Financial Administrator
University of Calgary in Qatar
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :17 years, 9 أشهر
- Administer and manage the submission of all financial transactions (journal entries, monthly and year-end closing, purchase orders, payroll, expense claims, accounts receivable, and recoveries)
- Provides financial reports to the Dean, Faculty, Finance Director and Senior Financial Analyst demonstrating accurate and timely financial reporting
- Verify the financial accuracy of all financial and research accounts using knowledge and judgment to initiate resolutions ensuring integrity of financial information
- Provides assistance in budget development of research projects, compliance with fund management agreements, and procedure and policy development
- Ensures proper accounting treatment for all transactions within GAAP
- Set-up new research accounts, review and gather information to ensure proper documentation is sent to Research and Trust
- Work with unit managers in order to solve and be consulted on financial issues
- Demonstrates comprehensive knowledge of university culture and operating procedures and the complexity of different accounts
- Builds positive relationships with faculty and staff and acts as liaison with other units on campus to complete tasks
- Prepares consolidated financial statements of assigned Ooredoo Group companies
- Performs the daily accounting, monthly and quarterly closing, and reporting of assigned Ooredoo Group companies
- Reviews the accuracy of financial statements of Ooredoo Group companies
- Prepares GL accounts reconciliation to ensure that all transactions are properly accounted for
- Prepares Audit Committee presentation reports on a quarterly basis
- Liaises with operating companies for their monthly reports
- Liaises with external auditors for review of the financial statements on a quarterly basis
- Reconciles and analyzes credit card expenses issued to authorized employees
- Prepares, processes, coordinates and monitors purchase contracts and amendments
- Reviews vendor invoices for payment processing
- Maintains vendor subsidiary ledgers, and reconciles accounts with payments made and statements received
- Prepares calculation of supplier delays and release of bond schedule for contracts
- Maintains petty cash, responsible for following up its liquidation from personnel who made advances, and ensures that petty cash utilization are in accordance with policy
- Books insurance claims in SAP System - Sales and Distribution
- Prepares Memos for Interdepartmental Charges and monthly summary for submission to Finance Department
- Renders support to the Regional Finance Head with respect to budgeting and variance reporting of the functional group
- Provides support to the HO Financial Planning Department, Financial Planning and Budget Division, and Management & Variance Reporting Division by consistent coordination and reporting
- Consolidates the budget details of respective functional groups
- Coordinates the identified budget variances to the concerned cost centers for explanation
- Validates budget utilization for Financial reporting
- Adjusts affected accounts from the analysis of the budget utilization
- Identifies and keeps record of company-owned or leased equipment, buildings and other property and records description, value, location, and other pertinent information of each item
- Conducts periodic inventories to keep records current, and ensure that equipment is properly maintained
- Distributes cost of maintenance to proper accounts
- Examines records to determine that acquisition, sale, retirement, and other entries have been made
- Prepares statement reflecting monthly appreciated and depreciated values
- Summarizes statements on annual basis for income tax purposes
- Prepares schedules for amortization of buildings and equipment
- Develops and recommends property accounting methods to provide effective controls
- Monitoring, analyzing, reconciling and adjusting General Ledger accounts
- Preparing/Booking of Debit Memos/Credit memos (DM/CM) of power-related accounts
- Validating monthly power bill reports booked by Head Office and coding charges
- Validating temporarily booked District Offices and Head Office collections
- Preparing and submitting monthly billing and collection reports of Ancillary Services and Universal Charges to Head Office accounts
- Compilation of booked Journal Vouchers, DM/CM and Monthly Power Bills for Commission on Audit and Finance Department use
- Monitoring, analyzing, reconciling and adjusting General Ledger accounts and the related Subsidiary Ledger accounts
- Preparing and submitting monthly summary list of Value Added Tax collections
- Compilation of booked Journal Vouchers for Commission on Audit and Finance Department file
- Reconciles sales with cash, check, credit card and direct bank-in collection
- Updates the advance payment monitoring on a daily basis
- Prepares the weekly report (sales and disbursements) and the cash position report
- Files the daily sales collection reports, OR reports, cash position report, payment vouchers, credit card settlement, business expense reports and travel expense reports
- Prepares cheques and payment vouchers for disbursements
- Prepares fund transfer letters to bank (for disbursements, rebates and commissions)
- Prepares journal entries affecting cash
- Prepares weekly/monthly bank reconciliation
- Monthly physical count of inventories
- In charge of the monthly closing of books, and generates Trial balance
- Prepares Monthly Financial Statements, Financial Reports, schedules and reconciliation statements
- Performs external audit or accounting services, based on client needs
- Understands the client business and directly coordinates with clients on the performance of the engagement
- Executes audit procedures enumerated in the detailed audit program
- Examines the reliability of financial information and records
- Completes audit working papers and summarizes accounting issues and adjustments
- Drafts and prepares financial statements and income tax returns
- Physical count and reconciliation of fixed assets and inventory
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