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WORK EXPERIENCE
Kellogg Brown & Root - Balkans Support Contract
February 2005 to July 2006
July 2006 to Present Position: A&F Supervisor, Balkan Region (KFOR)
Duties: Assisting the Regional Finance & Accounting Manager for the Balkans.
- Preparations of all Bank Reconciliations in Euro & U.S. currencies.
- Managing the Kosovo / Macedonian Accounting Office and supervising a staff of 13. This includes Petty Cash, Payables, and Local & Expat Payroll.
- Administrator of LMS Master Station for SEII & OAS contracts.
- Signing Bank Officer for all Wire Transfer, and Cash Disbursements for the Kosovo Region, including Macedonia.
- Writing up, detailed User Desk Top Procedures for all aspects of the Accounting & Payroll departments.
- Establishing, and Implementing New Project Procedures.
- SAP A/P Field Specialist, GL Accountant, & Labor Submitter (LMS Master Station) and SAP Time Adminstrator
- Assisting the Balkan Transition Team from a Cost Plus to a Fixed Fee Contract, including new Policies, & Procedures
May 2004 to February, 2005
ESS Global Support Services
Client: Coalition Forces Iraq
Position: Project Accountant, Central Provisional Authority (CPA)
Duties:
- Working with the Central Provision Government t of Iraq, and the Iraqi Army, I oversee all Operational Accounting Functions for Ten (10) Iraqi Military Sites.
- Setting up from scratch the Administrative forms, procedures, and controls required for 28 different departments required to fully operate and maintain a Life Support system for a Military Installation.
- Train All Accounting Staff to man these Sites.
- Handle all cash transaction for expense disbursements, (Handling a Cash Account of over $ 800 K per month) and a local Iraqi payroll (over 1,800 employees)
- Supervise Wire Transfer Payments over $5 Million U.S. per month.
- Prepare and monitor budgets.
- Prepare weekly, and monthly Financial reports.
Dec. 11 to May 16, 2004
Position: Financial Accountant, Southern Region Iraq
Duties:
- Oversee the Accounting of the ESS Food Service Units at 05 Military Installations;
Babylon, Al Hillah, Al Kut, Karbala & Najaf.
- Verify the accuracy of Food Stocks,
- Food consumption, and Goods Received.
- Prepare weekly, P&L reports, for all 5 Bases.
- Verify Staff Attendance
- Audit Cash Imprest Funds at all 5 locations.
- Establish a uniform accounting system of reporting.
- Writing up Procedures, formulating forms, and designing statements.
- Assisting the Area Operation Manager in identifying problem areas, and offering workable solutions.
- Acting as Financial Manger of Iraq, during absence of immediate superior.
April 2001 to April 2003
Subsahara Services Inc. (Kellogg Brown & Root Inc. A division of Halliburton
Client: Esso "Chad" Africa
Position: Account Payable Supervisor
Duties:
- Supervision and instruction of 14 local employees and one expat in the French language
- Onsite Administrator of the Field Financial
System, for a Consortium of Three Corporations (Comelex, AOS, & KBR).
Recording all Accounting data pertaining to the Project, (Central Franc African including Foreign Currency (Euro, U.S. Dollars) Purchases.
- Preparation of the Trial Balance, Consolidated statements, and other
Various Financial reports.
- Maintaining, reconciling, and collecting
Travel advances.
- Preparation monthly, and upon arrival at site, Living allowances due to Expats.
- Supervision of Company Petty Cash
(averaging approx. over $100,000. U.S.
monthly)
- Administrating, and cost coding all Petty
Cash transactions.
- Monthly reconciliation of Bank Statements.
- Preparation of support documents, for Invoicing to the Client.
June 1997 to December 1999 Kellogg Algeria Inc.
Client: Sonatrach, "Algeria"
Position: Bilingual Accountant
Duties:
- Preparation weekly, monthly Payroll reports
Of expatriates (over 360 employees)
- Supervising a staff of 28 persons, to produce
A Daily Work Force report of over 4,000
Local employees, and reconcile with
Sub-Contractor's Billing Time Sheets.
- Financial audit of Expats expense reports.
- Calculation on a monthly basis Expats Living Allowances.
- Responsible for Petty Cash Disbursements
- Calculation, Payment, and Billing of all
Telephone charges to Client, Expats, and
Sub-Contractors (over 700 employees, and All office lines).
- Supervising Accounts Payable Dept. for over
07 months, and teach local data entry clerk the Kellogg Field Financial System.
- Posting of various Journal Entries
- Producing various management reports.
- Supervising local Maintenance Staff at Job Site (over 06 employees)
- Camp Manger (03 Months) supervising 27 Local employees for Maintenance and Kitchen
Staff.
- Inventory of all Company owned items at Base- Vie Camp, and reconciling with Client.
References: Upon request.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Commerce (Major in Accounting), University of Montreal
Knowledge of Microsoft 98 Windows Excell, Word, Power Point
Access Knowledge of Microsoft Programs for Payroll & Payables
(SAP) System Applications, and Products in Data processing
AP Field Specialist, GL Accountant, Labor Submitter
(FFS) Kellogg Brown & Root Field Financial System.
OTHER INFORMATION
- Languages: Fluent in French & Ukrainian
- Willing to Travel
- Willing to Relocate
- No Dependants
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