Senior Accounts Officer-Finance and Operations Group (FOG)
American Express
Total years of experience :21 years, 11 Months
American Express (Saudi Arabia) Ltd.: Sep 2008 - Till date
Senior Accounts Officer-Finance and Operations Group (FOG),
Responsibilities: • Preparation, circulation and reconciliation of daily business and billings to the top management.
• Handling cash margin agreements, validating receipts from customers and intimating various concerned departments.
• Cash management to ensure optimum utilization of funds and reduction of borrowing costs.
• Handle day to day accounting and posted entries into the general ledger.
• Handling monthly bank reconciliations.
• Monitoring bank accounts to identify remittances from customers and assist the operations department to minimize delay in posting them to customers account.
• Handling customer remittance in the form of foreign drafts and cheques and timely banking them to enhance cash management.
• Maintain and review of cash margin logs and foreign draft payments.
• Handle vendor payments through wire transfers on a daily basis.
• Liaison with local banks for all payment related matters.
American Express (Saudi Arabia) Ltd.: Nov 2006 - June 2008
Saudi Credit Bureau (SIMAH) interface specialist, (MIS) -New Accounts department.
Responsibilities: • Extracting and interpretation of SIMAH reports
• Preparation and review of checklist for new applications
• Update the database for all new applications received
• Categorization of approved, declined and cancelled applications
• Retrieving the old applications as per requirement.
Saudi Pump Factory, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Oct 2002 - Nov 2006
Personal Accountant/Reconciliation.
Responsibilities: • General ledger and accounting.
• Liaison with local banks for all payments and receivables related matters.
• Weekly verification of bank statements.
• Preparing monthly bank reconciliation statements for all bank accounts.
• Depositing receipts with the banks.
• Preparing vendor payments and receivables.
• Handling petty cash
N.PCRAO & Co (Chartered Accountants), Hyderabad, India: June 1991 - Sep 2002
Accountant
Responsibilities: • Preparation of General Ledgers
• Preparation of Trail Balance, Profit & Loss A/C's, Balance sheet and schedules.
• Assisting the audit teams on company audits including Bank audits.
• Assisting the Partner in Statutory Bank audits
• Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. Masters in Commerce - M.Com.
• Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. Bachelor of Commerce - B.Com