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Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Awards and Achievements. • Success fully completed UAE VAT training session and implemented VAT processes from transaction mapping till VAT return and refund filing with FTA.Duties and responsibilities. • Assist and supervise accounts payable staff and payable function of the company. • Verify accounting entries, payment vouchers, petty cash expenses, and employee reimbursements prepared by the Accounts Assistant before they are reviewed by authorized signatories.• Analyze monthly cost of sales and expense GL to identify and accrue unrecorded liabilities. • Prepare and reconcile quarterly VAT returns and ensure timely filing.• Prepare and submit quarterly VAT refunds to FTA. • Verify import documentation and ensure accurate booking of accounting entries to facilitate proper reverse charge accounting for VAT purposes.• Co-ordinate with tax advisers and Federal Tax Authority on specific VAT return issues, ensuring accuracy and timely resolution according to statutory requirements. • Prepare monthly gross P&L report for Aircraft Maintenance and charter sales departments and provide variance analysis and MIS reports for Management. • Prepare analytical reports for managed aircraft clients analyzing fixed costs, variable costs, trip cost on monthly basis and coordinating with clients on various ad-hoc queries. • Review monthly accounts receivable aging report and provide status update to Management Team. • Review daily bank reconciliations and provide status updates, cashflow forecast to the management team. • Maintain healthy relationship with banking officials for foreign currency transactions, corporate credit card matters and other ad-hoc requirements. • Assist finance team with day-to-day and month end activities and identify and improve internal control and processes. • Perform any other duties as assigned by the Finance Director.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Awards and Achievements. Received exceptional efforts awards for year 2014 for playing a key role in Al Futtaim Travel migration to Shared Services Finance.Duties and responsibilities. • In charge of accounts payable for Al Futtaim Travel. • Processing weekly fortnightly and monthly BSP and airline payment on timely manner.• Processing vendor payment upon completion of reconciliation for local hotels, online hotel suppliers and other suppliers.• Processing weekly payment for corporate credit cards and maintaining up-to-date records for monthly reconciliation. • Assisting DSR reconciliation team and operations team for invoicing, refunds, XO preparation and other operational matters.• Updating and providing MIS reports to the management for late reporting and under reporting of transactions.• Assisting ICM accountant for monthly acceptance of ICM transaction. • Providing assistance for accounts payable team.

United Arab Emirates

• Overall responsible person for the accounts department of Al Naboodah travel & Tourism – Ajman and Abu Dhabi Branches. • Updating and reconciling Daily Sales Report (HMPR) for BSP Sales and Refunds.• Maintaining credit records for Corporate Clients and coordinating with them for LPO’s, payments, refunds, fund transfers, statement of accounts, reconciliations, etc.• Preparing monthly credit statement for all credit clients and sending notifications to credit clients to receive payments on due dates.• Providing fortnight and Monthly Sales Reports to higher management to evaluate branch and staff performance.• Maintaining up-to-date records of non BSP Airlines (Flydubai, airarabia, etc) and Hotel Suppliers for timely payments.• Reconciling Bank Accounts with the General Ledger.• Maintaining and being responsible for particular amount of Petty Cash float and cash collection.

IN-CHARGE OF ACCOUNTS PAYABLE DEPARTMENT Overall responsible person for all payouts by the company, recording and updating all the transactions into the fully integrated Abacus Power Suite Accounting & Management software. Downloading BSP Billing statement (airline payment statement) online from IATA Web Site and reconciling the billing statement with the Exchange Order listing which is done by the Travel Agent sales persons. Checking the accuracy of daily Exchange Orders (costing) & Invoice raised by the sales persons for the daily ticketing sales, hotel package sales, tour sales, etc. Comparing the exchange order listing with the BSP billing statement and reporting & rectifying the errors in exchange orders. Checking IATA web site daily for ADMS(Agency Debit Memo)/ACMS(Agency Credit Memo) and clarifying those with the airlines and dispute irrelevant ADMS accordingly. Preparing the payment voucher and settling the BSP Airline payment without any delay. Maintaining and being responsible for particular amount of Petty Cash float with regard to visa related service expenses & minor expenses  Preparing document to the Bank for Overseas Telegraphic Transfers (OTT) via-bank in order to settle overseas suppliers. Calculating monthly & quarterly taxes (Value Added Tax, Economic Service charges, Nation Building Tax, stamp duty, etc.) and remitting to Inland Revenue with duly perfected Tax Forms. Preparing monthly Bank Reconciliations Preparing monthly journal reports on company expense and presentation during board meetings Handling calculations of monthly commission statements individually for sales staff, freelancer sales, introducer commission sales, etc. Working closely with other junior accountants to ensure that duties run smoothly Interact with internal and external auditors in completing audits

Business Risk Services (BRS) – Internal Audits  Involved in a number of internal audits and risk assessments of large groups of companies and public organizations, private enterprises.Key Clients:-o Delmege Forsyth & Co. Ltd.o Colombo Stock Exchange o Union Assurance PLC.o HNB Assurance PLC. Involved in planning, executing and reporting stages of audit engagements. Maintaining a strong client focus by effectively serving client needs and developing productive working relationships with client personnel.  Delivering high-quality client service by directing the weekly progress of fieldwork and informing engagement status to the Supervisors.  Displaying teamwork, integrity and leadership.  Developing internal control systems and monitoring same as part of implementation support. Consulting clients with regard to strengths and weaknesses within internal control systems and advising on methods to improve the same.

Accounting And Finance

General Certificate Of Advanced Level, Commerce

Higher Education/Higher Education Administration