Financial Controller
Brightstar Corporation - Dubai
Total years of experience :17 years, 4 Months
• Spearheading the process of budgeting and financial forecasting while collaborating with the different businesses
• Overseeing different financial activities related to the general ledger and facilitated the closing process
• Orchestrating important accounting functions and ensured that different activities liaised with the different international requirements
• Managing day to day operations along the external finance service provider relationships including the external auditors, banks and the legal advisors.
• Coordinating for the annual audit of the MENA region and the statutory reporting as per as the IFRS standards
• Ensuring that all the activities were completed successfully through the proper analysis of the different financial and statistical reports
• Working continuously for bringing the overall improvement in different governance policies.
• Paid special attention to the maintenance of the Capital Asset accounting and sub ledger
• Oversaw different financial and commercial business activities for controlling the business
• Provided continuous support to the different business activities and provided continuous support to the different business activities
• Proactively participated in planning monthly accounting activities, budgets, forecasts and VAT returns
• Proactively participated in the financial data analysis, preparation of the different reports and presentation to the senior management
• Motivating the team of finance professionals, developed and managed different expenses and forecasted the expenses to the senior management
• Fostered a highly positive environment and motivated the other employees
• Reviewed the different business models and considered the most appropriate model for the implementation
• Worked with a diverse workforce and fostered a highly positive work culture
• Prepared monthly budgets and conducted ad-hoc analysis
• Responsible for the preparation of the reconciliations including Commission Reconciliation and Debtors monthly review
• Oversaw the booking of purchase invoices and matched the invoices with the GRN
• Closely monitored the different physical inventory counts related to the Retail showroom through surprise stock check
• Preparation of creditors’ schedule, suppliers’ reconciliation and the supplier reconciliation against the different payments
• Monitored the progress of the different payments and also facilitated the external auditing of the organization
• Involved in inventory management and ensured that all the items were available whenever needed
• Successfully compiled the monetary transactions for the different organizations and made general ledger entries under the relevant accounting heads
• Oversaw the preparation of the balance sheet reconciliation at G/L level
• Conducted variance analysis and different findings related to the discrepancies in different accounting entries
• Presented different reports of various schedules on Hyperion
• Responsible to analyze the different needs of the team and fulfill them
• Ensured that all the international standards were fulfilled effectively according to the different needs