Wilson Castro, Senior Accountant

Wilson Castro

Senior Accountant

Al Bazzam Facilities Management Group

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Bachelor's degree, Financial Accounting
Experience
22 years, 2 Months

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Total years of experience :22 years, 2 Months

Senior Accountant at Al Bazzam Facilities Management Group
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since March 2015

• Supervision of maximum 4 people namely for: warehousing & inventory control, invoicing & administration, accounting & HR documentation, and clients control and follow-ups.
• Improved collection days thru follow-ups and reconciliation, including the establishment of good relation towards clients.
• Improved payables by setting standards cycle procedures, and ensuring proper handling of payments, and documents.
• Improved most process flow, procedures, internal controls, and policy within areas in accounting, HR, administration, internal software and business analysis.
• Preparation of financial and pro-forma statements. This includes reports such as balance sheet, income statement, cash flow statements and notes to financials.
• Established good communication for people at different level within multi-cultural organization. Also includes negotiation skills in procurement process for purchasing and dealing with potential vendor or clients.
• Deliver consistent coordination and can immediately adapt to any changing circumstances.
• Participate in management discussion for any improvements and additional control, which includes analysis for maximizing profits and minimizing cost without affecting long-term goals.
• Fieldworks includes PRO works and customer relation, site audit, collections, various legal document transactions and requirements.
• Improved payroll computation (vacation, gratuity, overtime & other special case), allocation, control, and anticipating future liabilities. Ensures all are in compliance with WPS system set by local government.
• HR functions includes preparation of employee file, handling of employee request, passport and visa assistance, renewal of medical cards, reviewing and selecting of newly hired, team buildings and improvements, and setting standards for the right candidate
• Cashiering including cash or cheque collections, handling of company petty cash and ensuring that all documentations are accounted and matching as per bank statement.

General Accountant & Quality Administrator at QUADRI PHARMAceuticals Store LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • March 2013 to October 2014

• Demonstrates professional competency in handling accounting and administrative functions.
• Collaboration with top management for the purpose of work improvements and related analysis.
• Established internal control, quality procedures, and policy awareness within the organization.
• Improved processes, and business work-flow both manual and systematic.
• Proven expertise on achieving assigned works as per targets. This includes preparation of adhoc reports, analysis, audit, legal documentation and prompt decision.
• Taking part in the coordination and completion of reports for operational needs, which includes annual financial reports, internal audit, quality audit, etc,
• Taking and heading new challenges, such as accounting system development for ERP function, and coordinator for ISO certification.
• Properly communicates to colleagues with respect to their cultures and beliefs. Includes communication with central offices from different countries in requesting and clearing issues and concerns.
• Established budgeted & forecasted pro-forma financial statements for business goal alignment.
• Preparation of schedules and reports within the expected deadlines.

General Accountant at UNILEVER (Thani Murshid LLC)
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • January 2008 to December 2012

• Head of Inventory Team - Controls 5 thousand inventory stocks. Responsible for complete inventory cycle from freezing to EOM posting and directly reports to manager. Review stocks, roll backward & forward for better control.
• General Accountant - preparations of journal entries up to reversing entries. Reconcile trial balance and prepares financial statements as per requirements. Identifies accruals and raised provisions for vendor and customer account. Monitors vendor and customer for payables and receivables.
• Head Cashier - handles up to AED 120, 000 cash per day and 2 million cheques, with fair balance in SAP system. Includes petty cash fund booking and replenishment.
• Fixed Asset Specialist - Monitors company assets with complete ID tag creation. Handles depreciation up-to retirements of asset.
• Commercial Duties- Handles promotional works directly from category team. Specializes in maintaining promotional material and assurance of data accuracy as per price structure from cost to selling price before launching to gulf market.
• HR work - computation of overtime and salary as well as monitoring of staff deductions and claims.
• System related work- supported the U2K2 project for the implementation of a globalized system.
• Distribution coordinator- communicates to consignor for any market strategies as well as product creation and exchange opinions for a better solution.

Fixed Asset Management Specialist at HBC Incorporated, Philippines
  • Philippines
  • May 2004 to September 2007

• Implementation of Fixed Asset Module via Microsoft’s Dynamics (Solomon System ver. 6.5) and established a reliable and accurate report in asset listing both active & inactive, revaluation, depreciation, and disposal (scrapping).
• Standardized fixed asset by means of policy, guidelines, process flow, memorandum & forms.
• Annual Physical Inspection of Fixed & Inventoriable Assets in main office, warehouse & over 150 branches which maintains fair allocation, distribution & status valuation.
• Preparation of Asset Tags for better monitoring, recording & documentation.
• Monitors Head Office and branch facilities fire insurance policy, equipment maintenance & calibration reports, and company vehicle inspections.
• Monitors rent and utilities expenses and saved extra discount due to negotiation and early payment.
• Responsible in solving system errors and issues particularly in fixed asset, Accounts payable & general ledger Module.
• Coordinate with other Core team member regarding common errors and issues.
• Coordinate with System Analyst and Programmer regarding configurations & modifications if problems or process error arises.

Accounts Payable Officer at DUNKIN DONUTS (Golden Donuts Inc., Philippines)
  • Philippines
  • June 2001 to April 2004

• Daily preparation of Receiving Report (RR), Invoices and Purchase Order (PO) and maintain summary report for check voucher.
• Responsible for Journal Entries and Debit/Credit Memos of Trade and Non-Trade purchases.
• Review monthly schedule of purchases, payments, unpaid supplier’s sales invoice, subsidiary and general ledger, and posted Trial Balance of Accounts Payable - Trade in Inter-Company Application System.
• Monthly report of ageing in Accounts Payable-Trade and releasing of necessary letter memos.
• Monthly Inventory of Central Office, Warehouse, Kitchen and Shops.
• Posted billings and ran various invoices for corporate and non-corporate companies.
• Annual\Quarterly\Monthly computation of Value added Tax (VAT) for corporate and non-corporate companies.
• Administrative tasks

Education

Bachelor's degree, Financial Accounting
  • at Far Eastern University
  • March 2001

Specializes in: . Accounting . Bookkeeping . Administration . Computer/ Application literacy . Presentations

Specialties & Skills

Fixed Asset Management
Inventory Controls
Microsoft Office
Administrative Duties
General Finance
Internal Quality Audit and Document & Record Control
SAP/ ERP Application
MS Office literacy
Templates/ Correspondences
General Accounting
Asset Mgmt/ Invty Ctrl

Languages

English
Expert

Memberships

IMA - The Association of Accountants Financial Professionals in Business
  • Active Member
  • May 2014

Training and Certifications

(Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2013
Tax Update Certificate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2005
Valid Until:
September 2005
Internal Quality Audit Certificate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2006
Valid Until:
June 2006