Muhammad Naeem Qazi

• Development of strategic long- and short-term financial plan, development of policies, procedures & controls to safeguard, and mitigate the exposed business & financial risk for the company.
• Collaborate with senior management to report periodic financial performance and clearly demonstrate the alignment of group strategic financial goals with overarching business objectives. Illustrate matters related to regulatory compliance and financial risks, providing actionable recommendations for timely resolution
• Chart the creation and preparation of financial reports in line with SOCPA/IFRS to enable informed decision-making.
• Partner closely and collaborate with the department executive in the creation and preparation of group rolling operational & capital budgets, as well as evaluating periodic budget performance reports.
• Preside over and direct key operations of the overall treasury function while administering working capital arrangement, sourcing and management of financing facilities, debt restructuring, opening and negotiating LC, LG for the group and maintaining close relationships with banks.
• Oversight due diligence of potential project to ensuring commercial viability by studying financial feasibility plan, reviewing agreements, workflow plan, vendor capacity & delivery reliability, performing sensitivity analysis, evaluate financial and business risk, planning of funds for the project while ensuring optimizing resource and company financial performance.
• Performing analysis of financial statements against budget prepare variance analysis report, identifying unexpected activities of expenditures with high cost, and making appropriate action for cost control & improvement.
• Reviewing monthly budget performance reports, ensuring departments operate within allocated budgets and investigated excessive expenses and reporting discrepancies.
• Led the end-to-end implementation and successful go-live of Odoo ERP system, ensuring seamless data migration and user adoption across all modules.
• Coordinating with external auditor, facilitating & providing all relevant information and ensuring timely finalization of audit report.
• Overseeing Direct, Indirect taxes, and Zakat returns submission, reviewing GOSI allocation, overseeing payment pertaining to Custom and ensuring they are made within regulatory specified time frame.
• Dealing with suppliers on the matter of negotiation of credit limits, setting creditors’ days and solving their queries and payment related issues.
• Monitors general invoices, credit limits of customers, refunds, delivery of invoices timely and petty cash custodian.
• Reviewing and ensuring the reconciliation of statement of accounts timely and accurately and ensuring ledger completeness.
• Overseeing the account payable and receivables related activities and ensuring that the payable and receivable balances are regularly reviewed and settled down within specified time frame of company policy.
• Carry out accurate endorsing/approvals of invoice payment authorizations, payment vouchers, cheques, bank instructions and other related financial documentation to facilitate timely processing of payments as per defined policies & procedures.
• Guiding & training new and existing staff members in various financial procedures to prepare for job requirements.

• Placed a strong and continuous emphasis on maintaining compliance with accounting policies, procedures, and dispensed recommendations to board on continuous improvement opportunities.
• Ensured the continuous timely preparation and reporting of periodic and year-end consolidated financial statements and conducted in-depth analysis into financial reports against budget before developing the variance analysis report.
• Served in an integral role by leading the preparation of the annual and seasonal budget, administering the requirement of funds, and setting a fund limit for all departments.
• Oversaw the creation and preparation of the capital expenditure budget to enable the effective administration of infrastructure investment and long-term operations.
• Leveraged extensive expertise in the oversight of the overall treasury function of the company, including planning funds, enabling sufficient cash flow, acquiring industrial financing scheme for the company and devising the forecasted cash flow plan.
• Directing tax staff on matter monthly filling of VAT return, withholding income tax and getting them paid within regulatory specified time frame.
• Administer in-depth analysis into financial statements in comparison to the budget and lead the preparation of the cost centres analysis report based on findings before implementing appropriate actions.
• Controlling production cost by improving consumption planning, making tight control over input vs output and by reducing cost of purchase and consequently, saving $0.4 million yearly.
• Successfully lodged claims to various suppliers on matter supplying sub-standard goods.
• Decreased monthly expenditures by 4% through effectively reviewing documents and identifying problem areas.
• Reduced monthly payroll of each cost centre by 10% by performing checks and analysing it with production output.
• Spearheaded the development and implementation of controls, as well as performing the maintenance of financial accounting systems for cash management, purchase, A/P and A/R, credit control, inventory.
• Maintains good relationship with customers, suppliers and other business partners and ensures all issues are attended properly.
• Resubmitting overdue invoices and contacted customers to determine when payments would be received.
• Performing and overseeing other daily activity of accounts such as, Verification and checking service contractors, vendor payments, employees' payroll, commissions and other accounting disbursements for accuracy and compliance.
• Recording and reconciling of transaction, ledgers and perform bank reconciliation upon failure or absence of junior staff.
• Hiring, providing training and guidance to accounting staff and ensuring competencies of the profession, necessary to complete the tasks, are maintained.

• Prepared timely periodic financial reports along with performance analysis report with budget.
• Ensure timely periodic closing of accounts while guaranteeing ledger completeness.
• Resolved and attained various stakeholder queries e.g. payment timeline of the suppliers, suppliers’/customers’ ledger unreconciled dispute/amount in timely manner.
• Participated in implementation of Oracle EBS, determined & designed in detail, the complete cycle of business operation, along with workflow from purchasing of raw material to finished product.
• Participated in developing the product BOM by determining labor, material and overhead cost.
• Reviewing and verifying inventory reports of all stages of process periodically and ensuring correct valuation.
• Verifying suppliers and expenses bills and vouchers to ensure the occurrence of the transactions.
• Reviewed disbursement of payment before getting it approved.
• Coordinated with auditor, arrangement of audit supporting documentation and providing financial information as required for the year-end audit.
• Oversaw and reviewed a wide variety of additional accounting and financial activities, including verifying service contractors, vendor payments, employee payroll, commission, and other accounting disbursements.
• Carried out all ad-hoc tasks assigned by the sr. manager on a timely basis.
• Trained and provided guidance to subordinate accounting staff as needed

Recording of cash payment and receipt vouchers.
Recording of expense vouchers.
Performing reconciliation of ledgers.
Ensuring timely closing of record for periodic closing.

Recording of Bank/cash transaction.
Preparation of customer invoices.
Recording supplier bills and general expenses.
Ensure reconciliation of bank, customer and suppliers' ledgers.
Verification of monthly payroll.