Accountant Specialist
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Middle East
Total years of experience :16 years, 9 Months
Currently I am working for one of the subsidiaries of Daimler AG, being part
of a continuously growing team of specialist accountants, being in charge with the GL and AP accounting. The accounting services we provide are related to the car sharing business, a new concept of mobility belonging to Daimler that has been extended worldwide; its name is Car2Go and currently it’s been managed all over Europe, in US and China. Currently my responsibilities are related to the control and supervising of the accuracy of the accounting related to AP and GL processes and the preparation of the monthly financial statements in according with IFRS and HGB regulations to our Shared Service Centre situated in Madrid, Spain that is doing the day to day operative accounting for all countries. A particular attention goes to the accuracy of the booking in each country in compliance with the local GAAP and the main tasks during the closing period are related to the following activities: tax regulations, transitory and bank reconciliation, intercompany reconsolidation, Credit Cards, balance confirmations, control of the assets accounts, B/S check and AP daily tasks as: GL accounts control, invoices approval, PR and PO approval, vendors open balances accounts analyse, trouble shooting, GL payments, ticketing for reclassifications, payments, corrections; daily management of the Location Managers for administrative tasks, intermediate accounting activities with Madrid operative centre.
Particularly I am managing Car2Go Italy. At the beginning of my career in Car2Go I dealt also with Car2Go Europe and Deutschland. Operative in ERP: SAP.
Previously I worked for a real-estate project, named Porta Nuova whose buildings are located within one of the largest mixted-use urban regeneration projects in Europe that spans 450.000 sqm, including Residential: 150, 000 sqm, Office: 230, 000 sqm, Retail: 52, 000 sqm for a total of 26 buildings. The complex is composed by 3 projects Porta Nuova Garibaldi, Porta Nuova Varesine and Porta Nuova Isola. The projects have been built and developed by the American Investment Fund and Developer, Hines and afterwards has been aquired by Qatar Investment Authority. I have been part of the Property tea and Asset team and I worked in the client offices as a consultant and property controller and accountant.
I managed the 3 above mentioned projects of which 1 operational and 2 of them in startup. I had the tasks to manage and build a continuous relationship with the tenants and the Italian client subsidiary in Milan either the American headquarter management.
My main responsibility was about leas-contracts administration, accounting and reporting for Office & Retail spaces; manage the dead-lines in terms of tax and fiscal compliance and building cost settlement, lease indexation follow-up, verify and control of the cost apportionment on tenants, management and control of revenues, invoicing process, turn over rent, control of parking revenues on each project, credit and collection of rent and SC, preparation and presentation of financial and accounting reports for the Fund Manager and the American Property Director, cost and revenues analysis, actual vs budget, stacking plans, tenancy schedule, aging and credit analysis, supporting the management for the development of the annual plan, support in implementation and management of the software for the property and accounting processes. Management of both Fund and Consortium accounting.
Property management with major focus on AP and AR processes for international key clients. Analyze of data actual vs budget, forecasting costs, service charges reconciliation, controlling of expenses and analyze of accruals, cash flow, monthly/quarterly/annual reporting and invoicing, payments and arrears track; involved in the management system development by participating on the testing programs of new procedures and creation of new processes (dealing with London team). Deliver support and necessary documentation for audit teams of third parties.
SAP consulting regarding property management issues to the client office (Training job in Frankfurt, Germany).
Lease administrator - management of the leases regarding tax payment and other documents for fiscal authorities due dates control, analysis of service charges based on the budget, units occupancy, monitoring the bank guarantee due date submission, creation of the lease in Yardi ERP system, evaluation of the expenses based on the shares allocated on each housing unit.
Dealing with German, French and Italian clients.
Responsibility for processing the accounting in Oracle Financial and SAP systems. Main responsibilities: booking accounts payable and accounts receivable invoices, co.ge accounts reconciliation (transitory, cash, bank accounts, credit cards and refunds), processing journal entries for corrections, reclassifications and clean up accounts, general ledger accounting, compensations, charge back analyze and reconcilement, expense statements. Responsibility of controlling the booking of the documents processed in order to assure the accuracy (especially at the closing of the month) like: management slips, taxes, salaries. Responsibility for handling the payments control of the Italian and foreign suppliers, communication and cooperation with supervisor to ensure that the requirements are met within agreed deadlines
communicating with the client (including other internal departments), travel agents, sales offices or other external parties in relation to processed activities and solving issues. I delivered high performance in incident management. Responsibility for supporting the audit team.