Sameena Mohammed Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, Gb

Oval, London, Gb

Working in the Asia Region and managing finance and operations and my duties include:-• Assist with setting up new offices, including legal issues, policies, procedures and logistics• Working with diverse team, including at a distance• Negotiating contractual agreements and budgets• Developing departmental budgets and monitoring• Responsible for inputting income, expenditure and balance sheet entries for the country offices • Designing and implement new software and then launched in the country offices• System management and understating financial and administrations legalisation and best practice• Human Recourses Management• Developing policies and procedures • Institutional donor liaison • Capacity building of colleagues and partner organisations • Project management

Oval, London, Gb

Oval, London, Gb

International Alert, September 2010 – February 2012Worked in a diverse team and oversee the Asia, South East Asia, Middle East and the PIP team and my role was to:-• Provide technical advice and support to Programme Staff for compliance and budgeting • Work together with Programme Staff to ensure donor regulations been adhered to• Review and process financial grant management accounts for overseas offices • Lead on grant audits • Advise and implement financial management systems and procedures • Input into Finance Team strategy

London, Gb

I joined as a Finance Officer and was subsequently promoted to the position of Programme Accountant in the Department Programme. I was principally responsible for overseeing all of programme operations of finance and institutional donors which included:-• Developed and maintained systems for income and expenditure• Designed and undertook financial audits in programme countries • Produced monthly reports for senior management and board members • Reviewed and assisted with project budget proposals• Ensured financial compliance with company, contractual and corporate requirements• Provided training to build capacity for finance and administration staff in country offices My key achievements in this role were liaising with Plan Country Offices in Africa, Asia and the Americas to develop suitable accounting systems and ensure compliance with donor regulations and overseeing an ECHO audit where there was finally no repayment back to the donor.Finance OfficerPlan International UKWas part of a team to oversee all finance aspects for the whole organisation and my duties were to:-• Undertake all bookkeeping transactions for Ireland office • Assist with month end reporting • Process and pay all supplier invoices and expenses• Process intercompany transactions and reconciliation• Maintain fixed asset registers• Prepare cashbooks and update the nominal ledger for sterling and currency bank accounts • Reconciling of sterling and currency bank accounts• Participate in annual budget preparation • Journal posting• Manage petty cash and company credit card• Process supporter contributions and project donations

Edinburgh, Scotland, Gb

National Trust for Scotland, September 2003 – July 2004Was responsible for the West of Scotland office. My tasks were:-• Prepare and review weekly and monthly reports• Prepare annual budgets• Manage journals and accruals• Monitor projects and record variances • Provide training on the finance system for the whole region• Participate in purchase and sales ledger

Education record

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Accounting