Muhammad Owais Sharif, Associate-Internal Audit

Muhammad Owais Sharif

Associate-Internal Audit

TeleCard Limited

Location
Pakistan - Karachi
Education
Master's degree, Finance, Accounts, Law
Experience
25 years, 2 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :25 years, 2 Months

Associate-Internal Audit at TeleCard Limited
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • My current job since April 2012

Currently working as an Associate in the Internal Audit Department of TeleCard Limited from April 2012.

Position Objective: - Examine and evaluate the adequacy, effectiveness and efficiency of the organization’s internal control systems and procedures and recommend corrective actions to improve operations, enhance internal controls and reduce costs, where possible. As an Internal Auditor, departmental responsibilities are:
 Draft Internal Audit Plan of the organization and now working on Audit Charter.
 Review, suggested amendments in policies and procedures, if necessary.
 Departmental audits, as management instructed.
 Audit day to day activities on pre-audit basis. Assessing compliance with laws and regulations and multiple organizational policies and procedures.
 Evaluating risks and internal controls by identifying areas of non-compliance.
 Gauging manual and automated financial processes.
 Identify inefficient processes, weaknesses.
 Communicate audit progress and findings by providing information in status meetings.
 Highlight unresolved issues; review working papers; prepare final audit reports.
 Frequent interaction with key personnel within the organization.
Besides Internal Audit, also beneficial to other departments in:
 Achieve coordinated effort in making Fixed Assets Register and Tagging.
 Working as team in making the accounting policies and procedures.

Associate - Finance (Tax) at TeleCard Limited
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • May 2011 to March 2012

Also worked as an Associate-Finance in the Tax Department, and reporting to Head of Tax. As an Associate-Finance, my key responsibilities were:
 E-filing of Sales Tax and Income Tax not only of Telecard but also of the group companies as well.
 Prepare reports on tax matters.
 To issue the income tax certificates of suppliers.
 During this tenure, I also assist my reporting authority in insurance work.

Associate - BU WLL Finance at TeleCard Limited
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • May 2005 to April 2011

Joined as Associate - BU - WLL - Finance. As Associate - BU - WLL - Finance, my responsibilities were:
 Responsible to prepare the Budget of BU WLL and check the variances accordingly.
 Handle the financial and accounting matters of the WLL - TELCO Business Line.
 Ensure timely receipts, execution of sales and reporting on daily basis.
 Prepare the documents against Letter of Credit.
 Prepare, review, and submit the Sales Report on monthly basis.
 Provide assistance to improve the controls of System through MIS.

Manager Accounts at Associated Services.
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • June 2000 to May 2005

During the period working as a Manager Accounts & my key responsibility includes:
 Finalization of accounts and review them with intervals.
 Handle tax issues.
 Budget preparation on yearly, half yearly and quarterly basis.
 Prepare and control the fund flow position.
 Review the sales targets, achievements, and level of expenses with different intervals.
 Also assist in setting overall business sales targets and also work on future business plans.

Accountant at M-Tex Industries.
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • June 1999 to May 2000

My key responsibilities were:
 Preparation of Accounts.
 Filing sales tax returns.
 Handle the matters related to banks.

Finance Internee at British Oxygen Co. Pakisan Limited
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • April 1999 to May 1999

 Worked as a Finance Internee.

Education

Master's degree, Finance, Accounts, Law
  • at Institute of Cost & Management Accountants of Pakistan
  • February 2018

ICMAP - Finalist (3 papers left)

Diploma, Finance, Accounts, Law, Audit
  • at Pakistan Institute of Public Finance Accountants
  • January 2011

FPFA-5213

Bachelor's degree, Commerce
  • at Govt. Ghazali College
  • January 1994

Graduation (B.Com) 1994 University of Sindh.

High school or equivalent, Science
  • at Federal Government College HYD CANTT
  • January 1992

Intermediate (Science) 1992 Federal Government College HYD CANTT:

Specialties & Skills

Internal Audit
Financial Reporting
ACCOUNTANT
BUDGET PREPARATION
FINANCE

Languages

Urdu
Intermediate
English
Intermediate

Memberships

Pakistan Institute of Public Finance Accountants
  • FPFA-5213
  • April 2011