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Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Senior Accounting and Administration Specialist, Responsible for the overall administration and finance operations reporting directly to founder and CEO• Handles the whole order to cash cycle starting with customers advances for new projects, billing based on project milestones, revenue recognition, collection, cash application and reconciliation with customer.• Prepare monthly cash forecast based on expected cash collections and monthly obligations to ensure cash availability and better management of our credit and payment terms. • Generate monthly report of each project spend, collections and overall performance to ensure the profitability of the project and give the right visibility to the management.• Execute monthly payments, prepare payroll, general ledger reconciliations and bank reconciliation.• Providing accounting and clerical support to ensure that financial transactions are complying and of the VAT regulations.• Preparation, validation and submission of monthly and quarterly VAT returns for the UAE entities• Handle VAT reporting (payable and receivable). Ensure collections and payments are done in line with UAE regulations• Prepare and manage all documents in line with VAT regulations and other related activities• Maintain controls by adhering to the accounting department’s policies and procedures and ensure Tax practices are following UAE financial reporting statutes, standards and financial reporting best practices• Conduct day-to-day transnational processing and reporting on taxation. This includes the accurate posting of all tax related entries• Researching, analysing and interpreting changing tax legislation in both inside UAE and in GCC with tax laws in UAE and update the changes to the management.• Prepare the monthly payroll, analyze cost center and project wise labor cost, check time sheets and job cards, calculate the vacation and terminal benefits, process the WPS files and complete the payroll JVS

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

General accountant , Responsible for the overall administration and financial operations reporting directly to founder and CEO• Design and implement systems and procedures to ensure effective internal controls and minimizing risks.• Keeps track with developments in all area of the business especially in the area related to Margin Analysis, Trade and consumer spend, overheads.• Monitor sales and the profitability of each product/ customer and make recommendations to the CEO for price increase or cost reduction / diversification of sourcing.• Managing cash flow to ensure the availability of sufficient liquidity to meet any future obligations. This includes preparation of cash flow forecasts on monthly and quarterly basis.• Ensure all transactions are recorded in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and supported by relevant and verifiable documents.• Assure timely and accurate invoicing.• Follow up on collections with clients and sales team and solve any disputes. • Manage cash application making sure all cash receipts are applied properly.• Conduct credit checks on all customer, establish and manage limits.• Make recommendations to improve quality of invoicing and collection procedures.• Weekly reporting of invoicing totals/aging totals/cash receipts/invoice adjustments.

Smart Vilage

Accounts Receivable Supervisor, Handling PepsiCo Egypt Account (Financial Shared Service Center), directly reporting to Accounts Receivable team leader and my accountabilities include the following:●Supervise the accuracy and productivity of day-to-day activities for cash application and billing functions on SAP in accordance with company policies and accepted accounting practices.●Ensure that all AR transactions are recorded in the general ledger accurately and reconcile those account balances on SAP with what has been recorded in the financial database (MEA S&D Oracle) for all CFI plants (5 plants and 37 DC)●Take the lead in month-end, quarter-end and year-end closing processes while ensuring transactions are in accordance with internal policies and procedures●Reports to the appropriate individuals in the organization on the status of closing activities and provides notification of any potential delays or issues that may arise to ensure month-end closing activities are completed timely & accurately.●Provide guidance, coaching and development to new and existing staff as needed.●Review customer’s accounts for possible collection issues and follow up with treasury team to record the collections on the spot to make sure that customer’s balances are up to date ●Maintain customers credit limits (Increase, decrease and reflect any exceptions to the limits)●Assign tasks, follow up and provide guidance to the team members and solve any issues may arise.●Have hand experience in Sox Compliance (COSO testing). Assist with implementing and maintaining internal financial controls and procedures.

New Cairo

General Accountant, Sakr Power Generation Egypt, Directly reporting to financial manager and my accountabilities include the following:●Handel the billing process, follow up with the customer, classification and posting of the daily receivable transactions, checks under collection and maintaining accurate and comprehensive records of each day’s transactions.●Prepare monthly closing journal entries accruals, amortization of prepaid expenses, adjusting entries and reclassifications.●Manage and recording of the day to day petty cash transactions and perform monthly verification, replenishment and settlement of petty cash balance with the petty cash custodian. ●Perform monthly cash and bank reconciliations.●Prepare sales tax monthly declaration and withholding tax quarterly declaration and resolve issues identified during the declaration preparation process to ensure accuracy of filings.●Semiannual physical count of fixed assets and goods inventory.●Other ad-hoc tasks as assigned.