Finance Manager

Ashraf A. Ismail Contact information

Finance Manager, Acting Admin Manager Mobile: +2-010********

Home: +2-026****** Email: ******.*.******@*****.***

Address: El Rehab, New Cairo, Egypt.

Personal Profile

Highly motivated and driven Finance Manager with considerable years of experience in top level Non-for profit and International-Multinationals business. Broad knowledge of Financial Practices, Audit, Management, Human Resources, Administration, Internal Control, Budgeting and Forecasting. Good communicator, flexible, problem solving and very cooperative.

Key Skills

Financial Management Personal

Accounting Management Strategic Thinking Critical Thinking

Cash Flow Supervision Staff Dependable

Budget Preparation Management Team Player Leading skills

Economic Awareness Decision Making Flexibility

Auditing Planning /organizing Caring

Managing Budgets Directing Loyal

Adaptably Teamwork

Experience

Finance Manager October 2011 - Present

Binational Fulbright Commission (Nonprofit)

Educational and Cultural exchange protocol between the Egyptian Government and US Government. Operating under the Department of State represented by the Embassy of United State of America in Egypt.

Objective Plans and Managing financial & accounting activities, by developing and maintaining of general strategic long/short term internally (within the Finance Department and across Departments and Management Teams) and externally (with Business Partners, Donors, Agencies, Clients, Banking, Suppliers Auditors and Customers) to archive the organization goals.

Key Responsibility and Duties

Preparing and managing consolidated budgets for the Commission’s annually activities/programs

and separated projects budgets (Average annual budget of Approx.US$ 10-12M for the

Commission and for other projects approx. US$ 8.5M).

Manage and Supervise Endowment investment of Approx. EGP 130M in coordination with the

Commission’s business partners (Fund Manager ~ EFGHermes), in addition to direct invest of for the excess of the Commission’s cash flow funds.

Member of the investment committees.

Member of the procurement committees.

Manage and supervise the Pension investment and all related transactions.

Preparing the Annually Financial Statements and clarification reports for the Auditors and the

Board of Directors.

Annually preparing, coordinating of the conducting the Commission’s Annual Audit process and

Coordinate.

Work experience with the big Auditors Firms PricewaterhouseCoopers, Grand Thornton, KPMG

Hazem Hassan and Ernst and Young in addition to other audit firms.

Manage Internal Control process to ensuring full compliance with the Internal Audit procedures. In addition to taken actions and cocreations to enhance the internal controls.

Assist and support the Management in Administration & Personal and any other assignments as

appropriate.

Serve as Acting Executive Director as required in his/her absence.

Acting Admin. Manager in the absence of Admin. Manager. (from Jan 2017- Present).

Acting Human Resource (Present).

Manage USAID and other Grant Donors Projects and comply with grants terms and conditions.

Prepare and monitor cash flow for the all programs, administrations and other activities.

Ensure the implementing of the Management and Auditors internal controls requirements for the

financial process, purchasing-payables, payroll, budget/actual.

Implementing general policies and procedures in according to Commission’s manuals, bylaws

and contract/agreements and General Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).

Coordinate all insurance claims with our insurance partners (Group Insurance-Medical-Staff /

Assets Insurance Provider) and guarantee full time insurance coverage.

Developed and maintained strong relationships with banks and other financial institutions in

cooperation with Treasury.

Update the financial changed process and ensure all transactions are handled in an appropriate

manner.

Manage and process monthly employee’s payroll. As well as Pension, Income Tax and Social

Insurance transactions.

Process the Income Tax payments/transaction and supervise the yearly reconciliation.

Process the Social Insurance payments/transaction; handle the required HR forms for the Social

Insurance Department.

Supervise staff and support their professional development and career enhancement.

Ensure that all the financial control systems are effective, and in place to secure the integrity of

the financial information

Ensure all balance sheet accounts and P&L movements are reconciled on a monthly basis.

Supervise the creation and presentation of financial reports according to IFRS/GAAP or USAID/Donors grant requirement and local accounting standards.

