Accounts Manager
Z&A
Total years of experience :12 years, 5 Months
• Performing & Monitoring daily accounting tasks working closely with finance manager & top executive management.
• Maintaining and finalization of monthly and yearly financial accounts ensuring necessary adjusting entries have been made.
• Preparing and analyzing management reports for higher management.
• Monitoring and communicating with receivables and notifying collection department to chase the payments for highlighted clients.
• Responsible for accounting for Value Added Tax (VAT), preparation and submission of VAT returns to Federal Tax Authority (FTA) UAE.
• Guiding junior colleagues about implication of VAT in their job roles.
• Performing monthly bank reconciliation.
• Coordination with banks and working for facilities, guarantees, letter of credit etc.
• Planning & suggesting for achievement of targeted ICV(ADNOC In-Country Value Program)
• Liaison and interaction with external auditors.
• Liaison with ERP vendor in case of disruption or improvement of existing workflows.
• Reviewing Wages Protection System (WPS) / Salaries calculation.
• Reviewing invoicing for sales with major customers for substantial amounts.
• Assessment of risks to the company and reporting to higher
• Confirming and matching receipts of showrooms’ retail sales and reconciliation with bank accounts to ensure funds transfer in bank and to avoid cash misappropriation.
• Preparing management accounts, reviewing & analyzing variances and presenting on monthly basis to the management.
• Responsible for preparing monthly and annual financial accounts.
• Assigning and monitoring tasks given to receivable and payable accountants.
• Preparing management accounts, reviewing & analyzing variances and presenting on monthly basis to the management.
• Analyzing and reporting segment-wise sales, profitability and doing variance analysis.
• Preparing budget for revenues and costs and reporting to CFO.
• Maintaining fixed asset schedule and accounting for depreciation.
• Working and fulfilling requirements of external auditors.
• Coordination and communication with banks.
• Contacting ERP vendor in case of disruption or improvement of workflows.
• Coordination and reporting to the group head office.
• Conducting internal audit assignments for branch office.
• Implementation and constantly reviewing internal controls to avoid cash misappropriation.
• Assessment of risks to the company and reporting to higher management.
• Preparing and filing tax returns of clients: collecting data, planning for their tax matters, advising on exemptions and tax reducers ensuring the meet legal requirements.
• Advising corporate clients and working on their behalf for Government’s requirements.
• Providing consultancy to foreign entities for incorporation in Pakistan, advising and assisting for filing of documents in concerned Government departments.
• Worked with senior manager in the preparation of reports on different business matters for the companies for their understanding of corporate requirements of Pakistan.
• Worked for Corporate compliance matters, mandatory filing with SECP (Securities & Exchange Commission of Pakistan) and BOI (Board of Investment) Pakistan.
• Assisting to Senior Manager, worked for corporate compliance of clients in different sectors (Energy, Oil & Gas, Telecom & NPOs etc.)