Rachel Hannoun

Salary Tax Calculation and Disbursal
• Conducting daily reviews and audits of backup documentation to ensure completeness, accuracy,
and full compliance with all regulations and the Field Operations Manual (FOM) and ensuring
that complete voucher files scanned and uploaded to DAIs System for the Electronic Archival of
Financial Documentation - BOX according to set deadlines.
• Reviewing wire requests for field project implementation and conduct 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 and ensures the safeguard of bank checks, and cash receipts.
• Managing banking relationships and coordinate periodic updates for checking account signers and
reviews.
• Reviewing all expense reports relate to travel expenses,
• Ensuring that foreign taxes paid, if any, are tracked, recorded, and reported to USAID in
accordance with ADS guidelines, reviewing outstanding advances and aging reports for accuracy
• Ensuring the timely and accurate processing and review of all payroll transactions, assuring
compliance with established employment agreements and modifications, in addition to staff
compliance with timekeeping policy and recordkeeping.
• Compiling backup documentation for all project related transactions, and ensuring
completeness and appropriate review and approvals documented.
• Maintaining an accurate filing of payment vouchers and other financial documents and
perform regular spot audits on projects financial files.
• Ensuring backup documentation scanned and uploaded to relevant system according to set
deadlines (BOX).

Administrative Tasks:
• Registering all employees with appropriate government agency and ensuring that proper income
taxes and social charges are withheld.
• Conducting monthly reviews of all staff timesheets and leave records including preparation of leave
tracker, changes in status, increases or transfers for the payroll.
• Supporting daily administrative operations of the project, including facilities, logistics, security and
record and file management.
• Reviewing travel/logistics arrangements including travel expenses, mileage reimbursements,
overtime, and others.
• Maintaining relationships with vendors or suppliers who provide administrative and/or operational
project support including, but not limited to, insurance companies, hotels, car rentals, internet, and
others.
• Ensuring screening and vetting clearance of training and other related activities and maintaining the
appropriate records.
• Maintaining daily reviews of petty cash account as necessary.
• Confirming that all new hire paperwork is submitted, and personnel files are complete and compliant
with DAI policy, local labor laws, and USAID regulations.

Managing and Financing

• Reviewing and sending Field Expense Reports to the Home Office in a timely manner.
• Understanding the chart of accounts ensures that field costs coded correctly and tracks field
costs to ensure that the field office costs do not run over budget. R
• Requesting funds weekly from the Home Office based on accurate calculations of projected
project costs for the next week.
• Ensuring the safeguard of bank checks, cash receipts, and petty cash.
• Receiving and verifying suppliers and consultants invoices along with justification
documents and verifying expenses for accuracy and project accounting codes.
• Ensuring accurate and timely processing of invoices, advances and reimbursements, checks,
and wire transfer payments.
• Ensuring that the employee profiles are up to date and preparing all documentation for
the processing of timely and accurate payroll payments for the office and ensures leave
balances, and payroll taxes are accurate.
• Ensuring that salary disbursed, payroll recorded in the accounting system, and individual
paystubs distributed to all employees on schedule.
• Preparing necessary documentation for Corporate tax, NFSS, TOS, and VAT auditing.
• Tracking and monitoring leave balances and liability payments.
• Reviewing and updating employment agreement and salary calculations based on local
and company requirements.
• Ensuring staff compliance with timekeeping policy and procedures.
• Completing monthly bank reconciliations
• Developing and upholding internal financial controls and adherence to the Project
Operations, Personnel and Finance Manuals.

• Conducting feasibility study for loan applicants.
• Ensuring completion and collection of necessary documents, oversaw committee meetings to study
and approved loan applications and arranged board of directors meetings and annual General
Assembly meetings and coordinated with the International Executive Service Corps on the USAID
funded Lebanon Investment in Microfinance (LIM), a 4-year- program to increase access to finance
in rural areas.
• Submitting tracking sheets and financial reports; preparing annual assessment and vetting reports;
arranging field visits to follow-up with beneficiaries on funded projects; and attending trainings.
• Processing all cash transactions and bank transfer payments; reconciled petty cash weekly and
entering all the transactions into the accounting system.
• Preparing financial data as requested by the auditors for the periodical declarations and reports to
the National Funds of Social Security and the Income tax and VAT Departments in the Ministry of
Finance.
• Coordinating board of directors meeting and preparing agendas.

• Managing payroll for all faculties and staff: calculating and disbursing salaries; following
filing procedures; preparing payments; generating pay slips; keeping a track of leave and
adjustments procedures; and maintaining confidentiality.
• Preparing payroll statements, including salaries and government official payments.
• Ensuring all employee salary lists updated and disbursed on schedule.
• Collecting all employees time sheets and verified approval signatories.

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.

• Managing parents interviews, accounting program, financial management and financial and
accounting analysis.
• Providing parents with a detailed academic statement of fees, requiring discount percentage on
tuition fees and a scheduled payment of fees.
• Oversaw salary, payroll, and government official payments for all employees.
• Maintaining data and payment entries.
• Managing financial statements and bank reconciliation.
• Evaluating schools performance based on cumulative statement of cash flow.

• Assisting with cash and checks operations, transfers, bills transaction and clearing operations.
Helping Customers in opening new accounts and close existing accounts.
• Working with credit department on applications for personal and commercial loans.