Zina Belhadj

• Managing the posting of financial documents and journal entries, ensuring accurate allocation to relevant accounts, projects, and period.
• Monthly retrieval of revenue data from clients' automated systems, followed by the issuance of invoices for services rendered.
• Conducting bank transaction reconciliations.
• Reconciling intercompany balances.
• Monitoring and managing the accounting email inbox.
• Preparing comprehensive financial reports for management review.
• Collaborating with the Head of Finance to address inquiries and fulfill requests from auditors.
• Supporting KYC compliance efforts as required.
• Providing additional accounting support and assistance to the Head of Finance as needed.

In my role managing an assigned portfolio of clients, I executed the following responsibilities:

• Ensuring accurate and up-to-date accounts.
• Preparing VAT returns.
• Reconciling bank transactions.
• Assisting with management accounts.

These duties necessitated consistent communication with clients, facilitating prompt resolution of inquiries and the acquisition of necessary information.

Additionally, I provided valuable assistance in the following areas:

• Micro Invest applications.
• Annual Returns.
• Due Diligence.

• Processing of suppliers' invoices, reconciliation of supplier accounts, and issuing of payments to suppliers.
• Issuing and processing of AR invoices, including accounting for receipts, handling AR reconciliations, and credit control.
• Processing of month-end transactions and other GL postings as required.
• Handling day-to-day operational requirements, including communication with internal and external stakeholders.
• Perform necessary account, bank, intercompany, and other reconciliations.
• Classifying, recording and summarising numerical and financial data to compile monthly management accounts.
• Comparing and analysing of compiled data to budgeted costs and historic figures, and preparation of monthly analytical reports to management.
• Responsibility of VAT computations and submission of VAT returns in adherence with fiscal deadlines.
• Responsibility of adherence with internal deadlines, including but not limited to intercompany reconciliations, credit control, and more.

• Maintenance of databases, including the updating of data pertaining to the various entities and their individual debtors and creditors.
• Submitting documents to property owners and tenants.
• Issuing receivable invoices and updating receipts.
• Following up on receivables in arrears.
• Bank reconciliations.
• Processing end-of-year rollover procedures.
• Compiling financial reports.

• Planning daily work and coordinating tasks related to assigned duties.
• Assisting junior staff.
• Reviewing incoming e-mails and acting appropriately on them to adhere to the departmental targets.
• Checking contracts and setting up supplier accounts in the reservation and accounting system.
• Checking and reviewing margin discrepancies.
• Monitoring incoming invoices and ensuring that these are processed on time for payments.
• Preparing payments as per suppliers' payment terms.
• Controlling deposits to ensure that recovery of issued funds have been paid out and subsequently fully recovered.
• Maintaining supplier accounts by reconciling any disputes and clearing pending balances.
• Checking and processing customer complaints.

At the level of Account Technician, I was responsible for investigating as well as resolving problem invoices by using different tools and following a set of procedures.

Then, on July 2017, I was offered a traineeship and was thus introduced to the work of Account Officer.

As a Data Processing Clerk, I was responsible for reviewing the relevant information on supplier invoices, inputting these into the company's customised system, and setting up payments for those invoices that aligned with the system's recorded values.

Then, a few months later, I was offered a traineeship and was introduced to the work of Account Technician.

• Dealing with callers and visitors.
• Handling correspondence.
• Processing client payments.
• Reconciling cash.
• Processing quotes, orders, invoices and credit notes.