Babar Ali

In this position I am responsible for the following:
•Recording all financial transactions into the correct general ledger, and verifying they are accurate.
•Responsible for maintaining financial records, processing transactions related to expenses and sales of various outsource clients.

Additional Responsibilities Include:
•Maintains and records daily financial transactions in Quick books by establishing accounts and posting transactions.
•Bank balance updates in QuickBooks
•Maintains general ledger, including subsidiary account summaries.
•Balances the general ledger by preparing a trial balance and reconciling entries.
•Maintains historical records by filing documents.
•Advises management on required actions.
•Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed in accordance with the monthly financial reporting schedule.
•Monthly sharing of reports with clients. Reports include Income statement MTD and YTD, General Ledger, Balance sheet, Bank reconciliation (Summary and detail).

In this position I am responsible for the following:
•Management of assignments. Periodic meetings with the clients to assess the progress and resolution of issues faced during the execution of assignments.

Projects Include:
•Heading a team of 4 finance staff and managing the Operational budget of UNICEF polio program for Sindh. Management. Supervision of Training, vendors, staff monthly travelling, DSC and Misc. reimbursables and IBFT payment. Validation of staff accounts. Direct reporting to Executive manager and Director in SHMA as well as Finance head and program specialist at Islamabad UNICEF office.

•Validation of user access for integration project and creation of SAP user accounts as well as extracting data from SAP and performing, data cleansing, reporting and analyzing financial statements for Alstom Grid (Dubai).

•Physical count and verification of fixed assets as well as developing Fixed Assets (FA) coding scheme to allocate and tag assets after physical verification/count and reconciliation of Fixed Assets for Emarine (Dubai).

•Joint Venture and Advisory Project of Ghantoot Marbles (Baluchistan based company) in collaboration with Dubai based Al Balushi company and South Korean investors. Work involved reviewing Joint Venture Agreement and Articles of Association from perspective of possible risks, exit mechanisms and safeguarding client interests. Incorporating and registering joint venture company with SECP and coordinating with lawyers.

•Organization restructuring project in NGO's such as The Hunar Foundation (THF), Organisation for Peace and Development (OPD), and International Water Management Institute (IWMI). I was responsible for evaluating and documenting the current accounting system and internal control environment and highlighting internal control weaknesses, and Risk analysis and suggesting improvement points. Preparation of Financial policies and procedures as well.

•Also assisted team in recruitment for British Council Pakistan for multiple positions based on a competency framework as prescribed by the client. Work included, screening applications, selecting a pool of potential candidates, searching database to select potential candidate for the client, short listing candidates for interviews (telephonic and face to face) and preparing assessments for the client.

Industry: FMCG - Dairy.

Energy Sector
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