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Sara Sayed Mostafa

Cost accountant & Financial Analyst

Dar Alsalam, Cairo, Egypt

Work Experience

  • Senior Cost accountant & Financial AnalystFull Time

    AkzoNobel Powder Coating

    Jan 2015 - Present -10 yrs, 5 months

    Egypt , Cairo

    • Job Details: Act as Financial Controller assistant in any required reports and urgent tasks. Activity based costing project Champion: • Collect data from all departments. • Determine reasonable allocation key of every activity. • Allocate costs to each activity using its allocation key. • Calculate operating income (OI) per customer. • Discuss the result with sales team and make action plan for each significant customer to improve its OI. Cost control and Margin support: • Determine actual Product cost and report variances between actual and standard cost. • Analysis product cost increasing to determine its reasons to manage it if possible. • Follow up Spare parts inventory and count it monthly to determine required adjustments. • Produce high quality accurate Sales & Margin information, discuss with all teams regularly to understand a situation and commit Employees Company wide to margin improvement. • Daily review and report Sales & production volume comparing with history MTD. • Weekly and Monthly report consolidated sales. • Daily review and report CM & ASP comparing with history MTD. • Analysis AP usage variance and set a standard variance to tight CM variance between finance and sales. Revenue Budgeting: • Provide sales managers with all information needed to create sales budget. • Collect and review data from sales managers. • Create a consolidated budget version for management approval • Weekly and Monthly report consolidated sales volume,CM and ASP compared with budget. • Update the budget model each quarter to account for significant changes in the business environment
  • Cost accountant & Financial AnalystFull Time

    AkzoNobel Powder Coating

    Jan 2013 - Dec 2014 -1 yr, 11 months

    Egypt , Cairo

    • Job Details: Cost control & Margin support: • Determine actual Product cost and report variances between actual and standard cost. • Ensure Opex for each department are tightly controlled and discussed with relevant Management. • Follow up Spare parts inventory and count it monthly to determine required adjustments. • Produce high quality accurate Sales & Margin information, discuss with all teams regularly to understand a situation and commit Employees Company wide to margin improvement. • Daily review and report actual CM&GM; comparing with standard as monitor and analyses sales invoices. Budgeting and Planning: • Provide department managers with all information needed for creating their own budget. • Act as an advisor to department managers in formulating their budget submissions • Review proposed budget submissions from department managers for accuracy and completeness. • Examine whether budget submissions can be achieved and also there is no Budgetary Slack • Propose enhancements to the budget model. • Create a consolidated budget version for management approval. • Compare actual to budgeted results monthly, and report on significant variances
  • Receivable accountant Full Time

    AkzoNobel

    Jul 2011 - Dec 2012 -1 yr, 5 months

    Egypt , Giza

    • Job Details:Credit control: • Follow up of the receivables and establishing coordination with the sales department with the target of maximizing the collections. • Preparation of the reconciliation letters for customers and follow up. • Analysis of the limit-risks, and periodical updating. • Cheque processing in MfgPro system • Preparation of the daily and weekly payment lists. • Performing company’s payments Banks: • Establishing and coordinating relations with the banks. • Follow up on the changes in relevant laws. • Minimizing Finance related cost Accounting: • Provides General Ledger and MFG Pro data entries. • Assists in audits and tax inspections. • Ensures compliance with finance/accounting policies and procedures.
  • Education

    • Master's Degree in Cost accounting

      Cairo University (CU)

      Jan 2009 - Jan 2011 - 2 yr

    Achievements

    CMA in progress Master’s Degree in accounting

    Skills

    • Microsoft Word
    • Microsoft Excel
    • Microsoft Powerpoint
    • computer
    • Internet
    • Microsoft Office
    • Accounting
    • industry
    • Cost Accounting
    • CFA
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    Languages

    • Arabic

      Fluent
    • English

      Advanced

    Training & Certifications

    • CMA Part Two

      AUC ·2016
    • CMA Part One

      IMA·2016
    • CMA part one

      IPA·2013
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