**What do i offer?**
1. Set up chart of accounts.
2. Categorize expenses.
3. Accounting: Learn and manage any software.
4. Bookkeeping.
5. Reconciliation.
6. Full payroll process.
7. Financial reporting.
8. Financial statements.
9. Income statement and balance sheet.
10. Excel/Google Sheets formulas and automation.
**About Me:**
Hello! I'm Mohamed Elsawaf, a dedicated General Accountant with a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and over seven years of professional experience. My expertise lies in Accounts Receivable (AR), Accounts Payable (AP), and Payroll management. I am currently based in the UAE and actively preparing for the CMA certification to further bolster my qualifications.
**Professional Experience:**
Over the years, I have amassed extensive experience working with international corporations. My career began with Hyatt Hotels in Dubai, where I managed AR, AP, and payroll for more than 3,000 employees across nine Hyatt Hotels in the Cluster Finance Department. Currently, I am employed with Samsung, a global electronics leader, based in Dubai, where I handle General Accounting for the Africa Branches.
**Technical Proficiency:**
I am proficient in using several accounting software packages, including iScala and Oasis Payroll systems. Currently, I work with SAP NERP. My technical skills are further complemented by my advanced use of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, where I excel in utilizing functions such as VLOOKUP, SUMIF, pivot tables, and macros to streamline accounting processes and enhance reporting accuracy.
**Professional Ambition:**
I am ambitious about building a career in Finance and Accounting, aspiring to establish a trusted and reliable profile for my professional contacts. I am committed to delivering precise, transparent, and understandable accounting insights that help clients feel confident in the financial health of their enterprise.
**Why Choose Me:**
If you are looking for a dedicated accounting professional who pays attention to detail and ensures high-quality work processes and reporting, I am here to help. My approach is centered around delivering peace of mind through meticulous financial management and transparent reporting. Please feel free to reach out to me for all your accounting needs.
SAP
Microsoft Excel
QuickBooks Online
Google Sheets
Visual Basic
Bookkeeping
Data Analysis
Chart of Accounts
Balance Sheet
Income Statement
Startup Company
Accounts Payable
Accounts Receivable
Bank Reconciliation
Payroll Reconciliation
Mehran S.
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
$20/hr
4.9
27 jobs
Accountant, Bookkeeper, Tax Consultants, VAT, Payroll, Setting up Chart of Accounts, Setting up Vendors / Suppliers, Maintain Accounts Receivables, Maintain Accounts Payable, Classifications of Transactions, Bank Reconciliations & Credit Cards Reconciliations, Use of Payroll Journals, Payroll forms, and reports, Preparing clean Financials (Balance Sheet & Income Statement and other accounts for Tax Filing), Preparation of VAT Returns & Corporation Tax, Specialist for Microsoft Excel, PDF data conversions and arrangements, Allocation of balances from Tax Returns, Accounting for finance leases and loans, Accounting for new Tangible & Intangible Assets, Asset register, Prepare Accounts Pack, Applying Ratio Analysis.
I am a professionally qualified accountant having practical working experience of over six years in the accounting practice areas. My core working expertise is mainly related to accountancy, audits, and consultancy with different clients.
I have hands-on experience working with:
• Xero: 💠
• QuickBooks: 📘
• Zoho: 🧩
• SAP S4 Hana: 🖥️
• Odoo: 🟣
• Sage: 📗
🔹 Setting up Chart of Accounts: Customizing your chart of accounts to fit your business needs and ensuring accurate financial tracking.
🔹 Setting up Vendors / Suppliers: Organizing and managing your vendor/supplier information for streamlined transactions and record-keeping.
🔹 Maintain Accounts Receivables: Tracking and managing incoming payments to ensure your business receives payments on time.
🔹 Maintain Accounts Payable: Managing outgoing payments to suppliers and vendors to keep your accounts balanced and on schedule.
🔹 Classifications of Transactions: Categorize your financial transactions accurately for better financial reporting and analysis.
🔹 Bank Reconciliations & Credit Cards Reconciliations: Ensuring your bank and credit card statements match your financial records for accuracy.
