Kamran Alam, Manager Accounts & Finance

Kamran Alam

Manager Accounts & Finance

A.K.Enterprises (A Distribution of Abbott Pharma)

Location
Pakistan - Lahore
Education
Master's degree, Accounting & Finance
Experience
22 years, 1 Months

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Total years of experience :22 years, 1 Months

Manager Accounts & Finance at A.K.Enterprises (A Distribution of Abbott Pharma)
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • My current job since August 2018

I am leading accounts office and reporting to Chief Financial Officer.

Responsibilities:

• Management report on daily, weekly, monthly basis.
• Cash Management - To check invoicing, collections, cash control, suppliers and ensure 3rd party payments.
• Payroll, Incentives/Bonuses & Perks planning
• Develop business plan for Retail Outlets
• Ensure Recoveries and reconciliation from all Accounts Receivables
• To conduct Internal Audit of departments
• Budgeting & forecasting comparison and analysis
• Waste expense analysis and its timely reduction.
• Monthly Accounts closing - Accounts receivable & Accounts payable.
• Coordination with Legal Advisers in Registration, Copyright & trademarks of company brands, Taxation (Income & Sales Tax) matters.
• Ensure valid insurance policies and paperwork for all assets.
• Time & Logistics management
• Arrangement of monthly meetings and seminars
• Assisting Chief Operating Officer with any other function as and when required.


Achievements:

1.Identify the cash discrepancies amounting Rs. 1 Million.
2. Identify the business segments profit/loss against their recovery flow and market credit.

Sr. Manager Accounts & Finance at SJS International
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • December 2011 to July 2018

I am responsible for the accounting office and for the supervision of internal procedures in the accounting closing process. Main tasks:

 Leading the activity of the accounting office;
 Develop finance standard work for key financial metrics at the country level for HGR
 Provide leadership and training for a staff of 8 for AP/AR, bank reconciliation, cash management
 Monthly checks and reconciliation of inventory, fixed assets and depreciation, bank accounts;
 Performing accruals, certifying documents for booking;
 Cost analysis (fixed/variable, direct/overheads);
 Certifying the balance-sheet and income statement, and annual financial statements
 Monitoring & interpreting of Cash flows
 Provide support in analyzing monthly operating review process, including:

• Key Operating Statistics
• Budgeting & forecasting
• Sales Growth Analysis (Regional, Horizontal and Vertical Trends)
• Business feasibility for new openings.


 Develop specific reporting and best practices for measurement of specific HGR initiatives including export analysis and reconciliation of source vs. destination growth
 Support go-to market strategies, and tracking of multi-segment growth initiatives
 Provide business decision support and analysis for:
• NPI product launch
• Profitability outlier analysis
• Customer specific pricing analysis
• Opportunity / pursuit analytics in current sales trends
• Investment and census
 Coordinate with Tax Consultant in Income Tax, Sales Tax & Property Tax matters
 Leading the monthly internal audit and coordinate with external auditor team in annual audit

ACHIEVEMENTS:

 Established Accounts Department of Shahalam, Wholesale Setup in 2016 and enhanced monthly recovery 80% to 96%, reduced market credit from 23% to 17% of annual sales.
 Per day sales enhanced 166% from 2015 to 2018 (Shahalam Wholesales Shop)
 Prepared Feasibility study for three (03) distributions setup for Lahore, Rawalpindi, and Karachi. Now, all are running successfully.
 Maintained Expense ratio less than 7% of annual sales on position of Manager (Admin & Finance) with SJS International.

Data Control Officer (Admin) at TDCP (Tourism Development Corporation of Punjab
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • September 2006 to September 2011
Assistant Manager Administration at M.Hussain & Gohar Co.
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • February 2006 to September 2006
Admin Officer/Assistant Postmaster at Pakistan Postal Services
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • November 2002 to January 2006
Data Control Officer at NIFT (Pvt) Ltd.
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • July 2000 to February 2001

Education

Master's degree, Accounting & Finance
  • at The University of Lahore
  • September 2011

Specialties & Skills

Accounts Receivable
Administration
Cash Flow Forecasting
Growing Sales
Financial Statement Analysis
MS PowerPoint
Quick Books
Tally ERP 9
Oracle Customized ERP software
MS Excel

Languages

English
Intermediate
Urdu
Native Speaker
Punjabi
Native Speaker

Memberships

Old Hailian Club
  • To maintain relationships with alumni and arrange get-together
  • January 2002

Training and Certifications

Certificate of Excellence - Western Union Top Team 500Club (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2005
Certified Tax Manager (Training)
Training Institute:
Skill Studies Organization
Date Attended:
July 2015
Duration:
64 hours
Data Entry Training (Training)
Training Institute:
Comsats Institute Islamabad
Date Attended:
January 2000

Hobbies

  • Finance & Economics news, Cricket, watch movies etc.
  • Reading business magazine for getting update knowledge of economy of the country