CAREER ABRIDGEMENT:

Detail-oriented, and certified accounting professional, seeking an accounting position to use my knowledge and 4+ years of experience with different accounting duties, and assisting the accounting department in daily operations.

• Sound understanding of basic and intermediate accounting principles, including IFRS
• Capable of paying attention to detail, and maintaining confidentiality of the information
• Capable of handling account payable, account receivable, maintaining general ledgers, handling bookkeeping, and preparing accurate financial reports
• Ability to use MS Office suite, QuickBooks, ERP SAP
• Excellent mathematical and organizational skills
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills

Tax Activities:

• Review of invoices for WHT (Withholding Tax) checks and tax card applicability.
• Maintaining and updating the tax card database for vendors.
• Issuing WHT certificates to suppliers (third party and Affiliates) on request.
• Updating ICC invoices into the data base weekly, with required comments and WHT checks.
• Follow Up with Business Units for Debit Memo creation, for WHT reimbursements every month.
• WHT bookings and entries via SAP.
• Preparation of monthly WHT Returns (declaration sheet, reference sheets and cover letters for the same)
• Online tax filing.
• Compute taxes owed, prepare tax returns & ensure prompt payments.
• Coordination with external auditors for any tax related activities.
• Prepare, organize, handle all tax documents, reports and statements and perform other required tasks.
• Yearly tax card renewal.

Accounting Activities:

• Filing of all accounting transactions/drafts for the Siemens project PE in the local Siemens electronic accounting system, checking of correctness and completeness of the documentation, verification of the documentation for the accounting and ensure that all financial transactions are in compliance with Siemens procedures and policy.
• Follow up of missing or incomplete documentation with the PE Coordinators. Plausibility check of the received data. Local archiving of all documents.
• Development of the data flow and time lines together with PE Tax Compliance and PE Coordinators.
• Siemens AG (Qatar operation) yearly Closing in the PE Tool.
• Online WHT filing( monthly)- Siemens WLL & Siemens AG
• Bank entries.
• Handling LC documents.
• Journal entries (credit card claims, WHT bookings etc.).
• Cost & expenses allocation to respective GL’s.
• Month end closing activities and GL clearing.
• Bank statements filing.
• Update incoming and outgoing Cheque register details.
• Siemens AG Qatar operations draft postings & update of exchange rates in PE tool.
• Timesheet postings.
• Bank statements reconciliation.
• Handling petty cash expenses.
• Perform monthly, quarterly, and annual accounting activities including reconciliations of bank and credit card accounts.
• Supports in coordination and completion of annual audits and reviewing financial reports.
• Managing all accounting operations and activities based on accounting principles.
• Ensure that statements and records comply with the laws and regulations.
• Make best practices, recommendation to management and suggest ways to develop and run certain tasks efficiently & effectively.

COMPUTER AND KEY SKILLS:

• Tally 9.0
• Microsoft Office
• SAP Business One 9.0
• SAP R/3
• Citrix Receiver
• Adobe Pagemaker

Additional Qualifications:

• Business English Certificate Preliminary (Level Bl).
• Cambridge ESOL Entry Level Certificate in ESOL International.
• Professional training Certificate for completing GCC VAT workshop/ training (Fundamentals and Intermediate VAT).
• Other Siemens Finance based online training certificates.