SUMMARY:

• 13 years of work experience in accounting. 7 years of work experience in international banking. 8 years of work experience in Oil & Gas companies.3 years of work experience in manufacturing companies, 7 years of work experience in Accounts Payable. More than 4 years of experience in Accounts Receivable. More than 8 years of work experience with SAP (FI, CO, MM, PP, SD modules). Master’s Degree in Finance; Expert in Financial Analysis / Accounts Payable / Accounts Receivable / GL Accounting / Pricing Analysis / Cost Accounting / Fixed Assets / Audit.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SKILLS: Excellent knowledge of PC packages ((Windows, Microsoft Office - Excel (Filter; Grouping; Color Coding; Pivot tables; VLookups; HLookups; Macros; providing the spreadsheets in the requested formats; templates/forms); Word; PowerPoint; Outlook, Access)) Advanced knowledge of SAP system, knowledge of other accounting systems - Blackbaud Financial Edge, FMS PeopleSoft, QuickBooks; Month end/Year end; Accruals; Financial statements; GAAP & IFRS; Sarbanes Oxley; Contracts review skills; ost Control; Cost Accounting; Pricing Analysis; Knowledge of US Taxation; Analytical skills (Analytical Tools and Techniques, Ratios, Cross-sectional Analysis, Regression Analysis, Financial Modelling; use of graphs, reconciliations); Inventory Valuation; Writing manuals; Supervision & of Staff; Audit skills; Banking systems SWIFT, HUB; Humming Bird, Web STP; Securities.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Export, PA

Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Sending Purchase Orders to Confidential Germany to order the saw machines and storage systems. Creating machine sales orders, down payment invoices, creating of materials, receiving of materials in the system, processing of Confidential Germany’s invoices, outbound deliveries of the machines and systems to the customers, final invoices to the customers.
• Processing of the daily Machines’ Parts and Service invoices to the customers.
• Processing of deposits received from the customers, daily cash receipts.
• Sending of weekly sales performance info to Confidential Germany, cash flow reports (Operating Activities), processing of monthly performance report.
• Updating pricing of saw machines in Excel, converting metric units into imperial in quotes.
• Processing of expense reports, answering customers’ inquiries, creating customers in SAP, setting up the customers either as invoices emailing or hard copy invoices mailing customers, releasing of sales orders in SAP. Processing of AP invoices in SAP Workflow system.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Accounting Analyst (Contractor position through IFG)

Responsibilities:

• Downloading Business Intelligence (BI) reports into Excel for the different kind of reconciliations. Maintaining the logs for the reimbursement requests for third parties and sending them to AP Department. Updating (FI) invoices log. Downloading the AR invoices & Credit Notes, Debit Memos and Retroactive Pricing Memos logs from SAP into Excel and keeping the track of all these documents. Rebates’ log update. Non-exempt customers’ sales tax report reconciliation. Reconciliation of shipments processed by third parties. Freight cost analysis. Mapping of old SAP G/L Accounts with the new SAP G/L Accounts. Upload of Excel spreadsheet into SAP. Export of Trial Balance from SAP into Excel.
• Customers invoices pricing audit, checking the prices and contracts' terms & conditions in SAP and Sharepoint (contracts website) and contacting pricing team for the corrections. Retroactive Pricing Credit and Debit Memos processing. Helping to external and internal auditors to audit the processed transactions.

Confidential, Brandon, FL

AR / SAP Accountant (Temp-to-hire position through Accounting Principals)

Responsibilities:

• Processing of deposits received from the customers, daily cash receipts. Intercompany transactions, chargebacks, credit memos, bill-backs, rebates. Providing customers with the Weekly, Monthly and Quarterly Sales Reports and statements according to their requested formats. Corrections of contracts codes in the iContracts website. Processing of customers returns or mis-shipments: credit memos, reversals: the review of the customers’ materials purchase reports before processing those returns. Uploading the information from an accounting system into Excel for a different kind of reconciliations. Processing of deposits received from non-customers, journal entries. Unblocking the Sales Orders per Customer Service request. Review of customers’ accounts for the old uncollected/unpaid invoices and contacting the sales representatives so they would contact the customer. Reconciliations of customers purchases on a quarterly basis for processing the rebates. Reconciling / clearing the open items with the credit memos “to clean up” the customers’ accounts. Helping to the warehouse with an inventory count. Constantly catching the mistakes on customers’ bill-backs and chargebacks which helps to save the money for the Company. Created AR deduction and manual invoice forms in Excel.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Accountant (Contractor position through IFG)

