Chief Accountant
Emirates National Schools
Total years of experience :16 years, 0 Months
Manage all accounting operations including Billing, A/R, A/P, GL and Counsel, Cost Accounting, Inventory Accounting
and Revenue Recognition.
Coordinate and direct the preparation of the budget and financial forecasts and report variances.
Prepare and publish timely monthly financial statements.
Coordinate the preparation of regulatory reporting.
Research technical accounting issues for compliance.
Support month-end and year-end close process.
Ensure quality control over financial transactions and financial reporting.
Manage and comply with local, state, and federal government reporting requirements.
Develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls.
Preparation of stand-alone statutory financial statements and assisting with preparation of the Group annual report.
Review of balance sheet schedules from various teams and ensuring actions points are timely closed.
Assist with Half year and Year-end audit requirements by managing the client assistance schedule and attending to
external audit requirements on a timely basis.Reviewing complex business transactions and ensuring they are accounted for in accordance with IFRS.
Review of GL accounts to ensure reliability of data for internal and external reporting.
Account Receivables & Payable summery Reports, Variance Analysis of Actual & Budgeted statements.
Review control on purchase orders, approval process & supply chain monthly.
Monthly follow up of open purchase orders (undelivered purchase orders) & received purchase orders to be closed
properly for invoicing.
Review check lists, original invoices, purchase orders, GRN, internal memos, special approvals & supporting
documents to process Authorized payments.
Ensure that monthly reconciliation of GL (Inventory ledgers), Inventory report (inventory & warehouse
management) & physical inventories are in the same line having physical & financial values.
Ensure that Intercompany transactions its Tracking & reconciliations are accurate.
Review reports for Account receivables & follow-up procedures as per organization strategy.
Ensure that Distributions of funds as per management decision has been done properly.
Coordinate with payroll department to ensure that payroll has been processed accurate in the system.
Guide and help junior staff in their routine activities.
Managing & supervising a team of 9 accountants across the organization.
Ad-hoc reports as requested by Higher Management.
Successful implementation for Dynamics Ax 2012 after Partner Company closed & left project in initial stage.
Provide support functional for Dynamics AX 2012 for all branches.
Implemented Dynamics AX 2012 in Emirates National School.
Provide training for Dynamics AX 2012.
Worked as Senior Accountant;-
• Verify, allocate, post and reconcile transactions.
• Produce error-free accounting reports and present their results.
• Analyse financial information and summarize financial status.
• Provide technical support and advice on management.
• Review and recommend modifications to accounting systems and procedures.
• Participate in financial standards setting and in forecast process.
• Provide input into department’s goal setting process.
• Prepare financial statements and produce budget according to schedule.
• Direct internal and external audits to ensure compliance.
• Plan, assign and review staff’s work.
• Support month-end and year-end close process.
• Develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls.
Worked as Auditor reporting to Audit Manager in
• Planning Audit & understanding the entity & its environment.
• Review of the expenses and revenue to discover the wrong transactions & control weaknesses.
• Review of clients, suppliers, debits account, credits account and the other sub - accounts.
• Preparation of Audit working papers during audit.
• Performing analytical procedures including trend and ratio analysis for financial statements.
• Performing substantive audit procedures and analytical reviews.
• Preparing financial statements for statutory and reporting purposes.
• Compilation and analysis of financial information to prepare financial statements including monthly and annual accounts.
• Ensure financial records are maintained in compliance with accounting standard.
• Reporting audit findings, impacts and recommendations and control issues to senior auditor.
• Submitting my report to Audit manager for final approval & reports.
• Internal control reviews & suggesting recommendation to client for strong internal control system.
One year & one month (April 2011-April 2012) experience as Accountant in KCAM Reporting to Finance Manager in
• Review routine transactions and maintenance of General Ledgers according to International Financial Reporting Standards.
• Ensure proper handling & usage petty cash and cash in hand, preparing monthly bank reconciliation statement, making adjustments in cash book and tracking unpresented/uncleared cheques.
• Conduct variance analysis of petty cash, its allocation, performance evaluation head wise of each expense & department monthly basis.
• Maintaining trade receivable/payable ledgers with ageing receivable/payable analysis and reconciliation of individual receivable/payable ledgers with control accounts as well as with customer/supplier statements.
• Writing technical reports to provide structured information to aid the Finance Manager in the decision-making process
• Make management reports to corporate management in assisting different scenarios such as shut down decisions.
• Finalizing accounts by preparing income statement and balance sheet according to IASs and IFRSs
Ten months experience as Audit Junior in Zafar and company Cost & Management accountant
• Initial planning of the audit and identifying key risks during the process and responding to these risks according to applicable audit methodologies.
• Audit of assets, liabilities, equity, expenses and income according to specified audit programs.
• Setting the level of detection risk by identifying the overall audit risk.
• Fulfilling the different check lists relating to different matters i.e. related parties, going concern, subsequent events etc.
• Identifying internal control deficiencies, their impact on financial statements and making recommendations to remove these weaknesses.
• Obtaining written representations and issuing management letter.
CPA
letter of Affiliation. letter of good standing fronACCA
Major commerce subject