Syed Owais

• Maintained a thorough understanding of the financial reporting and general
ledger structure for various projects. Ensured an accurate and timely monthly,
quarterly and year end close.
• Ensured effective cash management assuming responsibility for accounting
classifications of all expenditures and documents.
• Performed timely bank reconciliations and group companies reconciliation.
Ensuring the monthly and quarterly Bank Compliance activities are performed in
a timely and accurate manner.
• Ensuring accuracy in processing of pay transactions. Streamlined billing and
collections processes. Month-end closing of the billing group information.
• Evaluated data, prepared forecasts, analyzed trends and presented results
pertaining to sales, operations, information systems, general business conditions
and other areas.
• Monitored the preparation and processing of payroll for over 200 employees;
review and ensure accuracy of approved timesheets; track and deduct all
garnishments and other special payroll deductions.
• Verified and reconciled contracts, orders, and vouchers, and prepares reports to
substantiate individual transactions prior to settlement.
• Successfully prepared the projects financial feasibility report for various
projects ranging from 1 million Qatari riyals to 15 million Qatari riyals.
• Successfully developed a costing system for the Construction Company of the
Group. - Successfully coordinated & implemented WPS (payroll) for the
group.
• Acting as a lead SPOC for accounting and reporting of revenue and related direct
costs

Oversaw financial closings, maintained general ledger integrity, and managed comprehensive financial reporting across multiple
projects, ensuring compliance with accounting standards and delivering actionable insights to senior management for accurate
decision-making for downstream petroleum business
Directed cash management activities, including expense classification and payment processing, while performing timely bank
and intercompany reconciliations, preparing LOC schedule and reconciliation, project basis reconciliation based on SOW,
ensuring accurate financial records, strict regulatory compliance, and improved internal control effectiveness.
Streamlined billing, collections, and payroll processes for 200+ employees, ensuring compliance with WPS regulations, accurate
timesheet processing, payroll deductions, and efficient month-end billing closure, enhancing operational efficiency and employee
satisfaction.
Done project on cost optimization, process reengineering, SOP and implementation of new business process.
Developed and implemented a costing system for construction operations, prepared detailed financial feasibility reports (QAR
1M-15M), and served as lead SPOC for revenue reporting, strengthening strategic decision-making and project profitability
analysis.
Analyzed financial forecasts, evaluated business trends, and generated detailed management reports, providing strategic insights
on sales, operations, and financial performance to support data-driven decisions and drive organizational growth.
Develop and maintain project schedules based on consultant payment certificate and cost reallocation if required.
Year End Closing, Audit compliance, statutory return to facilitate smooth auditing process for external auditors

Business Transition and Operation management
• Sr Manager, Reconciliation Organization, Fixed Asset Accounting, Accounting
Operation Teams.
• Serving Finance Controller for 3 teams (CANDA, USA, INDIA) Translate client
objectives into clear deliverables with associated priorities and constraints.
• Understanding Customer goals, and process requirements and ensuring the
rendering of effective solutions in line with the guidelines specified by the client
on the operation floor
• Preparing MIS reports & other statements with a view to appraise management
of process operations and assist in critical decision making
• Flashing monthly income to business intelligence and Business Partners
involving review, reconciliations and variance explanation of MoM actuals,
Budget Forecast with estimates
• Bank Reconciliation, booking journals for interest, fund transfer, AP and AR
accrual, rent, prepaid.
• Ensuring timely and accurate ledger close in compliance to IAS by making
necessary accounting adjustments to cost, income or balance sheet each month.
• Preparing monthly P&L and B/S commentary to various internal and external
stakeholder.
• Ensuring submission of profitability and sales analysis for various business units.
• Preparing various margin reports (Sales and Various expense) to facilitate
business for better decision and control.
• Driving the project and process improvement strategy & methodology ensuring
maximum operational efficiency and meeting re-engineering targets.
• Managing team morale to be able to navigate through pressure situations.
• Ensuring compliance and adherence to internal control framework and
supporting various internal audits.
• Designing various processes for the successful transition of business and
ensuring that the process document is updated along with version control.
• Preparing various flow charts for the client to give an idea how the financial flow
will look like for the month

