Richard Kassab

● Work in conjunction with all department heads to ensure maximum profitability
● Provide critical assessment of all budgets and cost projections
● Assess all products, resources, and services to ensure the best price
● Maintain vendor and service provider relationships
● Remain aware of market trends that could impact resource costs
● Collaborate with department heads to strategize ways to minimize waste
● Responsible of the payroll process - tax on salaries & NSSF
● Handling all accounting transactions; inventory, expenses and generating sales from POS and checking end of days report.
● Preparing all financial reports

. Leading and managing the accounting team.
. Maintaining efficient and reliable accounting data.
. Providing financial reporting.

Financial Planning

Financial Reporting

Accounting Transactions

Analysis + Consulting Tips

• Record all accounting data on QuickBooks Online.
• Analyzing reports to audit the recorded data.
• Providing full financial reports (Income Statement, Cash Flows, Balance Sheets, Payables & Receivables aging reports).
• Provide accounting & financial instructions and guidance.
• Assist in creating the financial plan.

Accounting & Finance Freelancer

• Record all accounting data on Silicone program.
• Controlling the daily petty cash.
• Reconciling all suppliers / clients / banks / cash / expense accounts.
• Preparing the payroll (extra hours, NSSF deductions, tax on salaries …).
• Preparing the VAT closing, the NSSF declaration and send them to our auditors.
• Preparing all payments and transfers.
• Assist in creating yearly budgets.
• Provide all financial reports (Cash positions, cash flows, P&L for projects…)
• Checking all purchase orders and match them with the delivery order / invoices.
• Analyzing the real cost versus the created budget.
• Following up on aging report for collection.
• Provide full support to our auditors PWC.
• Provide full support to the operational department.
• Assist in events implementations.

• Record all daily accounting data on Silicone Books:
Production Slips Record all daily accounting data on Silicone Books
Sales Invoices & Returns & Credit Notes
Receipts
Credit & Cash Purchases
Office Expenses & Other related charges
Payments
Bank Transactions (Deposits cheques & Charges)
• Reconcile all clients, suppliers and bank accounts
• Reconcile daily cash transactions with the cashier.
• Provide all financial reports and related analysis
Items value engineering (Sales Report, Cost Report)
Income Statement (Gross Margin Analysis, Net Profit Analysis)
• Calculate the Depreciation.
• Prepare Payroll.
• Prepare NSSF and tax on salaries.
• Provide full support to the management.

• Providing daily reporting and analysis of bank status.
• Supervising the accounting team and provide reliable accounting data.
• Closing daily cash sales of different outlets.
• Controlling the daily petty cash closing of all outlets.
• Record the necessary transactions of the revenues sent to bank.
• Approving on cash and checks payments.
• Issuing letters for bank transfers.
• Preparing the suppliers due balances to issue check payments.
• Providing expense reports of outlets.
• Preparing summaries of all outlets’ revenues.
• Doing the necessary reconciliations of bank accounts, cash, credit cards / checks for collection and suppliers.
• Calculating the net profit of different outlets.
• Assisting in preparing the payroll.
• Taking care of legal and administrative tasks.
• Approving on the purchase orders.
• Handling all shareholders and personal accounts.
• Assisting the team in recording accounting entries.
• Providing help to external auditors.

• Manage the HEC Wood financials and coordinate with the operating team to audit the operating process.
• Manage, audit and provide daily guidance to the accountants to ensure daily reliable accounting data.
• Close VAT & Year.
• Compute and calculate depreciation.
• Calculate the payroll and take into consideration the social security deductions and the tax on salaries.
• Calculate and analyze: - Projected versus the real profit & loss for all current projects.
- Financial ratios and statistics.
• Prepare and analyze: - Monthly projected cash flow versus the monthly real cash flow.
- Monthly and quarterly income statement of the company.
- Balance sheet of the company.
• Audit the inflows/outflows on the basis of Payment Terms agreed.
• Prepare financial study for future investments (expansion, joint venture) and identify all financial risks.
• Prepare the Year-end analysis and compare the result with the previous results.
• Monitor the sales report adding to it some statistical ratios (product category, clients’ type…).
• Calculate the Break-even Point and the Semi-annual target sales.

• Manage the SRB financials and coordinate with the sales team to audit the daily sales.
• Close VAT & Year, and present other official forms.
• Calculate: - Payroll taking into consideration the social security deductions and the quarterly tax on salaries.
- Quarterly expected target sales that should be attempted.
• Monitor the stock count for each category of product.
• Prepare and analyze the monthly: - Sales report for each category of product.
- Cash flow.
- quarterly income statement for the company.
• Prepare the balance sheet of the company.
• Help in preparing unaudited financial studies and present them to the auditors.

•• Ensure that all the recorded accounting data are efficient and reliable.
• Close VAT each quarter.
• Calculate and fill the social security & tax on salaries forms.
• Close year.
• Coordinate with sales department to update and calculate the clients cost versus price.
• Prepare the daily cash report of the office.
• Prepare and analyze the expense report of the office.
• Banks, suppliers and clients reconciliation.

Responsible of recording daily data entries for several companies. Reconciliation of banks, clients and suppliers accounts.
Responsible of the following tasks: Closing VAT closing year and filling the CNSS forms, Tax on profit and Tax on salaries.