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• Lead various projects and liaise cross-country coordination between function heads within organization such as cross-regional GE analysis & benchmarking, paperless expense claims & automation, VAT implementation.• Collaborate amongst controllers & Financial Directors within Near East region in consolidating weekly & monthly sales outlook report and convey market trends, performance insights and gap analysis between actuals vs forecast to Executive Board Member and Senior management.• Support in building financial road map, regional planning and forecasting; highlighting building blocks to secure EBIT position. • Responsible for Financial Statement reporting and ensure compliance to IFRS. Liaise and manage external audit and review audited report. Responsible for Cash flow reporting & managed complex multi-currency FX fluctuations.• Collaborate with accounting service provider to ensure accuracy in GL and P&L postings. Monitor and ensure all financial KPI’s in all towers (OTC, PTP, and RTR) are met and continuous review for process improvement.

• Generate robust business financial planning and forecasting in collaboration with sales team for 26 countries. • Report customer plan (sales) and product plan (operational) forecasting in global planning tool and provide insights of business assumptions to regional controllers.• Challenge and review weekly sales submission with sales and supply chain, acts as sparring partner with goal to maximize sales opportunities and identify solution for operational challenges for management review.• Business partner in S&OP roll-out process & implementation, generate financial analysis and present critical issues between Sales, Supply Chain & Marketing.• Prepare financial presentation to management team highlighting sales performance and profitability against forecast, sales and margin drivers, risk and opportunities, and other relevant topics needing actionable decisions.• Analyze trade spends and securing budget positions & controls, collate sales input to reflect trade agreement is translated in SAP. Facilitate accruals and provisions release

• Guardian of supply chain GE budget to ensure spend is on track. Guide budget owner for risk and highlight cost savings opportunities if any. Conducts year-end inventory reconciliation.• Ensure KPI’s are met and in line with target (Service Level, Forecast Accuracy, DCS, GE, and WOC) and identify drivers for deviations. • Drives value chain analysis and aligns product pricing to reflect regulatory updates. Ensure new launches and exits is captured and priced accordingly. Conduct quarter price audit.• Improve profitability with streamlined assortment in collaboration with Marketing and Supply chain, review launches and strategize exit product to secure better margin.

• Budget controller for logistic department.• Prepare logistics department 2018 financial budget & directly report to VP Logistics.• Liaise with department heads for accurate inputs of intercompany charges.

•Manage day to day operational requirements of A/P department and ensure optimum productivity of team members.•Perform monthly compliance review in preparing SOX Reports through due diligence sampling and testing of invoices.•Analyze and generate weekly and monthly reporting such as financial Matrix, GR/IR, Aging and Accrual reporting on a timely basis; provide analysis and status reports of invoices and payment performances and ensure that targets and goals are subsequently met. •Assist finance supervisor to prepare ad-hoc financial reporting required by management and assists in requirements and documents gathering during internal audit process.•Ensure all accounting system records, payments and procedures are in compliance with US FCPA for compliance-sensitive payments and transactions are coded and charged to the proper G/L accounts.•Process, review and approve payments with a monthly average of USD 6.8 million sub-contract invoices for LOGCAP III and LOGCAP IV related projects.•Ensure all invoice payments complies with company’s accounting policies and procedures and meets deliverables of subcontract’s master agreement, pricing guidelines and requirements.•Liaise with sub-contracts team, corporate finance and vendor to reconcile and resolve any issues of vendor’s payment account.•Conduct training and assistance with team as per need basis to facilitate smooth transitions and implementations of new project requirements, or workflow change in systems and procedures.•Identify and highlight potential issues and provide probable solution to the management to resolve matter prior to becoming a critical situation.•Review document’s completeness and correctness prior to approval and payment of vendor outgoing payments, business advance and expense reimbursement submitted by the SPCA custodian.•Engage highly in SAP ERP system in daily operational activities such as vendor payment, analysis and investigations and generation of financial data and reporting.

• Process Dubai employee, BRS employee and DEMOB employee Timesheets via PCTS, • Coordinate with project controls to verify correct coding used in timesheet.• Facilitate HR request of timesheet for DEMOB employees.• Conduct timesheet training to new employees, conduct monthly floor checks.• Train new A&F employees with the PCTS uploading and timesheet process, policies and procedure.• Process, audit and upload deduction form and entitlement benefits of theater employees including Dubai, Iraq, Kuwait, AFG, Georgia and Djibouti.• Verify accuracy and correctness of PDF’s and Entitlements submitted before processing using systems such as SAP, EMTS, travel database and Quick Base.• Perform due diligence and compliance on SOX reporting for Payroll and Entitlements.• Implemented the master template update for PDF and Entitlements using V-look up; Conduct monthly update of employee’s base pay.• Liaise and coordinate with travel employee to correct discrepancies found in conjunction with PDF and entitlements transactions.• Acts as the POC for Dubai site to responds communications via e-mail to resolve issues for all the entitlement and PDF raised by Afghanistan site.• Addressed queries of reconciliation team (employee A/R team), coordinate and respond to issues requested, provide documents as needed and conduct SAP research when necessary.

A confidential and supervisory position that is responsible to:• Manage the cash flow preparation and money market placements; post journal entries and reconcile general ledger to facilitate and finalize the financial statement.• Check, monitor and control the expense report to correspond approvals, summary details, supporting documents,.• Ensure proper allocation of expenses to appropriate cost drivers and charge numbers.• Validate and verify purchase requests with approved budget and actual pricing.• Facilitate the processing and distribution of payroll while ensuring the accuracy and timeliness of payment for taxes, employees benefit and payroll related obligations.• Oversee and ensure that timely postings and payments of payables are made to eliminate unnecessary fines and penalty.• Secure and facilitate the document preparation to ensure timely compliance to the requirements set by the regulating government bodies.

A managerial position in a fast-food chain with roles and responsibilities as follows:• Training Manager 2005 – 2006• Product Quality Assurance Manager 2002 – 2005• Warehouse and Inventory Manager 2002 – 2005• Purchasing Officer 2002 – 2005• Forecast minimum and optimum stocks requirement by analyzing sales trend, gross profit, average consumption, lead time and related factors.• Compute and generate monthly cost of sales, daily inventory report and stocks transfer report.• Create systems of checks and controls for the stocks movements to ensure stocks completeness which resulted to a decreased cost of sales from 49% to 43% and maintained wastage level to a minimum of 5%.• Coordinate with supplier computed order requirements, negotiate and facilitate timely arrival of stocks.

Acts as internal auditor staff in freight forwarding, printing and lending company with function as follows:• Reconcile monthly bank statements of 101 accounts and post reconciling entries to correct variances.• Validate that cash are remitted and posted in the daily collection report; check the authenticity of expenses for reimbursement declared by branches.• Examine checks to match with supporting documents and approval, with accurate charge number and cost centers. • Coordinate with various departments to rise accounting related issues.• Conduct random visit and scheduled audit among branches to verify consistent compliance with the company’s systems and procedure.