Mohamed Abdullah

Dedicated Finance Professional with over 6 +years of experience in Record-to-Report (R2R) operations within the BPO industry. Proficient in month-end closing and reporting activity. Passionate about leveraging process improvement Skills to drive impactful change and foster innovation in financial operation.

General Ledger Accountant - IBM India Private Limited - Chennai

(2022-05 - 2026-11)

Month-end Closing & Reporting

• Managed end-to-end Record-to-Report (R2R) activities, ensuring accurate and timely month-end and year-end financial close.
• Prepared and posted accrual, provision, reclassification, reversal, and adjustment journal entries in compliance with accounting policies.
• Monitored and validated the completion of all scheduled standard journal entries, ensuring successful posting in the ERP system.
• Managed the complete Fixed Asset lifecycle, including asset creation, capitalization, transfers, retirement, scrapping, depreciation, and asset settlement activities.
• Executed settlement runs in SAP after completing all necessary postings and validations, ensuring accurate allocation of costs and timely period-end closure.
• Executed SAP depreciation runs and validated depreciation postings once all asset capitalization, transfers, retirements, and other FA transactions were completed.
• During the month end performing the executable task of GRIR, AP & AR Regrouping and GL FX Currency rate validation.
• Conducted Intercompany reconciliation and mismatch analysis using Power BI, identifying and resolving variances across group entities.
• Coordinated with Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable (AR) teams to resolve aged supplier and customer balances.
• Updated allocation values, generated and validated document numbers, obtained country confirmations, and executed allocation cycle runs during month-end close activities.
• Reviewed Trial Balance and General Ledger accounts before month-end close, ensuring financial data accuracy and identifying unusual balance movements.
• Processed and cleared Funds in Transit (FIT) transactions by matching bank interface entries with customer receipts, vendor payments, and General Ledger postings in SAP.
• Investigated and resolved unidentified and unmatched bank transactions through coordination with internal stakeholders.
• Supported HFM period close, financial reporting, audit submissions, and year-end SAP rollover activities for assigned company codes.
• Maintained monitoring trackers for standard journals, adhoc postings, fixed asset transactions, allocation runs, and finance support tickets.
• Tracked month-end deliverables and ensured completion of activities within established timelines and SLAs.
• Coordinated with AP, AR, and stakeholders on open items, mailbox queries, process changes, DTP creation, and knowledge transfer activities.
• Attended weekly client governance calls to discuss operational performance, issue resolution, and process updates.
• Participated in daily month-end status calls to provide updates on scheduled postings, pending activities, and work-in-progress transactions.

Senior Accountant - Al Khaja Group - Dubai, UAE

(2019-07 - 2022-02)

• Managed AP/AR accounting activities including invoice booking, supplier/customer reconciliation and maintenance of accounting records.
• Managed cash and bank transactions, reconciled bank statements and tracked bank-related accounting entries.
• Prepared cheque payments through ERP and coordinated authorization with relevant signatories; coordinated vendor payment reconciliation.
• Prepared and processed utility payments including DEWA, SEWA, ADDC, Mall Management, Etisalat and DU.
• Prepared monthly cash flow statements by collecting and analyzing information from relevant departments and maintained books of accounts.
• Managed Intercompany AP & AR transactions, covering payment processing, receipt allocation, transaction monitoring and reconciliation activities.
• Prepared AP & AR forecasting reports and WHT review files, coordinating with clients and Tax team for required reviews and payment confirmations.
• Coordinated with Fiscal & Cash Management teams for fund availability and monitored payments for correct bank account, bank acceptance and approved value date.
• Performed AR receipt allocation, unpaid/unallocated transaction analysis, ageing review, credit-note and wrong payment/receipt analysis, and posted Journal Vouchers for intercompany activities.

Process Associate - Accenture Service Pvt Ltd - Chennai

(2016-12 - 2019-04)

MBA - Financial management - The University of Madras (2015-12)

B. Com - The New College Autonomous (2012-06)