NORA GHABBIESH

• Manage full-cycle journal entry preparation, including accruals, prepayments, and reclassifications, ensuring accurate corporate ledgers.
• Oversee accounts payable, receivable activities, prepare and reconcile payroll journals with a focus on accuracy, timeliness, and policy compliance.
• Maintain strong general ledger governance, ensuring timely and accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual closing cycles, delivering clean and reliable trial balances.
• Led monthly intercompany reconciliations across corporate and portfolio business units, ensuring accuracy in alignment with corporate guidelines.
• Investigate, resolve, and document intercompany discrepancies, working closely with business units to strengthen financial discipline.
• Coordinate with legal and finance teams to ensure intercompany agreements are drafted, updated, and fully executed between counterparties, supporting compliance and audit readiness.
• Deliver training sessions to business units on intercompany best practices, account reconciliations and risk control matrix (RCM).
• Maintain strong general ledger governance, ensuring timely and accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual closing cycles.
• Variance analysis of actual vs. forecast (balance sheet and income statement) for management review.
• Support corporate financial reporting and management packs with accurate commentary, and reconciliations.
• Assist treasury operations with cash flow forecasting, liquidity planning, and ongoing banking activities.
• Monitor and reconcile corporate bank accounts, ensuring transparency and timely posting of cash transactions.
• Calculate corporate management fees ensuring to be recharged to business units on a quarterly basis.
• Assist with internal and external audit requests.
• Review and audit account reconciliations for business units on a quarterly basis, ensuring accuracy, compliance and adherence to internal control standards.

•Purchase and sales ledger control with reconciliations and credit control activities.
•Dealing with different nominal codes, Chart of accounts and Tax codes.
•Processing accounts payable and accounts receivable.
•Dealing with HMRC regarding VAT related inquiries.
•Dealing with foreign currencies, EC sales and Intrastat Returns.
•Resolving accounts payable and receivable issues or queries.
•Processing payroll ,generating payslips, Maternity & Statutory pay, Forms P45 and P60 and RTI submissions, Pension schemes using Sage 50 payroll.
•Month ends on MS Excel to validate the concepts of reversals and other important journals.
•Post journal, debtor and creditor journals, wages journals.
•VAT Submissions based on different VAT Schemes like cash, standard, Flat rate and Retail VAT Schemes.
•Dealing with MTD on different softwares including Sage 50,Quickbooks & Xero.
•Dealing with accruals, prepayments, depreciation, double entries and calculating loan interest.
•Investigating, processing ,and evaluating bills or invoices for services rendered.
•Developing monthly financial statements that include Profit & Loss account and Balance Sheets.
•Prepare CIS monthly returns and dealing with contractors and sub-contractors.
•Tracking financial progress by creating quarterly and yearly Statement of Profit & Loss and the Statement of Financial Position.
•Experience working for clients across varied industries including Retail,Technology,Agriculture,Online business and Construction industry.

• Liaising with Clients.
• Notes taking/Minutes.
• Responsible for companies’ house web filing.
• Answering calls and arranging meetings with the MD.
• Invoicing Clients.
• Following up with clients Anti Money laundering checks and risk assessments.
• Supporting Payroll department to follow up with all client’s requests.
• Supporting VAT department by following up with clients and make sure we meet the deadlines.
• Supporting accounts and self-assessment department.
• Business rates check for our clients (Relief, Appeal, Valuation).
• Diary management and appointment booking.
• Maintaining files and updating databases.

• Preparing monthly balance sheet, income statements and cash flow statements.
• Reconciled bank accounts on monthly basis.
• created and implemented petty cash policies, procedures and excel spreadsheet
• applied payments to clients account.
• Prepared, entered and posted journal entries and maintained general ledger.
• Checking the Social security &tax for the company.
• Responsible for payroll, accounts receivable/payable ledgers, and payroll tax return .
• Issuing and recording invoices.
• Manage general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, billing, collections, cash management, fixed asset activities.
• Processed invoices, employee expense reports, and check requests.
• Supports budget and forecasting activities.
• Collaborates with the other finance department managers to support overall department goals and objectives.
• Maintains the fixed asset inventory system by supervising the recording of all items in the inventory, maintaining pertinent records and ensuring adequate treatment of fixed asset acquisitions and retirements.
• Ensure the accurate and timely processing of positive pay transactions.
• Handling all the Human resources responsibilities of the company, recruiting, attendance, insurances……

• Checking & handling global network invoices.
• Managing Aramex subsidiary companies Related to Aramex (Infofort Holding LTD), Checking its invoices with different stations.
• Handling Infofort Holding LTD Reconciliation & Budget
• Doing analysis for Net transactions per entity on monthly basis.
• Handling Reconciliation with Two way Forwarding & Logistics LTD (Company purchased by Aramex) Manchester, London& Birmingham.
Finance Department
Auditor (Finance team member), Duties Included:
• Checking stations financial statements (income statements balance sheet).
• Reporting final corporate consolidated income statement & balance sheet on monthly basis.
• Conduct financial analysis, per entity on monthly basis.
• Checking stations fixed assets on quarterly basis & sending reports on each.