Please turn on your javascript Abdullah Jafari - Accounts Manager - Abdul Latif Jameel Co. - Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Summary

An experienced accountant seeking a challenging working position, where I can fully utilize my education, skills, and experience. And to improve those around me with my strong attitude to work and my endless pursuit for knowledge and perfection

Experience

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Accounts Manager
Abdul Latif Jameel Co.
May 2015 - Present | Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Job Role/Department: Centralized Account Payable.

- Responsible for activities and operations in the accounts payable function for the organization
- Analyzes invoices and expense reports for accuracy and eligibility for payment
- Ensures timely payments of vendor invoices and expense vouchers and maintains accurate financial records and control reports
- Prepares accounts payable register and related reports in a timely manner
- Responsible for the integrity of all payments (Ensuring appropriate signatories and approvals are in place according with the delegation of authority.
- Monthly review for VAT file.
- Follow up vendor contracts with operation and legal department.
- Review and approve all payment related to inventory.
- Review and approve customs and port charges payments.
- Provide escalated problem solving support and diffuse conflicts as they arise
- Close and reconcile accounts payable and general ledger in a timely manner at end of month.
- Vendor statement review.
- SAP
- Appian Work Flow System.

Job Role/Department: Inventory & GL
- Controlling Cost of Sales.
- Approving all Stock Supplier Payments.
- Supervision of Customs, Port and shipments Handling Charges.
- Controlling Supplier Reconciliation on Monthly Basis.
- Controlling the Stock Adjustment on monthly biases.
- Prepare Monthly Receiving Sheet of all shipments and control the LC.
- Approve all Stock DN and CN issued for business associates and related parties.
- Control All adjustment on Stock and damage items.
- Monthly Reporting.
- Control Stock Accrual. (FOB, Freight, Customs, Insurance)
- Managing the monthly closing process,
- Maintaining proper reconciliation of all G/L accounts.
- Monthly expense variance analysis
- Control Accruals and Prepaid Accounts (Recurring and Analysis).
- Maintain Monthly Recurring for Fixed Expenses Accounts.
- Trial Balance analysis.
- Monthly VAT reports analysis
- Stock Reconciliation.
- Monthly Reporting.
- GL Clearing.
- Oracle System.
- SAP System.

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Chief Accountant
Carrefour
Jan 2014 - Mar 2015 | Amman, Jordan

- Supervising an accounting team.
- Sales control; review sales entries and give approval on them.
- Control monthly reconciliation for sales accounts and all related accounts (Electronic gift cards, gift vouchers, promo gift).
- monthly review for bank and credit card reconciliation.
- Monthly break down for balance sheet accounts and adjust variances.
- Maintains and review all long-term contracts (rent, maintenance, Insurance.etc.) to determine due payable and process it in due time.
- approve the calculation of consignment goods, commission and issue invoices for suppliers also follow up the new agreement with the sourcing and legal departments.
- Monthly closing.
- Control prepaid and accruals accounts.
- final audit for payroll process and prepare the salaries transfer.
- working on JD Edward Oracle ERP system
- Using Business Object software (financial reporting).
- Cartesis SAP to finalize the monthly financials.

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Accountant
Bestseller
Sep 2009 - Jan 2014 | Amman, Jordan

- Review daily sales and post them.
- Accurately gather and analyze financial information to prepare entries to accounts such as insurance, rent, and municipality entries.
- Review accounting documents to ensure accuracy of information and calculations and resolve discrepancies.
- Reconciliation of the banks\' balance reports with the company bank balance
- Generate P & L reports.
- Assist the Senior Accountant in Conducting monthly closings.
- Shipment cost allocation, by allocate the customs and freight charges for each unit using the weighted average cost.
- Observe the received shipments and control the missing and extra items by ordering and CN & DN.
- Preparation of monthly statements of account sent to vendors and associates to current emphasis on safety and health of the balances of these accounts and makes the necessary adjustments, if any, differences.
- Managing AP accounts on regular basis, and prepare the due amounts.
- Handling the petty cash.
- Handling tax issues. (Preparation and payments).
- Payrolls
- Working on Microsoft Dynamic Navision.

Education

Hashemite University
Bachelor, Bachelors, , ‎
Accounting and Commercial Law
CGPA 3/4
2009

Skills

Expert Account Payable
Expert Account Receivable
Expert Delievry Planning
Expert General Ledger Maintenenace
Expert Oracle
Expert Outstanding Time Management
Expert Production Quality Monitoring

Languages

Expert English