I am an ACCA member with hands on experience of around 10+ years in the field of Accounts, Finance, Internal and External Audits. Association with the leading giants of Pakistan industry i.e. Lucky Cement Limited and Dawlance Group of Companies for around 8+ years out of my 10+ careers help me to became a self motivated, work oriented individual leads to efficient work environment.
Leading the entire finance function of the company and reports to CEO. Some of the major functions are;
Dealing with banks and insurance companies
Dealing with Income and Sales Tax related matters with Company law firm
Dealing with SECP
Dealing with E&Y for monthly accounts/ quarterly accounts preparation
Prepare Budgets and Monthly/ Quarterly/ annual monitoring with actual spend
Cash flow forecast
Monthly payroll cycle/ re-imbursement
Assets Management
Prepare and present project wise budget and cost allocation for the purpose of billing to the clients.
Any other assignment as and when required by CEO
• Supervision of Entire Accounting Cycle That includes daily payments, tax matters, re-imbursement from USAID, Expenses related to the Project, Bank Reconciliation, Staff’s Salaries, exemptions and plenty of things.
• Monitoring and Checking of Budgets assign from USAID specific to the Project and related expenses and variance analysis on month-to-month and year-to-year basis.
• Cash Flow Forecasting Design and Developed first ever cash flow forecast of Lucky Cement on the basis of past years analysis, future forecasting of growth in industry, trends and other factors.
• Monitoring and Checking of treasury related expenses, income related accounts in GL in order to assure correct posting in GL and get it correct if something goes wrong.
• Leading Entire Insurance Function right from the negotiation, finalization, reconciliations, and general operational work.
• Prepare Budget for all three types of insurance (General, Life and Health), present the same to Senior Management for approval and monitor monthly activity in order to avoid any major change.
• Claim Management and related aging a strict check and balance through system to keep the pending claim aging to a minimum level in order to avoid operational losses
• Key user in the process of SAP implementation phase, take part in every step of implementation and now working on it.
• Manage and Supervise Finance operation of the company which includes all aspect of finance function i.e. dealing with banks, clients, both internal and external audit, tax related matters also compliance requirement with SECP and other regulatory requirements as designated compliance officer.
• Dealing with insurance companies for rate negotiation, risk management, claims and insurance of companies’ assets throughout Pakistan.
• Dealing with banks regarding their satisfaction regarding our Insurance arrangement to ensure smooth availability of Overdrafts.
• Supervision of largest element of cash flow through fortnightly preparation of LC reconciliation advances, outstanding in liaison with banks and system (Oracle) data to help treasury department to forecast and management of funds availability.
• Responsible for inventory management through Quarterly stock count of all factories, warehouses, service center stores and its reconciliation with system and reporting to Senior Management.
• Responsible for Payable Operations where daily payments, reconciliation of venders and cheques preparation are done
• Review of LCs cost through reconciliation of actual v/s standard cost to identify and highlight un-usual variances.
• Supervise Retail Sales operation of sister concern – Dawlance Marketing finance operation including sales, payable, receivables, stocks reconciliation and preparation of monthly and annual financial accounts for audit. Also presentation of the same to senior management
Audit Experience – Dawlance Group of Companies
• Supervision of audits, Organize, plan and carry out the internal audit function including the preparation of an audit plan that completes the duty of the department, assigning work, scheduling and estimating resource needs.
• Assessment of audit risk, Conduct group internal audit in executing special investigations, internal audit, compliance with Policies and regulations and reviews of the Group's companies' internal control system. Evaluate the adequacy,
Effectiveness and efficiencies of processes including internal control systems and compliance with company policies and related regulations.
• Timely preparation of deliverables including audit reports