Sue-Ellen Menezes

04/ 2014 - July/2015 F&C Investment CONTROLLER - IMEA
Microsoft - Dubai
01/ 2014 - 03/ 2014 Nokia Corporation
Overall responsibilities aimed at improving financial control and business performance across the IMEA Region in areas such as budget allocation and performance, forecasting accuracy, analysis and reporting. To lead the budget planning process for the region, gathering input and developing an understanding of budget profile, including operating expenses and Investments, providing analysis of the financial forecasts. Ensuring timely preparation of financial and management information reports.
 Defining Annual Budgets for Sales and Personnel Opex for IMEA Region and Areas, including head count planning. Monitoring and analyzing the region’s performance against its business targets, budget / forecast vs actual, identifying potential risk, issues and variances to plans, reporting performance to the Regional management team and suggest ways in which these can be managed, contained and avoided in the future. Maintaining data integrity and accuracy.
 To act as the first line of challenge, sense checking in the light of targets, previous performance and benchmarked data, being able to account for any deviations from budget.
 To maintain, monitor and evaluate the timeliness & accuracy of the overall closing processing, including accruals & pre payments.
 To provide effective and efficient operational and administrative support for the financial and procedures for the region.
 Pilot tester and Super User for Financial Tools used within the organization.

Finance Manager, Management Reporting - IMEA
Nokia Corporation - Dubai
IMEA Regional Accounting Reporting & Compliance
Part of the Accounting, Reporting and Compliance Team where the major responsibilities include fulfilling Strategic and operative targets and maintaining high level of Compliance. On ongoing basis, clarifying and advising the content of ARC processes to the Area and local office local Finance & Control teams.
Reporting, KPIs and management of financial information
 Setting targets for ARC teams in Area/local F&C.
 Serving as point of contact to coordinate communication of financials with BU’s (input by head of BU F&C)
 Consolidating regional level finance reporting information. Reviewing and analyzing region view on overall level (full P&L and BS)
 Consolidating management package creation to regional management based on agreed standard reporting sets.
 Consolidating balance sheet /cashflow information within region. Co-ordinating Balance sheet planning in region.
Statutory and Compliance arcoss IMEA
 Coordinating tax and statutory audits, participating in SOX testing.
 Coordinating and monitoring tax related liabilities and requirements. Ensuring that statutory related reporting is full-filled.
Process related effectiveness, harmonization and efficiencies
 Guidance for area/local F&C ARC tasks and capabilities
 Establishing and coordinating development requirements from the region to Area F&C Accounting& Reporting Team
 Escalation channel for area/local F&C teams on accounting, reporting and compliancy related items.
 Participating to process team work and global activities

Bear the responsibility for taking the initiative to drive for high quality financial data and improved co-operation between different parties.
Major responsibilities include:
•Management and coordination of team to ensure accurate, accountable and qualified data is delivered to the stakeholders and line managers
•Prepare monthly reports for management review
•Ensuring SOX audit reports on spot checks are always ‘Green’ and ‘Passes’ by delivering accurate and verifiable data•Ensuring all processes in the countries assigned to me for the self-assessment SOX testing are met with and delivered with 100% qualified information
•Team development and motivation, conflict management, assertively identifying growth areas among them to ensure threats are minimized and weaknesses are converted into opportunities

Working independently on various assignments in the Middle East and African region for Nokia Corporation and provided services to Nokia Siemens Network (NSN)
Responsibilities include:
•Set up and started the entire accounting system on SAP for the Egypt office including digitizing all manually recorded entries as well as implementation of all the monthly reconciliations, policies, procedures.
•Trained all Nokia Egypt and NSN Egypt accountants on SAP and with the new procedures and policies.
•Coordination with E&Y in training their Nokia consultant in SAP.
•Payments and transfer handling for all aspects as for the Nokia Corporation as well as the NSN. These included but were not limited to urgent-payments, cheques, re-location allowances, reimbursements & EOSB
•Seasoned SAP user in all aspect of corporate finance including staff and departmental financial requirements
•Reconciliation of all bank reports with P&L, B/S and payroll.
•Setup of corporate accounts for Nokia and NSN with their global banking services provider
•Point of contact for all banking services

Setup, management and coordination of the entire accounts process of the company
Responsibilities:
•Initial set up of the company’s accounts procedures, software and administration
•Complete automation of all accounting records
•Dealing with supplier contacts, executing payments and reconciliation of the accounts
•Processing of documents after verifying all details
•Intimating suppliers and preparation of cheques
•Maintain the general ledger
•Perform miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned
•Receipting of cash and debtors collections by reference to the debtors ledger to ensure the receivables are accurately reflected in the financial statements.
•TECOM Zone Governmental and Administrative duties as required for the Company

Working temporarily in the Credit Control Department;
Responsibilities include:
•Dealing with supplier contacts, executing payments and reconciliation of the accounts;
•Processing of documents after verifying all details,
•Contact units for vendors to resolve problems and expedite payment
•Process complex invoices for payment
•Intimating suppliers and preparation of cheques.
•Analyze, reconcile, balance and maintain accounting records

Worked for a UK based Software Company. Currently handling all the Accounting and Finance issues, providing excellent Customer Support.
Responsibilities include:
• Customer query handling via phone, fax and email.
• Assisting software developers with relating issues of Marketing and Accounting skills to develop more professional and customer oriented financial software solutions.
• Testing the software once it was completed and ensuring that any errors have been resolved.
•Preparing Financial Statements for the customers and well as for the company.

Responsibilities include:
• Review and process routine accounting data for revenue and expenditures
• Ensure accuracy, completeness and compliance with corporate requirements
• Analyze, reconcile, balance and maintain accounting records
• Contact units for vendors to resolve problems and expedite payment
• Respond to queries by telephone or in writing
• Review purchasing, petty cash and personal claims
• Process complex invoices for payment
• Maintain listing of accounts payables
• Maintain the general ledger
• Maintain updated vendor files and file numbers
• Print and distribute monthly financial reports

Responsibilities include:
•The reconciliation of reports and bank statements, noting apparent errors or inconsistencies
•Maintains appropriation and other subsidiary ledgers
•Approve and fill vouchers for payment
•Preparation of payments voucher and processing same by checking the supporting documents,
•Preparing Cheques and cash payments,
•Coding the vouchers with Cost Centre and accounting codes and entering in the Profit system.
•Assists in financial analysis procedures
•Closes account books
•Performs other related duties as assigned