Responsibilities:

• Co-Producers Exchanges' Shipments: creating of purchase orders, deliveries, shipments, vendor invoices. Helping with month-end. Manual (FI) invoices for the customers. Automated AR invoices, Credit Notes, Debit Memos and Retroactive Pricing Memos. Rebates.
• Downloading Business Intelligence (BI) reports into Excel for the different kind of reconciliations. Maintaining the logs for the reimbursement requests for third parties and sending them to AP Department. Updating (FI) invoices log. Downloading the AR invoices & Credit Notes, Debit Memos and Retroactive Pricing Memos logs from SAP into Excel and keeping the track of all these documents. Rebates’ log update. Non-exempt customers’ sales tax report reconciliation. Reconciliation of shipments processed by third parties. Freight cost analysis.
• Customers invoices pricing audit, checking the prices and contracts' terms & conditions in SAP and Sharepoint (contracts website) and contacting pricing team for the corrections.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Accounts Payable Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Passing the invoices to the different departments’ Managers for approval and coding, processing them in Blackbaud Financial Edge. Collecting W-9 forms from local vendors & W-8BEN forms from overseas ones before inputting the new vendors or artists into the system. Input of correct codes according to Chart of Accounts or Project codes. Cutting Vendors’ checks. Preparing Wire Transfer Requests for payment to local and overseas vendors, artists and artists’ agencies. Vendors’ Accounts Analysis and Reconciliation. Review of the outstanding checks every 6 months, voiding and reissuing the new ones. Ensuring the bills are paid in the timely manner.
• Payment of 30% income tax to IRS (EFTPS) for non-resident artists. Preparing of 1042-S tax forms and reports. Preparing of 1099-MISC tax forms and 1096 report. Providing of Company’s W-9 form to the customers and Sales Tax Exemption to the vendors. Sales/use tax payment in e-tides. Insurance, 403K, taxes, different funds, other third party payments entries.
• Wire Transfer Templates; the Invoices Register; 1042-S templates. Uploading the information from an accounting system into Excel for a different kind of reconciliations.
• Journal Entries/GL Entries in Blackbaud Financial Edge, e.g. monthly bulk and regular mail postage posting, monthly labor re-billables posting, re-class between accounts and projects per different departments requests. Year-end closure. Compliance with GAAP.
• Creation of Project Codes according to a Season Guide. Checking the Weekly Expense and Purchasing Card Reports (coding and the back-ups/receipts). Helping to the Managers of different departments with the review and analysis of their accounts/costs centers and budgets. Helping with an annual external audit. Writing the manuals for AP processing.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Trade Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Processing and Settlement of domestic trades (US Markets) Received versus Payment, Delivered versus Payment, Received Free, Delivered Free; Block header trades; Turnarounds; Segregations; Releases in GSP and ASP systems. Communicating with Administrators when discrepancies exist on trades received from them (e.g. wrong broker, erroneous CUSIP/ISIN). Emailing Global SMF, Physical SMF, SMF for CUSIPs/ISINs inputs, Global BMF, BMF for brokers inputs

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Accounts Payable Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Processing of PO & non-PO invoices in SAP. Obtaining of Managers’ signatures for non-PO / Contract based invoices, sending for the receipts to Receiving Department of materials/services in invoices based on POs. Contacting local and overseas vendors for the correction of invoices or for the statements. Input of correct codes according to Chart of Accounts, cost centers and WBS. Ensuring that tax is applied on the invoices where applicable. Vendors’ Accounts Analysis and Reconciliation. Helping to the Procurement Department and to the Project Managers with corrections of Purchase Orders, Contracts.
• Checking the back-ups to Expense Reports and their further processing in SAP. Annual analysis of per diems payments to employees through input and review of the information in Excel spreadsheets. Helping to colleagues to eliminate their problems in SAP.

