Qasim Almasri

Senior Accountant - From Oct 2023 to present

Spearheaded the establishment and the training of the accounting team in Dubai.

Lead the accounting team and supervise the operations of both accounts payable and accounts receivable.

Verify and process monthly, weekly, and daily invoices in the system.

Follow up on the collection of cash receipts from customers.

Review accounts payable/accounts receivable balances to ensure accuracy.

Prepare and process journal vouchers to support daily operations.

Manage bank-related matters, including monthly bank reconciliation.

Validate all transactions before posting them into the system.

Maintain the fixed assets register using the barcode system.

Monitor loan settlements and prepare monthly bank reconciliations.

Prepare monthly financial reports for the CFO and assist with periodical book closing. 

Chief Accountant - From Sep 2017 to Apr 2023
• Financial Reporting and continuous improvement to the financial reporting process.
• Monthly-Closing Procedures, I also reduced the monthly-closing period by 38%.
• Decision Making, in addition, I assist the decision-making process by preparing more accurate reports and analytics.
• Cost Controlling and Efficiency, I propagated a better understanding for manufacturing costs by analyzing leaks, researching manufacturing process and giving advice on this regard.
• Bank-Facilities Management, I created a single Microsoft Excel dashboard to track all bank facilities and reviewing compliance to bank agreements.
• Audit-Engagement Assist with continuous improvement to the audit engagement process to reduce the engagement period.
• Team Leadership, leading the accounting team to achieve corporate goals and helping my team to achieve personal improvement.
• Fixed-Assets Management, depreciation and improving the properties, plants, and equipment structure to produce detailed PPE information cards which also had a reflection on the depreciation accuracy.
• Adopting Current Technologies and assisting the implementation process.
• Alignment to Accounting Standards, generally accepted practices, policies, and procedures.
• General Ledger, trial balance and chart of accounts reviewing and improvement.
• Transaction Authentication, reviewing and posting.
• Accrued Expense, reviewing and authentication including creative MS Excel’s dashboard to make the process more efficient.

Financial Accountant - From Mar 2013 to Sep 2017
• Bank Accounting and transaction supervision.
• Fixed-Assets Accounting, PPE, and depreciation scheduling and register maintaining.
• Monthly-Closing Procedures and monthly-end adjustments.
• Bank Reconciliation.
• Prepaid Accounting.
• Hedge Accounting and accrued-expense scheduling.
• Health-Care Accounting, scheduling health-care deductions upon insurance agreement.
• Cost Analysis.

Accounts Payable Accountant - From Oct 2010 to Mar 2013
• Accounts Payable, payment scheduling and accounts reconciliation.
• Banking, LCs, LGs, and trading-loans proceeding, commissions, interests’ estimation, and review.
• Stock Accounting and stock movement tracking, monthly-inventory supervision, and adjustments.
• Imports Management, tracking and costing shipments including clearance and customs estimates.
• Treasury Custody.

Voluntary Experience
General Accountant - From Mar 2014 to Jun 2017
• NGO financial reporting.
• NGO book-keeping.

Education
Bachelor of Finance and Banking
Al Al-Bayt University- 2010

Certificates and Courses
• Forms of Business Structure - Corporate Finance Institution (CFI)
• Excel 365 - Intermediate - Intellezy
• Fundamentals of Financial and Management Accounting - Coursera
• Excel Fundamentals - Formulas for Finance - Corporate Finance Institution (CFI)
• Business Analytics with Excel - Skillup
• Excel Dashboard for Beginners - Skillup
• Create a Financial Statement Using Microsoft Excel - Coursera
• Excel 2019 - Beginner - Intellezy
• Self-Awareness: Emotional Intelligence - UNHCR
• FIELD Leading and Managing People Pathway - Save the Children
• Fundamentals of Digital Marketing - Google
• Open-Source Business Model - UNICEF
• Wordpress Website Building - Edraak
• Search Engine Optimization - Edraak