Professional accounting and finance freelancer Book keeping, financial statements and financial analysis

• Responsible for the strategic development, management and implementation of finance policies, procedures and systems.• Ensure good planning and budgeting to Inspirom standards and procedures.• Maintain a documented system of accounting policies and procedures.• Oversee the operations of the treasury department, including the design of an organizational structure adequate for achieving the department's goals and objectives• Forecast cash flow positions.• Maintain banking relationships.• Engage in ongoing cost reduction analyses in all areas of the company.• Interpret the company's financial results to management and recommend improvement activities.• Review company bottlenecks and recommend changes to improve the overall level of company throughput.• Participate in target costing activities to create products that meeting predetermined price goals.• Assist in the determination of product pricing in relation to features offered and competitor pricing.• Create additional analyses and reports as requested by management.• Analysis of actual to budget results to identify problems in accounting or compliance.• Review of financial data submitted by the field to identify weaknesses or problems being encountered by field finance staff and recommend corrective action.• Recommending standard formats for reconciliation’s and/or procedures to improve the underlying accounting, control or processing of transactions to minimize errors or omissions.• The review of and accounting for procurement transactions to ensure adequate supporting documentation, accuracy of amounts and control over payments• Ensuring internal control procedures are followed for all cash disbursements, receipts and transfers.• Monitoring cash usage and requirements.• Assisting in the development and preparation of cost allocation processes for overarching costs that comply with donor regulations on allowable costs.• Applying quarterly reports and presentation for the management.

•Managing & following up with 10 accountants & Sr. Accountants in monthly closing procedures & producing the Monthly Financial Reports. •Create and recommend budgeting techniques and procedures and distribute to Business Units & Branches. •Initiate and coordinates the annual budgeting process throughout ASTRA Food.•Create the annual budget guidelines, standards, time schedule and underlying assumptions, with the templates needed and send to be filled by the business units & Branches.•Oversee the adherence of the Branches’ related personnel to communicated guidelines•Guide and assist Branches’ concerned personnel in the preparation of their assumptions and budgets.•Prepare monthly, quarterly, semi-annually and year-end budgeting versus actual reports along with all necessary explanations on large variances for Board’s review and approval.•Consolidate ASTRA FOOD budgeted figures. •Compile, review and prepare consolidated budget for ASTRA FOOD and business units (i.e. capital expenditure, operating and cash flows)•Consolidated short/long term financial planning for ASTRA FOOD and the Business Units.•Analyze records of current and historical operations, trends and costs, projected and realized revenues, administrative commitments, and obligations incurred as well as assess future revenues and expenses.•Liaise with business development to perform financial analysis and budgeting activities for new business activities and prepare reports to be presented to the Chief Executive Officer & Board of Directors.•Tabulate statistical data for presentation in various budget reports.•Meet with related personnel of the Business Units to discuss progress of work, resolve problems and assure that quality standards of work are met.•Creation of templates and procedures.•Developing financial modeling and running ration and sensitivity analysis.•Make a key contribution to the monitoring of business performance.

•Managing & following up with 4 Finance Managers & 4 Chief Accountants in monthly closing procedures & producing the Monthly Financial Reports. •Create and recommend budgeting techniques and procedures and distribute to Business Units. •Create the annual budget guidelines, standards, time schedule and underlying assumptions, with the templates needed and send to be filled by the business units.•Guide and assist Business Units concerned personnel in the preparation of their assumptions and budgets.•Prepare monthly, quarterly, semi-annually and year-end budgeting versus actual reports along with all necessary explanations on large variances for Board review and approval.•Compile, review and prepare consolidated budget for MARS Holding and business units.•Consolidated short/long term financial planning for MARS Holding and the Business Units.•Analyze records of current and historical operations, trends and costs, projected and realized revenues, administrative commitments, and obligations incurred as well as assess future revenues and expenses.•Liaise with business development to perform financial analysis and budgeting activities for new business activities and prepare reports to be presented to the Chief Executive Officer& Board of Directors.•Meet with related personnel of the Business Units to discuss progress of work, resolve problems and assure that quality standards of work are met.•Ratio Analysis per Business unit and as consolidated on the MARS Holding level.•Reviewing financial statements, and conducting financial analysis to determine the progress and to recommend solutions.•Project Manager in action and Super User in Oracle ERP solution Implementation in MARS.•Project Manager in action for HFM Hyperion Financial Management Solution Implementation in MARS.•IPO Procedures, a year and a half full study for IPO were completed within 3 months for 5 subsidiaries and the Holding consolidated as well.

•Responsible for reporting directly to the Finance Manager, General Manager, Region Managers, Marketing & Sales Manager, Tender Manager. •Calculating the profitability for Tenders (Local & Export Markets), calculating the Contribution Margin of all Markets & products. •Major role in Budgeting, Calculating the Raw material (Active, Inactive, Packaging) Budget for all the Markets per product.•Sales Budget, calculating the Contribution Margin for the markets. •Analysis & Studying all products cost components (variable cost, Fixed cost, Overhead), and also analysis and studying the inventory cost. •Updating products Cost according to the updates in the raw material purchase price cost especially in calculating the Cost & CM for new tenders. •Responsible for the Costing system in the company. •Analysis of month end management reports and provision. •Production and analysis of year end and half year end performance by each department (especially the Sales & Marketing Dept.) & detailed reporting packs. •Production of financial year Budget Forecasts and monthly Forecast updates and control. Has a major role in calculating & estimating the Cost for the budgeted forecast & the profitability for these forecasts. •Establishment of performance measures & scorecards.