Team leader - General ledger & reporting
Africa Future Commercio E geral Industria Lda
Total years of experience :9 years, 10 Months
I am a Chartered Accountant with 6 years post qualification experience.
2 years in Oil & gas Exploration & production; 1 year in FMCG Manufacturing & 3 years in Audit Firm
My present Roll: At present, I work in Angola for Asmara Holdings looking after Accounting & MIS of 4 factories (Tissue/Diaper/detergent/Snacks manufacturing). I directly report to Financial controller and be a first point of contact for information. I am responsible for overall Accounting, acting as a bridge between Financial Controller and subordinates, finalization of Accounts and monthly MIS reports.Should you find my profile relevant (Resume attached), please let me know.
I am expert at setting processes for-
Accounts receivable & payable with stringent Internal controls
Preparation of Budgets and Variance analysis
Inventory management & purchase budgets
Major contribution (FMCG Manufacturing)
Development of Fully automated Excel formats for Monthly Financials and first time implementation of monthly Financials.
Development of Fully automated Excel formats for Annual budgets & cash flows (including BOM run, LC terms, importation & landing cost per item, depreciation run & product costing)
Development of Fully automated Excel formats for Payroll.
-Supervising assistants in processing invoices
-Maintenance of chart of accounts, vendor masters
and cost center masters
-Thorough understanding and interpretation of
contracts with third party vendors, analytical
review of invoices, ensuring the invoices are
correctly charged as per the contractual rates and
terms, ensuring the invoices are supported by
proper back end papers like goods receipt notes,
work completion certificates, work logs and
ensuring these are properly authorized by
departmental HOD.
-Once the invoices are found to be order, approve
and process them for payment
-General ledger reconciliations
-Fixed asset accounting and reporting in line with
IAS-16
-Co-ordination with tax dept. for WHT and VAT
data reconciliation before filing returns
-When it comes to reporting, preparing and
presenting projections of monthly accruals and
cash-flows and variance analysis of the same
-Regularly following up of advance payments and
fortnight reporting of the status
-For month end MIS, coordinating with operations
cost accountant to gather info. on operational
expenses accrued for the month and pass
provisions under proper expense heads and
cost centers
-Monthly reporting of creditors balances along
with the movement in balances, age wise
classification and payment plan for the next
month
A) Internal audit of a cement manufacturing
company-
- Drafting and finalizing the audit plan.
- Risk identification, control testing and process
improvement procedures
- Communicated audit results and
- recommendations to mitigation the
associated risks through written reports.
- Suggesting on complex accounting
treatments and taxation issues
B) Accounting, Preparation of Financial statements
and tax return filings-
- Undertook accounting assignments and
preparation of Financials statements of
Private limited companies.
- Prepared and filed WHT returns, service tax
returns & Income tax returns.
- Assisted in preparation of certificates for tax
deduction at source, as per DTAA and Indian
Income tax laws, on foreign payments.
C) Participated in Concurrent audit of a Medical
trust having Medical College and hospital under
it. Through reconciliation of monthly student
wise accruals and receivables, fixed deposit
accounting and accruals and other income
accruals.
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