Manage and oversee the daily accounting activities.

Review all payments before submission to authorized signatories/treasure.

Ensure the accounting entries posted correctly to GP- Great Plains (Financial ERP by Microsoft).

Ensure compliance of Local and International Accounting Standards, Statutory Requirements as

well as Binational Fulbright’s Finance Polices and Manuals.

Plan and manage accounting procedures to ensure an accurate and timely monthly, quarterly and

yearend closing.

Ensure timely preparation of all accounting reports according to the established accounting

principles and procedures.

Ensure Provision & Accrual and Prepayment are properly recorded.

Supervise external audit and ensure proper submission of financial reports

Monthly, quarterly and annually reporting on funds, programs and administrations.

Maintaining the financial books and the Commission’s records through automated software

(using Great Plain-Microsoft software) and ensuring those financial books/records are properly

maintained in accordance with the required accounting practices/principals and reports

standards/requirement.

Supervise all of transactions of payables, clients, banks reconciliation, petty cash, payroll and

receivables.

Senior Financial Officer August 1999-September 2011

Acting Finance Manager Aug 2000-January 2001 &

Binational Fulbright Commission (Nonprofit)

Key Responsibility and Duties

Monthly and quarterly reporting (Financial Statements) Controlling Programs and Projects

Budget/Actual

Financial reporting and Supervise of the Commission grants and programs

Financial posting of all the Commission records (Great Plain software)

Preparing Budgets and proposals planning

Manage USAID/ Donors grants.

Payable Module, Banks, petty cash, Payroll, Reconciliation and Audit

Assist in Admin & Personal

Cash Flow & Management Support

Accounting & Reporting Manager February 1998 to Aug. 1999

IMS Health Company

The world’s leading company of data research and ``analysis provider to the Pharmaceutical and

Healthcare Industries marketing

Key Responsibility and Duties

Monthly and quarterly reporting (Financial Statements) to the regional controller office in Milan (Italy)

A/R collection for both IMS Switzerland & IMS Egypt

Member of the MEMT ‘Middle East Management Team’

Controlling & Reconsolidated reporting “Lebanon & Jordan offices”

Strategic plan & Budget for Egypt, Lebanon & Jordan

Assist in Administration

Accountant April 1994 to Jan 1998

Orient Transport Co. Ltd., “Kuehne & Nagel AG & Co.”

Joint Venture Freight Forwarding Co. & member of International Freight Forwarding Company in

Switzerland “Kuehne & Nagel AG & Co.”.

Key Responsibility and Duties

Monthly and quarterly reporting to both the Country Manager

and to the regional controller in Switzerland.

Responsible for the company accounts with the other Kuehne &

Nagel international offices & companies, (Inter-company account)

Trade-Suppliers and Short-Term Receivables.

Expenses Allocation, operation costs and revenue.

Internal auditing, controlling.

Assisting in Budget preparation, cash flow planning and

accounts policy.

Senior Accounts Auditor June 1991 to March 1994

Adel Kamal Abdel Malaek Office,

A Public Consulting & Tax Experts Company.

Key Responsibility and Duties

Auditing reports on different national and multinational companies, stock inventory, auditing operation costs and expenses.

Keeping Accounts records - manual and data processing,

Bank Statements reconciliation, dealing with L/Cs beside

Preparation of Statistics, and Balance Sheets.

During Studies:

Three summers intern at “MAGO Steel Building Co.” construction company

Education

Present; Studying MBA at the German University in Cairo.

oCompleted 16 courses and 2 seminars.

oRemaining the final Thesis.

Majors are International business, Strategic Management and Control

Business Administration Studies Diploma from the American University in Cairo.

Studies of the CMA (Part 1&2) in the Institute for Management and Accounting.

Bachelor of Business and Accounting from the Higher Institute for Cooperative & Business Studies 1991.

English Language studies/courses at the British Council in Cairo for three Academic years.

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