HASSAN ILYAS

• Established a complete financial accounting and record-keeping system from scratch, improving reporting accuracy by 100% and reducing month-end closing time from 10 days to 3 days.

• Designed and implemented internal controls across financial and operational workflows, reducing record discrepancies and errors by over 60% and strengthening compliance with accounting standards.

• Managed daily cash and bank transactions including receipts, payments, cheques, petty cash and maintained the cash book and conducted day end cash reconciliations to make sure everything balanced before closing business.

• Managed accounts payable and receivable, verified invoices and payment vouchers, recorded journal entries, and kept documentation always organized and audit ready.

• Conducted bank reconciliations and general ledger reconciliations regularly and worked through vendor and customer mismatches of PKR 1 million and brought full visibility to the cash position.

• Prepared monthly, quarterly, and annual management reports used for operational and strategic decisions, improving financial transparency for senior management through consolidated reporting across all operational units.

• Operated within a computerized ERP environment (QuickBooks) alongside MS Excel, Word, and PowerPoint to maintain ledgers, generate reports, and support audit-ready record-keeping.

• Prepared and filed 100+ income tax returns and wealth statements annually with zero filing errors, tax compliance, and high-volume financial accounting capability under strict regulatory deadlines.

• Maintained and organized client financial documentation and case files, improving retrieval efficiency by 30-40%.

• Drafted regulatory responses and notices, ensuring compliance with tax regulations and successfully reducing client penalties and filing delays.

• Supported coordination between clients across manufacturing, trading, and services sectors building experience working with personnel from varied professional backgrounds and nationalities.

• Participated in financial audits of 20+ clients across manufacturing, trading, services, e-commerce, and NGOs.

• Conducted substantive testing and internal control evaluations, identifying control weaknesses that reduced financial risk exposure by 15-25% for multiple clients.

• Assisted in preparing annual, interim, and quarterly financial statements, improving accuracy and timeliness of reporting in line with recognized accounting standards.

• Performed cost, unit, and ratio analysis to support management decision-making, identifying
operational inefficiencies.

• Contributed to fraud detection and prevention procedures, uncovering irregularities in cash handling and inventory strengthening internal controls and financial integrity for client organizations.