Supporting Business leaders:Work closely with the CFO and Controller to formulate the functions’ medium to long-term financial and strategic plans;Supervise and assess the financial performance of business units, and monitor their budgets and goals;Support the BU Leaders with analysis on how to meet budget and goals by focusing on the right KPIs.Financial Accounting Activities:Assist with preparation of internal cost budgets;Report monthly and YTD variances to the budget owners;Oversee monthly expense analysis and monitor spends against budgets;Supervise accruals, account reconciliations and financials for monthly and yearly closing process;Review and support in preparing year end working papers for Audit requirements;Set up tax payments in Company’s system which includes EHT, CSST, HST and Payroll deductions and maintain their monthly reconciliations;Manage AP Activities and other AR analysis for long outstanding clients;Support the professional development of the existing team members and by training the new team members, to enhance their efficiency and build capability;Provide support with designing and enhancing the internal controls in place;Acted as a Payroll Lead to support payroll functionCross-Functional support:Establish and nurture strong relationships with key business partners / stakeholders and seek and provide regular feedback to improve efficiency and drive value creation; andLiase with other account managers (sales team) and provide accounting support with regards to payroll, invoicing and other accounting operationsAdhoc Projects:Assist Senior management with the ad-hoc requirements and create models to support decision making

- Managing the financial operations pertaining to Accounts Payable;- preparing AR analysis for long outstanding clients which includes timeline and trending analysis;- preparing monthly financial reports for each division for the top management;- preparing an analysis of expenses for the monthly and quarterly reporting;- preparing monthly performance ratios, for the top management, pertaining to recruiters and overall division

Supervised and managed the integration process on behalf of the Finance department (includes a review of conciliations of payables, receivables, accounting related activities and resolution of integration discrepancies with close liaison with IT) between operational software and financial software;Coordinated with internal department users and discuss automated solutions for their routine financial tasks in the form of reports;Managed the integration-based customized reports domain in the Financial software named “Intacct”;Liaised with the IT department for ad-hoc reports pertaining to financial operations in the system to meet user end requirements;Aided the Internal Audit function in their audits pertaining to Finance and resolving their queries;Managed Adhoc assignments which recently included submitting the Annual Report for the year ended 2017 for Best Corporate Report Award (BCRA 2017) and South Asian Federation of Accountants (SAFA Awards 2017).Assisted Chief Financial Officer with the following tasks:Prepared presentations pertaining to Risk Committees;Prepared TORs for Steering Committee;Prepared weekly management presentations; andPreparation of Board presentations.

During my tenure with the firm, I have been involved in Internal Audits of Media, Investment Advisory, Life Insurance, and Pharmaceutical Industries.The Auditable Units included Entity Level Controls, Finance (Procurement, Cash andBank, Fixed Assets), Human Resources and Payroll, Risk and Compliance with the NBFCRules and Regulations, Portfolios managed by the Investment Advisors and MarketingManagement.Job responsibilities included:Planning and understanding of core business activities and identification of risk at entity and process level;Planning with respect to the test of controls which should be performed during the audit;Assigning tasks to the team, providing them with an understanding of the processes and sub-processes;Assessing risks through client meetings, research, and analysis, and with the help of cumulative knowledge and experience;Counseling subordinates to make sure they deliver what was required and conduct brain storming session to ensure the accuracy of their understanding pertaining to the processes and sub-processes;Evaluating internal controls by identifying control deficiencies, addressing risks and providing appropriate recommendations to the Internal Audit Steering Committee;Reviewing audit working papers and audit findings;Preparing a document sharing understanding, process flows, hierarchy and organogram at the entity and process level; andPreparing audit reports based on the findings and presented to the managers and senior managers pertaining to the cycle.

Served as a Faculty Member and taught Management Accounting in the following courses:• ACCA Papers: - MA 1 – FIA [Management Information], - MA 2 – FIA [Managing Cost and Finances], - F2 – Knowledge Module ACCA [Management Accounting]• CIMA Paper: - C0-1 – Certificate Level [Fundamentals of Management Accounting], - P1 – Operational Level [Management Accounting]• CMA (USA) – Part 1 [Entire costing syllabus]

Time and Knowledge department provides human capital to various Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) projects according to the requirements generated by the Institutes in the Aga Khan Development Network. My responsibilities included:• Planning and gathering appropriate and suitable resources according to project requirements.• Monitor efficient and timely execution of the Project• Data analysis from the data input software named Citrix.• Develop effective tools for Monitoring and evaluation to ascertain the impact of the project,• Submission of reports to the project manager for onwards sharing with the Senior Management.• Post – Completion Reviews of the completed projects

A Not-for-Profit trust focusing in Health care, Education Nutrition and other social developmental skillsAs a Management Training Officer (MTO). My major responsibilities included:• Develop Financial Reports from ERP using Management Reporter tool• Assist Manager Finance in preparing monthly Financial reports• Extract operational reports from ERP using Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 toolBesides my responsibilities, I also prepared a user-reporting manual of Management Reporter 2010 and Microsoft Dynamics 2009 (Reporting aspect).

Worked as Intern with the responsibilities in the following areas of Finance:• Procurement Department• Cost Control Department• Payables Department• Payroll Department• Income Auditing Department• Main Accounts Department

AKGRB,P is an internal audit unit that audits and reviews the funding for all Aga Khan non-profitable units across Pakistan.As an intern, my responsibilities included:• Audit’s key responsibilities included: - Documented the business processes and work environment of the client based on the understanding in the initial meetings - Performed the test of controls based on the approved processes and risk analysis of the entity - Identified of weaknesses in internal controls and non-compliance within existing policies and procedures - Suggested appropriate recommendations to management which would enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the overall entity - Prepared draft audit report based on for managers’ review - Enter the finalized audit report on the audit software named ‘Auto-Audit’• Budget’s key responsibilities included: - Assisted in reviewing and analysing of monthly funding requests of the Aga Khan institutions. - Reported variances and obtain explanations from the individual units for the performance of the year and budget of the next year