliations

Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
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