HR/Finance Manager - Ashor Foundation for Relief and Development
(2025-02)
- Manage recruitment, onboarding, and staff contracts
- Maintain employee records and HR documentation
- Process payroll, benefits, and leave administration
- Support staff performance management and training
- Ensure compliance with labor laws and NGO HR policies
- Prepare and monitor budgets and cash flow
- Maintain accounting records and financial documentation
- Process payments and reconcile bank accounts
- Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports
- Ensure compliance with donor and organizational financial policies
- Coordinate internal and external audits
- Maintain effective internal controls and risk management
- Oversee procurement and asset management
- Ensure compliance with donor regulations and statutory requirements
- Liaise with donors, banks, auditors, and government authorities
- Supervise HR and finance staff
- Support project managers with budget planning and grant reporting
- Monitor financial performance and recommend improvements
- Develop and implement HR and finance procedures
- Provide regular reports to senior management on HR and financial performance
Country Finance Officer - Handicap International - Iraq, Erbil
(2023-08 - 2024-12)
- Participates in the construction and adjustment of budgets with the budget holders
- Provides budget holders with regular budget monitoring reports and assists them in the use of tools
- Produces and updates resource allocation tables (human, logistical, etc.)
- Integrates budget adjustments into the budget monitoring tools and enters cost-accounting modifications into the Financial Information System (FIS)
- Contributes towards optimizing the use of HI's own funds
- Adheres to the deadlines in HI's financial calendar
- Consolidate cash flow needs within his or her area of responsibility
- Prepares responses to questions from internal and external auditors
- Participation in preparing funding proposals for institutional donors
- Ensures that donor obligations are realistic and compatible with HI procedures
- Informs budget holders of institutional donors' financial rules and verify their application
- Verifies funding expenditure monitoring and provides budget holders with donor budget monitoring reports
- Produces financial reports for institutional donors in conformity with donor guidelines
- Enters information concerning donor contracts into donor budgets, cost-accounting and budget modifications, schedules, reports, etc.
Finance & Accountancy Officer - Handicap International - Iraq, Kirkuk
(2020-09 - 2023-06)
- Update the budget Rolling forecast Tool monthly and share it with Budget holders
- Check & challenge Budget forecasts with Budget Holders and answer questions if needed
- Ensure that planned expenses match contract's dates
- Train and support all budget holders with the management and updating of their RFs
- Liaise with all the departments to fill the Proposal design tool of the budget requested most smartly
- Participate in the preparation of the PD tool with an established strategy and guidelines from the donor
- To support upon request financial reporting
- Signal to coordination and Area manager any underspent or overspent issues related to the RFs and suggest solutions
- Ensure the implementation of the cash management policy (CMP) at the base level
- Authorize cash advances for all departments according to the cash management policy
- Organize cash withdrawals from the bank and exchange of money if needed according to the cash management policy
- Follow up with the local branch of the bank regarding any issues
- Register all the expenditures in NAVISION Accountancy Software
- Reconcile books (Safe book/Cashbook for each account) on a daily& weekly basis as per CMP
Finance Officer - Blumont INC. - Iraq, Erbil
(2020-05 - 2020-08)
- Recording and entering all Payments received from Basis to System
- Custodian of Erbil Petty cash in both IQD/ USD and maintain balance sheets and booking balance
- Following all cash transferring of fund requests and issuing cheques
- Following bank issues providing bank statements and reconciling bank statements
- Manage and monitor cash flow for all funds
- Monitor all outstanding advances disbursed into the program and support team
- Establish and maintain cash controls
- Make timely disbursements of cash for casual staff salary payments
- Maintain the purchase order system - Archiving the finance documents
Finance Assistant - Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) - Iraq, Erbil
(2019-12 - 2020-04)
- Process and prepare financial and business forms to check account balances, facilitate purchases, etc.
- Proceed for the salaries, program payments, Advances...Etc.
- Create, send, and follow up on invoices
- Collect and enter data for various financial spreadsheets
- Review and audit financial statements and reports, ensure all calculations and data entries are correct
- Reconcile any discrepancies or errors identified by conversing with employees and/or clients
- Collect information for and prepare payroll payments for employees
- Answers questions and assists stakeholders, customers, and clients as needed
Administrative & Finance Officer - Médecins du Monde (MDM-France) - Iraq, Kirkuk
(2016-08 - 2019-12)
- Manage the safe and the petty cash journals
- Make and follow up the pay-outs and advances, within established guidelines
- Prepare biweekly/monthly cash requests to Erbil
- Reconcile the accountancy with physical cash in the base and perform weekly cashbox checks under the supervision of the Field Co.
- Participate in the consolidation of budget follow-ups and cash forecasts at the base level
- Participate in the preparation of new proposals concerning financial matters (budget construction, gathering of prices and needs for support costs)
- Record all expenses in MDM accountancy's software SAGA daily
- Prepare monthly closing, revision, and integrity of accounts for the base
- Issue vouchers, and properly archive the invoices and Saga vouchers in dedicated files
- Prepare the bank reconciliation at the end of each month
- Prepare the weekly forecast of the base - Prepare the cheque payment
- Supervise, manage, and train the HR Assistant
- Support the HR Assistant in the management and updating of HR databases and personal files monthly
- Support the HR Assistant in the preparation of the monthly payroll
Administrative & Finance Assistant - Médecins du Monde (MDM-France) - Iraq, Kirkuk
(2015-07 - 2016-08)
- Day-to-day accountancy through the SAGA software by the accountancy and budgetary framework
- Responsible for reconciliation of accounting with physical cash on the base
- Control of receipts and invoices, update of cash/bank journals and balances, weekly check of the cashbox
- Estimation of the base's weekly needs for funds and submission of transfer request to Erbil
- Update of HR Payroll Database
- Manage all types of cash advances in the base
- Following up the recruitment process and preparing the recruitment requests
- Ensure the respect of MdM HR policies
- Perform general human resources functions, including staff recruitment, contract preparations, staff leaves/attendance, and timesheet tracking
Site Engineer - Galiyawa Group - Erbil, Iraq
(2015-01 - 2015-05)
- Ensure work is completed according to drawings and specifications
- Monitor project progress and maintain quality standards
- Coordinate with contractors, consultants, and project teams
- Enforce health, safety, and environmental regulations
- Prepare site reports, progress updates, and documentation
- Resolve technical issues and provide engineering support
- Manage labor, equipment, and material usage efficiently
- Assist with project scheduling and timely project completion
