Ilef Mezhoudi

CALSTART is a nonprofit organization working nationally and internationally with businesses and governments to develop clean, efficient transportation solutions.

• Project Billing: Generate and process invoices for projects, ensuring accuracy and compliance with funding requirements.
• Reconcile accounts and created documents for monthly closure procedures.
• Grant Compliance: Ensure that project billing adheres to the terms and conditions specified in the grants or funding agreements.
• Funding Source Reporting: Prepare and submit financial reports to funding sources, detailing how the funds are utilized in each project.
• Contribution Tracking: Monitor and track contributions, donations, and grants received for each project, and ensure proper accounting and recognition.
• Restricted Funds Management: Manage funds that are designated for specific purposes or projects and ensure they are used according to donor restrictions.
• Cost Allocation: Allocate shared costs appropriately among different projects to ensure fair distribution of expenses.
• Budget Monitoring: Work closely with project managers to monitor project budgets and provide financial insights to support decision-making.
• Grant Budgeting: Collaborate with project managers to develop grant budgets, ensuring that they align with the organization's mission and funding criteria.
• Fundraising Support: Provide financial data and analysis to support fundraising efforts and grant applications.
• Financial Statement Preparation: Assist in the preparation of financial statements for the non-profit organization as a whole, including consolidated statements if applicable.
• Budget Creation: Collaborate with project managers and stakeholders to create project budgets for new initiatives or programs.
• Contract Review: Review existing project contracts to identify the need for amendments, such as changes in project scope, funding, or timelines.
• Project Closeout: Collaborate with project managers to ensure proper financial closeout and reporting for completed projects.

The Perry Consulting Group is a Financial consulting group specialized in Non-Profit Finance Operations Management and Strategy.

At The People Concern:

• Researched issues, prepared invoices/ billings, and collects funds for the support of restricted fund expenditures.
• Completed daily cash functions: account tracking, payroll, and wage allocations, budgeting, donating, and all types of cash and banking reconciliations.
• Planed, organized, and coordinated centralized accounting and financial reporting for assigned grant portfolios.

At United Friends of The Children:

• Processed accounting receivables and incoming payments in compliance with financial policies and procedures.
• Secured staff payment traceability, accurately calculating deductions while preparing and processing payroll via ADP.
• Assessed accounting accuracy, performing daily cash functions, including A/P and A/R tracking, budgeting, payroll transactions, wage allocation, salary expenses, online donations and bank, credit card, and petty cash reconciliations using QuickBooks.
• Prepared and reviewed financial statements, including balance sheets and income statements.
• Created and executed short- and long-term customized comprehensive financial strategies to reach organization goals.

Ashford Carter International is a Financial consulting group specialized in Non-Profit Finance Operations Management.

Client: The Center at Blessed Sacrament, a Non-Profit Organization dedicated to ending isolation and homelessness.

• Conduced a monthly reconciliation of bank accounts.
• Maintained and processed invoices, deposits and money logs.
• Monitored, verified and approved invoices and reviewed balances using QuickBooks to assess balance sheet for variances.
• Reviewed accounts, resolved coding areas and tracked recurring expenses for accrual entry.
• Analyzed financial data derived from multiple reporting systems to develop recommendations for operational and performance improvements.
• Reconciled accounts and reviewed expense data, net worth and assets.

Company Belgacem Mezhoudi is a public construction company.

• Prepared regular financial reports, including monthly, quarterly, and annual budget, and present these to the Director.
• Coordinated with the Financial Director to ensure timely and accurate supplier payments, improving vendor relations and operational efficiency.
• Managed accounts payable and receivable functions, ensuring timely payments and accurate recordkeeping.
• Oversaw invoicing processes, ensuring prompt billing of clients/vendors while minimizing errors in calculations or account entries.

Calas Group is an accounting and financial services firm that offers bookkeeping, tax, payroll, financial planning, and insurance.

• Provided unlimited consultations.
• Assisted clients in making beneficial and strategic decisions regarding investments, low-cash financing, and sourcing overseas partners.
• Developed comprehensive business cases to analyze costs, benefits, ROI, and TCO of proposed solutions.
• Created detailed roadmaps of action items and project goals and generated reports to inform budgeting and planning.
• Conducted P&L statement analysis to improve daily operations, increase revenue and reduce costs.