🔹 Use of Payroll Journals, Payroll forms, and reports: Managing payroll processes and reporting to keep your business compliant with payroll regulations.
🔹 Preparing clean Financials (Balance Sheet & Income Statement and other accounts for Tax Filing): Creating accurate financial statements to help with tax preparation and financial analysis.
🔹 Preparation of VAT Returns & Corporation Tax: Handling VAT returns and corporate tax filings to keep your business tax-compliant.
🔹 Specialist for Microsoft Excel, PDF data conversions and arrangements: Utilizing Excel for advanced data manipulation and converting PDFs to streamline bookkeeping.
🔹 Allocation of balances from Tax Returns: Accurately distributing balances from tax returns to the appropriate accounts.
🔹 Accounting for finance leases and loans: Tracking and managing finance leases and loan payments, ensuring principal and interest are recorded correctly.
🔹 Accounting for new Tangible & Intangible Assets, Asset register: Recording new assets and maintaining an up-to-date asset register for accurate asset management.
🔹 Prepare Accounts Pack: Compiling comprehensive accounts packs for thorough financial reviews.
🔹 Applying Ratio Analysis: Using financial ratios to analyze your business performance and financial health.
I am dedicated to providing accurate and efficient accounting and bookkeeping services to help your business thrive. Let’s connect and discuss how I can support your financial needs!
Intuit QuickBooks
Financial Audit
Cash Flow Analysis
Tax Preparation
Bookkeeping
Sage
Xero
Value-Added Tax
Bill.com Accounts Payable
Financial Modeling
CPA
Certified Tax Preparer
Inventory Management
Financial Statement
Arslan A.
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
$10/hr
5.0
8 jobs
Chartered Accountant | Senior AML & Fintech Compliance Leader | Cross-Border Tax & Regulatory Advisor
I am a Chartered Accountant with extensive international experience advising regulated entities, fintechs, SMEs, and multinational groups across the UAE, UK, Australia, and Canada. My expertise spans AML/CFT compliance, cross-border payments regulation, corporate tax, IFRS financial reporting, audit coordination, and business restructuring.
I work at the intersection of financial governance, regulatory compliance, and strategic growth, helping businesses strengthen internal controls while remaining commercially agile.
Core Expertise
Regulatory & Compliance
AML / CFT framework design (KYC, CDD, EDD, sanctions screening)
Cross-border payments compliance & fintech regulatory advisory
Regulatory remediation & policy drafting
UAE, UK & Canadian compliance submissions
Risk assessments & governance framework implementation
Tax & Financial Advisory
UAE Corporate Tax & VAT advisory
UK tax filings & statutory submissions
Canadian corporate compliance submissions
Cross-border structuring & tax optimization
IFRS financial reporting & consolidation
Audit & Assurance
Internal audit design & control testing
External audit coordination (UK & international groups)
Regulatory audit readiness & documentation support
Financial statement preparation & compliance review
Business Restructuring & Strategy
Corporate restructuring & group reorganization
Holding company structuring
Cross-jurisdictional operational alignment
Financial cleanup & system implementation (ERP / accounting systems)
I have supported organizations in strengthening compliance environments, preparing for regulator reviews, optimizing tax positions, and restructuring operations to align with evolving global regulatory standards.
My focus is practical: delivering solutions that are technically sound, regulator-ready, and commercially viable.
If you are seeking advisory support in:
• AML & financial crime compliance
• Fintech & payments regulation
• Cross-border tax structuring
• IFRS reporting & audit preparation
• Business restructuring & regulatory submissions (UAE, UK, Canada)
Let’s connect.
Anti-Money Laundering
Corporate Tax
Value-Added Tax
International Taxation
Accounting
FinTech Consulting
Crypto Asset
Internal Auditing
Financial Statement
QuickBooks Online
Xero
ERPNext
Zoho Books
Tax Planning & Advisory
Musaab S.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
$25/hr
5.0
17 jobs
ICAEW Chartered Accountant with 11 years of experience helping businesses in the US, UK, UAE, and Europe clean up their books, stay compliant, and make better financial decisions with accurate 𝑩𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝑻𝒂𝒙 𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, and 𝑭𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝑹𝒆𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈.
