Results-driven Senior Accountant with 18 years of experience in financial management, tax compliance, and imports. Proven expertise in ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting, tax returns, and import compliance. Skilled in client relationship management, financial analysis, and team leadership. Proficient in accounting software, ERP systems, and Excel.
Key strengths include:
- Tax compliance: Prepared and reviewed corporate tax returns, sales tax, and VAT returns
- Imports: Managed import accounting, customs duties, taxes, and freight costs; ensured compliance with Dubai and other regulations
- Client dealing: Built and maintained strong relationships with clients, providing exceptional service and guidance on accounting and tax matters
- Financial management: Supervised and mentored junior accountants, prepared financial statements, and performed financial analysis and budgeting
- Leadership: Led accounting teams, implemented accounting procedures, and improved efficiency and accuracy.
Maintaining financial records, VAT reports, Inventory reports, Arrange Import & Export shipment, Sales, Purchase, A/c Receivable, A/c Payable, Managing budgets, Risk assessments, Bank trust receipts, Cash, Petty cash, Bank accounts, WPS system, Daily transactions, Preparing journal entries, Business strategy reviews, Vehicle Insurance, Warehouse Insurance, Stock Insurance, complete year‑end closing processes with controllers and external auditors.
Ensure financial records are maintained in compliance with management policies and procedures, general ledger entries, verification for all accounts and bank accounts, ensure accurate and appropriate recording and analyzing the records, process invoices, expense claims, contracts and related documentation, check for, accuracy and alignment with contractual terms or approvals, match invoices contracts/agreements, prepare payable reports and review vendor activity to ensure all monthly invoices have, been received and processed, preparing budgets for construction site & departments, monitoring budgets cost center wise and report provide to management, reconciliation of debtors and creditors accounts and bank reconciliation, preparing attendance & payroll, keep records of short term & long term security deposits, keep official documents & record up to date, assist to chief finance officer
Posting daily transactions, preparing and forwarding invoices to clients, collection of payments, check accounts and expenses of other branches, submission of income tax, assist to charted accountant for taxation other duties as customer service & support, assist to marketing manager, pursued hundreds of client leads through personal marketing, dealing with customers for advertisement in cinemas and tv cable, arrange and monitor advertisement schedules