Summary

I have more than 10 years of experience as a finance professional. Currently responsible for payable, receivables, inventory, financial analysis and finance business partnering with the internal and external stakeholders. Expert in E2E process of Daraz seller centre whether its claims account statement matters or reconciliation issues.

Projects

Retail invoicing system
Project Yatra

Experience

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Manager Commercial Finance
Daraz.pk
Oct 2021 - Present | Karachi, Pakistan

• Ensuring all sellers are paid as per SLA and managing all the E2E payment disbursement of 100,000+ sellers on a weekly basis which includes more than 100k payout transactions in a month after all the reconciliations have been done.
• Managing & Analysing payable & receivable balances at month-end to ensure there are no aged balances in financials. Weekly & monthly vendor accounts & general ledger reconciliations.
• Forecasting the weekly & monthly payables and payments for Retail & MP models for working capital purposes.
• Reviewing & ensuring commercial finance-related GL are properly recorded during the month & complete accounting process is followed.
• Drive innovation within finance team processes by creating & implementing new SOP to strive for continuous improvement.
• Supporting reporting team in preparation of financial statements & providing reasoning for unusual variation between financials & business plan.
• Finance business partnering with all the relevant stakeholders by providing solutions and resolving their queries & driving new initiatives to improve seller experience.
• Handling the E2E process for B2B & advertising and ensuring all receivables to ensure timely recovery of the outstanding amount.
• Perform GAP analysis to identify improvement areas to increase EBITDA by focusing on Retail Margins & MP Commissions. Maintain comprehensive project documentation with PRDs and SOPs for finance-related projects.
• Facilitating tax team in providing relevant data for tax notices but also ensuring Income tax & supervise the proper deduction of WHT from all payments.
• implementing analytical analysis within the commercial finance team & highlight any shortcomings to calibrate corrective action
• Handling the day-to-day retail invoice payments after posting in ERP to ensure vendors are paid as per credit terms
• Identify any unusual transactions of customers & vendors where daraz subsidy was misused & take corrective action.

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Assistant Manager - Commercial Finance
daraz.pk (Alibaba Group)
Jul 2017 - Sep 2021 | Karachi, Pakistan

• Managing Bi Monthly & monthly billing of vendors in Marketplace model which has more than 50000+ vendors and are gradually increasing.
• As part of regional commercial finance team assigned with training teams of other countries of daraz.pk venture.
• Making new processes and developing SOPs for efficient working.
• Resolving vendor payment issues and disputes to ensure payments are timely disbursed to the vendor
• Maintain a system of policies and procedures that impose an adequate level of control over Finance Department activities
• Ensure the timely reconciliation (on monthly basis) for all the inventory-related accounts.
• Coordinate with warehouse management/staff, and ensure the full compliance to the defined inventory management processes, and controls
• Handling vendors tax deduction matters.
• Investigate any material shortages/overages identified during the stock count processes (monthly/surprise - counts).

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Sr Billing Officer (Inventory & Payable)
Daraz.pk
Nov 2014 - Jun 2017 | Karachi, Pakistan

• Managing Bi Monthly & monthly billing of vendors in cross dock and seller center model which has more than 10000 vendors which are gradually increasing.
• Weekly receivable from 3PL and payable position reporting.
• Ensure the timely reconciliation (on monthly basis) for all the inventory related accounts.
• Managing a team of 4 people and to insure all tasks are completed within deadline and smooth flow of operations.
• Resolving vendor payment disputes and reconciliation issues for which cases are registered on desk.com & ensure accuracy of supplier accounts.
• Maintaining a complete record of all cheques payment record of all vendors.
• Coordinate with warehouse management/staff, and ensure the full compliance to the defined inventory management processes, and controls
• Regularly in touch with inbounding team so that all the processes are taking place smoothly and no delay is taking place in inbounding of items.
• Processing payments of Lahore and Karachi offices.
• Timely processing of payments of vendors.
• Handling vendors tax deduction matters.
• Investigate any material shortages/overages identified during the stock count processes (monthly/surprise - counts).

