Ammar Yacoob

14 years of professional work experience I had been actively involved in supporting and working grants and compliance as well as sub grants & finance departments at various levels in different sectors of (Banks, companies and international organization). It gave me an opportunity to refine skills, enhance and gain knowledge, deepen, understand and familiarize myself with the work, functional requirements and requisites of all these departments and the programs,
Having reviewed the essential job requirements, I find myself confident enough to submit my candidature

Sabagh Finance Auditor(21May2022-present)

Job Title: Finance Consultant 

Description of duties:

1. Perform regular, detailed audits to ensure accuracy in financial documents, expenditures and investments
2. Convert coding of the system from international general ledger to Iraqi coding financial system and report to the government financial statement. 
3. Analyze companies’ transactions and prepare reports to CPA for financial report
4. Perform regular, detailed audits to ensure accuracy in financial documents, expenditures and investments
5. Oversee ledger reconciliation and manage accounts payable/receivable
6. preparing & providing to the government the tax & financial report for the yearend closer.
7. Database administrator for financial system to (manage, add, remove, modify, correct and evaluate) the system from any errors of mistakes could be happened in system.
8. Provide advice and suggestion to the companies for business management

                Gateway Company for communications (1July-2021- 20May,2022)

                Job Title: Finance Manager

                Description of duties:

1. Creating new financial policies and procedures to meet High performance in finance department
2. Post financial record of data entry in the Al-Andalus financial system
3. Unlimited authority of financial Reviewing for the document of (Procurement, Human resources, Admin)
4. Reporting to CEO Profit and loss for more than 10 projects with financial analyses report.
5. Reporting project risk/avoidance, financial planning, BVA, Budgeting, any request came from stakeholder.
6. Working with software engineering to establishing ERP system for inventory control 
7. Financial analyzing for the new project and offer business plan to (costumer, partner, vendor)  
8. Create segregation of duty system for the hierarchies of staff management  
9. Create new excel sheet for the payroll that linked all projects workflow with establishing share cost and percentage distribution cost to connecting with BVA and budgeting, social security, personal income tax  
10. Remote controlling sub-offices that locations in other governmental cities.
11. Capacity building to financial staff and other operational department that related to finance system
12. Create strategic financial plan for the company which have more than 300 employees all over Iraq 
13. initiated financial system for managing the Purchase order to the universal companies like (Huawei, Nokia, Newroz, First bank of Iraq, Fastlink, and others inside and outside Iraq with best financial control
14. Establishing (pay slip, time sheet, payment request, employee expense report, cash advance) procedure 
15. Reporting the critical situation to my manager CEO of the gateway company and raise my suggestion solutions to avoid these critical circumstances 
16. Financial control for the (accrual, amortization, General Ledger reconciliation, bank reconciliation, promises, cash flow, forecasting, month closure, fiscal year closure)
17. Updating financial system that was implementing in the company and calibrating with collection all financial information from other system like (Zero system, Bombo system, Sahly system, Inventory system) in one ERP system with reconciliation errors and correcting mistakes for the previous periods
18. Reviewing the contract and correct the mistakes with establishing new contracts
19. preparing & providing to the government the monthly social security report and income tax.

Blumont Organization (11Novmeber2020-11Feb2021)

Position: Senior finance officer

Description of duties: 

1. Reporting to Donors of Blumont organization like (GFFO, MOFA and UNDP) for financial part of report
2. Finance review for all document support to finalize the payment   
3. Use the cost point financial system to Enter the payment request, accrual, amortization, …, etc.
4. BVA Budget Variance Analysis donors of Blumont organization like (GFFO, MOFA, UNDP and UN OCHA)
5. Month closure of financial process in the end of month or year closure.
6. Bank reconciliation, cash reconciliation and General ledger reconciliation
7. Tracking payment request for facilities, accrual, promises
8. Established qualified work plan for teamwork to avoid time consuming

InterSOS Organization (5 April2020- 11Novmber2020)

Position: Finance Officer

Description of duties:

1. Journal recording in QuickBooks financial System as daily basses
2. Bank Reconciliation and cash reconciliation as daily and monthly basses.
3. Responsible for finance Mosel office and remote finalization controlling (Rabiaa, Hammam Alliel and 2 training center) payments with financial system registration.
4. Responsible for the preparation, finalization and reconciliation of InterSOS Iraq Payroll, in coordination with the HR department to Ensure that Tax & social security are deducted & recorded in accordance Iraqi Laws & allocated to employee time sheet.
5. Working in the procurement plan and reconciliation PR’s with budgeting & Budget Variance Analysis (BVA) to avoid over budget and realignment. 
6. Coordinating with Hawala vendor and main branch for money transfer of liquidity request or cash flow from HQ & cooperating with finance director to meet need and requirement.
7. providing high quality performance of payment commitment to get customers satisfaction. 
8. Tracking premises payments with monthly reconciliation to keep business best for last
9. Keep InterSOS Management Platform (IMP) update for budgeting tracking.
10. Provide high quality of archiving by upgrading archiving filing system.

