Senior Accountant
Amana Information Services DMCC & DIFC
Total years of experience :13 years, 11 Months
Coordinated the full month-end procedure, including preparation
of balance sheets, income statements, and trial balance statements
of five entities
Keep financial records and establish, maintain, and balance various
accounts using manual and computerized bookkeeping systems.
Assist senior manager in preparing Financial Statement.
Showed outstanding performance as a coordinator in yearly external audits
conducted by PWC and EY.
Successfully trained five junior accountants in corporate policy and new
accounting systems.
Achieved 90% plus score on performance appraisal with all KPIs for all
quarters of employment.
Selected from a team of 10 competing team members to provide in-person
and remote training for bookkeeper interns.
Appreciated by management for negotiating with Federal Tax Authority and
succeed to get the refund of $ 80, 000 pending excessive VAT.
Advisor to Chief Finance Officer and partnered with the IT department for
implementing a new accounting system in the company.
Created and implemented accounting policies and practices supporting the
new automated system before the deadline.
Reduced unnecessary expenses processing time by 20%, saving $20, 000,
implementing an in-house payroll system, and eliminating the need for
an outside payroll provider.
Devised and deployed multiple cost-savings initiatives resulting in a 15%
reduction in company expenditures.
Responsible for KPI analysis and evaluation of costs and margins
• Supervised a team of 22 employees responsible for Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Payroll Administration with full accountability for hiring, training, and performance assessment.
• Calculate and prepare cheques for payroll and responsible for process vendor payments.
• Responsible for allied product (Xpress Money) reconciliations. Created a centralized accounts reconciliations process which reduced unnecessary reports processing time by 20%.
• Implemented two-step daily expense authorization systems which saved yearly expenses $25, 000 for the company.
• Newly implemented advance payment settlement systems reduced the reconciliation time by 10%.
• Maintained the $2.5 million General Ledger encompassing UAE and U.S. currency transactions.
• Played a key accounting role on various project teams ensuring mandates were completed in accordance with company financial guidelines and budgetary allowances.
• Partnered with suppliers to reconcile a 60-days accounts receivable backlog
• Post journal entries and prepare trial balance of books.
• Maintain general ledgers and financial statements.
• Fixed Asset accounting, reconciliations, and depreciation journals.
• Prepare& submit VAT& Tax returns and reconcile accounts.
• Responsible for financial accounts including budgets and cash flow.
• Assist in the preparation of monthly balance sheet account reconciliations.
• Inputting supplier invoices and employee expense claims to the ledgers.
• Act as a point of contact for branch accounts and admin queries.
• Managing petty cash transactions and bookkeeping.
• Assisting Country Accounts Dept. in AR & AP functions.
• Ordering and taking stock of office supplies.
• Preparing Salary Information File for WPS (Payroll) system and Processing DD, ET, XTT and SWIFT instruments for fund transfer.
• Completing all client onboarding applications & Customer Due Diligence checks.
• Managing a team of customer service staff for enhancing client satisfaction by resolving issues and ensuring qualitative service delivery.
Support original research and analysis.
Conduct extensive field visits to the project area and formulate a detailed understanding of the problems.
Collect and verify data at local level.
Contact journalists, public officials, public representatives and others at local level.
Fill up structured questionnaires with data received from respondents at local level.
Analysis of companies, instruments, investments, projects etc.
Developing industry database, reports etc.
Preparing feasibility reports, financial modeling etc.
Conduct research on customers and decision makers for specific market and customer base.
Analyze and prepare reports on research results conducted by the department.
Collect and analyze secondary data to generate reports as required by the company
Support original research and analysis.
Prepare data sets for analysis by senior staff.
Proofread, fact-check, and edit documents.
Assist in the coordination and planning of meetings and events.
Draft talking points, columns, papers, charts, tables, and graphs of economic data.
Assisting the research team in an extensive field survey regarding economic condition of Beneficiary Households
Std of ACCA
Masters of Social Science (MSS)
Bachelor of Social Science (BSS)