MERVAT JUDEH

Senior accountant with two local NGOs in Palestine. Key responsibilities included:

• Recording all financial transactions using the accounting software available (BESSAN)
• Monitor all the expenses and make sure they are within budget and are reasonable
• Manage payroll for 150 employees, including income tax deductions
• Calculating employees retirement benefits when they leave
• Supervise Accountants in our regional offices and audit their work
• Manage multiple bank reconciliation with different currencies
• Help the finance manager in preparing the organization's budget and other projects budget
• Financial reporting to internal management and external donors
• Work with our auditor on issuing the end of the year audit report and financial statements
• Working on other administrative tasks like calculating the vacation days and the overtime work
• End of the year adjusting entries including prepayments and accruals.
• petty cash management and reimbursement
• Tutoring for students of George Mason University in the principles of Accounting course.(2005-2008)
• calculation of Depreciation on fixed assets
• build up a chart of accounts and subaccounts
• Manage accounts receivable and Payable
• Implementing the general accepted accounting principles GAAP including matching principal revenue recognition , historical cost and accrual versus cash base and these are the American used principles in accounting
• Detecting any mistake in a financial transaction and having the ability to correct it whether by a reversing entry or a Journal
• Preparation of income statement and balance sheet
• Keeping a very organized system of filing for the printed financial transactions such as payment voucher or receipt voucher or journal voucher and attach all the matching bills and copies of checks issued
• Be the correspondent person with the banks which include ordering checkbooks and bank statements
• Recording staff travel advances for business trips and reconciling it after their arrival
• Recording restricted funds and reconciling it
• Grants receivable and deferred revenue(unearned revenue)

Specific Experience

Senior Accountant/Financial Manager, Tamer Institute for Community Education (2000 - 2003)

• Ramallah, Palestine

I was the sole accountant/financial manager on staff, and therefore was solely responsible for financial accounting and reporting and advising senior management on financial decisions. Non-profit organization which develops local libraries in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza and encourages independent reading in children and publishing books and applying reading campaigns in the country.

• Senior Accountant, Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committee (PARC) (1995-1999) Jerusalem, Palestine

I oversaw the accounting for PARC which had $3million in donor funds, 150 employees working in 7 different offices distributed between cities in the West Bank and Gaza. I oversaw the accountants in the regional offices as well as provided financial report to donors such as Ford Foundation, OXFAM, and European funders. PARC is the leading organization training farmers and helping them market their crops outside the country. PARC also works to help village women establish their own small businesses, including training and lending loans with a low interest rate.

• Association of Information Technology Professionals
• National Association of Social Workers
• Association for Computing Machinery
• Project Management Institute
• Jaycees
• APICS – Association for Supply Chain Management
• International Council of Nurses
• Lions Club
• Society of Human Resource Management
• Toastmasters
• Rotary International
• American Marketing Association
• Society of Women Engineers
• American Medical Informatics Association
• International Association of Administrative Professionals
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Freemason
• American Society of Safety Professionals
• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

• Good oral and written skills in English and in Arabic, background in French. Good command of Microsoft Excel and Word , strong computer skills. Quick books accounting software. great plains accounting software .