Ahmed GALAL

senior account manager

• Job Details:Spearhead financial operations, ensuring the seamless execution of tax invoice generation while maintaining compliance with UAE tax regulations. Oversee accounts receivable and payable, ensuring timely payments, reducing outstanding balances, and optimizing cash flow. Utilize Focus ERP to automate and enhance accounting workflows, improving efficiency and accuracy in financial reporting. Prepare and submit VAT reports, ensuring full regulatory compliance while identifying opportunities for tax optimization. Manage bank deposits and check collections, ensuring timely reconciliation and preventing financial discrepancies. Strengthen client relationships through proactive follow-ups on overdue payments, securing receivables while maintaining trust. Conduct detailed subcontractor contract reviews, ensuring payment terms align with financial policies and minimizing legal risks. Analyze cost reports for ongoing projects, offering management strategic insights to control expenses and improve profitability. Forecast and monitor cash flow, ensuring sufficient liquidity for project execution and operational stability. Lead Odoo ERP training for finance teams, improving adoption rates and enhancing system utilization for financial and project management. Collaborate with senior leadership on financial planning and budgeting, supporting strategic decision-making and business growth. Identify and implement process improvements, streamlining financial operations and enhancing reporting accuracy.

Head of Accounting

• Job Details:Led the transition to Oracle Cloud and SAP ERP systems, improving accounting process efficiency and reporting accuracy by 25%, streamlining monthly close and year-end audits. Oversaw the preparation and filing of tax returns, ensuring compliance with VAT regulations and local tax laws, which helped avoid penalties and reduce tax liabilities by 15%. Managed complex project financials, including overseeing cost management, retention payments, and ensuring timely and accurate revenue recognition in line with IFRS 15 for construction contracts. Worked closely with the project management team to identify and address budget discrepancies and ensure all costs were in line with projections, improving project cost control and minimizing overruns by 10%. Led a team of accountants, providing mentorship and training on best practices in project accounting, tax compliance, and financial reporting. Regularly updated cash flow forecasts, providing real-time insights on project liquidity, enabling effective financial planning and timely project execution. Played a key role in ensuring the accuracy of consolidated financial statements, preparing for external audits, and meeting strict deadlines.

senior accountant

• Job Details:Managed full-cycle accounting for multimillion-dollar construction projects, ensuring accurate accounts payable (AP), accounts receivable (AR), and monthly financial statements. Utilized the percentage-of-completion method to track revenue recognition, aligning accounting with project timelines and enhancing financial forecasting accuracy. Developed comprehensive project budgets and financial forecasts, enabling project teams to manage costs effectively and mitigate the risk of financial overruns. Conducted variance analysis, identifying discrepancies between actual vs. projected costs, and recommended cost-saving strategies that reduced overall expenses by 8%. Managed the tax filings for multiple construction projects, ensuring accurate VAT returns and compliance with Egyptian tax laws, minimizing risks during tax audits. Streamlined cash flow management, ensuring projects maintained adequate funds for operations and that retention payments were processed in a timely manner. Led the reconciliation of bank statements, identifying discrepancies and ensuring that financial data was aligned with project requirements and accounting records.