Experience

Dubai Holding Group

• United Arab Emirates
• Retail
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Accounts Manager

  • May 2017 - Present

  About the company: Dubai Holding group is a multicultural retail organization representing well known European fashion franchises such as Zara, Zara Home, Stradivarius, Sfera, Women Secret, Promod and Gerard Darel with more than 40 stores across in UAE, Oman, Bahrain and Qatar. The company has got the employee strength of 450+. Key Responsibilities  Management Reports. Maintaining and finalising Books of Accounts, preparing Financials and Consolidated Group Financials as per IFRS and managing Audits  Statutory and Interim Audits. Be the point of contact for external auditors and closely work with them by providing relevant information, schedules and explanations to ensure the smooth completion of audit process on time.  VAT and other Tax Regime: Ensure the monthly VAT submissions are done on time and coordinate with the VAT consultants on periodic basis for both UAE and Bahrain.  Monitoring the regular activities of 42+ stores, ensure the smooth operation with regards to Financial activities etc.  Coordination and closely work with IT, HR, Payroll, Operation, Logistics departments etc.  Annual budget of the company. Closely work with the Head of Finance department in preparing with the annual budget of the company.  Closely work with the Head of Finance in delivering timely and accurate financial information, planning and creating accounting policies and reviews.  Guiding the entire Accounts team members on all day to day related are of work.  Keeping active relation with Banking officials and other service providers. Show less



Jacky's Business Solutions LLC

• Dubai

• Chief Accountant

  • Jun 2013 - May 2017

   Responsible for the complete accounting and finance functions of the company. Handling the daily Cash flow management of the company, liaising with the Bank for day today operation and other trade finance services.  Responsible for the monthly MIS reports of the company. Prepare & Present the consolidated income statements and divisional profitability analysis, variance analysis etc.  Responsible for the Trade Finance operations of the company. Handle the Letter of credit, Acceptances, Local bill discounting, Bank guarantees, TT-TR etc and liaise with the Bank RM on a daily basis for day to day activities.  Responsible for Credit control functions of the company. Reviewing the customer credit application, assessing the credibility of the applicant, and allotting the credit based on the review. Timely follow up with department heads for the collections from the customer. Monitoring the customer credit limit and ensure all the sales order are made within the limit  Responsible for Audit and Finalisation of accounts. Preparation of various schedules, prepayments, provisions and co-ordinate with external Auditors for audit related reports and schedules. Overseeing the whole Accounting system to ensure that it is prepared by strictly adhering to Accounting Standard (IAS and IFRS) followed in the Country.  Coordinate with the supplier (Local & Overseas) for timely payments and other issues. Ensure the accuracy of the costing of all the GRN and initiate for the payments to supplier.  Responsible for the Fixed Asset Management, Intercompany transactions and other adhoc requirements from the Management etc.  Verify and distribute the incentive calculations of the sales staffs based on the collection from the customers.  Monitoring & ensuring the accuracy of the works of subordinates. Coordinate with them to complete the task assigned within the target dates. Show less



Jacky's Electronics

• Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Chief Accountant

  • Aug 2006 - May 2013

   Responsible for the preparation of monthly MIS reports, which includes divisional profitability analysis, Comparative P&L with regard to Budgeted P&L etc, Variance analysis etc.  Responsible for Audit and Finalisation of accounts. Preparation of various schedules, prepayments, provisions and co-ordinate with external Auditors for audit related reports and schedules. Overseeing the whole Accounting system to ensure that it is prepared by strictly adhering to Accounting Standard followed in the Country.  Cash Flow management of the company. Monitoring daily banking activities of 12 Bank accounts and effective fund utilisation. To Forecast and analyse the cash flow situation of the company and ensure all liabilities are settled in time.  Co-ordinate with Dept heads in formation of new accounting policies and procedures and implementing it in a computerised environment with the support of IT dept to ensure the better practice and control.  Monthly ledger scrutiny, ensuring the accuracy of all the financial entries with regard to MIS reporting and providing various periodical and adhoc reports to the Finance Manager, like debtors ageing, receivables report etc. Monitoring & Co-ordinating with junior staffs to finish the month end works on time to keep the deadline accurate  Responsible for the maintenance of Inter company accounts and reconciliation of the same. Monitoring and generating various monthly & weekly reports pertaining to normal transactions and ensuring overall control of GL related aspects.  Preparation and maintenance of fixed asset module, depreciation calculation and reconciliation with General ledger, preparing monthly fixed asset analysis report  Receivables & Credit Control management. Monitoring debtors collection and debtors ageing and to provide supportive action to resolve the issues in association with Credit control department Show less