Ali Khan, Accountant

Ali Khan

Accountant

Boecker

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, ACCA
Experience
10 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :10 years, 4 Months

Accountant at Boecker
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since May 2015

 Successfully managed collection issues of the company by contacting clients through E-mails, telephone, Fax and if required arranged meetings to resolve issues which led to delay in payments by clients.
 Timely prepared sales and collection report by meeting tight deadlines on a daily basis for regional Head office and reported to the regional finance manager.
 Closed revenue accounts for the month by ensuring all the sales order for the month are billed as per the company policy.
 Invoiced sales orders as per the standard operating procedures (SOP) and ensured the validity of the Sales Order.
 Extracted, analysed and managed Aging report of the company using functions in Excel such as Vlook up, pivot tables and other formulas; highlighted any riskier clients that were likely to default and followed standard procedures to collect payments from them. Met the collection target set by the company on a monthly basis, boosted the collection of the company through appropriate advisory by 25% and collected payments outstanding over 500-800 days successfully.
 Documented and reported issues in the accounting software to the finance manager to avoid any material misstatements taking place in the accounting system by proposing appropriate solutions.
 Trained newly Joined accountants in regards to accounting software and standard procedures of the company ensuring their work is in line with company’s standard operating procedures.
 Assisted finance manager with setting the budget of financial year 2016, given the responsibility for providing accurate data, provided the data for segmental sales versus the sales orders and fixed assets depreciation schedule for the current and coming year based on the data provided for the acquisition of new fixed assets in the financial year 2016.
 Ensured all the receipts for the month were posted into client’s accounts and were deposited into bank account in system by managing a control account for this purpose on a monthly basis.
 Processed monthly salaries for many employees through WPS and Coordinated with the Hr department for any issues discovered.
 Filed and provided the required documents requested by external auditor for audit purposes on time.
 Handled & maintained petty cash.
 Used cost centres to allocate expenses to specific departments for later analysis in comparison to the budget.
 Prepared the prepayment schedule of the company, recorded and expensed prepayments on a monthly basis as per the schedule prepared and filed the supporting documents for the related transactions.
 Supervised and audited monthly count of inventory.
 Reconciled 3 huge bank accounts on a monthly basis and submitted them to Finance manager for approval
 Maintained fixed asset register by recording asset purchases, disposals and monthly depreciations
 Handled and maintained petty cash; recorded petty cash transactions in accounting system
 Prepared and sent statement of accounts to clients for collection and account reconciliation purposes
 Issued receipt against payments from clients and prepared cheques deposit slip for depositing daily collected funds into account
 Filed invoices, contracts, receipts, deposit slips, credit note, sales returns, bank reconciliations and etc. in order to keep the department organized
 Successfully completed tasks assigned by Finance manager in a timely manner and reported the results of the task; created different reports using Ms excel and Ms Word for reporting results
 Worked with non finance managers from operations & sales department and successfully solved corporate issues
 Successfully transferred data from one ERP System (Tally) to another ERP system (Visual Big)

Achievement: Achieved 90% or above of collection target for full financial year and therefore boosted collection further by 25%.

Junior Accountant at Boecker
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • March 2014 to May 2015

Performed monthly bank reconciliations
• Maintained fixed asset register and recorded depreciation on a monthly basis
• Handled petty cash and recorded petty cash expenses
• Prepared and sent statements to clients for collection purposes
• Invoiced clients and followed for the payment in order to maintain a healthy aging
• Prepared cheque deposits
• Filed various documents in order to keep the department organized
Achievement: Boosted collection by 25% through appropriate advisory and collected payments due since financial year 2014 to 2012.

Accounting Intern at Boecker
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2014 to March 2014

Filed all types of documents sequentially

Took orders from Chief Accountant & completed the tasks assigned

Followed up with different departments in the organization regarding different matters

Book Keeping involved recording of Prepayments, Depreciation, Sales, Purchases, and Petty Cash & Etc.

Created Reports using Excel for the Management.

Prepared Invoices for the Client using Tally.

Handled and Maintained Petty Cash to make daily payments for day to day expenses.

Transferred Data from Tally to another accounting software VBig

Bank Reconciliations & Accounts Reconciliations

Education

Master's degree, ACCA
  • at Phoenix Financial Training
  • March 2016

ACCA Affiliate

Bachelor's degree, Bsc (Hons) Degree in Applied Accounting
  • at Oxford Brookes University
  • September 2015
Diploma, Intermediate Certification in Financial and Management Accounting
  • at ACCA
  • August 2012

Awarded by ACCA.

Diploma, Foundation Certification in Taxation
  • at ACCA
  • August 2012

Awarded by ACCA.

Diploma, Diploma in Accounting and Business
  • at ACCA
  • July 2012

Awarded to me by ACCA.

Diploma, Introductory certification in Financial and Management Accounting
  • at ACCA
  • February 2012

Awarded by ACCA

High school or equivalent, Business, Accounting, IT and Media
  • at St. Mary Catholic High school Fujairah
  • July 2011

GCSE: Islamic (A*) Maths (A) ICT (A) Urdu (A) English literature (B) English Language (B) C

Specialties & Skills

Accounting
Problem Solving
Financial Management
Computer literacy
Problem solving
Competent
Accounts Payable
Accounts Receivables
Inventory Management
Collection/ Credit Control
Auditing
Finance

Languages

English
Intermediate
Urdu
Intermediate
Arabic
Beginner