I work with founders, e-commerce brands, Shopify and Amazon sellers, SaaS companies, real estate investors, property management firms, and service businesses who need their numbers done properly, not just entered into a system.
𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒎𝒆:
➣ Full charge bookkeeping and monthly close in 𝑸𝒖𝒊𝒄𝒌𝑩𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒔 𝑶𝒏𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆 and 𝑿𝒆𝒓𝒐
➣ Catch up and cleanup bookkeeping, bank reconciliation, credit card reconciliation, and chart of accounts rebuilds
➣ Accounts payable, accounts receivable, and payroll processing
➣ VAT returns, 𝑼𝑨𝑬 𝑪𝒐𝒓𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝑻𝒂𝒙, US sales tax, and cross border compliance filings
➣ 𝑭𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 for fundraising, cash runway, burn rate, and scenario planning
➣ Three statement financial models, DCF valuation, and investor pitch deck financials
➣ Management accounts, KPI dashboards, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis
➣ 𝑭𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑪𝑭𝑶 and outsourced controller support for growing businesses
➣ ERP implementation and migration between QuickBooks, Xero, Odoo, and NetSuite
𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒄𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒎𝒆:
➣ 𝑰𝑪𝑨𝑬𝑾 qualification is the UK equivalent of a CPA, which means you are working with a fully chartered accountant, not just a bookkeeper
➣ 𝑸𝒖𝒊𝒄𝒌𝑩𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒔 𝑶𝒏𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝑨𝒅𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒓 Level 1 and Level 2 certified
➣ 𝑿𝒆𝒓𝒐 𝑨𝒅𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒓 𝑪𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒊𝒆𝒅
➣ 11 years across audit, FP&A, financial reporting, ERP implementation, and group consolidation
➣ Experience with multi entity structures, intercompany reconciliation, transfer pricing, and cross border tax setups
➣ Hands on with Shopify, Stripe, PayPal, Amazon, A2X, Dext, Gusto, and Expensify integrations
If your books are behind, your reporting is unclear, or you need a finance partner who can actually think through the numbers with you, send me a message and we can have a short call to see if I am the right fit.
𝑻𝒐𝒐𝒍𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑻𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒏𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒚 𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉:
𝟏. QuickBooks
𝟐. Xero
𝟑. Odoo
𝟒. Wave Financial
𝟓. Bloomberg Terminal
𝟔. FactSet
7. Gimbla
𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬:
Bookkeeping software, Bookkeeping services, Bookkeeping basics, Bookkeeping accountant,
Bookkeeping jobs, Bookkeeper, Bookkeeper training, Financial Analyst Services, Financial Analyst Reports, Financial Analyst Consulting, Financial Analyst, Financial modeling, Financial Reporting, Investment Manager, Investment analysis, Investment Analyst, Investor Pitch Deck,
Financial Analysis & Valuation, Microsoft Excel, Budgeting and Forecasting, Investment Management, Cash Flow Optimization, Risk Management, Financial Reporting, Budgeting & Cost Control, Fractional CFO, Financial Modeler, Business & Financial Analyst, Financial Management/CFO, CFO Financial Modeler, CFO Financial Analyst, Valuation Expert, Accounting & Taxation, Financial model, Financial Planning, Fundraising, CA | CFA, Business Valuation and Forecasting, Business plan & Deck, Market Research, Company Valuation, Tax Preparation, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Bookkeeping software, Bookkeeping services, Bookkeeping basics, Bookkeeping accountant, Bookkeeping, Bookkeeper, Accountant Consultant, Accountant Specialist, Accountant Bookkeeper, Accountant Analyst,
Accountant CPA, Accountant Manager, Accountant Virtual Assistant, Accountant Tax Expert,
Accountant Financial Advisor, Accountant Auditor, Accountant Payroll Specialist, Accountant Data Entry, Accountant QuickBooks ProAdvisor, Accountant Excel Specialist, Accountant Budget Analyst, Accountant Forensic Specialist, Accountant Tax Preparer, Accountant Financial Planner, Bookkeeper training, Bookkeeper for entrepreneur, Bookkeeping and accounting, Bookkeeping for taxes, Bookkeeping for traders, Nonprofit Bookkeeping,
Bookkeeping for landlords, Real-Estate Bookkeeping, Bookkeeping for restaurants,
Bookkeeping for small business owners.