Mercy Corps Organization (5April2015 - December 31, 2019) /  

 Position: Finance Officer

Description of duties:

1. Responsible for the preparation, finalization and reconciliation of Mercy Corps Iraq Payroll, in coordination with the HR department. Ensure that Tax and social security are deducted and recorded in accordance with Iraqi Laws, and link with the EPAR to allocation percentage to employees as per time sheet. 
2. Amortize and distribute all cost allocations with monitoring and reconciliation the remaining purchasing amount.
3. Bank reconciliations for the all transaction in ledger entry and bank statement to couch errors to reclus it  
4. Daily Record in bank and cash transactions and accrual record and recluse in system ‘’Navigator”
5. Working with Hawala vendors (cash transfer) & reconciliation with all transaction to keep it up to date with tracker that prepared to track the transactions and keep transparency in business regulation   
6. Prepare fund requests for Erbil office & Cash Flow Request from HQ for all Iraq & cash projection as cash liquidity for office operational and program’s needs.
7. Finance review the payment limited to 10,000 USD for all funds and locations in Iraq regarding Mercy corps policy and cash management policy and follow the regulation of finance
8.  calculating end of service based on information provided from HR and allocate the unused leave and unpaid salary as per timesheets allocations with Contribution Social security for KRG and severance for KRG & non KRG as per policy and deduct unreturned equipment if needs. 
9.  Check the Reports as required for the month end closed as (opening advance, allocations, outstanding payment, fees allocations, pay slip, exchange rate of currency)
10.  Give orientation and training to new hiring staff.
11.  Working with external & internal auditor (prepare document, reporting, provide requirement, make sure all work and paper provides to donors and audit are met his requirements.

 OBK Company (1Sep2014-5Apr2015)   / Position:  Senior Finance Officer

Description of duties:

1. Daily record of invoices for selling Items and record of daily receipts in (cash, cheque, bank transfer) 
2.  Daily check inventory of the 4 stores with the storekeeper and reconciliation with import and export items
3. Reconciliations vehicle items distributed Items with salesperson and cash settlement with salesperson
4. Prepare Bank reconciliation and follow up with the (vendors, traders, Markets) for cash settlement 
5. Petty cash management for daily expenses to decrease the expenditure and increase incomes
6. Cash flow management to recommended budget 
7. Calculated proof and loss for the month closure in financial system Delta.
8. Delegating me as deputy general manager when the manager travels abroad 

3- Employer:     Green Leaf Factory (1Sep2012-1Sep2014) /       Position: CEO/Owner

Description of duties:

Considerable experience and a proven track record of contribution within the packaging industry, meeting production, sales and profit targets, optimizing business, distribution networks, commercial operations and team potentials through strong planning, operational activities, project management and leadership abilities. Energetic management professional versed in business management, finance and sales. Emphasizes process improvement to increase profits and customer satisfaction.

Focused on cutting costs and boosting company revenue through innovative management techniques. Organized and diligent with a strong background in sales, planning, budgeting and staffing. Financial skills: Daily entry transactions (pay & received cash), Bank reconciliation, Prepare (journal-Profit and loss- trial balance- Balance sheet, Budget, Cash flow, Petty cash managing and lead the team to increase the productivity , provide new ideas for marketing and great new lines of produce regarding market requirement , increase the profit of gain money by follow creative strategies for sales management.

4-Employer:       Erbil Bank for Investment & Finance (15Mar2011-1Sep2012)   / Position: Data Base Administrator

Description of duties:

Technically advanced information technology specialist successful in software administration and data communications.

Experienced Computer Systems Analyst with diverse industry experience in banking and government Social security.

Professional expertise includes systems applications and information protection analysis

Professional with extensive system administration experience programming technologies (Data Base troubleshooting & Auditing, Networking, Computer maintenance)

5- Employer:           Credit Bank of Iraq (27April2009-15Mar2011)       /      Position: Finance Officer 

Description of duties:

Recording Financial data in Citrix financial system and analysis specialize reporting 

Capable Accountant successful at managing multiple projects and consistently meeting deadlines under pressure.

Extensive knowledge of accounting software and processes {Daily entry transactions (pay & received cash),

Balance sheet, Budget, Social security and prepare the monthly central bank reconciliations.

6- Employer:      Hawler Plaza Hotel (1Feb2007- 27/4/2009)      /      Position: Finance Auditor

Description of duties:

• I diligently monitor budgetary matters to achieve financial accountability and transparency.
• Run audit reports for the accounts receivable and payable (restaurants, mini bar,coffee shop, internet, reception,front office, cashiers) to finalize the financial reports of hotel in the front desk officer for manage control.
• Record pertinent informationinto a bookkeeping system with Balance all revenue and settlement accounts 
• Do (bank, cash, credit card) reconciliation 

I worked with Gateway company as finance manager and Bluemont organization as Senior Finance officer,Intersos organization and Mercy Corps organization as finance officer, I was responsible for donors reporting, BVA, finance review, the Bank management and compliance of diverse projects. I have proven knowledge of financial review, audit reporting, Supporting (financial management, donor compliance contracts & grants agreement and reporting requirements, consortium coordination, conflict management and remote management). Due to assertive communication skills I have always successfully developed and sustained good working relation with partner organizations and donor agencies. In addition, I have demonstrated expertise of working in insecure locations, post conflict and disaster situations for both emergency and development projects. And complex annual portfolio of approximately 25M $. Finance manager but successfully managed all function of Country Administrator.
In my some of the other positions I have worked as General Manager, Database administrator, Senior Finance Officer with different INGO’s and companies.
So, given this kind of exposure, experience and skills that I can present myself as the best candidate for this job.