Mohammad Al Nahhas
Amman
Summary
Business-minded Finance Manager promoting more than [Number] years of expertise overseeing transactions and reconciling monthly financial reports. Highly collaborative individual with track record of effectively training and coaching staff members. Offering confidence, team contribution and decision making skills.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
FINANCE Manager
QIMA Advisory
07.2024 - Current
- Oversee and manage the financial aspects of non-profit projects, ensuring adherence to accounting standards and regulatory requirements
- Maintain accurate and current financial records for all project activities
- Collaborate with project managers to develop and monitor project budgets
- Prepare timely and accurate financial forecasts, identifying potential variances and recommending corrective actions
- Manage the financial aspects of grants, including proposal budgets, grant compliance, and reporting
- Work closely with program managers to ensure effective utilization of grant funds in accordance with grant agreements
- Ensure strict adherence to donor guidelines for accounting and reporting
- Evaluate and enhance financial procedures to improve efficiency and effectiveness
- Strengthen the control environment to mitigate financial risks and ensure accuracy in financial reporting
- Prepare comprehensive financial reports for internal and external stakeholders
- Generate regular financial statements, variance analyses, and other necessary reports
- Facilitate and support internal and external audits related to project finances
- Ensure that all financial documentation is readily accessible and compliant with audit requirements
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather financial information and ensure accurate reporting
- Communicate financial information clearly and effectively to non-financial stakeholders
- Stay informed about changes in financial regulations, accounting standards, and grant requirements
- Ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations governing non-profit organizations
FINANCE COORDINATOR
NRC
01.2024 - 07.2024
- Company Overview: SYRIA RESPONSE OFFICE
- Lead on the financial monthly closing of accounting books
- Facilitate area level budgets, including support cost
- Training of line managers and staff with financial responsibilities
- Closely monitor of level of expenditure and allocation of expenses to existing projects, providing monthly Budget versus Actual reports to be discussed with Senior Management
- Support on the elaboration of budget for new proposals, ensuring that budgeting tools are correctly used and ensuring support costs are properly budgeted
- Budget management, improving forecasting and spending plan performance and monitoring administrative budget where necessary
- Provide finance verification of purchase and payment request up to his/her authorization limit
- Lead on preparation and assistance on Internal, donor and/or External Audits and other financial documentation revision from any external body
- Remotely managing the workflow and finance related issues in the field
- Directly managing the Finance team for the area of operations
- SYRIA RESPONSE OFFICE
FINANCE TECHNICAL OFFICER
NRC
07.2019 - 12.2023
- Company Overview: SYRIA RESPONSE OFFICE
- Implements the regular and day-to-day activities of the finance function
- Ensures proper quality control and monitoring of the finance function activities
- Leads the cash transfer program in the field office and monitors all cash flows between the country office and the field office
- Builds the capacity of the local partners’ finance personnel in line with the NRC financial handbook, procedures, other financial-specific guidelines, and donor requirements
- Carries out capacity-building activities such as training, mentoring, and coaching in financial management for partner agencies in coordination with the concerned personnel
- Oversee partner selection process, including partner Organization assessment meetings, checking partner's Financial manuals, overall budgets, agreements and modifications, financial reporting, payments, ensures accountancy records of the local partners are booked promptly
- Performs related finance appraisal for potential new local partners
- Follow up on the partner’s financial reports regarding the reporting date and report the overall quality and the completeness of the supporting documents
- Oversees the Field Finance officer’s work-related activities, ensuring correct allocation of expenditures and timely monthly closing
- Prepares and shares financial monitoring reports (BvA) with observations and recommendations from the finance coordinator
- Support in Audit preparation and in communication with the auditors whenever necessary
- Processes incoming invoices and vouchers, ensuring that backup is complete, accurate, and fully approved while monitoring coding on all vouchers for valid account/Project Code/ Donor Code
- Reviews and posts accounting entries into the applicable accounting system and ensures there is proper supporting documentation for all payments and other accounting entries
- Supports the line manager in collaborating with the following tasks: Budget preparation for project proposals, Budget Revisions for active projects, Managing Projects in terms of spending and forecasting, Yearly master Budget preparations and revisions, Maintaining the allocation table in line with the project’s rules and availability, Financially closing the project, Financial Reports whenever necessary
- SYRIA RESPONSE OFFICE
FINANCE OFFICER
NRC
07.2018 - 07.2019
- Company Overview: SYRIA RESPONSE OFFICE
- Ensure adherence to NRC policies, tools, handbooks, and guidelines
- Implement delegated support function portfolio according to the plan of action
- Prepare and develop status reports as required by management
- Ensure proper filing of hard and soft copies of documents
- Promote and share ideas for improvement of the support function
- Carries out the daily bookkeeping by utilizing the NRC accounting system & ensures accountancy records are booked on time
- Support the review of partner financial reports and supporting documentation, providing partner feedback as necessary and flagging any compliance and financial management issues to the Finance Technical Officer
- Communicate with partner organizations to ensure financial reports' accuracy, correctness, and completeness
- Following up and handling the partner's scheduled payments
- Maintain the posting and files related to all partnership's hardcopies and softcopies
- Ensures proper and adequate filing system for financial documents
- SYRIA RESPONSE OFFICE
ACCOUNTS PAYABLE ACCOUNTANT
DHL Express
09.2016 - 03.2018
- Receive and log all incoming local suppliers' invoices so that delays are followed up and invoices are not missed
- Match and seek invoices approval for Payment
- Organize Payment Run and seek approval to make timely payments
- Reconcile supplier's control account and review age analysis to minimize backlog in making Payment
- Follow up on all debit balances on the supplier's account to seek a timely refund
- Effectively deal with internal and external invoices queries
- Capture AP accrual in the general ledger
- Perform all work for month-end reporting to meet deadlines
- Handling all matters related to company income tax
- Balance Sheet Items Reconciliation on Monthly Bases
- Preparing bank reconciliations on monthly bases
Education
BACHELOR’S - ACCOUNTING
Hashemite University
01.2016
Skills
- Budget Forecasting
- Financial Budgeting
- Internal Controls
- Financial Management
- Continuous Improvement
- Financial Analysis
Timeline
FINANCE Manager
QIMA Advisory
07.2024 - Current
FINANCE COORDINATOR
NRC
01.2024 - 07.2024
FINANCE TECHNICAL OFFICER
NRC
07.2019 - 12.2023
FINANCE OFFICER
NRC
07.2018 - 07.2019
ACCOUNTS PAYABLE ACCOUNTANT
DHL Express
09.2016 - 03.2018
BACHELOR’S - ACCOUNTING
Hashemite University
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