Senior Financial officer
Relief International
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :13 years, 4 أشهر
Responsibilities and achievements:
• Manage monthly Budget vs. Actual (BvA) and closely monitor the spending plan, advise on expenditure trends and potential issues.
• Prepare Donor’s reports including UNICEF, US government; Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (BPRM), Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO). Then review it with the regional support office and provide feedback to internal and external queries.
• Provide approvals of purchase requests and purchase orders to ensure accurate coding of expenses and full compliance with donor’s requirements and RI policies.
• Develop templates and dashboards.
• Implemented e-wallets payment, policy and procedures and eliminated cash payments.
• Prepare the Month-end closing and the Monthly Financial Reports.
• Participate in the financial proposal and budget development.
• Responsible for the financial part of the monthly budget reviews and grants meetings.
• Provide financial advice for Senior Management Team and support program priorities.
• Direct the accounting entries and allocations of all project-related expenditures and ensure data quality and ensure financial controls and procedures are in place.
• Manage sub-grants and partners' financial reporting, compliance and tax-related issues.
• Preparation of cash flows and responsible for cash management.
Responsibilities:
• Financial planning and management of multimillion-dollars donors’ projects, on both Grant and Service agreement forms. Working with UNICEF, UNESCO, ILO, EU, GIZ, AFD, AGFE, EAA, CARE, IFRC, ACTED, TVSDC, NUFFIC and other local and international Donors/Partners.
• Supervise all aspects of the budget process for all programs and operations; form, execute, and track projects' budgets, prepare financial reporting to donors including NGOs, local foundations, private donors, and foreign and domestic governmental agencies.
• Responsible for the disbursement requests, schedule of funds needed, direct cash transfer requests, liquidations, reporting, reallocation and reclassifications.
• Develop and maintain structured Processes and Procedures such as Billing, Procurement and Standard Operating Procedure (SOP).
• Participate in proposal preparation for Donors' Projects and building Budgets.
• Prepare monthly Profit and Loss reports (P&L) for each project.
• Supervise all regular accounting functions including General Ledger and the monthly financial closing activities.
• Ensure full compliance with each Donor’s policies.
• Monitoring project's Cash flow and liquidity regularly to always ensure sufficient funds.
• Create Audit Files for each project and lead the internal audits, spot checks and external audits.
• Reviewing new contracts from financial and legal aspects.
• Applying and maintaining records for revolving loans and contracts financing facilities.
Responsibilities:
• Administered all day-to-day accounting and admin duties.
• Processed clients’ invoices and ensured all invoices are correctly coded.
• Maintained professional development to the work to reduce costs and save time.
• Processed sales orders and returns.
• Warehouse activities and control, safe storage, stock management and reporting.
Responsibilities:
• Received and issued invoices for the activities, and verify the accuracy, correctness and completeness of documents as appropriate.
• Prepared monthly departmental P&L statements and produced variance analysis.
• Resolve items resulting from the monthly reconciliations of receivables, playable and bank balances. And ensured monthly closing by stipulated deadlines.
• Established financial policies, procedures, controls, and reporting systems.
• Developed financial strategies by forecasting facilities, and staff requirements, identified monetary resources and developed action plans.
• Finalized the annual Financial Statements of the subsidiary, organized and coordinated internal and external audits, and reviewed and implemented recommendations.
• Administered various financial management functions such as participation in pricing and inventory management, contract negotiations, reviewing of terms and conditions of contracts and supervised the purchasing department duties.
• Prepared monthly and year-end tax reports and processed sales tax returns.
Started as Foreign Branches Accounting Supervisor in Amman, Jordan. Responsible for auditing all the activities related to accounting and human resources, preparing weekly and monthly reports and reconciliations for all banks, receivables, payable and petty cash for all foreign branches across Asia, Africa and Europe.
Then on March 2012 moved to Saudi Arabia as Finance & Administrative Manager, responsible for all areas related to accounting, HR, services, government relations, insurance and banks.
• Set up accounting policies and procedures.
• Supported the budget and forecasting activities.
• Monitored and analyzed the related departments’ work and developed efficient procedures while maintaining a high level of accuracy.
• Evaluate manufacturing and procurement processes and assess relevant cost drivers to minimize procurement-related costs and increase manufacturing rates while decreasing direct, and indirect costs and overheads.
• Supervised, directed, and reviewed all work of the accounting staff (including, but not limited to, petty cash counts and reconciliations, bank reconciliations, accounts receivable, fixed assets transactions, payroll, accounts payable, debt activities and revenue and expenses transactions).
MSc Accounting and Finance – with distinction from Leeds Beckett University, England 2018. Main modules: investment and fund management, financial reporting, corporate finance, contemporary issues in accounting and finance, management accounting and entrepreneurship.