Confidential

Senior Accountant (Full-time position)

Responsibilities:

• Registration and control of Company’s fixed assets in SAP and maintaining of Assets’ Register in Excel. Amortization, Capitalization and Depreciation of assets. Controlling the tagging system for assets.
• Registration of monthly accruals of payables and receivables in SAP. Month-end / year-end closure in SAP. Compliance with IFRS. Journal Entries in SAP. Preparing the financial reports. Trial balance uploads into SAP.
• Checking the vendors’ invoices in SAP processed by AP Accountants before passing them for payment. Checking all back-ups (delivery notes, service completion reports, Purchase Orders, Work Orders). Handling of vendors queries. Reconciliations of payments made to vendors and banks accounts. Replacing Accounts Payables Accountant in her absence (invoices registration, back-ups collection, creation of the vendors in SAP). Helping to colleagues eliminate their problems in SAP and in their everyday work in general and of staff. Helping to Procurement Department with the correction of Purchase Orders, Work Orders, Contracts especially whenever different tax rates were used.
• Preparing the invoices to the Client (BP). Contacting the Client for unpaid invoices and asking for non-payment reason. Reconciliations of payments received from the Client and banks’ accounts.
• Cash Flow Statements. Monthly Statistical reports. Reports to Statistics Committee. Control of Landlords’ registers. Insurance for the apartments rented for the Expatriate Staff. Tax Reports, letters to State and Tax authorities. Supporting external auditors with the provision of information and documentation.

Confidential

Accounts Payable Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Checking invoices received from vendors and collection of back-ups to the invoices. Input of correct codes according to Chart of Accounts, cost centers and WBS according to AFEs. Posting of invoices into SAP or FMS PeopleSoft system / matching with POs and Service Orders. Pricing Analysis: review of Contracts and matching the prices in the invoices with the rates in Contracts. Checking the invoices which were prepared by the person assisting to AP. Preparing of payment orders / wire transfers for sending to the bank in the absence of Bank & Cash Accountant. Handling of vendors’ queries.
• Inventory Control. Internal billing invoices. Intercompany Reconciliations. Month-end/Year-end closure. Compliance with GAAP and Sarbanes Oxley. Monthly VAT & Withholding Tax reports. Processing of auto-payment in SAP system in the absence of Bank & Cash Accountant. Writing the manuals, policies, procedures for AP processing. Supporting the external & internal auditors with the provision of information and documentation. Preparing the various letters to banks / vendors / Tax authorities.

Confidential

Bank & Cash Accountant (Full-time Position)

Responsibilities:

• Cashier work. Processing of auto-payments and printing checks from the accounting system on the weekly basis. Registration of bank transactions on the daily basis. Preparing of bank entries. Preparing of cash flow reports. Posting of daily transactions into accounting system. Constant contacts with local and overseas banks. Processing of petty cash transactions. Preparing of payment orders / wire transfers for sending to the banks. Reconciliations of payments made to vendors and banks accounts. Supporting the external & internal auditors with the provision of information and documentation.

Confidential

Operations / Voucher Control Clerk / Internal Auditor (Full-time Position)

Responsibilities:

• Checking daily transactions vouchers and documentation. Handling of daily bank reports and distribution. Control of internal profit & loss accounts of the bank. Supporting the external & internal auditors with the provision of the information and documentation.
• Travellers Cheques and Clean Bills purchase and sending for clearance to Nostro Banks. Customers’ cash withdrawals’ commission refund. Outward and Inward Correspondence control. Dealing with customs declarations, invoices, contracts of corporate customers. Processing Overseas & Local Inward payments. Sending Outward payments via SWIFT. Foreign Exchange Transactions processing. Posting of vouchers on HUB system. Payroll for corporate customers. Bank correspondent accounts reconciliation.

Confidential

Customer Services Representative (Full-time Position)

Responsibilities:

• Opening and closure of personal and corporate accounts. Handling corporate and retail customers’ legal documentation. Helping customers with inquiries, identifying customers’ needs and cross selling of bank products. Handling customer queries/complaints by phone. Identifying money laundering risks. Handling payment orders, customers’ instructions (balance confirmation, signature verification). Letters related to customers’ inquiries.