Led Reconciliation, Fixed Asset Accounting, and Accounting Operations teams across Canada, USA, and India, translating complex
client objectives into actionable deliverables, ensuring timely and accurate execution of financial processes while maintaining
alignment with business priorities and compliance frameworks.
Prepared comprehensive MIS reports, P&L, Balance Sheet commentary, and margin analyses, providing key insights on
profitability, sales performance, and operational efficiency, enabling data-driven decision-making and enhancing managements
ability to strategize and optimize financial performance.
Managed bank reconciliations, journal entries, intercompany transactions, AP/AR accruals, and prepaid accounting, VAT
returns ensuring compliance with IAS standards and timely ledger close processes, improving financial accuracy and audit readiness
across global entities.
Spearheaded process improvement and business transition strategies, designing process documentation, flowcharts, and version
controls, while driving methodology enhancements that boosted operational efficiency and met re-engineering targets,
strengthening overall internal control environment.
Monitored team performance, ensuring adherence to internal control frameworks, audit compliance, and stakeholder
requirements, while fostering high team morale to handle high-pressure environments, successfully supporting critical audits and
delivering consistent, high-quality financial operations.

Led business transition of financial activities from Vancouver to Noida, ensuring seamless knowledge transfer, thorough
documentation, and process standardization, while successfully managing multiple workstreams, ensuring resource availability, and
aligning deliverables with client requirements, KPIs, and SLAs.
Played a key role in FTE calculation, budget forecasting, and risk assessment, translating complex client objectives into actionable
deliverables, designing process flows, and implementing version-controlled process documents, supporting efficient decision-making
and preventing overcommitments during business transition.
Designed and implemented processes and flowcharts to visualize financial workflows, provided expert guidance to clients on
selecting the most suitable accounting software solutions, ensuring effective alignment between business needs and technical
solutions for enhanced operational efficiency.
Managed and motivated teams under high-pressure environments, provided continuous performance feedback, groomed team
members for professional growth, ensured successful business continuity planning (BCP), reverse shadowing strategies, and
maintained process documentation for consistent operational success during transitions.

Business Transition and People
• Responsible for the transition of various small business financial activities from
Vancouver to Noida.
• Playing a vital role in FTE calculation and Budget forecast for the new client.
• Understanding client requirement, scope, projects, manage end-to-end execution
and delivery (work allocation research, analysis, quality control, delivery)
• Translate client objective into clear deliverable with associated priorities and
constraints.
• Ensuring successful transition with reverse shadow and BCP planning
• Ensuring proper documentation is done
• Handling multiple workstreams as required
• Playing a vital role in deciding KPI and SLA along with the estimation of
probable risk for over-commitments.
• Ensuring timely availability of resources as per the business need.
• Managing team morale to be able to navigate through pressure situations
• Provide effective, on time, and objective feedback to team member and be
involved in their overall grooming and development
• Designing various processes for the successful transition of business and
ensuring that the process document is updated along with version control.
• Preparing various flow charts for the client to give an idea how the financial flow
will look like for the month
• Helping the client to understand which accounting software suite as per their
business

Operation
• Responsible for getting all the backup information like existing chart of account,
trial balance, bank statement, AP, and AR details
• Setting up new chart of account and trial balance and ensuring that opening
balance are correct.
• Responsible for doing monthly review and timely delivery of financials to client
• Ensuring timely filing of GST return, ensuring correct rate are used for GST as
per CRA
• Ensuring that payrolls are run as specified by the client with the effectiveness of
recording employee and employer CPP, EI and any federal tax.
• Looking for monthly accruals for CPP, EI, and Federal tax and reversing the
same as and when required
• Inter Com transaction and reconciliations.
• Meeting audit compliance request as and when required from statuary bodies in
Canada.

General accounting, fixed asset management, FPNA, reconciliation, intercompany.

