Finance Officer
WWF-Pakistan
Total years of experience :12 years, 11 Months
• Assist in the development of new financial controls and implementation of controls already set in place by WWF-Pakistan.
• Prepare different correspondences on finance related matters and ensure follow up system
• Maintain financial disbursements and monitoring systems for monthly submission to respective managers and donors as required.
• Assist in review and processing of financial and operational requests from projects and facilitate approval ensuring appropriate documentation and record keeping in accordance with WWF-P rules;
• Assist in preparation of quarterly and annual budgets for internal and external purposes and financial proposals for new projects.
• Coordinate with finance staff at other offices for projects related financial matters.
• Responsible for the production of financial and other reports as per Donor and management’s requirement.
• Assist in review of financial and operational reports and data received from project and regional offices.
• Pursue cases and applications with tax authorities’ particularly withholding taxes.
• Coordinate and provide financial and administrative details time to time required by WWF management and auditors.
• Coordinate hiring, preparing comparative statements and drafting contracts of consultants as per organization policy and any specific requirement from donors.
• Carry out any other duty assigned by the supervisor
• Perform financial duties to assist the Senior Program Manager -Operations in day-to-day management of the project and maintain up dated records of the project budget for expenditures and revisions in consultation with the Program Manager Operations.
• Implement financial monitoring and progress controls set in place by UNDP and by WWF-Pakistan.
• Assist in preparation of periodical payments requests with the supporting documentation;
• Assist in processing financial claims and facilitate approval through ensuring appropriate documentation and record keeping in accordance with WWF Pakistan Rules;
• Act as focal person for project audits;
• Coordinate with the financial and administrative staff at site Offices of the Project and of the CBOs.
• Responsible for the production and submission of financial and other reports as per UNDP and WWF-Pakistan procedures.
• Operate accounting software SAGE-ACCPAC.
• Checking the correctness of receipts & payments vouchers with special emphasis on internal financial controls.
• Pursue cases and applications with tax authorities’ withholding taxes in particular.
• Coordinate and provide financial and administrative details time to time required by WWF management and auditors.
• Check & Report the correctness and completeness for all the financial data received from site/field offices.
• Prepare monthly bank reconciliation statements.
• Communicate with all the accounts staff at Site Offices with regard to weaknesses observed in the regular monthly financial data and suggest improvements.
• Coordinate with the Finance and Administration department of WWF-Pakistan Head Office Lahore.
• Carry out any other duty assigned by the Senior Program Manager, Operations or Program Manager.
• Preparing all types of vouchers including Journal Vouchers, Bank Payment Vouchers, and Cash Payment Vouchers & Bank Receipt Vouchers.
• Coding
• Data entry into ACCPAC
• Dealing with bank.
• Preparing details of withholding tax, and deposit in bank.
• E-filing of withholding tax statements.
• Perform other tasks as and when desired by the Supervisors.
• Through-out first class academic record • Achieved 100% Merit Scholarship in MBA program from Preston University • Maintained 4.00 CGPA in MBA • Gold Medalist in MBA from Preston University • Hafiz-e-Quran