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Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Prepare, examine, and analyze accounting records, financial statements, and other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.• Perform variance analysis of monthly figures of each material, labor, and source versus forecast.• Plan, direct, and organize the accurate and timely reporting and forecasting of financial information. Provide financial planning and analysis to give tactical and strategic insight to the Management.• Responsible for developing and recommending broad financial policies, protecting the organizations' financial position and its ability to meet debts and other obligations as they fall due.• Implement/upgrade systems, processes, and controls capable of delivering financial information in line with international standards and of supporting the future growth of the business.• Exercise strong and dynamic leadership of the finance function to ensure a result-orientated and motivated regional team. Ensure appropriate communication with departments and other support areas.• Ensuring that all accounting allocations are appropriately made and documented. Perform cash management functions and oversee accounts payable, account receivable, cash disbursements, payroll, and bank reconciliation functions.

Lahore, Pakistan

As a crucial member of Dr. Schar, Shell AFG Distribution and ICI Paint Distribution, I am working in Accounts Manager role with a multitude of responsibilities but not limited to the followings;•Collecting, interpreting and reviewing financial information and predicting future financial trends•Reporting to management and stakeholders, and providing advice how the company and future business decisions might be impacted•Producing financial reports related to budgets, account payables, account receivables, expenses, monthly profit and loss, and balance sheet reports •Collecting and analysing data, which is then used in the preparation of weekly and monthly estimates•Preparing weekly cash flow statements, and controlling expenditure and cash flow•Assisting with the preparation of year-end accounts and statutory accounts•Responding to financial inquiries by gathering and interpreting data, examining financial records to check for accuracy and training staff when necessary•Performing account reconciliations. Due to which it was highlighted that the ERP used by the company wasn’t showing the true picture of the company.•Generating invoices and account statements and maintaining accounts receivable files and records•Liaising with the Dr. Schar team in Italy, Finalising the Order, arranging funds, preparing for the clearance of the shipments and making sure it reaches the warehouse without any damage to the stock.•Paying vendors by scheduling pay checks and ensuring payment is received for outstanding credit; generally responding to all vendor enquiries regarding finance and taxation•Examining expenses submitted by employees and paying employees by verifying expense reports and preparing pay checks and keeping an eye on incoming payments from accounts receivable and outgoing payments from accounts payable•Creating aging reports to visualize the company’s short-term Liabilities and Assets in order to determine the state of the company’s financial health

Lahore, Pakistan

• Execution of internal audit engagements, including planning, execution and finalisation of audit fieldwork • Evaluate exposure to risks, including but not limited to fraud, productivity waste, inefficiency and commercially unsound practices • Evaluated the adequacy of process design and the effectiveness of controls in meeting business and control objectives. Identify and document control and process weaknesses and provide evidential support for findings • Review & appraisal of the soundness, adequacy & application of accounting, financial and operational controls.• Analysing of draft financial reports and statements, physical inspection and stocktaking at the year end with the figures reported • Preparing Bank Reconciliation Statement, Trial Balance, & Receipt and Payment Account • Ensure all regulatory and policies are followed for wage and hour, government contracts, contract administration and other requirements • Developing good client relationships to facilitate completion of client work • Assisted in the preparation of a concise and informative audit report to effectively communicate the findings and recommendations to the branch/department and senior management • Audit of sales contract & Sales Tax Invoices and check their posting in manual sales register• Audit of commission/clearing agents bills/truck /sea freight of Imports and Exports• Audit of summary of monthly running expenses• Audit of Purchase, Payment (Cheques)), Receipt, Cash and Journal vouchers on monthly basis• Performing the stock countClients Worked on: • Punjab Medical Complex• Pharmedic Laboratories Pvt Ltd• GT Pharma Care and GT Pvt Ltd• Fynk Pharma • Rasco Pharma • English Pharma• Amp Tech Pvt Ltd• Cell Laboratories

Melbourne, Australia

•Produce & provide management with accurate timely financial data, related to business financial performance, quantitative analysis & KPIs in accordance with global financial best practices and evaluation models, to support day to day business & investment decision making.•Recording Sales on daily basis after receiving PO either through mail or telephone and the amount was directly debited from customers account, ensuring that revenues recorded in the financial statements do comply with IFRS and local reporting requirements.•Prepare analysis of bad debts including making recommendations to the management for the reduction and proposed bad debts write off•Obtained sufficient information to assess the credit worthiness of newly proposed and existing customers and ensured that all clients meet the company requirements•Organized and tracked inventory and receivable/payable accounts and accelerated the liquidity of operating cycle by 3%•Introduced 3R (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) policy which reduced the wastage cost and helped us in claiming tax benefit by donating excess products to the food banks•I was responsible for preparation of Management Information System reports mainly Trend and On-Demand. Trend report was prepared on monthly basis which helped me in finding the low turnover products and On-demand reports, to know demand of certain products around specific holidays in Australia like Melbourne Cup in November, Christmas in December and during Easter holidays in March.•Responsible for creating budget forecasts, cash flows and making sure that processing and recording of company’s expenses are within the set budget.•Recording of Accruals and preparation of bank reconciliation, fixed asset and prepayment schedules.•Planned and conducted on-going training for employees in customer service skills, technical skills, and safety policies and procedures to ensure that a safe workplace was provided. Coordinated staff training needs and ensured compliance with HACCP

Master'S Degree, International Finance

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Master'S Degree, International Finance

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Bachelor'S Degree, Finance, General