Sr. Manager - Finance & Accounting

• Jan 2023 - Present

Finance Manager

• Jun 2020 - Present

• Led the preparation to finalization of annual budget, forecast and projections ensuring alignment with URED's overall strategy and direction.• Ensures delivery of the feasibility study with the required KPI’s such as IRR and NPV to facilitate decision making that supports the projected future growth of the company.• Direct point of contact to the bank for all loan communications, financing requirement, refinancing opportunity, and hedging analysis. • Leads and manages a group of 10 direct reports, and takes responsibility for hiring, retention and proper development of staff.• Plans and coordinates all aspects of the year-end audit. This role will expand to include, zakat, vat and audit packages and financial statements, providing complete and accurate information to ensure a clean audit.• Ensures timely and accurate preparation of monthly, quarterly, and year-end consolidated financial statements for management and board meetings.• Manage URED group operational cash flow, ensure that the short-term and long-term commitments and liquidity are adequately managed and the relationships with the funding institutions (banks etc.) are well maintained.• Coordinate to all Joint Venture partners in reporting the venture’s monthly position, performance, and cash flows.• Identify opportunities to improve process and systems and implement standardized solutions across area of responsibility and other areas within finance which includes Operations, Supply chain, and Real Estate.• Conduct annual performance appraisal to review employees’ work performance and recommend salary adjustments, rewards and promotions based on employee performance and carry out disciplinary meetings when needed. • Other task that requires by management from time to time. Show less

Analyst - Financial & Budget

• Aug 2015 - Present

Budgeting and Forecasting• Develop the annual budget guidelines, standards, time schedule and assumption, forms. Models and monitor the adherence of those guidelines during the budgeting process.• Directs and monitors the preparation of the consolidated budget for the entire organization, in addition to monitoring, revising, and reporting on the budget.• Seek clarifications from departments on budgets and underlying assumptions, present the consolidated budget to the Management and seek approvals.Feasibility Studies• Provide financial analysis and input for proposed projects, capital expenditure, and acquisitions in coordination with the Management at URED.• Preparation of capital expenditures requirement to be approved by the management and investors if there's any.• Develop a comparative measurement for the new proposed project.• Preparation of internal property valuation using dcf method and cap rate method and considering all internal assumptions.Financial Analysis• Analyze current trends and costs, administrative commitments, and obligations incurred as well as assess future expenses.• Prepare the monthly performance reports showing key performance indicators, trends, comment on actual vs. budget variations and risks as well as areas that require management attention.• Provide financial analysis explanations on URED's liquidity, and financial stability, using financial ratios and comparative figures.Accounting and Finance• Review of accounts on monthly basis highlighting the major changes and making sure that all policies have been followed and applied.• Provide monthly and quarterly financial statements and variance reports between actual and budgeted figures to the CFO.• Interact with auditors and participates in year-end audit by providing documents and materials as required.• Compliance with external parties such as banks, auditors and investors Show less

Financial Analyst

• Jul 2013 - Jul 2015

• Responsible for project budget preparation and ensuring that all actual cost is in line with budget. • Financial analysis where variances between actual and budget thoroughly explained and reported. • Preparation of quarterly forecast and its schedule to be compared with final budget data. • Monitoring of all accounts and schedules preparation needed in reporting. • Suggesting any corrective adjustment entries if there’s any during month end. • Checking and validating of billing to each project. • Monthly flash report to determine the status of the project. • Monthly cost estimation and computation of cost to date. • Generation of initiative report about the project standing such as dash boarding, templates through MS excel. • Review and communicate with suppliers about the accuracy of work order by comparing alongside the quotation received. • Ensuring and monitoring of payments to suppliers and consultants as stated in the contract. • Reports that will be needed from time to time. Show less

Financial Planning Analyst

• May 2012 - Jul 2013

• Assigned in TIP annual budget consolidation and validation of fixed overhead departmental budgets. • Ebitda report as measurement of operations monthly performance. • Accountable in preparation and updating the monthly headcount tracker report. • Consolidation of all revenue transactions (includes all submissions from the operations). • Revenue scrutiny per program with triangular analysis given from billing and finance summary. • Responsible for updating the business review deck which serve as template for monthly performance review. • Updates the Financial summary deck and explaining the variances on revenue side. • Assigned to prepare the monthly revenue summary and review before period close. • Accounts Receivable reconciliation on a monthly basis. • Reports preparation to submit in Canada such as TIP Headcount and Revenue report, Internal Revenue and Margin Analysis. • Point of contact to shared services as to their financial performance and some other related issues. • Assigned for globe allowance, peza report basis for allocation, hr mall cost, team building and incentives summary to be submitted to accounting for their accruals. • Cost center creation and maintenance in SAP as needs to update. • Material code creation and maintenance in SAP for invoice process. • Validation, review and release of invoice on SAP every time invoices are created. • Expense distribution/allocation on SAP. • Adhoc assignments from time to time. Show less

Cost Accountant

• Mar 2010 - Jun 2012

Accounting Assistant-Cost Accounting (General Milling Corp.) • Responsible for daily analysis of stocks movement as to receipts and issuances. • Encoding of inventory transactions in M3 such as stock in, stock out, reclassification and stock transfers. • In charge with the computation of cost for flour exchange program based on actual usages from weekly production report given by our tollers. • Preparation of sales reports and analysis for Sales Managers. • Assigned for monthly flour exchange reconciliation. • Accountable for monthly inventory insurance declaration report. • Updating and maintenance of Flour Luzon Cost books. • Preparation of gross profit analysis for Flour and Bakery business unit. • Conduct of periodic inventory taking at the Flour main warehouse. • Preparation of annual budgets for Sales, Cost of Sales and Gross Profits. • Accounting Assistant-Accounts Payable (General Milling Corp.) • Responsible for preparation of manual books of accounts such as Cash Disbursements book, Purchases book, and Import/Treasury transactions. • Preparation of disbursement vouchers and check payments. • Monthly updating of ledgers for Accounts Payable and Advances to suppliers. • Summarizing of monthly receipted allowances of Officers. • Journalizing of liquidations from the Petty cash fund. Show less

General Accountant

• Jan 2009 - Apr 2010

Accountant (ChilLine Attitude Corporation) • Daily preparation of journal vouchers and check payments. • Performed the liquidation of petty cash when exhausted. • Preparation of weekly cash disposition forecast. • Monthly preparation and maintenance of sales book and cash disbursement book. • Verification with the bank of all cash receipts deposited by our clients. • Performed monthly bank reconciliation. • Analysis of monthly balances for accounts receivables and accounts payable. • Preparation of monthly financial reports such as: Income Statements, Balance Sheets, Statement of Cash Flows and other schedules as required. Show less