Sr Accountant

Looking for more challenging job where I could be a valuable asset to the company and achieve my career goals by applying my broad range of commercial and finance experience.

KEY STRENGTHS

• Progressive 6 year Financial/Management/Project accounting experience
• Detailed revenue, cost, variance and accruals analyses and payroll process
• Strong management reporting and billing skills, rate, account and systems reconciliation
• Excellent communication and influencing skills at senior management level
• Strong receivables and payables management skills and good systems understanding

PRODUCTION SERVICES NETWORK (PSN)

Operational Support Contract with BP for Engineering and Modifications

CHIEF ACCOUNTANT - May, 2006 - Present

PROJECT ACCOUNTANT - July, 2004 - May, 2006


• Full responsibility for set up of the new company and its A&F department. Supervise one Senior and one Junior Accountants.
• Provision of management and financial accounting support for the project/company
• Reconciliation and analyses of project revenue and cost accounts, preparation of client invoices
• Review and analyses of project overheads and accruals, statutory reporting, payroll processing
• Month-end closeout in SAP/Oracle: recording transactions into accounting master system; closing projects in SAP/Oracle, reconciling management information in SAP/Oracle with information in local accounting systems
• Reconciliation of project resource cost centers, inter/intra company billing
• Preparation of monthly management reports: job income analyses for projects by discipline, AR & AP control, non-reimbursable cost analyses
• Liaison with project personnel and project/regional management and provision of various ad hoc reports
• Provide many other HR and Administrative type ad-hoc support to the management

APPLIED TECHNOLOGIES INCORPORATED (Wholesale)

ACCOUNTANT - May 2002 – July 2004

• Design, maintenance & administration of a computerized accounting software (Focus-5)
• Establishment & maintenance of the inventory, preparing and posting vouchers into accounting system, process cash withdrawals, invoicing customers, cost analyses, preparing and submitting receivables ageing reports and tax reports, process payroll
Collection and following up of debtors and arrange payments to creditors, monthly bank reconciliation, provide expert training on the company’s computerized software

• Azerbaijan State Oil Academy and Georgia State University (USA) – MBA
• Azerbaijan State Oil Academy – Bachelor in Power Engineering
• ACCA Part 1 Completed. Exempted from Paper 2.1 and 2.2

• Oracle (Aberdeen, UK), October 2006
• SAP R/3 (Aberdeen, UK), August 2004 and July 2005
• Quick Books 2003 (on-line computer based), April 2005
• Focus 5 (Dubai, UAE), August 2003
• MS Windows2000/XP/NT, MS Excel, Word, Power Point, Outlook 2000

• Fluent English, Russian, Turkish, Azerbaijani
• Married with one child