Ghiyath Alnajar

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Professional Summary

Qualified Accountant with over 9 years of post-qualification experience within diversified businesses in activities

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and scale, with proven management experience.

Positive, dynamic, self-starter, ambitious, hardworking, goal oriented, and flexible to change.

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Strong organizational skills, effective problem-solving and decision making skills, proactive and strategic thinking

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skills.

Excellent attention to details and able to work under pressure within a changing and fast paced business

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environment.

Advanced user of Microsoft Excel, very efficient in data analysis and finding answers the most complex questions,

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in addition to MS office(Outlook, Power point, and Word ).

Fluent in Arabic language, writing, listening, speaking

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Education

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (2012)

CPA – New Hampshire Board of Accountancy

Damascus University, Damascus, Syria (2003)

Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

Planning to join Cleveland State University pursuing Master Degree in Accounting & Audit

Professional Experience

Cassidian Saudi Limited – Airbus Defense and Space (Dec 2013 –Jan 2014)

Tax Consultant (Riyadh Saudi Arabia)

Two months consultancy position to implement dual languages software to translate English accounting books into

Arabic, in accordance with Saudi regulations requirements, and training the team.

•Mapping English-Arabic accounts and adding them to dual languages software.

•Extracting accounting entries for the past six years and formatting them according to the requirement of the new

software in a way that keeps the audit trial and the reach source document easily, (approximately 35000 lines a year).

•Importing them to the English-Arabic software, reconcile the account balances between the two software and then

printing the Arabic books.

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•Training the team to do same steps in the coming years

Eurocopter Saudi Arabia/Eurocopter Bahrain/ HFSI (Airbus Group) (May 2005 –Dec 2013)

Head of Accounting and Treasury (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)

Supervising day to day financial accounting transactions of all KSA legal entities to accomplish monthly accurate on

time closing, in compliance with GAAP and local laws and regulations

•Preparing and submitting the monthly reporting pack, for the use of main treasury and board of directors, preparing

the financial statements on a quarterly basis.

• comparing the actual results to the budget, and to prior periods, investigating variances and following them all the

way to the source documents, dealing with work papers.

•Dealing with all matters resulting from double currency reporting system.

•Proactively propose and implement improvements to local accounting processes along with internal controls to

facilitate accurate, timely reporting.

•Monitor cash flow in coordination with the treasury in the HO, including cash pooling, net cash reports, bank

reconciliation, and customer collections.

•Liaise with external and internal auditors to ensure annual audits are carried out timely, also preparing for the DZID

(Governmental tax authority) audits.

•Coordination of Shared services with other affiliated business units, discussing cost drivers, invoicing, and getting

balance confirmation at the end of the period,

•Following balances of accounts payable, accounts receivable, and asking for the balance confirmation.

Al Fanar Construction Company (Nov 2005 –Apr 2008)

Accountant (Riyadh Saudi Arabia)

Performing all accounting tasks for a separate business unit of Al Fanar construction company, which gave

me a strong understanding and experience to handle different issues of the accounting department, and

confidence to occupy managerial position in the accounting field.

•Purchase orders, Petty cash, Revenues, Salaries

•Preparing Bank Reconciliation, affiliates accounts reconciliation, customers and vendors accounts reconciliations.

•Preparing monthly reporting and financial statements, coordinate with the internal and external auditors.

Al-Majd Distribution Company (Small business) (May 2004 –Oct 2005)

Accountant – Part time (Daraa, Syria)

The only accountant of the business in charge of all accounting transactions.

•Purchase & sales transactions, controlling inventory & cash on hand

•Customers and vendors reconciliations.

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•Preparing monthly reports and quarterly financial statements.

Accounting Services Center (May 2004 –Oct 2005)

Partner (Daraa Syria)

Going through the challenge to own my accounting service center that afforded varied range of accounting

services.

•Rendering various accounting services for small businesses,

•Distributing Al-Ameen Accounting System in Daraa; technical support, issuance of the chart of accounts, preparation

of accounting cycles and procedures.

•Accounting courses for the students of trading institute in Daraa.

•Helping small businesses to issue and submit their tax returns.

Al Kamal Office for Tax Consulting (Apr 2003 - May 2004)

Tax Accountant (Damascus, Syria)

Tax Advisory to optimize tax position in order to minimize tax to lower level in accordance with the local tax

laws and regulations

•Preparing tax returns for wide range of businesses including corporations

•Advising about the best tax practice to get the optimal tax position.

•Conducting tax audit preceding the Tax authorities audit to assure compliance with laws and regulations

Training courses

Income tax preparation course (2014)

H & R Block – Cleveland, Ohio

Memberships

Member of Institute of Management Accountants (2014)

CMA Candidate

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