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Sheeba Mathews

@sheebamathews

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Senior accountant focused on financial analysis, reporting, and streamlined finance operations.

Bahrain

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to lead finance and accounting responsibilities—financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and process streamlining—while supporting SAP/accounting transformation and partnering with stakeholders to improve speed, controls, and decision-making.

I’m a Strategic Professional and ACCA-qualified accountant with 17+ years of experience managing accounting operations, internal and regulatory reporting, budgeting, and forecasting. I focus on improving cost savings, profitability, and productivity through tighter systems and more reliable processes.

I’ve owned end-to-end accounting and compliance work, including collections, disbursements, payroll, fixed assets, inventory, and general ledger ownership. I prepare and present weekly and monthly management reports—cost/benefit analysis, productivity analysis, variance analysis (Budget VS Actual), forecasts, and financial statements—to support leadership decision-making.

In my roles across the Middle East, I led finance improvements such as streamlining monthly finance processes to improve speed and accuracy of results. I also guided statutory audit reporting to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and helped strengthen internal procedures, governance policies, and transparency in reporting.

I bring transformation experience too: I executed SAP Implementation projects with aggressive project governance, training, and user enablement to keep business flow correct. Highlights include establishing an outsourcing arrangement for financial accounting processes under S.L.A. and delivering improvements in monthly profitability reporting, accounting procedures, and tax planning.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Accountant

Norton Rose Fulbright

May 2008 - Jan 2018 (9 years 8 months)

Steered accounting operations for Norton Rose Fulbright Middle East, covering collections, purchases, receivables, payroll, fixed assets, and inventory, and reported monthly to London. Streamlined intercompany transactions and supported SAP implementation while producing financial reporting, budgeting, variance analysis, and cash flow forecasts.

Accounting Operations Audit Support Collections Accounts Receivable Payroll Fixed Assets Accounting Inventory SAP Implementation Excel Financial Reporting Budgeting Cash Flow Forecasting Root Cause Analysis

Accountant

DHL International, B.S.C.

Jan 2006 - Jun 2007 (1 year 5 months)

Handled the payables department, including payables and petty cash, and processed supplier payments through HSBC Net. Produced monthly reports such as profit/loss and budget comparisons, and supported IT activities for the purchase module.

Accounts Payable Petty Cash HSBC

Accounts Manager

CompuEx

Jan 2003 - Dec 2005 (2 years 11 months)

Managed accounts from petty cash through annual audit report finalization using Easy Accounting software. Handled customer collections and payroll (including full and final settlements), and prepared management financial reports and general ledger reconciliations.

Easy Accounting Customer Collections Payroll Processing Full & Final Settlements Leave Encashment Loans Recoveries Financial Reconciliations Financial Reporting Accounting Software Feedback

Peachtree Implementer/ Accountant

Al-Nasir Contracting

Aug 2000 - Dec 2002 (2 years 4 months)

Installed and maintained Peachtree accounting software and kept the accounting package aligned with company requirements. Maintained debtor/creditor, inventory, payroll, and cash/bank records and prepared monthly financial reports including aged receivables/payables, trial balance, bank reconciliations, cash flow, and profit and loss.

Peachtree Inventory Accounting Payroll Trial Balances Bank Reconciliation

Software Implementer/ Accountant

Diamond Stationary

Mar 1999 - Jul 2000 (1 year 4 months)

Installed Easy Accounting software and maintained the accounting package according to company requirements. Maintained debtor/creditor, inventory, payroll, and cash/bank books and prepared monthly financial reports such as aged receivables/payables, payroll reports, trial balance, bank reconciliations, cash flow, profit and loss, and balance sheet.

Easy Accounting Inventory Accounting Payroll Trial Balances Bank Reconciliation Financial Reporting