Curriculum Vitae

Araz Mahmood

1211 Salim Street

Sulaimani, Kurdistan 46001

0750-133-5665

araz.mahmood@univsul.edu.iq

Objective

Innovative accounting professional proficient in extracting financial data from financial reporting.

Education

Master degree in Accounting, December, 2016

Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ, USA

Thesis Title: Accounting and Financial reporting for Warranty Expense

Planning to sit for CPA exam September 2019

BS in Accounting June 2011

University of Sulaimani, Sulaimani, Kurdistan

Accounting Experience

Assistant Lecturer Feb, 2017 Until now

Komar university -Kurdistan

I teach several topics:

Financial Accounting

Intermediate Accounting/1

Intermediate Accounting/2

Assistant Lecturer March, 2017 Until now

University of Sulaimani-Kurdistan

I teach several topics:

Advanced Financial Accounting

Advanced Cost Accounting

Principle of Accounting

Intermediate Accounting

Founder and CEO March, 2017 Until now

Hyper Post Company, Sulaimani-Kurdistan

Fund Accountant Sep 2016 to March 2017.

State Street Corporation, USA

• Performed the following functions to facilitate financial statement preparation: input various data elements and comparison of financial data related to prior period Financial statements, maintain security detail in the financial reporting database.
• Supported expense budgeting and analysis by verifying data related to expense payments, accruals and postings.
• Maintained well-documented, organized work papers and client files.
• Requested and printed various client related reports.
• Performed ad hoc reconciliations.

Junior Accountant June 2011 to February 2014

Qasab Company, Kurdistan-Sulaimani

• Accounts Receivable, which included invoicing, cash application-applying customer payments in a timely, and weekly reporting.
• Accounts Payable, which included processing vendor invoices, vendor payments and weekly reporting.
• Issued financial statements and prepared analysis of accounts as requested for both internal and external
• Managed financial departments with responsibility for budgets and forecasting
• Assisted Accounting Department with the journal entries and reconciliation of GL accounts.
• Prepared monthly, quarterly and year-end reports about gross payroll for management.

· Recorded cash receipts and made bank deposits on a weekly basis.

• Conducted a monthly reconciliation of every bank account

· Paid any debt as it comes due for payment.

· Prepared weekly confidential sales reports for presentation to management

· Assisted Accounting Department in preparation of internal and external audits.

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant November 2011 to February 2014

University of Sulaimani, Sulaimani-Kurdistan

Visiting Lecturer of Accounting November 2011 to June 2012

Dukan Technical Institute, Sulaimani-Kurdistan

Skills

Technical: US GAAP, IFRS, Financial Reporting, Bookkeeping, Strong Microsoft Excel skills, Word, Access, PowerPoint, and Teaching.

Language: English, Arabic, and Fluent in Kurdish