MOHAMMAD ALHAJAHJEH

As a Finance Associate at UNICEF, the role entails pivotal responsibilities in supporting the organization's financial management operations:

• Financial Monitoring and Reporting: Assisting in the preparation of financial reports, budgets, and forecasts while ensuring accuracy and compliance with UNICEF's financial regulations and procedures. This includes analyzing financial data to identify trends and discrepancies.
• Accounting Support: Contributing to maintaining financial records and ledgers, processing transactions, and reconciling accounts meticulously to uphold the integrity and accuracy of financial information.
• Budget Management: Participating in the development and monitoring of project budgets, tracking expenditures against allocated funds, and providing recommendations for efficient resource utilization.
• Compliance and Audit: Assisting in implementing internal controls and procedures to ensure adherence to UNICEF's policies and donor requirements. Additionally, supporting external audits by providing necessary documentation and explanations.
• Capacity Building: Involvement in training and supporting staff members in financial procedures and systems to cultivate a culture of accountability and transparency within the organization.
• Partnership and Communication: Collaborating with colleagues across departments and external partners to facilitate smooth financial operations and effective communication regarding financial matters.
• Ad Hoc Tasks: Being available to assist with special projects, financial analysis, or other tasks as required by the organization.
• Overall, dedication to financial integrity, compliance, and efficiency directly contributes to UNICEF's mission of promoting the rights and well-being of children worldwide.

• Maintenance of the internal expenditures control system which ensures that vouchers processed are matched and completed, transactions are correctly recorded and posted in Atlas
• Timely execution of pay cycle run and validation of payment data
• Proper review/validation of the supporting documents for payments and financial reports
• Preparation of all types of vouchers; Pay Cycle and payments execution
• Timely follow up with COs on unposted vouchers, including the vouchers with budget check errors, match exceptions, unapproved vouchers
• Timely and accurate preparation of bank reconciliations in accordance with guidelines, rules and regulations
• Performs timely travel and expense reconciliation
• Assist with analyzing of accounts and preparation of reconciliations; report ageing balances; taking appropriate actions and tracking pending items.

• Introducing a new and innovative way of posting entries to reduce the time and increasing the accuracy of the bank reconciliation by more than 40%
• Reducing the number of payments using cheques to less than 10%
• In compliance with IOM financial rules
• Updating and automating the vendor's information to reducing the number of mistakes and acted as a reference for the IOM staff
• Creating new manuals on the bank activates to assist the staff and to document the lesson learned
• Drafting an SOP on the best practices to reduce the bank exchange rates and the overall international transfer guidelines
• Reviewing payments and make sure that they are in order according to IOM financial rules
• Helping in design a new tool to track the finance units received payment, allowing us to be more accurate, and it reduced the time needed for payment processing by more than 50%
• Helping in monitoring payment charging in the correct project and the suitable activity (the correct WPS)
• And provide corrective action if needed.

• Setting up a complete warehouse system for stacking food monitoring, preparing it for delivery
• Leading a massive food repacking operation by managing more than 30 local staff in MARKA airport for the Deir al Zour airdrop project
• This repacking results in reducing the food damages from airdrop impact to only 12% from 45%
• Extract data from the system and clean data to be more presentable for project managers and procurement staff
• Participate in food planning for monthly and weekly needs by coordinating with the program team and procurement team
• Preparing POs, micro POs, and non POs entries and documents according to the rules of WFP
• Provide the needed training for the staff on how to use the new logistics add-on SAP system
• Reviewing and processing transportation invoices for all transportation and warehouses inside Syria.

• Set up new data notes for how booking entries in the Amadeus system for CSR use
• Respond to all customers' inquiries and requests regarding booking modifications
• Execute, complete and correct a complex reservation for clients with many connection flights.

• Setting up the accounting and inventory system from zero to be used by the company
• Preparing payments by verifying documentation and requesting disbursements
• Documents financial transactions by entering account information
• Preparing asset, liability, and capital account entries by compiling and analyzing account information
• Financial statements preparation and performing the financial closer
• Preparing both sales and income tax reports and forms.