Aziz Kanbawala, Chief Accountant

Aziz Kanbawala

Chief Accountant

Afrah Al Khaleej Gen. Trad & Cont. Co. wll

Location
Kuwait - Al Farawaniyah
Education
Master's degree, MBA In Finance
Experience
15 years, 1 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :15 years, 1 Months

Chief Accountant at Afrah Al Khaleej Gen. Trad & Cont. Co. wll
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • My current job since August 2015

Manage the month -end, quarterly & annual closing process, business consolidation system reporting and preparation for annual audits. Reviewed and processed monthly financials for branches and department reporting.

Manage and oversee responsibilities of daily operations including cash management, payroll, accounts payable & receivable, GL reconciliations, treasury, cash forecasting, capital assets activity and debt & asset management.

Managing Inventory of 13 warehouses & point of sales on perpetual basis as per IFRS standards.Controls inventory flow, prepares buying budgets and quantity re-order analysis.

Monitoring Sales performances through KPI for the sales executives. Channelized detailed overseas purchase work flow as per IFRS standards.

Handle multi currency transactions for fund management which includes FOREX deals and Hedging transactions of foreign currency denominated accounts.

Established platform for eCommerce : monitor creation of eCommerce website, online payment links and gateways, inventory management, etc.

Senior Accountant at Khalil Al Misri Co.
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • August 2013 to July 2015

Supervises overall accounting operations to ensure financial reports are accurate. Prepared cash flows, PNL and other company accounts for audit.

Support in cash management, banking, vendor relationships, forecasting and budgeting. Prepared weekly confidential sales reports for presentation to management.

Analysis of sales invoices, company bills, inventories, assets control, payroll, bank loans, etc. Supervising AR and AP processing including digi-banking.

Senior Accountant at A.K. Modern Gen. Trad. & Cont.
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • November 2010 to August 2013

Preparation and monitoring of inter-company transactions per month.

Preparation of corporate expense allocations. Managed vendor accounts, generating weekly on demand checks.

Monitoring monthly payroll functions.

Preparing schedule of advances, prepaid expenses and rental analysis.

Ensured compliance with accounting deadlines & prepared company accounts for annual audit.

Finance Executive at Scope International - Standard Chartered Bank - India
  • India - Bengaluru
  • February 2009 to August 2010

Managed accounts payable, accounts receivable, and payroll departments.

Generated forecasts on a quarterly basis and presented to the management team.

Administered online banking functions Monitored and recorded expenses.

Scheduled client appointments and maintained up-to-date confidential client files. Managed the internal and external mail functions.

Education

Master's degree, MBA In Finance
  • at Gulf University (GUST)
  • March 2014
Bachelor's degree, finance
  • at bangalore university
  • May 2009

Specialties & Skills

Banking
Inventory Management
MIS Reporting
Financial Statement Analysis
Budget & Cost control
Financial Analysis
Critical Thinking & Data Analysis
Problem Solving
GL management : Inventory, Fixed Asset, Payrooll, AR, AP, Cash

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Intermediate
Hindi
Native Speaker
Urdu
Expert

Training and Certifications

Microsoft Office (Training)
Training Institute:
Aptech
Date Attended:
March 2010

Hobbies

  • Chess
  • Online Trading
  • Music
  • Fitness
  • Reading