Rania Abboud, Financial Controller

Rania Abboud

Financial Controller

Touch

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
High school or equivalent, Management Information System/Business Computer
Experience
23 years, 9 Months

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Total years of experience :23 years, 9 Months

Financial Controller at Touch
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • My current job since September 2013

•Financial accounting : Manage day-to-day company accounts
monitor receivables and payables, perform reconciliations
• Financial Reporting, month end P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow
• Internal Reporting: Timely preparation of monthly internal
financial reports such as cash flow forecasts, and Budgets
• Financial Analysis on actual and past results, perform variance
analysis, identify trends, and make recommendations for
improvements.
• Compliance with Government Management Agreement,
Company Policies and Procedures, Financial Reporting Standards,
procurement policy, (RFQ/RFP) and Country’s laws and
Regulations
• Maintains employee confidence and protects operations by
keeping information confidential.
• Manage, support and supervise finance and accounting team,
Liaise with External Auditors and all company’s departments
• Control and approve/reject Invoices, Purchase Requisitions,
Purchase Orders
• Contract Management: Review, amend and approve contracts
to be signed with third parties (Customers, suppliers, Service
Providers)
• Approval Authority for expenditures up to $10, 000 (while CFO
between $10, 000 and $50, 000 and CEO beyond $50, 000)
PRIVINVEST - ABU

Group Financial Controller at DHABI MAR
  • United Arab Emirates
  • December 2010 to June 2013

Review and control of all accounting procedures and work
processes, job-costing, cost control and analysis in three different
countries (France, Abu Dhabi and Lebanon).
• Overseeing of Company’s internal controls and Financial Control.
• Preparation of monthly and year-to-date financials with
accompanying analysis of results vs Budgets and previous years,
including dashboard presentations
• Monitoring and control of budgeted expenses and
disbursements, including detailed cost accounting and cost
estimating.
• Liaise with external auditors, accountants and consultants to
ensure that policies, procedures and standards of performance are
compliant to laws and regulations and are adhered to, and
recommend for approval the audited financial statements.
• Development and implementation of policies and procedures,
document and workflow processes, to meet both current and
future business models.
ABDUL LATEEF
INTERNATIONAL

Senior Financial Analyst at Abdul Latif Jameel
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • July 2005 to June 2010

•Monthly Countries Financial Reports: accuracy control and analysis.
• Intercompany accounts and reconciliation.
• Special transactions for countries, in addition to reconciling it with HO books.
• Review of Country Analysis File and prepare financial analysis dashboard presentation.
• Project Manager: EASY Application (Electronic Approval System): in-house created application for the Approval Requests: Opex and Capex with complete check versus budget and Manual of Authorities (MOAR) requirements along with supporting documents.
• Budgeting: updating, reviewing, analyzing and checking all submitted Budgets and Forecast reports from the countries including all related matters at HO level.
• Consolidated Financial Reports including presentation to the Board: Inventories, Receivables and related Provisions, Risk and Asset Management, Legal Cases, Credit Policy and Credit Control, AR Vs Credit Limit: Dashboard Presentations, Land and Building Schedules, Unit Sales Reconciliations

Finance and Administration Manager at GAPCORP LLC
  • Lebanon
  • January 2000 to June 2005

Office Manager: Responsible of the well-functioning of the Beirut
Office ensuring continuous coordination with all external branches
in the MENA region.
• Responsible for all office expenses and needs, purchase orders and
payments.
• Monitoring and control of all insurance payments, claims and
receipts with the insurer and all the operations.
• Monthly Financial Reporting and coordination with external
auditors
• Management of all office tasks (administrative responsibilities,
events organization, ).
• Assistance to the CEO while his presence in Beirut
• HR coordinator : Prepared job descriptions as well as recruitment
advertisements,
• Preparation of detailed reports of expenses and payments of the

Education

High school or equivalent, Management Information System/Business Computer
  • January 1996

License Business Analyst Faculty of

Bachelor's degree, Management Information System/Business Computer
  • January 1994

Faculty of Business and Management

High school or equivalent, Serie A1 - Maths and Philosophie
  • at Lycee Francais
  • July 1992

Francais Serie A1 - Maths and Philosophie

Specialties & Skills

Budgeting
Financial Analysis
Consolidation
Business Finance
ACCOUNTANCY
ADVERTISING
BUDGETING
FINANCE
FINANCIAL
FINANCIAL REPORTING
HUMAN RESOURCES
POLICY ANALYSIS
RECRUITING
ADMINISTRATION

Languages

Arabic
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English
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French
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Italian
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