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Accounts Officer
Mustaqim Dyes & Printing Industries Pvt Ltd
Mar 2014 - Nov 2014 | Karachi, Pakistan

• Monthly Bank reconciliation
• Pre Audit of payment invoices & reporting discrepancies.
• Daily Bank position report
• Daily, weekly, monthly & quarterly Sales reports.
• Assisting Finance Manager in Finalization of monthly final accounts
• Preparing schedules and identifying any data entry errors.
• Managing the debtors of the Company and ensuring SOP regarding debtors are strictly followed.
• Debtors aging reports
• Filing reports of various assignments directly to Directors
• Ensuring all internal controls are followed as per SOP, to eliminate any deviation from approved policy.
• Highlighting weaknesses of the Accounting process & bringing forward suggestion to improve it.
• Improving policies & procedures to eliminate chance of error or fraud so that organization can run smoothly.
• Managing Petty cash fund
• Maintaining the company’s Account Receivable Ledger, General Ledger & passing JVs
• Stock taking of inventories

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Senior Auditor/Internal Auditor/Accountant
Nasir Mahmood & Co Chartered Accountants
Oct 2013 - Feb 2014 | Karachi, Pakistan

• Highlighting weaknesses of the Accounting process & bringing forward suggestion to improve it.
• Improving policies & procedures to eliminate chance of error or fraud and organization can run smoothly.
• Pre Auditing payment & receipt vouchers
• Preparation of Financial Statement under guidance of partner.
• Auditing the invoices & reporting discrepancies.
• Fixed asset schedule & register compiler.
• Maintaining General Ledger & Account Receivable modules
• E Filing of returns of FBR & SRB.
• Managing Petty Cash fund of the firm.

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Finance Internee
Swisstex Chemicals Pvt Ltd
May 2012 - Sep 2012 | Karachi, Pakistan

• Implementation of Oracle Fixed Asset Management Module
• Preparing Daily and Weekly Bank Position
• Preparing payments and deducting taxes from payment
• E Filing of Direct Taxes and Sales Taxes
• Recording Cash Payment and Recording on Oracle GL module
• Preparing schedules at the end of the Accounting year.

Education

Institute of Cost & Management Accountancy of Pakistan (ICMAP)
Certification, Associate Cost Management Accountant (ACMA)‎
Management Accounting
Incomplete
2023
University of Karachi
Bachelors, , Bachelors in Commerce‎
Accounting
2010

Skills

Intermediate 4 Knowledge of Taxation
Intermediate AAccounting
Expert ACMA (Partial)
Intermediate any kind of softwere
Expert Asset Management
Beginner Audit Assignment Handling
Expert Bank Reconciliation     
Expert Beverage Formulation
Intermediate Budget Estimating
Intermediate Business Statistics
Intermediate Capital Budgeting
Intermediate Cash Flow Management
Intermediate Commercial Banking Knowledge
Intermediate Companies Ordinance Command
Intermediate Corporate Finance
Intermediate Cost Variance Analysis
Beginner CYMA
Beginner Drake Tax Software
Expert External Audit
Intermediate Finacle
Intermediate Financial Analysis
Beginner Financial Audits
Expert Financial Mathematics
Intermediate Financial Ratios Analysis
Intermediate Financial Statement Analysis+
Intermediate Fixed Income Analysis
Beginner FRx
Intermediate Funds Managment
Intermediate Handle Outbound Calls
Expert Handling Assignments
Intermediate IFRS
Intermediate Individual Contributor
Intermediate Internal Audit Command
Expert Internal Controls
Intermediate International Accounting
Intermediate International Standards Auditing
Expert Internet Banking
Expert Japanese & Korean Language Proficiency
Expert Knowledge of Spreadsheets
Expert Leasing
Beginner LTN
Beginner Macola
Intermediate Managing Midsize Teams - 5 to 20 People
Expert Microsoft Outlook
Intermediate Oracle E-Business Suite
Intermediate Partnerships
Intermediate Peachtree Command
Intermediate Planning and Budgeting
Expert Prepaid Ledger
Intermediate Private Limited Companies

Languages

Intermediate English
Expert Urdu

Companies Followed

Endorsements

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SAFA SYED
National Saving Officer, Central Directorate of National Savings
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SAFA SYED
Central Directorate of National Savings