Senior Accountant
OVERSEAS MARINE LOGISTICS LLC
Total years of experience :9 years, 2 Months
Key Responsibilities
• Leading a team of four (4) staff accountants responsible for cash, receivables, payables; while maintaining general ledger account reconciliations and bank reconciliations as part of leadership development initiative in Corporate Accounting.
• Assist in the preparation of the company’s annual budget, mainly in the formulation of expense budget (in addition to Profit & Loss Budget) and cash flow budget (cash inflows and outflows projections).
• Responsible for preparation and summarization of all monthly, quarterly and year-end financial reports for internal and external users (i.e. Suppliers, FTA for VAT Reporting and Banking Institutions).
• Acting as a Project Accountant, generating monthly financial reports on projects’ results of operations. Performing analysis on budget variance in accordance with business plan for two major projects. Compiled periodic financial packages with metrics for senior management decision-making and essential MIS-KPIs to keep track the progress of a company's business goals.
• Regularly monitors the updating of VAT Inputs & Outputs (excel file); ensuring the figures are tallying against the recorded invoices in WAYZ-ERP system.
Accomplishments
• Managed the two (2) major clients’ projects of the company, Hyundai Engineering Construction (HDEC) and Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI). Providing the Projected Profit & Loss before the project commencement; effectively keeping track of the project costs and stage of completion (work-in-progress); reporting the projects’ completed costs, work-in-progress, and performance along with the analyses on a monthly basis.
• Key Member of 10-man Internal Control Team tasks to establish and assess the company’s core departments (Profit & Cost centers) internal control system. Handles the main task in formulating the standard procedures for clients’ billing (receivables) and maintenance of accounts.
• Assisted in the design and implementation and maintenance of a billing system using WAYZ-ERP accounting software and contributes in simplifying the accounting system (i.e. streamlining the Chart of Accounts).
• Initiated and implemented the use of Cost Control Sheet (excel file). To ensure the profitability of each project closed and keeping track of costs from preparation until project completion.
Key Responsibilities
• Managed the MENA operations’ financial reporting. Coordinating the generated revenues as well as the incurred expenses for branches including KSA, Bahrain, Qatar and some countries in Northern Africa.
• Prepared monthly, quarterly and year-end Management Accounts, this includes but not limited to results of operation reports and profitability analysis for six (6) profit centers for management and provided action plans to meet or exceed budget.
• Assist in the preparation of the company’s annual budget plan/ financial projections for all service lines (residential and commercial). Contributing mainly in the formulation of expense budget down to cash budget (cash flow projection).
Accomplishments
• Produced cost reduction reports and analysis to Accounting Manager and Partner-General Manager on monthly shared services costs, a method of allocating expenses of cost centers, Finance, HR, IT and Marketing departments. Thus, leveraging efficiencies in the organization, which eventually lead to cost savings, profitability of business lines and be able to hold the appropriate stakeholders accountable.
• Developed a weekly reporting MIS-KPI for the company financial status and results of operations analysis as basis for management decision-making.
• Prepared ad hoc reports for Business Services Manager (AFM), Partner-General Manager and to Finance HQ (in UK).
Fait Maison Cuisine is a catering company in Dubai, who caters food from business to personal and special occasions.
(website: https://faitmaisoncuisine.com)
Key Responsibilities/ Accomplishments
• As a start-up business, I initiated the establishment and implementation of company’s cash management and
procurement procedures (from ordering to purchasing and warehousing of inventories).
• Formulated the use of Food Costing Sheet as a tool to determine a menu selling price. This also helps to
manage food costs including all the related overheads.
• Managed the Financial and Accounting aspects of the company, including but not limited to cashiering,
receivables, payables, and payroll. Mainly task in the monitoring and procurement of F&B stocks.
• Other administrative tasks as assigned.
Key Responsibilities
• Involved in the finalization of accounts before closing of the books on a monthly basis.
• Maintains accurate financial or accounting records including data (supplier invoices, accounts receivables, expense accruals, general entries etc.) being input into ERP system (Oracle JD Edwards).
• Responsible for manpower and waste management services billing to clients and perform appropriate revenue accounting and AR collection management;
• Liase with banks for the accomplishment of requirements by the company from sub-account openings to requests submissions;
• Assist in the yearly external audit activities.
Accomplishments
• Aided in providing immediate solutions to client inquiries as well as the increased efficiency of reconciling and billing group accounts on a daily basis.
• Aided department in reconciling group accounts that were in arrears for six months; delivered updated progress reports to outstanding items to management as needed.
• Provided cost reduction reports for procurement department of Abu Dhabi branch (local and international, including online procurement) as basis for suppliers’ assessment.
Bachelor of Science in Accountancy (BSA)
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