Senior Finance Officer
Syngenta Pakistan Limited
Total years of experience :11 years, 3 Months
Credit Management & Reporting Department Jun 2015 - To Present
- Responsible for administering and controlling secured credit against bank guarantees and unsecured credit lending process including efficiently managing limit approvals, timely claim lodgments and timely recoveries.
- Responsible for Management Reporting related to Credit Management
- Responsible for the provision of Customer Financial services including final settlements, sales certificates, withholding tax challans, field officer salaries, timely rebate settlements related to various sales policies and addressing customer complaints and requests
- Providing support in Accounts Receivable Management (ARM) through Dunning and Collection process
- Coordinating with six warehouses across Pakistan to provide efficient Franchisee sales support
- Timely perform the assigned Internal Control Framework (ICF) controls on a monthly basis
- Core team member of the Phone Banking Project initiated to introduce SMS ordering for the customers
- Received recognition certificates from the Head of Sales and Head of Operations for supporting the sales team to achieve the sales targets in June 2015 & December 2015
Taxation & Compliance Department Sep 2014 - May 2015
- Responsible for monthly Company Sales Tax Return filing with FBR and its reporting to the Head of Finance
- Liaised with the tax consultant to resolve the tax related issues in an effective way
- Provided support to respond to queries raised by FBR related to taxation
- Supported on the clearance of multiple FBR notices of chronic amounts; this led to savings of 75 Million PKR for the company
- Performed internal audit of Indirect Procurement Department
- Responsible for collecting ICF supporting documents from all the Departments to ensure ICF controls had been performed by the designated users
Financial Reporting Department Jul 2013 - Jul 2014
- Worked in the Retirement Benefit Funds section of the Department reporting to the Manager Funds
- Worked on an Investment Portfolio of 10 Billion PKR and was responsible for its mark-to-market updation on a weekly basis
- Responsible for performing investment analysis and computing yields on Investment Portfolio and suggesting further investment placements to the Manager
- Coordinated with financial institutions including Banks, Asset Management Companies and Mutual Funds for investment placements
- Prepared monthly Financial Statements for Management Reporting for Provident, Pension and Gratuity Funds
- Effectively performed Financial Modelling of Financial Statements for Provident, Pension and Gratuity Funds
- Core team member of the project to amend Company HR manual pertaining to the policies of Retirement Benefit Funds
- Prepared and submitted monthly Departmental Management Information System (MIS) Report to the GM Finance
Marketing Finance Department Dec 2012 - Jun 2013
- Worked under Credit Control Manager and assisted him in the Consumer Business section of the department
- Responsible for preparation and distribution of overdue reports of default customers to sales offices
- Effectively recovered chronic payments from customers which were long outstanding before I joined the department
- Provided timely and efficient Consumer Business sales support
- Prepared Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the Department’s Billing process
- Responsible for preparation and submission of monthly Departmental MIS Report to the GM Finance
*All ACCA Papers have been cleared in first attempt
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