Senior Accountant

I am looking for a new opportunity to gain more experience and to enrich my accounting and financial skills, and to make my valuable contribution to maximise the benefit of my next employer.

Duties and responsibilities are below:
Ensure that all financial and accounting activities on the projects are compliant to the company’s financial and accounting policies and procedures, to local tax legislation, SOX requirements and to the international accounting standards
Responsible for establishing annual budgets for the projects based on man-hours, headcounts and rates within the contract terms, established policies, procedures, law regulations and GAAP
Inter-company eliminations and consolidations for KBR’s Azerbaijan office
Maintain and close corporate accounts for labour and non-labour costs on monthly basis; controlling cost allocations on the projects based on standard cost absorption
Control of SAP and NBS (KBR’s accounting program) WBS elements relating to the projects
Control of non-reimbursable budgets established for the projects
Internal control assessment of KBR’s financial activity on the projects within the framework of KBR’s Risk Control Tracking System (RCTS) for categories Accounts Payables, Accounts Receivables, Revenue Recognition, Product Line Accounting and Critical Spreadsheet Control
Owner of critical spreadsheets of the projects
Making different types of reconciliation; responsible for completing monthly accounts reconciliation templates and analysis of balance sheet accounts explaining every major movement in these accounts
Liaise with regional offices in London, Singapore, Australia and Houston for inter-company labour, IT and GUB (Global User Billings) charges
Responding to audit queries for all project related transactions. All audit reports have always had positive feedbacks
Working closely with different departments to review the terms of the contracts and propose amendments to the contracts if necessary
Preparing work instructions with flowcharts for various financial and accounting positions
Preparing different types of financial reports at the management’s request
Approving the time sheets of all project staff in Baku office (around 300 employees)
Providing on-the-job training for the supervised employees on various aspects of accounting and finance and for the client personnel on billing procedure

Baku State University
September 1998 – June 2000
Major – International Economic Relations and Business Law
Minor – Accounting and Finance
Master degree (with distinction)

Baku State University
September 1994 – June 1998
Major – International Economic Relations and Business Law
Minor – Accounting and Finance
Bachelor degree (with distinction)

Certificate in Business Accounting, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (UK), January 2004