Hafiz  Umer ACCA PMP, Chief Accountant

Hafiz Umer ACCA PMP

Chief Accountant

Medica Group

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Master's degree, Accounts, Finance
Experience
15 years, 1 Months

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Total years of experience :15 years, 1 Months

Chief Accountant at Medica Group
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since July 2016

• Preparing financial statements, budgets, forecasts
& other management reports;
• Reviewing and analyzing of cash flow, and monthly
MIS reports in an organized format and taking
appropriate measures for any variances;
• Overseeing major activities of subordinates &
assigning multiple tasks on priority basis;
• Understanding, evaluating and recommending
improvements in internal controls;
• Preparing segment wise reports, brand wise
profitability reports, customer wise sales and COS
analysis, streamline 3 years’ record of sales and
expenses for comparison;
• Monitoring and directing implementation of
strategic business plans;
• Ensuring that processes are in place, reviewing
and upgrading periodically so, that all accounting
records are adequately maintained and meet
statutory requirements;
• Expenses and payments are made according to
company procedures and policies;
• Identifying and implementing relevant procedures
for optimal utilization of SAP B1; and
• Reconciliation of system results with legacy
system and resolve the differences in migration of
opening stock

Chief Accountant at Groseto Trading LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • June 2014 to July 2016

• Overseeing budgets, costing and revenue
recognition for the four independent business units
(Groseto Trading LLC, MAT General Trading LLC,
Al- Hishma Upholstery and Square Cut Blondes
Saloon);
• Preparing financial statements, reviewing and
analyzing of monthly MIS reports in an organized
format and taking appropriate measures for any
variances;
• Providing critical financial and operational
information to managing director;
• Reviewing each finance and operational procedure
and ensuring its strict implementation;
• Managing statutory, internal and other types of
periodic audits and implementing audit
recommendations in an efficient and timely manner
and Due diligence for the acquisition including
valuation for two companies;
• Understanding, evaluation and recommending
improvements in internal controls;
• Co-coordinating in logistics and managing our
team for inbound and outbound stocks;
• Stock reports and replenishing requirement and
carry out monthly stock count; and
• Setting new standards of work for the team
members and taking initiatives to groom them
wherever necessary in order to minimize errors
related to logistics as well at the administrative
level and also initiating new steps to avoid stock
differences.

Assistant Manager Accounts/ERP at Monnoo Group of Industries
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • February 2012 to April 2014

• Responsible for monthly consolidated financial statements, payments, cash-flow management reporting for submission to Group Financial Officer;
• Handling full spectrum of financial and cost accounting role e.g. AR, AP, GL, forecasting, budgeting etc.;
• Leading implementation project of Oracle E-Business suite, providing trainings to users for general ledger, payable, receivable, cash management, purchasing, inventory, cost management and order management modules and provide the support of ERP issues to the respective users respectively;
• Responsible for monthly consolidated financial statements, payments, cash-flow management reporting for submission to Group Financial Officer;
• Reconciliations for principal suppliers and debtors and reviewing all documents before payment to ensure authorizations and documentation is complete;
• Monthly intercompany reconciliations and payments procession for 16 companies;
• Supervising audit of quarterly stock count, petty cash counts & preparing reports on existing policies & their implementation;
• Highlighting deficiencies in internal controls and developing possible solutions to mitigate such risks;
• Supervising monthly closing and submit it for reviewing to Chief Financial Officer; and
• Supporting CFO in ensuring that intercompany cost allocations are in line with management agreements and transferring pricing policy.

ERP Implementation:

• Finalized Chart of Accounts for Oracle (ERP) implementation at the Group.
• Supporting implementation of Oracle (ERP) in the Group.
• Discussions with ERP consultants about financial and internal control aspects.
• Reviewed and finalized revised policies and process to be performed through ERP

Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers PwC
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • February 2009 to February 2012

 Understanding client’s business and processes and assessing the internal control risk.
 Evaluating client’s accounting and management information systems, as well as performing compliance testing to ensure that they have been effectively operational
 Analyze existing policies and procedures thorough analysis of the clients AS-IS Business Processes including designing Process Maps
 Review of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and provide recommendations to make it in line with proposed ERP solution
 Identify and mark areas of operation improvement within processes of the client
 Mapping TO-BE processes with the ERP
 Suggest changes, need for KPI and other productivity enhancing strategies
 Evaluate the effectiveness of functionality in use and recommending improvement and suggesting corrective action to be taken.


In Oracle ERP Implementation,
1. Review Functional Design Document of Existing System and New System
2. Business Process Mapping
3. User Acceptance Testing
3. Identifying User Reporting Requirement and resolve Post Implementation Issues
4. Identifying the deficiencies in ERP environment and take appropriate actions to resolve problems

Other Assignments

1. Business Process Review for Sales Cycle
2. Business Process Review for Material Management and Plant Maintenance
3. Prepare Financial Statements using Sage Accounting Production, CCH, IRIS etc.
4. To prepare payroll for different companies of United Kingdom
5. Preparing VAT Reconciliation and Sales Reconciliation using the statutory accounts and VAT Returns

Education

Master's degree, Accounts, Finance
  • at University of london
  • March 2012
Bachelor's degree, Accounts, Finance
  • at The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan
  • November 2009

CA Inter Equivalence obtained on the basis of ACCA Member

Higher diploma, ACCA
  • at ACCA
  • December 2008

Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) Affiliate

Diploma, Accounts
  • at CAT
  • August 2006

all paper passed in first attempt

High school or equivalent, General Science
  • at Govt. Collge University Lahore
  • May 2005

Mathematics Statistics Economics

Specialties & Skills

Year End Accounts
Oracle General Ledger
General Ledger Reconciliation
Records Management
Accounting
Finance
Accounts
MS Office
Budgeting and Forecasting
Oracle ERP
SAP Business One
Auditing
Budgeting & forecasting
Key performance indicator
Risk management
Oracle – Financials / Supply chain
VAT / GST
Sage Accounting production

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert

Memberships

ACCA
  • ACCA
  • June 2005
IAA
  • UAECA
  • January 2015
SOCPA
  • SOCPA
  • April 2019
Project Management Institute
  • Project Management Professional PMP
  • December 2020

Training and Certifications

SAP Business One (Training)
Training Institute:
SAP Consultant
Date Attended:
January 2017
Duration:
36 hours
Oracle ERP (Training)
Training Institute:
PWC
Date Attended:
July 2009
Duration:
36 hours

Hobbies

  • Cricket