Senior Finance Associate
BRIGHTSTAR FZE
Total years of experience :15 years, 4 Months
Posts customer payments by recording cash, checks, and credit card transactions.
• Verifies accounts by reconciling statements and transactions on a weekly and monthly bases
• Preparation of schedules related to AR: unidentified payments, expenses to be recharged, bad debt.. etc.
• Weekly AR ageing report sent to the regional financial director,
• Preparing weekly Cash Flow reports for the regional treasury team.
• Co-ordination and follow up for receivables from debtors.
• Bank Reconciliation
• Completing the Phase 1 of HFM (Hyperion) upload of TB during the month end closing
• In charge of performing monthly preparation, reconciliation of G/L accounts along with Trial Balance
• Responsible for preparation of MIS and other information on the revenue trends from various lines of business
• Posting FX rates for the cross currency transaction on to the ERP (Microsoft Dynamic AX)
• Monthly accrual for unbilled expenses and ensuring prepayment schedule are reconciled weekly.
• Prepare and process electronic transfers and payments of invoices according to its due dates
• Ensure correct allocation of costs per line of business and cost center
• Organize an effective collection system and initiate collecting efforts by contacting individual customers via phone, email, mail or in person.
• Assist in general ledger accounts reconciliation and in the preparation of month-end financial reports
• Administer collections and prepare bank deposits.
• Supplier reconciliations follow up on the invoices with the suppliers. Recording and verifying supporting documents for validity, accuracy and completeness
• Accounts Payable: Recording payments from the suppliers, debit notes, credit notes, invoicing and daily bank reconciliation ensuring that all the payments are debited
• Forecasting of monthly cash collection and report analysis on deviations against cash collection targets end of month
• Reviews and processes staff expense claims
• Maintains filing systems, tracking spreadsheets,
• Undertake other assignments and tasks required by management
• Assisted Senior Accountant in preparation of Daily Revenue Report
• Handle Accounts Receivable including processing invoices, refunds, producing SOA, reports on overdue accounts.
• Perform bank and cash reconciliation
• Maintain finance and accounting files and archives
• Monthly Cash Advances / Expenses claim monitoring
• Aggressively following up for the payment
• Identify, investigate and rectify routine errors and anomalies in input data in order to ensure accuracy of financial information
• Petty Cash payments processing
• Providing support in yearly closing of books.
• Periodic customer's account reconciliation and Account clearing.
Devoteam Middle East
Internship in Finance/HR Department (August -October 2011)
Responsibilities
• Migration projects of project references for the Middle East branch to the Group-wide employee database
• Matching of consultants experience on CV with the project references migrated to the employee database
• Categorization of Middle East consultants trainings and certification per business unit to facilitate the roll out personal Development plan
Dulsco LLC
Internship in HR Department (May - July 2011)
Responsibilities
• Worked primarily on the Worker Satisfaction Survey project and also undertook other HRD projects
• Was involved in designing and creating internal communication for the HR development team
• Analyzing the data collected from the WSS projects and posting the results on the database
• Coordinating with other departments to complete the project on the assigned dates
• Assisted the Hr manager with the preparation of detailed report of the survey.
• Volunteer at Burj Khalifa opening 2010
• Employed for a stall at Gitex 2007, 2008, 2009 (specializing in selling laptops and mobiles)
• Location: Airport Expo.
• Worked as a Usher at Dubai International Film Festival 2007, 2008, 2009
• Volunteer at Gulf Film Festival 2010
CFA Level 1 Passed, Currently Preparing for CFA Level 2
Murdoch University Australia (Dubai Study Centre) Bachelor of Business Administration (2009-2012) (Double majors in Finance and Marketing Management)
DELHI PRIVATE SCHOOL SHARJAH, UAE (CBSE Curriculum, Commerce Stream) (2003-2009)