Saif World Trade

Senior finance & accounts management professional with 20 years of experience in managing finance & accounts across diverse roles in the organizational hierarchy. Acknowledged for consistently maintaining organizational P&L utilizing financial prudence and managerial acumen across professional career; exploring challenging managerial assignments with a professionally managed organization

Finance and Admin Manager at Arabian S. Co. (1997-04 – 2017-04)

Senior management role overseeing finance and administration operations

• Collaborated with various departments in preparing annual financial plans, budgets and forecasts aimed at maintaining organizational profitability
• Maintained budgetary controls through frequent variance analysis and specific measures
• Prepared payment forecasts including strategies to resolve challenges related to limited cash flow
• Interacted with banks aimed at seamless financial and business transactions
• Assessed divisional cash flow and followed up on collections for maintaining adequate liquidity aligned to business or operational requirements
• Defined and implemented strategies with regards to day to day functioning of the organization
• Guided employees in enhancing client satisfaction through prompt resolution of issues and qualitative service delivery
• Liaised with HODs in ensuring resolution of employee related issues from administration perspective
• Updated and maintained various documents and records based on organizational requirements

Chief Accountant at Arabian S. Co. (2003-06 – 2013-09)

Led day to day operations of the accounting department with responsibility for financial statements and budget management

• Spearheaded day to day operations of the accounting department, preparing and evaluating financial statements including preparing schedules
• Participated in monthly closure procedures, account reconciliation including preparing, consolidating and monitoring budgets
• Conducted variance analysis by comparing actual performance to budgeted figures, assessed performance indicators highlighting trends and causes of unexpected variance
• Managed monthly and yearly process of accounts payable/receivable, cash receipts, general ledger including payroll and utilities
• Managed budgeting, cash forecasting, revenue and expenditure variance analysis, reconciliations, fixed asset management
• Maintained updated details related to accounts payable/accounts receivables including general ledger, journal entries, account analysis and reconciliation
• Set up and maintained proper accounting methods, policies and principles
• Participated in internal and external audits followed by effectively implementing audit recommendations
• Implemented various process improvement initiatives and remedial measures based on business and operational requirements
• Followed up with various support teams in ensuring compliance to project SLA parameters across assigned projects
• Maintained updated financial files and records for documenting and archiving financial transactions in compliance to organizational policies and statutory regulations
• Prepared and presented various status reports to the senior management and other stakeholders to enable effective decision making

Accountant at Arabian S. Co. (1997-04 – 2003-12)

Entry to mid-level accounting position

Bachelor degree in Accounting – Beirut Arab University