Finance Manager
DAI
Total years of experience :18 years, 11 Months
• Responsible for providing training to staff on financial procedures and documentation requirements
• Responsible for coordinating documentation requirements with various departments, i.e. procurement, grants, logistics, Human Resources, Inventory Management, Technical/Delivery and other areas
• Conducts daily reviews of backup documentation to ensure completeness, accuracy, and full compliance with all regulations and the Field Operations Manual (FOM)
• Ensures that complete voucher files are scanned and uploaded to DAI’s System for the Electronic Archival of Financial Documentation - BOX according to set deadlines
• Develops and maintains reports on status of financial management activities (i.e. monthly and quarterly reporting)
• Ensures that tax reporting procedures are well documented to facilitate preparation and submission in a timely manner
• Reviews wire requests for field project implementation
• Conducts regular cash flow analyses to ensure availability of funds in the project bank accounts and petty cash fund
• Responsible for accurate and timely processing of invoices, advances and reimbursements, checks, and wire transfer payments
• Ensures the safeguard of bank checks, and cash receipts
• Manages banking relationships and coordinates periodic updates for checking account signers
• Reviews and approves bank reconciliations performed by the accountant
• Prepares and reviews project cost data prior to submitting Oracle data reports to DAI-Home office
- Prepares financial data as required by the auditors for the periodical declarations and reports to the National Fund of Social Security and the Ministry of Finance (Income Tax and VAT Departments), as and when these arise (monthly, quarterly, yearly, etc).
• IESC-LIM Program Coordinator:
- Primary duty: Coordinate with IESC-LIM program
- Submit tracking sheets, financial reports
- Prepare annual assessment report.
- Prepare vetting reports
- Arrange field visits to follow up beneficiaries funded projects.
- Attend IESC-LIM trainings (certificate of participation)
• Assistant Manager:
- Primary duty: Prepare a feasibility study of the loan applicant with all documents needed.
- Settle committee meetings to study and approve loan application.
- Arrange Board of Directors meetings
- Prepare yearly General Assembly meeting.
• Accounting :
- Payment voucher entries
- Purchases
- Receipts
- Budget
- Cash flow
- Checks
- Primary duty: Prepare payroll statements including salary sheet for all Instructors and Employees ( > 500 resources)
- Prepare and support monthly CNSS payment
- Facilitate and complete monthly close procedures
- Monitor and support taxation issues - Quarterly Income Tax statement/Quarterly VAT payment
- Assist with financial and tax audits
• Accounting :
- Payment voucher entries
- Purchases
- Receipts
• Registration:
- Registration Period at the beginning of each semester.
- Deferred payments: How to divide the payments during the semester
In addition to role at AUST, requested to handle this account in parallel one day a week.
- Managed detailed salary sheet for instructors and employees
- Prepared monthly CNSS payment
- Monitored and supported taxation issues including quarterly income tax statement and quarterly VAT payment
- Updated and tracked journal voucher entries payment voucher entries, credit notes, sales invoices, purchases and receipts.
- Financial management and financial and accounting analysis.
- Oversaw salary, payroll, and government official payments for all employees.
- Managed financial statements and Bank reconciliation.
- Evaluated school’s performance based on cumulative statement of cash flow.
- Managed parents’ interviews.
- Provided parents with a detailed academic statement of fees, required discount percentage on tuition fees and a scheduled payment of fees.
- Maintained data and payment entries.
High distinction BA in banking and finance graduated in July 2005 from NDU-loueizeh with a GPA of 3.65.
Notre Dame University, Zouk Mosbeh campus, Diploma in Banking & Finance - acquired in July 05 with High Distinction. [GPA: 3.51/ 4 - Deans' list for three years]
College Des Apôtres, Jounieh, Baccalaureate certificate in experimental sciences.