Business Administration Manager/ Financial Controller
Siemens Ltd.
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :18 years, 3 أشهر
Presently tasked with controlling, coordinating and supervising activities pertaining to corporate departments and Siemens Real Estate (SRE) in the capacity of a Business Administration Manager. Primarily managing 10 experts that are responsible for all commercial and controlling activities relating to corporate departments and SRE. Job responsibilities include:
• Preparation of yearly, quarterly, monthly budgets & cash flow projections with coordination of all the departments in the corporate unit.
• Unit cost controller- to ensure actual cost is in line with the budget and forecast by preparing monthly, quarterly, yearly reports and their analysis, with reasoning & controlling strategies for all the corporate departments.
• To manage monthly, quarterly and annual closing activities in coordination with the accounting and controlling departments as per closing schedules.
• Monthly allocations and reporting of corporate cost to all the business units.
• Commercially verifying and approving all invoices up to the limit of SR 1 mio pertaining to the corporate departments. In addition approving company wide Logistics, Medical/Life insurance, Airline, Utility and Leased car invoices.
• Commercially verifying and approving PO’s, PR’s and Travel & petty cash expenses pertaining to the corporate depts.
• To manage all the company corporate credit cards.
• Divisional compliance expert ensuring the implementation of compliance policies and procedures at all levels of business activity.
• Divisional risk process owner DRPO- to ensure the proper implementation of enterprise risk management process.
• Devise strategies to mitigate risks and protect rights of the company in offers, orders and contracts prior to and during execution for business continuity and growth.
• Supervise employees performing financial reporting, accounting, billing, collections, and budgeting duties.
• Responsible for generating all kinds of payments to local vendors using Spiridon (SAP). Payments include regular payments with invoices, emergency payments, advances and tenders. Also using a web based banking service for making urgent & foreign currency payments.
• Hands on knowledge in parking and posting of various invoices, advances and tenders in the system.
• Also responsible for reconciliation of vendors and customers accounts using SAP.
• Also have initiated a Help Desk service for all payment & reconciliation related queries for Siemens Ltd and three other companies that come under Siemens.
• Responsible for generating weekly reports regarding open items (i.e. Payables), open advances, open gr/ir and reporting the results to higher management. Also looking after clearing interim accounts and outstanding balances every month end.
• Also able to analyze business operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations, to project future revenues and expenses or to provide advice.
•Worked in the credit card department focusing on charge backs and settlements.
•Nature of work was to attend to customer complaints and dispute handling within an agreed time frame. Was exposed to difficult situations regarding customer complaints and utilized my administration and inter-personal skills to sort the issues.
•Also worked on two mini projects regarding credit card frauds and charge backs. Designed an MIS system and assisted the concerned staff in efficiently utilizing those MIS in their day-to-day activities.
•Worked in 3 different departments including credit support, accounts and credit cards.
•Was responsible for reviewing of collateral and checking of foreign currency deposits in the Credit Support Dept.
•Was responsible for reconciliation and preparation of different SBP reports in the Accounts Dept.
•Also looked at the procedure of issuing credit cards and reconciliation of outstanding entries in the Credit Cards Dept.
•Started as a salesperson for different cell phone, land line and DSL packages offered by AT&T. Consistently achieved targets and handled customer complaints effectively.
•Was transferred to the telemarketing department as a result of satisfactory comments from the customers. Here also I achieved the targets by opening many new accounts and satisfying customer complaints. Was promoted to Customer Sales Representative.
•I was also responsible for training new sales and telemarketing staff and assisted them in managing customer complaints and queries that are raised regarding the packages offered.
