Summary

A Chartered Accountant Finalist (Module F) with over five (5) years of diversified experience in practice and in industry as well with the ability to exercise leadership skills including team management and time management.

A goal-driven and prudent professional with significant academic knowledge and experience of auditing operations, financial analysis, corporate laws and tax laws.

A dedicated and self-motivated individual with good communication and presentation skills.

Projects

Fixed Assets' Management

Experience

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Assistant Manager Audit & Compliance
Wilshire Laboratories (Pvt.) Limited
Nov 2017 - Present | Lahore, Pakistan

I joined Wilshire Labs. in November 2017 where key responsibilities include the following:

 SOP Development
 Establishment of Internal Audit Function
 Planning and conduct of Internal Audit
 Testing the effectiveness and efficiency of control environment, Identification of control gaps and suggesting improvements
 Implementation of risk based audit strategy
 Supervision of pre-audit activates of certain transactions
 Preforming financial, regulatory, compliance and operational audits based on risk based audit strategy
 Ensuring compliance to internal policies
 Assisting management to identify and implement best Corporate Practices in the Company
Additional responsibilities assigned to me include the following:
 Assistance in the development of Fixed Assets Module in ERP
 Preparation and maintenance of Fixed Assets Register including data gathering, compilation and finalization in ERP
 Development of Budgeting mechanism
 Assistance in the development of Corporate Budget in ERP
 Assistance in restructuring Accounts and Finance Department
 Special investigations and other task assigned from time to time

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Accounts Executive
Diamond Foam
Mar 2017 - Nov 2017 | Lahore, Pakistan

I joined Diamond Foam in March 2017 in Accounts Department. Key job responsibilities were the following:
 Monitoring of Trial Balance, Provisions and monthly adjustments
 Preparation and finalization of monthly management accounts
 Supervision of monthly Sales Tax Return filing, monthly Withholding Statement filing and deduction of advance tax
 Finalization of purchase register
 Fund flow management
 Communication with suppliers & vendors and ensuring timely payments
 Supervision of junior accounting staff
 Assisting junior accounting staff in trouble shooting.
This role also involved the following:
 Supervision of accounting records and existing account management
 Daily coordination with banks for daily recovery and receipts
 Checking of daily and monthly reconciliation of bank statements
 Checking fixed assets register and ensuring period end depreciation adjustments

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Associate Auditor
Grant Thornton Anjum Asim, Chartered Accountants
Dec 2012 - May 2016 | Lahore, Pakistan

I joined Grant Thornton Pakistan under ICAP’s mandatory training in December 2012 which completed in May 2016.
During the tenure of my articles, I served in the ‘Business Assurance Services' and 'Business Risk Services'
departments. During my stay in there, I groomed myself from junior team member to Group Senior
level.

Education

Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan
Certification, C.A Finalist‎
Accounting & Finance, Auditing
Completed
2019
University of the Punjab
Bachelors, Bachelors in Commerce, B.Com‎
Accounting & Finance
Percentage 62%
2007

Skills

Expert Quality Assurance
Intermediate Bank Reconciliation     
Intermediate Budget Creation Management
Intermediate ERP Oracle
Expert Financial Statement Analysis+
Intermediate Fund Management
Expert Handle Outbound Calls
Expert Handling Assignments
Expert Internal Audit Command
Expert Internal Controls
Expert Production Quality Monitoring
Expert Risk Assessment
Expert Social Welfare Management
Expert Tax Planning
Expert Taxation
Expert الامتثال للتدقيق المالي

Languages

Expert Urdu
Expert English

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Endorsements

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Umar is great. Clever, amicable, trustworthy. Someone who always gets the job done and has fun while doing it.

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Muhammad Khan
Assistant Manager Audit and Compliance, Wilshire Laboratories (Pvt.) Ltd.

Umar is a great team player, someone everyone enjoys working with. He makes the toughest challenges seem simple. Always exceeds expectations. He has a unique combination of creativity, strong work ethic, and management skills.

Sayyed Umar Faran Contacts

Muhammad Abbas Malik
Diamond Industries Limited
Muhammad Azeem Khan
Wilshire Laboratories (Pvt.) Ltd.
Muhammad Ashfaq
Noon Sugar Mills Ltd.