Performed comprehensive bank reconciliations, journal entries for interest, fund transfers, AP/AR accruals, rent, prepaid
expenses, and payroll journals, ensuring accurate ledger entries, compliance with accounting standards, and seamless monthly
financial closing processes across multiple projects.
Managed payroll reconciliation, including 401 K, employee bonuses, income tax, and deductions, validating accurate posting of
payroll transactions, ensuring correct expense allocation at project and cost element levels, while maintaining compliance with
statutory requirements.
Executed project-level cost forecasting and variance analysis, ensured accurate booking of deferred cash, bonuses, IT and INS
costs, hardware/software expenditures, and expense accruals, providing actionable insights to management for cost optimization
and informed decision-making.
Verified transit account clearance and reclassification journals, monitored accrual reversals and correct cost allocations,
collaborated with project controllers to secure approvals, ensuring accuracy of financial records and alignment with accounting
policies and audit compliance standards.

• Bank Reconciliation, booking journals for interest, fund transfer, AP and AR
accrual, rent, prepaid.
• Booking Payroll journals, Reconciliation for payroll (401K, Employee bonus
accrual, Employee deductions such as employee income tax (Asset and Liability),
Hypo tax etc.
• Performing payment tests to ensure that the accruals are reversed and have
been booked correctly on a different cost level. Checking payments have been
made and accruals have been reversed.
• Booking Bonus, Deferred Cash on the project level, task, and expenditure type.
Ensuring correctness of bonus on various cost structure levels.
• Ensuring clearance of transit account at month and posting any Reclass journals
if required.
• Booking IT and INS cost on different cost structure and allocating then on
various cost elements such as task, and project levels
• Booking hardware and software costs and allocating the same to different
projects.
• Checking for the cost booked on the project and planned cost, book accrual for
the remaining cost in case the invoice is in progress due to AP cut off.
• Forecasting the cost on each project, variance analysis in case of the wrong cost
booked, follow up for cost approvals with different project controllers and
reclassification of cost if any.
• Booking expense accrual and preparing reconciliation to ensure the correctness
of accruals.
• Fixed Asset creation, adjustment, depreciation, roll forward
• Preparing reconciliation from Asset management to general ledger.

General accounting, fixed asset management, FPNA, reconciliation, intercompany.

Managed insurance IT budgeting, prepayment schedules, and FTE cost allocations, accurately recording actual expenses, booking
amortizations, and processing travel & expense (T&E) reports, ensuring precise financial tracking, compliance, and effective cost
management aligned with business objectives.
Processed quarterly global compensation and deferred cash accruals, performed detailed deferred cash expense
reconciliations, variance analysis, and correction journal entries, ensuring accurate matching of actual payments against accruals
and enhancing financial reporting transparency and accuracy.
Prepared accurate and timely quarterly and monthly P&L, Balance Sheet reconciliations, and management commentary,
performed in-depth analysis of P&L by chart-field level, ensuring precise financial insights for strategic decision-making and
stakeholder reporting.
Handled payroll wire transfers, intercompany transactions, bank reconciliations, and settlements, ensuring consistency
between General Ledger and HR records, compliance with audit requirements, and smooth coordination with onshore teams to
facilitate timely financial operations.

• Insurance IT Budgeting and Planning
• Calculating Internal Capital compensation
• Maintaining Prepayment Schedule and booking the prepayments amortization
• FTE (Full-time employee) Cost allocation
• Recording of Actual expenses and Preparation of Accruals based on Actual
numbers
• Preparation of T&E (Travel & Expenses) report
• Booking Quarterly Global Compensation and On-cost accruals for Deferred Cash,
Bonus
• Preparation of Deferred Cash Expense Reconciliation
• Comparison of Actual Payment and Accruals of Deferred Cash Reward
• Variance analysis of Deferred Cash and booking of correction journal
• Expense Analysis of Actual Cost and Comparison with accrual numbers.
• Preparation of quarterly P&L and Balance Sheet commentary
• Analysis of P&L accounts on different chart-field level
• Postings of Cleanup and Reclass journals
• Preparation of quarterly and monthly P&L and Balance Sheet reconciliation
• Processing monthly payroll wire
• Comparison of Payroll booked in GL and provided by HR
• Processing quarterly payroll accruals
• Comparison of Actual and Accrual Payroll numbers
• Preparation of monthly Bank Reconciliation
• Processing intercompany transaction
• Preparation of intercompany reconciliations
• Co-ordination with onshore team members for the payments due and
intercompany settlements

General accounting, fixed asset management, FPNA, reconciliation, intercompany.

