Maven Minds is a growing firm of young, honest and dedicated professionals from diversified backgrounds, who have embarked on a mission to provide a host of Professional Services with a touch of Personalized. One Window approach to your problems at an affordable cost, result oriented and of course hassle free. With presence in various industries, we are offering following services:1. Tax compliance and Advisory, Income & Sales Tax Return Filling, Refund Claim, Litigation, 2. Accounting Services Outsourcing and Advisory3. Customized Accounting Software and ERP implementation4. Company Law Consultancy and Secretarial related assistance to Companies5. Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) building6. Internal Audit Outsourcing7. Evaluation & Sourcing Finances & Insurances8. Various other services - Trade Marks, Copyrights, and Patents, Registration of Firm, Companies, Trust and other documentsWe are just call away.

Leading Taxation, Treasury and Compliances

- Arrangement with banks, leasing companies and insurance companies to cater company’s’ leasing and insurance requirements for equipment and vehicles.- Managing monthly closing activities- Assist in preparation of quarterly and annual financial statements.- Verification and posting of accounting entries and payments in ERP (JD Edwards Enterprise One).- Producing on-demand reports and analysis.- Coordination with CDC and trustee to manage Sukuk, handling Central Depository System installed for managing Sukkuk Certificates.- Special Assignment: team member responsible for the production of data for Due Diligence.- Supervising day-to-day operations of the department.

- Prepare tax and zakat returns for individual companies and group of companies.- Prepare monthly and annual withholding tax details to be submitted against DZIT.- Corresponding with clients to obtain information and resolving managers review points.- Prepare details for manager and partner review and submission to DZIT.

• Supervision of monthly bank reconciliations, debtor and creditor reconciliations.• Supervision of monthly and yearly closing of books.• Bookeeping and maintenance of general ledger.• Preparation of financial statements.• Foreign payable and receivable revaluation as per requirement of IFRS.• Exchange gain/loss analyses and creditors stretch reports.• Manage tax provisions and tax compliance process.• Submission of details for online income tax and sales tax return filing.• Liaison with Big 4 tax consultanting firms.• Dealing with and responding to time to time requirements and notices by tax authority.• Briefing internally to departments of any change in tax legislation and its implication.• Assisting in and providing details for Group tax planning.• Dealing with filing requirements of Securities and Exchange Commission.• Cordination with internal and external auditors.• Forward cover rate negotiation and confirmation of forward booking on LCs.Special Assignments• Standards review in finishing department to set new standards for standard costing.• Fixed Asset Management - conducted physical count at all business locations and update tagging and fixed asset register.• Health Check Review – Periodic health check review of purchase cycle and HR Function to ensure effectiveness of internal controls.Achievements• Completion of asset physical count at all locations, implementation of new asset tags and updating of Asset Register accordingly.• Gathered and submitted evidences of PKR 390 million out of PKR 445 million of amounts under objection by FBR.

- Local & foreign accounts payable management.- Preparing reconciliations of obligations.- 3 way matching and payment processing.- Maintenance of suppliers GL and operating expenses GL.- Provide support service for continuous operational improvement.- Landed cost management.- Preparation and reporting of financial statements.- Liaison with internal and external auditors. - Monthly closing, revaluation of foreign liabilities- Assisting in group reporting.- Liaison with bank in respect of foreign payments.- Liaison with tax consultants, prepare tax workings.- Involved in Standard Cost Analysis and ISO internal audit team held bi-annually.Achievements- Successful implementation of Sales Receipt Adjustment Module and Payment Batch Module.

- Audit planning in coordination with HOD.- Ensuring compliance with IAS, Local Corporate Laws- Evaluating and reporting on internal control systems- Liaison with departments .- Drafting monthly & quarterly internal audit reports.Lead department as ACTING HEAD OF DEPARTMENT form Dec 2010 to Jul 2011. Responsible for:- Attending quarterly audit committee meetings- Preparing minutes of the meetings.- Responsible for in-time execution of Internal Audit Plan- Finalization of monthly internal audit reporting- Follow-up for management response to observations.- Reporting to Audit Committee.- Execution of instructions made by Board and Audit Committee.

- Understand the client, its business and identify key performance drivers.- Planning of the audit engagements.- Assessment of business and audit risks of clients - Supervision and review of audit work.- Coordination with client’s management to obtain required details.- Lead and train team of auditors for conducting external and internal audits.- Perform analytical procedure, computing financial ratios.- Preparation of the Management letter.- Reporting to Audit manager and partners.Special Assignments- Internal Audit function at KASB Modaraba- Assisted in System Audit at KASB Modaraba- Cost Audit at Baba Farid Sugar Mills Limited- Internal Audit at Habib Qatar International Exchange Pakistan Pvt. Ltd.- Anti-Money Laundering Assignment at Habib Qatar International Exchange Pakistan Pvt. Ltd.