Zeeshan Shakeel Email & Phone Number

Lahore, Pk

- Managing Financial Systems of Portugal, UAE and Pakistan.- Analysing and managing accounts receivables and accounts payables resulting in optimization of working capital management Portugal, UAE and Pakistan.- Engaging with stakeholders to finalise financial and accounting policies, standard operating procedures.- Financial and operational analysis including providing recommendations resulting in cost-savings, increase in revenue, profitability and positive return on investment.- Ensuring compliance with tax law by reviewing VAT and sales tax returns and ensuring compliance with other regulations to mitigate the risk of non-compliance.- Communicating and collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement business process improvements and automation resulting in an increase in efficiency and effectiveness.- Ensuring accurate month-end financial closing.- Financial reporting including timely preparation of financial statements.- Ensuring precise payroll processing.

Lisbon, Portugal

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

- Risk Assessment / Gap Analysis of controls, maintaining Risk Register, assessing and documenting risk responses and controls as per COSO Enterprise Risk Management Framework.- Recommending, Designing and implementing improvements in processes and controls.- Liaising with internal auditors and external auditors and responding to their queries.- Performing business process analysis of various business processes and functions as a functional implementer and communicating recommendations to technical implementer for Oracle R12 EBS IT system implementation project.- Preparing consolidated and separate financial statements in accordance with IFRS for presentation to the Board, Senior Management, shareholders and statutory bodies.- Preparation of forecasts, budgets & projections.- Assisting Chief Financial Officer in preparing Board Presentations, Agenda of Board meetings and issuance of Board meeting notices. - Performing financial statement analysis.- Performing variance analysis between actual and budgeted financial information for budgetary control. - Managing excess finance by investing in mutual funds & term deposits.- Liaison with insurance companies regarding insurance contracts, premiums, claims etc.- Coordinating with the bank regarding bank guarantees, financing facilities, credit facilities, debt repayments, deposits etc.- Preparation and issuance of sales invoices to customers. - Managing accounts receivables including credit risk management, follow-ups etc.- Reviewing the bookkeeping performed by the shared service team for accuracy and completeness of financial records including accounts payables, accounts receivables, general ledger, fixed assets, bank reconciliations etc.- Submitting sales tax / income tax returns, claiming sales tax refunds and responding to queries & notices from taxation authority.

Pakistan

- Provided risk consulting services including internal audit, control design, processimprovement etc to client organisations.- Provided financial accounting services to client organisations.

Pakistan

- Provided advisory services such as internal audit services including internal audit planning, process documentation & walkthrough, risk & control assessment, internal audit procedures, prepared internal audit reports & provided recommendations for process improvement to various client organisations. - Provided assurance services such as external audit services to various client organisations.- Direction, supervision & review of work of semi-senior & junior trainees.- Finalization of key deliverables of the engagement for review by Manager, Senior Manager and Partner.

Association Of Chartered Certified Accountants, Accounting, Audit, Tax And Financial Accounting

Certified Accounting Technician, Accounting, Audit, Tax And Financial Accounting

Cpa Australia- Associate