Senior Associate - Reporting to Managing Partner & Senior Manager
Crowe Horwath
Total years of experience :17 years, 10 Months
Crowe Horwath is a comprehensive corporate Audit and Advisory network counted amongst the top ten multidisciplinary practices in the region. Over 640 offices (17 in UAE), 28, 000 professionals, across 100 countries.
MAJOR ROLES AT CROWE HORWATH - U.A.E.
• Undertake internal & external audits, internal controls reviews and special audits in accordance with the stakeholders' requirements.
• Preparation of planning and strategy documents for audit engagement and to meet stringent deadlines. Researching and resolving audit and accounts related issues for fixed assets register and capitalization, inventory reporting, and export account receivables and import accounts payables.
• Advising & consulting on complex accounting, critical financial & reporting issues in the light of IFRS, local laws & regulations.
• Provide assistance to company’s accounts department for opening letter of credit, local and foreign bills discounting & factoring.
• Timely preparation of final external Audit Report based on audit findings, and ensuring any discrepancies in accounting are dealt with accordingly.
• Implement strategic internal audit framework and develop policies and procedures to integrate compliance, controls & risk management — anticipating issues, increasing effectiveness, eliminating duplication, and identifying areas of potential performance improvement.
• Assessing risks, internal controls & current data against best practices, benchmarks & standards — identifying areas of non-compliance; evaluating manual and automated financial processes; identifying process weaknesses and inefficiencies.
• Timely preparation of detailed internal audit reports & assisting partner and senior manager in presenting internal audit observations, improvement recommendations and relevant business impacts of such observations to the Board of Directors through Audit Committee.
• Provide a consistent & tailored audit services by assembling the right multi-disciplinary team to address the most complex issues, using a proven global methodology, with deep sector knowledge and deploying the latest, high-quality auditing tools & perspectives.
Nazir Chaudhri & Co is a professionally managed accounting, independent auditing, assurance, tax and financial consultancy firm especially counted amongst the top tax practices in the region.
MAJOR ROLES AT NAZIR CHAUDHRI & CO.,
• Conducting and Finalization of Statutory, Internal and Tax Audit
• Preparation of Income Tax return of client
• Assisting client in preparation of financial reports and MIS.
• Booking Keeping and Compliance with Indian Accounting Standard
The Group is a Pakistani multinational conglomerate company head quartered in Lahore established in 1951. The company comprises numerous subsidiaries and affiliated businesses has in the fields of textile, cement, financial services, insurance, power generation, paper, hospitality industry, agriculture, Dairy industry and aviation.
Being Management trainee officer, reporting to finance manager, my responsibilities are;
• Posting accounting entries using accounting software
• Involve in Budget Preparation and variance Analysis
• Involve with the procurement department for calculating costing of the product
• Performing Financial Reporting and Analysis for Clients and specific Business Units; drafting and reviewing MIS reports on business performance viz. monthly turnover, profitability, etc.
• Making recommendations to the company management based on analysis of financial results to improve performance of the business.
ICAEW (PROFESSIONAL STAGE)
Bachelor In Commerce (B.Com) University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.