Summary

CA INTER1-1997
BCOM 1991
ARTICLESHIP 4YEARS 1992-1996 ICAP
TOTAL EXPERIENCE 19 YEARS
CURRENT JOB: ProMag Pvt Limited
As an Head of Department Finance and Accounts

• Financial management skills include integrating buying and selling systems, resource allocation, developing productive relationships with banks, accounting department training, supervision, and organization, development of financial analysis, control, and reporting systems, conducting and overseeing audits, cash flow management, negotiating financing, tracking financial performance.
• Skilled in all aspects of business development, sales and marketing, operational management, staff development, training procedures, major account and territory management, client relations, organizational audits, management information systems coordination.
• Knowledgeable in computer operations, spreadsheets, contact management software, billing and invoicing systems, office application and word processing programs, Internet, and E-mail.
• Consistently noted by senior management, partners, staff, auditors, legal counsel, board of directors members, and key clients for superior detail-oriented management skills, ability to prioritize tasks to accomplish maximum results, timely completion of projects, and ability to solve organizational problems with innovative solutions.

Experience

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Senior Manager - Accounts & Finance
ProMag Pvt Limited
Mar 2017 - Present | Karachi, Pakistan

ProMag is a broad-based management consultancy which provides specialized development advisory and project management services on a wide variety of local and international projects.
Major Responsibilities:

• Overall responsibility of Accounts & Finance department.
• Manages day-to-day accounting, invoicing, payroll, cash management and internal financial reporting.
• Ensures accurate and timely reporting.
• Liaises with the Audit Committee and other auditors to ensure compliance with relevant statutory requirements and standards.
• Continually reviews work practices and procedures for better operational efficiency; and potential issues in accounts, financial processes and controls and proactively raise management attention to act and resolve.
• Provides support and input to project financial planning processes including monitoring progress.
• Produces and reviews financial reports, ensuring that expenditure is according to approved contractual budgets
• Directs internal audits involving review of accounting and administrative controls.
• Establishes system controls for new financial systems and develops procedures to improve existing systems.

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Head of Department- Accounts & Finance
Karsaz (Pvt.) Ltd
Apr 2007 - Feb 2017 | Karachi, Pakistan

The Company status as a commercial importer engaged in the business of trading, engineering services in sea and dry ports and corporate event organizers.
Major Responsibilities:

• Negotiate with banks and NBFI for financing arrangement and rescheduling.
• Managed finance department with responsibility for Budgets, Forecasting, A/c Payable and Receivable.
• Co-ordination with banks and NBFI’s for renewal of existing financing facilities.
• Managing company’s excess fund into short term investments.
• Negotiate with banks/insurance co.’s for opening and retirement of letter of credit, bank/insurance guarantees.
• Extensively involved in strategic business planning of company and allocation of revenue targets to marketing & sale personnel’s.
• Budgeting and forecasting of Cash Flow requirement.
• Review monthly P&L and discuss with management.
• Keeping liaison by communication (personal/written) with:
• Business associates;
• Corporate law firms;
• Financial institutions;
• Taxation department;
• Other concerned Government departments.
• Preparation of annual financial statement for management and regulatory authorities.
• Supervision of external audit.
• Supervision of filling of all tax returns and finalizing tax orders with consultant.
• Conducting internal audit procedures on random basis and taking timely corrective measures by resolving problems in consultation with the related person/department/management.
• Analysis of reports on random/periodical basis by checking the data with relation to budgeting and forecasting and suggesting corrective measures to the management, if beyond the powers of the Head of Accounts & Finance:
• +/- Variations with history;
• +/- Variations with targets.
• Effectively generate suggestions, nonconformities or complains through Corrective Actions Request form.

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Manager Accounts
Apollo Textile Mills Limited.
Oct 2002 - Aug 2005 | Karachi, Pakistan

The Company status as a spinning public limited company engaged in the manufacturing of cotton yarn. The annual turnover of the company is approx. Rs. 900 million.
Job Responsibilities included in the portfolio:

• Preparation of daily drawing power position with different banks.
• Liaison with banks for arrangement of delivery order from pledged yarn and cotton.
• Co-ordination with different bank departments for daily transactions.
• Monitoring day to day activities.
• Checking payment, receipt and journal voucher.
• Monthly reconciliations with debtors and creditors.
• Checking of delivery order and sales invoices with dispatch report.
• Checking of debit and credit notes.
• Checking commission bills on sales and purchases.
• Checking of store bills with quotations and minimum order quantity.
• Analysis of monthly company expenses with budgeted.
• Checking and analysis of monthly payroll head office
• And mill.
• Monitoring monthly bank and cash reconciliations.
• Preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual financial statement for management and regulatory authorities.
• Supervision of external audit.
• Supervision filling of all tax returns and finalizing tax orders.

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Manager Accounts & Taxation
Anoud Textile Mills Limited
Jan 1999 - Sep 2002 | Karachi, Pakistan

The Company status as a spinning public limited company engaged in the manufacturing of cotton yarn. The annual turnover of the company is approx. Rs. 500 million.
Job Responsibilities:

• Co-ordination with different bank departments for daily transactions.
• Monitoring day to day activities.
• Responsible for all activities related to GL Accounting.
• Monitoring monthly bank and cash reconciliations.
• Preparation of monthly and annual financial statement for management and regulatory authorities.
• Supervision of external audit.
• Supervision filling of all tax returns and finalizing tax orders.

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Assistant Manager Accounts
Venus Pakistan (Pvt.) Limited
Oct 1997 - Dec 1998 | Karachi, Pakistan

Education

University of Karachi
Bachelors, , B.Com‎
Accounting
1991

Skills

Expert AAccounting
Expert AMEX
Expert Balance Sheet Review
Expert Bank Management
Expert Bank Reconciliation     
Expert Branch Accounting
Expert Budgeting & Forecasting
Expert CA (Partial)
Expert Cash Flow Management
Expert Cash Flow Reporting
Expert Commercial Loans and Finance Knowledge
Expert Compliance
Expert Corporate Tax Filings
Expert CPA Partial
Expert Debt Collection and Recovery
Expert Debt Restructuring
Expert External Audit
Expert Financial Accounting
Expert Financial Analysis
Expert Financial Close Process
Expert Funds Managment
Expert GL Reconciliations
Expert Handling Assignments
Expert Internal Controls
Expert Internet Banking
Expert Inventory Valuation
Expert Japanese & Korean Language Proficiency
Expert Managing Midsize Teams - 5 to 20 People
Expert Payroll Processing
Expert Planning and Budgeting
Expert Private Limited Companies
Expert Reconciliation
Expert Social Welfare Management
Expert Tax Preparation Skills
Expert Treasury
Expert Vehicle Allocation
Expert Voucher Management
Expert Warranty Quality Assurance Process
Expert Working Capital Management
Expert الامتثال للتدقيق المالي

Languages

Intermediate English
Expert Urdu

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