مير احمد خان

As a Regional Head for the Group I am not only responsible to look after the financial affairs of BinDawood Super Stores for the Makkah Region where 75% of Total income is generated from BinDawood Stores in the Kingdom, I am also responsible for the affairs for Real Estate Companies in the region of the Group.

My responsibilities are:
•Reviewing and ensuring timeliness, accuracy and transparency in day to day routine transactions, investigating and correcting errors and inconsistencies in financial entries, documents, and reports for both BinDawood Stores & Real Estate Co.
•Assuring compliance with corporate policies, regulations and corporate laws
•Research and analysis of various accounting matters
•Evaluating current accounting practices & policies & driving for continuous improvement
•Preparing working papers and supporting schedules for the annual financial review
•Coordination for monthly closing process
•Developing and implementing various accounting procedures and controls.
•Coordinating for Annual Inventory Take for all the Branches in the Region.
•Coordinating & liaising with contractors & over viewing the projects in progress.
•Preparation of Daily Cash Management report for all the Branches in the Region.
•Negotiating the Annual Maintenance Contract for the Buildings with the Contractors and over viewing the work.

My role is to provide quality assured finance reports to enable management team and Board of Trustees to make more informed decisions with reference to Barnet Carers Centre objectives; my responsibilities include,

• Preparation of Monthly Management accounts, Income and Expenditure account and Balance Sheet with commentary.
• Preparation of KPI report and analysing the report to budget and reporting any anomalies to finance manager and Chief Executive.
• Designing and Producing Quarterly and Monthly reports as required by Local Authority showing specific information requested.
• Preparation of Annual Budgets and continuous monitoring of year-end forecasting so to make more informed decision.
• Assisting Finance Manager in preparation of Year End statutory accounts.
• Assisting Finance Manager in preparation of Tenders submissions and Grant Applications for different services to local authority.
• Maintaining Fixed Asset Register
• Preparations of Payroll to be processed by outsource, reconciling payroll and Pensions making sure all legal compliance are met, dealing all staff queries like holiday pay calculations etc.
• Assisting HR Manager of maintaining employee records and dealing with HR issues.
• Analysing company performance, looking for anomalies, potential efficiencies controlling cost and communicating findings to management team
• Bank Reconciliations of 5 different bank accounts.
• Accruals and prepayments schedule preparation.
• Preparation of Gift Aid and Non Gift income
• Stream lining the accounting reporting procedures.
• Reviewing and Implementation of new operating system., analysing the two different systems and putting forward my recommendation to board of trustees.

Achievements:
• Assisted in submitting a successful bid for securing the Adult Carers Support Service Contract (£1.5m) from Barnet Council in July 2012 for three years with a possible extension for further 2 years.
• Assisted in submitting a successful bid for securing the Early Intervention Project (EIP) (£300k) from Barnet Council in July 2013 for three years with possible extension for further 2 years.
• I have developed and automated All the Monthly Management, Financial and Payroll related reports by using advanced excel techniques thus reducing the error and increased the accuracy and credibility of the produced result.

Eland Cables Ltd Oct 2002 - August 2011
Financial Accountant (Redundancy August 2011)


My role included various responsibilities:

• Production of Monthly Management accounts, Profit & loss and Balance Sheet with commentary.
• Preparation of Daily/Monthly sales report for the management team and for the sales force.
• Monthly bank reconciliations and the reconciliations of all control accounts.
• Monthly reconciliation of debtor book with bank facility, (Invoice discounting).
• Analysing company performance/data looking for anomalies, potential efficiencies and communicating findings to management team.
• Controlling costs through expenditure monitoring, invoice checking and benchmarking.
• Preparing weekly sales report, which shows comparison against company budget and bank budget, showing the foreign exchange volatility, KPI, stock levels, future order book, debtors and creditors analysis.
• Calculating stock value using FIFO, stock days and Product Group Analysis to sales.
• Matching invoices against GRN taking copper variance in consideration as per LME.
• Maintaining the fixed asset register
• Fulfilment centre Summary P&L, Activity & Performance report
• Providing support in preparation of company budgets, financial and cash flow projections.
• Quarterly VAT returns, monthly intrastat and EC Sales reports.
• Preparation of accruals and prepayments
• Credit Controlling, setting up accounts and assessing limits based on financial and credit management reports.
• Supporting credit controller and assisting them in resolving queries and chasing debt.

Along with accounting responsibilities I also acted as office administrator and made sure office was run smoothly, my role involved:
• Negotiating with Utilities and service providers (Electricity, Gas, plumbers, electricians, etc.) and contractors (printers, faxes, telecommunications etc.)
• Coordinating service provider’s work.
• Procurement of stationery.

Achievements:
• I was part of the management team who successfully completed the Management Buy Out in March 2006, and with strategic planning and implementation developed the business and increased the Turnover from £14m pa to £45m at the end of 2010.
• I implemented the Credit Management and Risk Analysis system where credit rating of all the potential new customers were reviewed and were given the credit limit accordingly; this was based on the Final accounts filed to the Companies House. Due this procedure I was able to reduce the bad debts even at the time of poor economic conditions and increased sales, this was always maintained between 1.0% to 1.5% of Total Turnover, decreased from 4.5% of the Total Turnover.
• I developed an efficient model for reconciling the month end Trial balances to individual schedules. This significantly reduced vital time around month end activities. I achieved this by automating processes employing Advanced excel techniques. This also resulted in increased accuracy and hence credibility of produced results.

Jeeves of Belgravia Dec 2000 - Sept 2002
Lawrence Road, London N10 (Accountant)

My responsibilities included: • Purchase ledger maintenance, posting invoices, cash etc.
• Sale ledger maintenance, raising invoices and posting cash etc.
• Bank & cash book reconciliations
• Credit Control chasing over 1200 live accounts
• Monthly departmental analysis (profitability etc.)
• Monthly payroll for over 140 staff.
• Raising purchase orders

Select Service Partners Jan 1997 - Dec 2000
Compass Group, London UB3 (Shift Manager)

My responsibilities included
• Purchasing & Ordering
• Stock Control of perishable goods.
• Preparation of payroll sheet for the branch.