Let’s simplify your financials and make your accounting stress-free. Send me a message to discuss your needs!
𝑩𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑹𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔,
𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒂𝒂𝒃
SAP
Accounting
Bookkeeping
Finance & Accounting
QuickBooks Online
Financial Analysis
Financial Statement
Financial Planning
Accounting Basics
Corporate Tax
Accounts Payable
Valuation
Xero
Odoo
Financial Reporting
Forecasting
Sage
Taxation
Abdalla K.
Ras Al Khaimah City, United Arab Emirates
$35/hr
5.0
4 jobs
I have worked for Concrete Technology (Precast Factory-Design Team ) for more than 2 years and e.construct.ae for 6 years.
I graduated from the Faculty of Engineering at Cairo University (Egypt) in 2017.
I have experience in Different types of Projects, such as Garages, Residential buildings, High-Rise buildings, villas (fully and semi-precast & cast-in-situ), Water Tanks, cladding, boundary walls, and Bridges.
I am included in design and Supervision teams for projects located in the USA, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Ras Al Khaimah, Riyadh, Cairo, and Kuwait.
I have Good knowledge of design standards and codes, such as ACI 318, PCI, ASCE 07, UBC, SBC, and ECP.
Good knowledge of cast-in-situ concrete elements, precast and prestressed concrete elements such as DTs, Hollow core Slabs, Beams, Columns, Walls, and connections between all elements (wet or mechanical connection).
Aware of Analysis programs such as CSI Software (Etabs, Safe, Sap), Midas Set, Midas Plus, Concise, LecWall, Hilti, Limcon Ram, Idea Statica, Prokon, RCM Builder, Drafting Software such as Revit and AutoCAD, Microsoft Office programs, and other programs (Mathcad, Bluebeam).
Structural Detailing
Design Writing
Structural Analysis
Structural Dynamics
Structural Engineering
Structural Calculation Sheet
Finite Element Analysis
Structural Drawing
Mathematical Modeling
Drafting
ETABS
Structural Analysis & Design Software
Reinforced Concrete Structures
Hoda E.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
$75/hr
5.0
1 jobs
UAE businesses are bleeding money through messy books, unfiled VAT returns, and Corporate Tax obligations they don't fully understand.
International SMEs are drowning in manual finance processes that should run automatically.
I fix both — remotely, in Arabic and English.
I'm a Dubai-based Fractional CFO and finance automation specialist with 8+ years managing finance functions for businesses up to AED 50M ($14M) in revenue across UAE, UK, and international markets.
I don't just report your numbers — I fix the systems producing them.
I combine CFO-level financial leadership with hands-on automation — building Zoho One and Makecom workflows that eliminate manual data entry, close your books in days not weeks, and give you real-time financial visibility without hiring a full-time finance team.
What I deliver that most controllers cannot:
— Monthly close with board-ready P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow
— Finance workflow automation using Zoho One + Makecom
— Cash flow forecasting (3–6 months rolling)
— Budget vs actual variance reporting with management commentary
— UAE Corporate Tax compliance, FTA gap analysis, and VAT structuring
— Zoho Books and QuickBooks setup, cleanup, and integration
— IFRS-compliant financial reporting for international businesses
Who I work with:
Growing SMEs — typically $1M–$20M revenue — whose finance systems haven't kept pace with their business. UAE companies needing full regulatory compliance. UK and international businesses needing remote CFO leadership and automated reporting.
Results from current clients:
Monthly close reduced from 3 weeks to under 7 days. Zero FTA penalties across all active engagements. Board-ready reporting delivered on fixed monthly retainer.
I respond within 1 business hour during UAE hours (GMT+4).
If your books are behind, your VAT is overdue, your numbers aren't trustworthy, or your finance process runs on spreadsheets and hope — message me.
Bank Reconciliation
Financial Report
Bookkeeping
Financial Statement
Finance & Accounting
Financial Model
Financial Analysis
SAP BusinessOne
Automation
Financial Plan
Zoho Books
Zoho CRM
Make.com
Corporate Tax
Value-Added Tax
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