Chief Accountant
Al-Murjan Group
Total years of experience :31 years, 7 Months
- Responsible for overseeing all aspects of an organization’s accounting function
- compliance with accounting standards and practices to working with the chief financial officer (CFO) on developing financial strategies for the company
Reports directly to CFO and interfaces directly with other senior management team members, board of directors, advisors and shareholders or investors
• Monitors compliance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and company procedures
• Issues timely and complete financial statements under US GAAP and/or IFRS
• Reviews, investigates, and corrects errors and inconsistencies in financial entries, documents, and reports
• Assures compliance with federal, state, local and corporate policies, regulations and laws
• Researches and analyzes accounting matters
• Evaluates current accounting practices and policies and drives continuous improvement
• Prepares work papers and supporting schedules for the annual financial review
• Prepares financial statements and other reports to summarize and interpret current and projected company financial position. Ensures integrity of all financial information.
• Coordinates monthly closing process
• Develops and implements various accounting procedures
• Works with both internal and external auditors during financial and operational audits
• Develops, implements and upgrades financial systems and controls
- Preparing and confirming vouchers.
- Reconcile and post accounts to the General Ledger for transactions.
- Coordinator for computerizing all manual accounting system.
- Training assistant staff.
- Being the liaison between the branch offices and the corporate accounting office with responsibility for completing the monthly financial statement close by the deadline which includes:
o Validation of branch files for accuracy and completeness
o Preparation of journal entries including cost of goods sold, prepaid expenses, accrued expenses, reclassifications
o Inventory analysis to determine the cause of book to physical variances
o Tracking receipt of branch data and maintaining final records
· Review of financial statements for each branch in the region and account level variance analysis to identify errors and opportunities for improvement
· Monthly in-depth discussion with each branch manager regarding the financial results
· Training office management level staff in proper procedures and internal control practices and validating that the procedures are being followed. Key areas include daily cash deposits, daily billing, collections, accounts payable coding, approvals and data entry, inventory counts, fixed asset additions.
· Maintaining existing process documents and creating new process documents
· Performing branch specific balance sheet account reconciliations, including but not limited to the following. This includes timely follow up and resolution of outstanding amounts and maintaining relevant supporting documents.
o Vat
*Cash
o Inventory
o Accounts Receivable
o Fixed assets
o Refundable customer deposits
o Deferred Income
o Accrued Expenses
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