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Ali Arif, Finance Consultant

Ali Arif

Finance Consultant·Pakistan Center for Philanthropy

Saudi Arabia

Master's degree, International Accounting

Work experience

Total years of experience: 13 years, 8 months

Finance Consultant

January 2020 - Present

Pakistan Center for Philanthropy

Islamabad, Pakistan

January 2020 - Present

• Preparing comprehensive report of designated NGO/NPO covering seven broad parameters which includes Financial Management, Corporate Governance, Tax Compliance, Program Delivery, Policies and Procedures etc.
• Critical Financial Review of audited accounts.
• Scoring the organization performance against defined toolkit.
• Ensuring Tax compliance against defined regulations of Federal Board of Revenue.
• Ensuring compliance against best practices of Corporate Governance.
• Evaluating programmes executed by organizations against set parameters.
• Physically verifying the services delivered by the organization.
• Obtaining feedback from the beneficiaries registered under executed program.
• Visiting organization’s program sites and ensuring the quality standards defined by the organization.
• Consolidating all the facts in the final report and presenting it to the Panel Members.
• In case if organization certify, issuing certificate along with the final report.
• Obtaining personal assessment form organization after finalizing the case.

Company industry:
Non-profit Organization
Job role:
Consulting

Finance And Accounts Manager

December 2017 - November 2019

Fujairah National Group

Fujairah, United Arab Emirates

December 2017 - November 2019

• Manage and oversee the daily operations of the accounting department.
• Monitor and analyze accounting data extracted from SAP and produce financial reports or statements
• Monitor the controls in SAP and identify any weaknesses in the system
• Ensure the compliance of financial reporting with IFRS.
• Establish and enforce proper accounting methods, policies and principles
• Coordinate and complete annual audits
• Provide recommendations against Internal Control weakness
• Improve systems and procedures and initiate corrective actions
• Assign projects and direct staff to ensure compliance and accuracy
• Meet financial accounting objectives
• Establish and maintain fiscal files and records to document transactions
• Meet financial accounting objectives
• Establish and maintain fiscal files and records to document transactions

Company industry:
Civil Engineering
Job role:
Accounting and Auditing

Finance Controller - Railway Projects

January 2015 - January 2017

Saudi Bin Laden Group

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

January 2015 - January 2017

I was working as a Financial Controller for Saudi Bin Laden Group. My duties mainly consist of the following:

- Developing and maintaining timely and accurate financial statements and reports that are appropriate for the users.
- Developing, implementing, and ensuring compliance with internal financial and accounting policies and procedures and IFRS.
users.
- Monitor the controls in Oracle and identify any weaknesses in the system
- Preparing all supporting information for the annual audit with the approved external auditor.
- Documenting and maintaining complete and accurate supporting in Oracle information system for all financial transactions.
- Developing and maintaining financial accounting systems for cash management, accounts payable, accounts receivable, credit control, and petty cash.
- Reconciling bank and expense accounts; and managing cash flow.
- Review monthly results and implement monthly variance reporting as compared to budget/BOQ.
- Managing the cash flow and preparing cash flow forecasts in accordance with policy.
- Developing and implementing policies and procedures as required to ensure that personnel and financial information is secure.
- Participating as a member of the Finance Committee.
- Assisting the Project Director with financial reporting as required at Board meetings and the Annual General Meetings and provide advice to support the decision making process.

Company industry:
Civil Engineering
Job role:
Accounting and Auditing

Section Head - Internal Audit Department

April 2013 - December 2014

Saudi BinLadein Group

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

April 2013 - December 2014

-Preparation of Internal Audit Handbook.
-Financial Analysis.
-Compliance testing.
-Financial's review.
-Audit of HR polices and procedures.
-Assisting Internal Audit Director.
-Managing day to day special assignments.
-Report writing.
-Preparation for different Internal Audit presentations.
-Design audit tests for different sections within the division.
-Variance Analysis

Company industry:
Construction & Building
Job role:
Accounting and Auditing

Senior Auditor

November 2011 - April 2013

KPMG Pakistan

Lahore, Pakistan

November 2011 - April 2013

-Conducting financial audits at different clients.
-Preparing financial statements.
-Compliance with Corporate Code of Governance
-Conducting special assignments such as ICFR(Internal controls over Financial Reporting).
-Maintaining sound relationships with other clients.

AUDIT & ASSURANCE CLIENTS
The most significant financial sector clients to whom I have rendered the above-mentioned professional services are as follows:
➢ Allied Bank Limited - Corporate & Commercial Banking
➢ World Call Telecom Ltd - Telecommunication Industry
➢ Reliance Ltd - Textile Industry
➢ Shirkat Gah - NGO for Women welfare


ACHIEVEMENTS
❸ I have the honor to become the Job In-charge for the audit of Shirkat Gah, which is amongst one of the biggest NGO in Pakistan, with in 6 months of my joining with KPMG Pakistan.

Company industry:
Accounting
Job role:
Accounting and Auditing

Education

Anglia Ruskin University

February 2011

February 2011

Master's degree, International Accounting

United Kingdom

Other than accounting, i also take courses for marketing and project management which indeed diversified my educational portfolio.

ACCA

June 2009

June 2009

Master's degree, Audit and Assurance

United Kingdom

I have completed all module of ACCA and curently i am ACCA affilite and pursuing for my ACCA membership.

Skills

MsOffice
Expert
MsOffice
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External Audit
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External Audit
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Internal Audit
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Internal Audit
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Internal Controls
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Internal Controls
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COSO
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COSO
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Code Compliance
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Code Compliance
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SAP
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SAP
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ORACLE
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ORACLE
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Code Compliance
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Code Compliance
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COSO
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COSO
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Internal Controls
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Internal Controls
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Internal Audit
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Internal Audit
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External Audit
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External Audit
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Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert

Training and Certifications

Training
Corporate responsibility
KPMG
Dec 2011

Hobbies

  • Audio/Video Prodution
    Managing a music band in local community and so far has released over 12 music videos on local channels.