Azad Dastageer, Finance Manager

Azad Dastageer

Finance Manager

Nasa Group of Companies

Location
India - Thiruvananthapuram
Education
Master's degree, MBA in Finance
Experience
2 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :2 years, 4 Months

Finance Manager at Nasa Group of Companies
  • India
  • October 2021 to January 2024

Key Responsibilities:
• Administering day-to-day accounting functions like general ledger accounts, allocation of expenses and vital adjustments for ensuring compliance, cost cutting methods, etc.
• Mediating extensively with various department heads to fill and submit vital documents to effect budgeting process preparing budget vs. actual reports, identifying deviations and presenting constructive rectification measures.
• Commanding all accounting functions, governing an environment of internal control in addition to periodic reporting regarding the financial statues of the company.
• Executing month end, quarter end and fiscal year end obligations of the company like: closing of all books of accounts, ledgers, cash flow statements, bank reconciliations, job costing statements, reports related to contracts and subcontracts, etc.
• Providing accurate and timely financial reports and forecasts for the company to provide clear insight into its financial condition to assist high quality and agile decision making.
• Efficiently managing accounting software and administrations processes, while ensuring paperless work across all financial processes.
• Identified recruitment needs of the organization, initiated recruitment campaigns, and conducted interviews to hire deserving and talented candidates for vacant positions.
• Mediated broadly with banks to operate LC's, bank guarantees, issuing transfers and cheques, renewing deposits, resolving bank fee anomalies and effectively computed bank reconciliation statements

• Maintained optimum liquidity and judiciously made payments to suppliers and sub-contractors on time.
• Handled other routine accounting functions like reconciliation of company accounts, Taxation, Insurance functions & Payroll Management, bank reconciliation, fixed assets management etc.

Finance Controller at Emircom LLC
  • United Arab Emirates
  • February 2007 to September 2018

Key Responsibilities:
• Spearheading a team to execute wide range of finance and accounting functions like financial reporting, cash and general ledger reconciliation, budgeting, forecasting, finalization of accounts in addition to periodic reporting to top management regarding the financial statues of the organization.
• Validating accuracy and integrity of all financial management and reporting activities while ensuring strict conformance to organizational policies/ procedures and all accounting standards.
• Generating an array of reports periodically that exhibit the financial stability/ liquidity/ growth along with reconciliations, establishing trends, identifying deviations and recommending cost efective solutions to rectify the same.
• Efectively managing accounting operations including Billing, A/R, A/P, Cost accounting, Inventory accounting and Revenue recognition as per standard policies and procedures.
• Administering day-to-day accounting functions like general ledger accounts, allocation of expenses and vital adjustments for ensuring compliance, cost cutting methods, etc.
• Mediating extensively with various department heads to fill and submit vital documents to efect budgeting process preparing budget vs. actual reports, identifying deviations and presenting constructive rectification measures.
• Commanding all accounting functions, governing an environment of internal control in addition to periodic reporting regarding the financial statues of the company.
• Executing month end, quarter end and fiscal year end obligations of the company like: closing of all books of accounts, ledgers, cash flow statements, bank reconciliations, job costing statements, reports related to contracts and subcontracts, etc.
• Coordinated financial strategic planning, analysis, and reporting activities for the department, preparation of periodic MIS /quarterly & annual financial statements of accounts of units.
• Providing accurate and timely financial reports and forecasts for the company to provide clear insight into its financial condition to assist high quality and agile decision making.
• Eficiently managing accounting software and administrations processes, while ensuring paperless work across all financial processes.
• Handled accountability towards end-to-end workforce management, which involves capacity planning, manpower planning, and resource optimization.
• Cultivating professional relationships with auditors, bankers, business partners; resolving discrepancies and facilitating any document/ information required by them to ensure .smooth accomplishment of business functions.
• Demonstrating consistency & strictly adhering to deadlines, ensuring conformance to all accounting processes policies & procedures along with IFRS.

Head in HR and Finance at Jashanmal National Company
  • United Arab Emirates
  • December 2000 to January 2007

Key Responsibilities:
Azad Dastageer
Kerala, India
• +91 9567630434
azaddastageer@gmail.com
• Administered the input and handling of financial data and reports for the company's automated financial systems, develop and maintain financial data bases, computer software systems and manual filing systems.
• Administered receivables function via Imprest for preparing receivables of branches and final settlement data, petty cash vouchers and time-sheets
• Served as a point of contact & support for all Financial Control matters including the banking facilities and provided inputs for resolving bank issues including fixed deposits and check diferences.
• Compiled management reports, posted invoice summary to general ledger, generated trial balance and balance sheet, reconciled credit notes daily, updated ofice and bookkeeping procedures to achieve maximum eficiency.
• Handled other routine accounting functions like reconciliation of company accounts, Taxation, Insurance functions & Payroll Management, bank reconciliation, fixed assets management etc.
• Warranted accuracy, completeness, and conformance of all financial statements/reports job costing and bills, on monthly basis, to reporting and procedural standards, and documented various business transactions on daily basis.

Education

Master's degree, MBA in Finance
  • at United States
  • July 2013

Specialties & Skills

ACCOUNTING
BUDGETING
ACCOUNTABILITY
CAPACITY PLANNING
COST ACCOUNTING
FINALIZATION
FORECASTING
LEDGERS (ACCOUNTING)
MANAGEMENT
STRATEGIC PLANNING

Languages

Arabic
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Hindi
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Tamil
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Urdu
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English
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Malayalam
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Training and Certifications

Certified Advanced MS Excel (Certificate)
Certified Cash Flow Expert (Certificate)
Chartered Institute of Management Accountant CIMA Pursuing (Certificate)
Chartered Institute of Management Accountant credentials and 20 years of (Certificate)