Umar Hafeez Email & Phone Number

Lahore, Pakistan

Icad, Abu Dhabi

Summarize financial status by collecting information; preparing balance sheet, profit and loss, and other statements.Maintenance of General Ledger and its reconciliation to Trial Balance.Leading the implementation of VAT, coordinating with Procurement,Sales and MIS to introduce VAT ledger in order to streamline the statutory VAT returns.Liaise with banks for DC facilities, documentary credit, acceptance, discounting as well as submission of LC documents thus minimizing the risk of bad debts and improving the cash flow.Preparing cash forecasts & reporting pack for financial statements with variance analysis.Prepare and review monthly bank reconciliation, monthly status reports, quarterly closings and audits.Budgeting and coordinating with cost centers to keep variances under control a monthly basis and reporting on budgeted vs actual variances if any.Analyzing cost centers to ensure costs are relevant to the center and proposing necessary adjustment.Identifying weaknesses in internal control processes, design and substitute controls and make recommendations to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of such controls.Manage suppliers invoicing process, ensuring that such items as invoices, vouchers, expense reports, cheque requests, etc., with correct codes conforming to standard procedures to ensure proper entry into the financial system.Processing bank payments for all approved invoices due for payment including preparation of batch cheque runs, wire transfers, and any other payment requirements.Review WPS payroll & employee benefits processing as per UAE labor law.Monitoring the purchase order process and keeping a control of the non-executed purchase orders.Secure financial information by completing database backups.Financial analysis and working capital management using straight to bank (SCB).Liaising with external auditors to obtain opinion on Financial statements and preparing audit appendices as required. (Ernest & Young).

Dubai, Uae

Maintenance of General Ledger and its reconciliation to trial balance.Summarize financial status by collecting information; preparing balance sheet, profit and loss, and other statements with variance analysis.Prepare and review monthly status reports, quarterly closings and audits, gross margins, shop stats, inventory, work in progress (WIP), percentage of completion (POC) accounting.Liaise with banks for DC facilities, documentary credit, acceptance, discounting as well as submission of LC documents thus minimizing the risk of bad debts and improving the cash flow.Budgeting and coordinating with cost centers to keep variances under control a monthly basis and reporting on budgeted vs actual variances if any.Identifying weaknesses in internal control processes, design and substitute controls and make recommendations to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of such controls.Manage suppliers invoicing process, ensuring that such items as invoices, vouchers, expense reports, cheque requests, etc., with correct codes conforming to standard procedures to ensure proper entry into the financial system.Processing bank payments for all approved invoices due for payment including preparation of batch cheque runs, wire transfers, and any other payment requirements.Review WPS payroll & employee benefits processing as per UAE labor law.Monitoring the purchase order process and keeping a control of the non-executed purchase orders.Secure financial information by completing database backups.Financial analysis and working capital management using straight to bank (SCB).Credit control, following up on receipts, adjusting customer credit limits and liaising with sales team to ensure that all debt is collected.Analyzing cost centers to ensure costs are relevant to the center and proposing necessary adjustment.Liaising with external auditors to obtain opinion on Financial statements and preparing audit appendices as required. (Deloitte & Touche).

Lahore, Pakistan

• Invoice processing, vendor reconciliation, ageing accounts receivable & payable management.• Computation, finalization and filing of value added tax liability as well as corporate tax.• Preparing bank reconciliation, posting of deliveries, bank payment vouchers, and processing staff benefits.• Ensuring 3 way matching prior to release of supplier payments.• Posting general ledger transactions under supervision of Senior Accountant.• Credit control, following up on receipts, adjusting customer credit limits and liaising with sales team to ensure that all debt is collected.• Payroll processing & petty cash management.• Participating in the preparation of financial forecasts, cash flow forecasts & variance analysis.• Maintaining finance and accounts documents, and providing them to management as required.• Import/Export & L/C operations and documentation in accordance with UCP 600.

Uaeca, Accounting And Finance, A

Acca, Accounting And Finance, 68%

Activities and Societies: Debate Team, Cricket Team, Sooker etc Passing all papers in first attempt.

Mba ( Finance), Business Eduction, A

Activities and Societies: Sports Festival CGPA: 3.86/4.00 • Performance Excellence award 2011 at IBA. • Outdoing MBA with Roll of Honors.

Ba, Economics

Activities and Societies: Sports events I completed my graduation in first division, securing 67% marks.

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Activities and Societies: Playing in Cricket Team, Debate Team

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