Senior Accountant
BAE Systems Saudi Arabia
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :23 years, 0 أشهر
I am the subject matter expert on American Express within the Business working as an Senior Accountant, utilizing SAP, MS-Office and American Express portal (Administrator).
Duties and responsibilities are as follows but not limited;
Responsible for KSA Amex Corporate Travel & Expense (T&E), Corporate Purchasing (CPC) and Corporate Travel Account cards (CTA).
AMEX Responsibilities:
- Daily contact with Amex Business Managers regarding the managing, issuing, controlling credit limits and cancellation of cards.
Liaise and assist cardholders with queries/question/problems/disputes and submission of monthly statements.
Presenting rollout sessions to approx. 10 new cardholders per week.
Analyse data and present KPI (Key Performance Indications) to Senior Management.
- Aged Debtor; Top Spenders; Spend by Industry; Cardholder Indiscretion.
Reconciliation of CTA (700+ bookings per month): Validating data, ensuring integrity and accuracy of cost booking throughout the business, calculation and transaction of payment to Amex.
Monthly Balance Sheet reconciliation on AssureNET of 10 Control Accounts over 2 businesses, posting of entries in SAP, Intercompany control accounts, open item management.
Ownership of Credit Control process for 400+ cardholders. Providing assistance and communicating respectively with individual before potentially deducting from payroll.
Additional responsibility for reviewing and authorising employee expense claim in multiple currencies and enabling the provision of banker’s cheques.
Assist Treasury Department to reconcile different bank accounts in multiple currencies within two entities.
Responsible for all accounting ledgers, preparing monthly vehicle lease and supplies US$1.25m invoices and submit to contracting office and finance office for payment and follow up for payment, weekly receive about US$150k payments in cash/cheques from US finance office and remit to HQ Riyadh, handling petty cash of US$500k for daily operating expenses, supplier payments, employees payroll, etc.., prepare employees vacation and severance benefit statements, and report to head office (HQ) Saudi Arabia - Riyadh on daily basis, prepare all paper work for participating new tenders (RFP/RFQ) receive from US Government and other US contractors like BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin, Flour etc. Organise and attend various meetings with US Contracting and Finance officers for multiple issues, outstanding invoices, budgeting matters and for new contracts proposals.
Maintaining all books of accounts, handling petty cash of SAR30k, control of outstanding receivables and payables, responsible/handing all bank transactions and bank reconciliations, prepare monthly payrolls of SAR0.75m for over 400 employees, prepare monthly invoices of SAR2m and submitting to client, working with Project Manager and prepare all financial and technical paperwork to participate in new tenders/bid including issuing Bank/Letter of Guarantee, Letter of Credit and attend bid opening meetings with Government of Saudi Arabia, Royal Commission for Jubail/Yanbu and other reputed companies of Saudi Arabia, apart from assigned work I am handling General Manager’s personal credit card, utilities bills and expenses.
Chartered Accountant firm with over 500 client from various field include personal, professional, travel agencies, trading/group of companies, banks, etc., maintain their all books of account include cash/bank ledgers, sales ledgers, payments, inventory report, outstanding receivables/payables, bank statements, bank reconciliation, and file their income tax and sales tax to Government of India.
Maintain all books of accounts up to trail balance, credit control, cash control, stock control, bank reconciliation, prepare payroll, prepare manual income and expenditure account, apart from accounting/financial work I am responsible to deal with customer/client and promoting products and conducting product promotion seminars.
Preparing daily sales report, maintain petty cash, cash flow, credit control, collecting payment, bank reconciliation, stock control, and last but not the least prepare monthly sales and stock report and present to higher management.
Bachelor of Commerce completed from Gulbarga University Gulbarga, Karnataka, India
Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board (SSC)