Managed Asset Management (AM) transactions, performing detailed analysis of interface data, preparing monthly AM-GL
reconciliations, validating fixed asset registers, and ensuring accurate gain/loss recognition from asset sales and impairments,
maintaining compliance with internal controls and accounting standards.
Conducted regular SOX compliance testing and audits of asset transactions, ensuring process integrity, identifying discrepancies,
and implementing corrective actions, while maintaining accurate documentation and improving internal control frameworks for
financial reporting reliability and regulatory adherence.
Performed asset re-categorization, useful life adjustments, and manual creation of Prepaid & Construction in Progress (CIP)
assets, enhancing accuracy of asset classification, supporting precise depreciation calculations, and maintaining up-to-date asset
master data for financial consistency.
Processed complex journal entries for re-classification, asset retirement, and asset transfer, ensuring accurate financial posting,
cross-verification of re-classifications, and efficient handling of adhoc asset management requests, optimizing overall fixed asset life
cycle accounting operations.

General accounting, fixed asset management, FPNA, reconciliation, intercompany.

Managed Cost Center creation, deletion, and modifications, processed vendor payments, maintained accurate Vendor Master
Data (VMD), and conducted vendor audits, ensuring correct cost allocations, precise journal entries, and streamlined reconciliation
between SAP and TRAX sources for accurate financial reporting.
Performed detailed Subsidiary Ledger to General Ledger (SL-GL) reconciliations, validated Intermediate Document (Lawson to
SAP interface), updated monthly/yearly foreign exchange rates, and booked revaluation profit/loss entries, ensuring currency
accuracy and compliance with global accounting standards.
Handled creation and management of Internal Orders (IO) and Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), executed monthly closing
activities, journal entries, and intercompany (IC) settlements, while ensuring accurate reconciliation of general ledgers, cost centers,
and internal orders for financial integrity.

• Preparation of AM (Asset Management) transaction based on analysis of
interface
• P&L Depreciation check for non-AM source
• SOX compliance testing, filing and audit of AM (Asset Management)
transactions.
• Preparing Roll forwards to ascertain GL (General Ledger) balance break up of
monthly cost accounts of assets.
• Preparing and validating Gain & Loss arrived due to sale, impairment of assets
• Validation fixed asset register to ensure the accuracy of AM (Asset Management)
transaction on monthly basis and making correction when required
• Preparation of AM (Asset management)-GL (General Ledger) reconciliation and
Cross Verification of AM( Asset management)-GL(General Ledger) accuracy of
AM transaction
• Processing of Journal entries for re-class and Verification of accuracy of re-class
and other entries
• Re-categorization of asset on the basis of it nature and Correction of Estimated
Useful Life of asset after Re-categorization
• Manual creation of Prepaid asset and CIP (Construction in progress) assets
• Handling of Adhoc requests such as asset retirement asset transfer etc and
Projects

Performed daily Fixed Assets Clearing Account reconciliations, managed asset additions, adjustments, retirements, and ensured
monthly validation of the Fixed Asset Register (FAR), correcting discrepancies to maintain accurate Asset Management (AM)
transactions and support precise financial reporting.
Prepared detailed GL roll-forwards, Gain & Loss reports from asset sales and impairments, and managed manual creation of
Prepaid Assets and Construction in Progress (CIP), delivering accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual reports to clients with full
compliance.
Processed complex journal entries and adhoc asset-related reports including quarterly additions, adjustments, retirements, tax
and insurance reports, ensuring timely delivery, precise data integrity, and supporting audit compliance with comprehensive
documentation and financial accuracy.