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Global Curated Travel Experience Startup Company based in Las Vegas Nevada.• Recorded daily transactions in QuickBooks on an accrual basis and paid suppliers such as hotels, venues, and day-to-day operations of the company. • Maintained the company credit card expenses file and mapped costs to corresponding events where relevant.• Performed monthly reconciliations (credit cards, bank, prepayment, receivable, payable, IC balances). • Prepared month end financials for Fuse Technologies and for its subsidiary and its joint venture company. • Matched revenues with corresponding expenditure for event closeouts and recorded all financial activities on closeout file to compute the company profit share and hotel commissions.• Issuance of invoices.• Liaised with hotels to confirm payments and final folios.• Worked with the corporate and formal teams to assist them with their event requests.• Compiled information to support customer’s disputes raised in Stripe.• Ad hoc assistance given to build a good financial and reporting platform for this startup which has been evolving in a fast pace environment. • Part of the Travel Experience Team during the Lovers & Friends event May 2022 Las Vegas – customer package collection.

• Headed the Finance Department of a rough and polished diamond trading company with direct reporting to the directors, and management of one staff.• Established the whole accounting platform (based on financial accounting year) and set up the Internal Management Reporting (based on sales cycles).• Issued the whole company compliance structure in terms of KYC, DMCC rules & regulations (Free Zone), tender structuring, GIA certificates, shipping - import/export documentation, VAT structuring and FTA reporting. Dealt with the company legal requirements.• Managed the company's cash flow and directly dealt with banks, suppliers and customers based around the world.• Analyzed financial data for mine and customer performance and developed reports for key stakeholders.• Dealt with all HR topics and responsible for payroll processing.• Performed the accounting, reporting, compliance and statutory accounts of Nemesis International and for 3 of its holding companies and two subsidiaries - total of 6 companies.

• Executive Assistant of the G&D Holding’s Director and in charge of managing the whole office.• Expert in setting up meeting, managing calendars, organizing business trips (flight, hotel, car rental, meeting venues), answering the office phone, welcoming clients and attending to their comfort…• Daily financial accounting & reporting and year end Statutory Accounts.• Traveled to different G&D Holding subsidiaries to provide support, control, and monitoring of dividends.• Contact point for providing financial information to the HO based in Germany on the subsidiaries’ results.• Creation/set up of one fully owned subsidiary – Veridos FZE (Dubai) and liquidation of one subsidiary in Egypt, hence strong involvement with the lawyers, consultants (Ernst & Young), banks and the Tax Authority.

Organised painting exhibitions for Lebanese painter Choucrallah Fattouh. In charge of license application (exhibition and sales license), TV and press conference set up, cocktail events, sales & shipment of paintings.

• Financial review and control over CS sundry subsidiaries spread over MENA and ensured completeness and accuracy of their monthly financial information and yearly statutory accounts. Prepared the quarterly Central Bank regulatory reporting for CS Dubai Branch and CS Qatar. Mitigated risk by implementing internal controls and safeguards for revenues and expenditures. Produced monthly inter company reconciliation.• Compiled variance analysis reports for Zurich/London and prepared business plans to help strategically direct business operations and strengthen controls.• Created SLAs, and improved/set up systems & processes.• CFO MENA ad hoc queries.

Assisted one Relationship Manager in managing clients’ assets and managed office administrative tasks. Organized the Relationship Manager timetable, travels, meetings set up and worked as a direct contact point with the clients while the Relationship Manager was on a business trip.

Financial reporting, cost control & analysis, and regulatory reporting to the UAE Central Bank.

• Audit planning, coordination and core work; testing of internal controls (reviewed and identified risks, analyzed controls and tested compliance), discrepancies investigation, audit reports production.• Review of NBAD branches compliance to ensure they were in line with procedures, rules & regulations of the bank.

Direct assistance to the CFO, financial reporting and consolidation, regulatory reporting to the CB and data compilation & ratio computation for Standard & Poor's, Moody's & Fitch .

• Audit planning, preparation of working papers, reports and supporting documentation for audit findings and prepared statutory accounts of varied clients (financial institutions, manufacturing companies, international hotels, oil companies).• Understanding of client's accounting systems and evaluation of key internal controls, systems and processes for considering the extent of reliance to be placed on them.• Developing and carrying out audit programs and procedures.• Analyzed accounting systems for efficiency and effectiveness.