Farhan Jawed- (Aca, Apfa)- Chartered Accountant Email and Phone Number

Finance Business Partner- International Business  Collaborate with key stakeholders to prepare & monitor annual country wise budgets, monthly cashflows and ensuring smooth financial operations of international business. Preparing insightful country wise monthly profit & loss along with variance analysis and proposing corrective actions. Working closely with the Marketing department to understand promotional activities, assisting in product pricing strategies, and their financial impact. Developed SOPs for International Business Financial Operations to ensure compliance and best practices. Coordinating month-end closing activities, ensuring accuracy and completeness of financial records. Critically evaluating market feasibilities, providing critical insights to inform strategic decision-making.Group Taxation Identifying and proposing tax planning venues to the senior management via available incentives and benefits. Reviewing transfer pricing strategy for intra-group business operations Overseeing the preparation and review of annual tax returns, identifying tax-saving opportunities, and advising tax implications related to business decisions. Liaising with Tax authorities & networking with business associations. Updating business with changes in laws and implementing changes in SAP.  Business partnering with cross functional teams to resolve their tax related issued and managing, coaching, developing and leading tax team.Financial Reporting & Corporate Affairs Involved in preparing and presenting monthly management reporting and providing meaningful analysis on monthly and annual financial results to the management along with presenting variance analysis. Involved in preparation impairment testing on intangibles/ brands. Assisting Company Secretary in preparation of minutes of the meetings, resolutions etc.

 Preparing and presenting monthly management reporting, while ensuring compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards, local laws and company policies.  Providing meaningful analysis of monthly and annual results to the management and their variance analysis including impairment testing of intangibles. Identifying and proposing tax planning venues to the senior management via available incentives and benefits. Business partnering with cross functional teams and managing, coaching, developing and leading tax & reporting team. Updating business with changes in laws from time to time and advising different department of the organization in respect of various tax matters. Preparing Income Tax liability, quarterly advance Income Tax & reviewing the monthly sales tax returns. Timely responding various notices relating to direct and indirect taxes, issued by tax department. Coordinating with tax department in respect of different tax matters (monitoring of withholding proceedings, amendment of assessment, exemptions approval etc.) and handling Secretarial matters.

JOB SUMMARY - Liaison with external parties such as tax authorities, tax consultants and lawyers.- Preparation and filing of annual income tax return in consultation with tax advisors- Review of current tax expense/ provision- Preparation of quarterly advance tax installments.- Payment of income tax withheld from vendors and issuance of tax deduction certificates.- Preparation of response to notices received from tax authorities.- Tax audit and litigation.- Business partnering with cross functional teams.- Updating business with changes in laws from time to time.- Partnering in different projects from time to time etc.

Roles and responsibilities:Deloitte is one of the big four multinational audit and consultancy firms of the world. I am working as a Senior Consultant Taxation and reporting directly to the Partner, my key responsibilities include: • Preparing/ reviewing Income Tax liability and e-filing return of income of corporate clients, quarterly advance Income Tax and monthly reporting of federal/ provincial Sales Tax/(VAT) and taxes withheld at source. • Engaged in routine and specific direct and indirect tax (VAT) advisory to clients.• Timely responding various notices relating to direct and indirect taxes (VAT), on behalf of the client, issued by tax department. • Coordinating with tax authorities in respect of different tax matters (monitoring of withholding proceedings, amendment of assessment, exemptions approval etc.)• Coordinating and liaison with clients to collect and gather data necessary for filing of Federal and Provincial sales tax returns (VAT return) • Engaged in performing tax due diligence reports of various clients. • Preparation and filing of Appeal documents before Commissioner Appeal and Appellate Tribunal Inland Revenue. Representative clients:Following are the representative tax compliance clients that have contributed in my professional growth: • Shell Pakistan Limited • Lucky Energy Limited• KCA Deutage drilling G.M.B.H.• NBP Fullerton Asset Management Limited• Nafa Mutual Funds• Sindh Bank Limited• Burj Bank Limited• Trading Corporation of Pakistan (Pvt) Limited• Otsuka Pakistan Limited• Martin Dow Limited• Standard Textile Limited (Branch office)

Worked as a supervising senior in the audit assurance department of Haroon Zakaria & Co, Chartered Accountants a member firm of MSI Global Alliance a UK based network of Independent Legal and Accounting Firms, My areas of responsibility included leading the teams through planning, execution and finalization stages of the engagements, resolution of critical reportable matters and ensuring that the financial statements comply with the applicable reporting requirements.During my tenure, I had the opportunity to perform different assignments of audit and assurance department of HZ Co. involving statutory audits, interim reviews, stock counts, internal audits, system audits of members of stock exchange, legislative certifications and various other assignments of public quoted, unquoted and private limited companies.Internal Audit Assignments: Pakistan Dairy Products (Pvt.) Company – involved in manufacturing of Ice Cream under brand name ‘IGLOO’. I worked as team member, the scope of work involved evaluating internal controls relating to inventory management system and control over fixed assets etc. ED Links - A project funded by USAID. I worked as team member, the scope of work covered labor (recruitment policies and payroll system), equipments (inventory management system and control over fixed assets) and sub-contractors (authenticity and control over payments).