Mohammed Siad
Finance/Accounting
Dubai
Summary of Career
1. Administering project payables & receivables, reviewing & processing payment certificates for the progress invoice submitted by contractors & suppliers for multibillion tower & infrastructure projects across the world.
2. Administration of all financial documentation relating to projects such as contracts, BOQ details, Performance & Advance bonds, Payment plans (Milestone Billing), Variation approval sheets and other documents associated with Projects.
3. Generating MIS reports & documents to provide feedback to top management on financial performance like analysis of project profit, cost, accruals & overheads.
4. Knowledge of RERA guidelines and TAS system operations for smooth processing of payments through escrow banks
5. Timely raising of invoices with the help of Oracle E-Business and recording of receipts.
6. Examining VAT compliance on payments by understanding the FTA guidelines specifically for construction Projects & supporting Audit Trails by Deloitte
7. Ensuring proper documentation & approvals for submitted Project Payments by Liaising with respective QS, Commercial & Project Managers & Administration teams
8. Coordinated with Collection Managers for raising invoices to the collections team based on milestone billing, recording receipts, Cost & Bill Rate calculations, Time sheet based monthly project reporting in MS Dynamics Navision ERP System; managed monthly consolidated project summary & management reporting
9. Administered project wise accounting, monthly cash flow forecasting process, Project Profitability Analysis. Performing monthly variance analysis on budget vs actual vs forecast.
10. Reconciliation of customer accounts with Vendor statements, posting adjustment entries, Aging Reports, Project Costing, Pricing/Revenue Assessment of new projects/Bid.
Awarded with a gift voucher as a token of appreciation by top management (CEO) of ZAFIN for delivering a pricing of new project & winning the deal with higher margins and also got performance bonus.
Experience as Financial Analyst
01 December 2011
20 December 2013
• Handling of Accounting, Portfolio & Investment operations on a daily basis.
• Responsible for transaction Posting and preparation of TB, P&L & Balance sheet.
• Reconciliation of customer accounts with the online statements, posting adjustment entries in UMP ERP system.
• Monitor customer account details and identify and investigate non-payments, delayed payments and other irregularities.
• Performing customer account termination, liquidation, asset transfers, account type conversion activities.
• Daily performance validations, analysis and reporting of issues to the Manager.
• Training of junior team members, support & assigning daily operational tasks.
• Identifying areas for enhancements which will improve the process flow, reduce risk & manual efforts.
• Processing service requests, preparing daily and weekly reports in Excel.
• Interacting with customers in US through calls, emails & service requests for queries related to their accounts.
• Financial statement verifications, posting closing entries, account wise holdings & market value checks.
Experience as FP&A Executive
05 May 2014
20 October 2015
ZAFIN Inc. headquartered in Canada is a global provider of IT/Software products that enable earnings growth for multinational trading firms.
• Responsible for project wise accounting, Assisting of budgeting & monthly forecasting process of ZAFIN.
• Weekly generation of Project wise (Job Cost) employee cost & revenue report and its analysis.
• Cost coding of Projects on MS Dynamics ERP, Assisting in preparation of the cash flow for the projects.
• In-Depth project profitability analysis, project costing & pricing, revenue assessment of new & existing projects.
• Creating Sales Orders from Project Contracts & Sow’s, Raising & deliver of invoices to the collection team.
• Follow-up with collection managers, recording receipts, issuing credit notes in MS Dynamics ERP system.
• Delivers risk and loss forecasting reports in the collection process to high-level management.
• Liaising with the accounting team for reconciliation of AR report with the G/L report.
• Produce monthly AR ageing reports and inform the Business Units to make necessary collection efforts.
• Assisting in the auditors to find out project wise actual & planned cost & revenue.
• Daily generation of ad-hoc reports for management decision making by various stakeholders.
• Monthly Project wise sales report creation with the help of actual and budgeted sales data available.
• Monthly analysis & reporting on significant variances to the management with respect to revenue & cost
Achievements - Awarded with a gift voucher as a token of appreciation by top management (CEO) of ZAFIN for delivering a pricing of new project on time and also got performance bonus.
Experience as Project Accountant
Al Habtoor Leighton Group
01 January 2016
01 October 2017
• Project wise Cost Accounting, Cost Controlling, Payables & Receivables management.
• Confer with Receivables & Commercial departments regarding unpaid contract billings.
• Invoicing, Tracking & Reporting AR Ageing for the projects.
• Negotiating payment terms for opening Letter of credit's and preparing documentation for LC’s.
• Supplier Payables Management & Handling Project related Petty Cash.
• Creation of Supplier & Sub-contractors Outstanding payment reports, recommendation of critical payments to the senior management & verifying supplier payments by liaising with suppliers & AP team.
• Performing Intercompany & Inter - Projects cost transfers.
• Identifying areas of cost savings & implement the same by coordinating with relevant departments.
• Month end closing of project accounting in ERP accounting system.
• Preparing Cost Plan's/Budget & Project financial performance report to the commercial manager.
• Analysis of project variance in actual vs planned & submit the variance report using advanced spreadsheets & Presentation skills to the senior management.
• Quarterly forecasting of Project cost plan as per guidelines from project & finance team.
• Report on Monthly Project Profitability, Manual Accruals to the senior management.
• Compile information for internal and external auditors, as and when required.
Experience as Project Accountant
12 October 2017
24 October 2019
• All Project Payables, Review & Processing Payment for Advance, Interim & Final Payment certificates submitted by Consultants, Main Contractors, Sub-contractors, Nominated Sub-Contractors & Suppliers for multibillion Tower & Infrastructure projects across the World.
• Review & Propose Senior Manager for Approving Change Order/Amendmends/Variation for Signed Project Contracts.
• Ensuring proper documentation & approvals for submitted Project Payments by Liaising with respective QS, Commercial & Project Managers & Administration teams.
• Liaising with the Banks for Escrow Payment Processing & Providing information on project fund availability to the senior management.
• Liaising with RERA for creating Beneficiaries in TAS system to scrutinize the Escrow Project Payments.
• Reconcile and maintains Books, Bank Statements & Maintenance of Bank Guarantees submitted by Contractors.
• Project Budget (internal and lender) maintenance, check all project coding for smooth & accurate reporting of Project cost.
• Make provisions, Journals, Project accruals, resolving unaccounted transaction issues for month end closing functions on Oracle Financials.
• Ensuring VAT compliance on payments by understanding the FTA guidelines specifically for construction Projects & supporting Audit Trails by Deloitte.
Matric 23 September 2008
Accounting & Taxation, Kerala University, South IndiaMaster 09 July 2009
MBA Finance, Anna University, South India