Nazish Siamwala

Finance: Accountant (Nov 2021 till Date)
The English Playgroup (EPG) - Kuwait
Ensure daily income collections transactions are posted & recorded accurately and on a timely basis, and the system is running properly & report any issues to IT Dept.
Posting the Collection report on daily basis & record necessary bank entries and relevant bank charges considering inter-branch collection reconciliations
Recording necessary Entries in ledger regarding the transfer of Student Branch & Level
Bank Reconciliation for all bank accounts on monthly basis
Check the calculation of Staff Discount
Calculation of refunds to cancelled students & recording necessary entries in ledger.
Correction of wrong entries by cashiers by Editing of the receipt voucher within allowed authority and seeking management approval for special cases as per policy
Provide clearance to Cashiers going for vacations/end of service after checking all received vouchers & slips and registrar
Co-coordinating with Agility regarding any system Issues/errors effecting the Receivables balances
Translates all Arabic invoices, contracts, finance documents to English as per requirement of FM/Management
Prepare and Maintain updated Schedules for providing to Auditors and Management as required
Record, process, reconcile payments and expenditure, PO, invoices, statements, etc... in compliance with accounting policies and procedures
To ensure timely & accurate recording of financial data in line with company accounting policies and procedures.
To complete bank reconciliation to ensure the vouchers match with the collections in the bank.
Purchase booking and ensuring proper authorization and validating data before booking those vouchers.
Review all purchase orders / invoices for appropriate documentation and approval prior to payment in a timely manner.
Reconcile vendor statements, research and correct discrepancies
Posting of Journal entries pertaining to Amortization of Prepaid expenses accurately
Posting of Journal entries pertaining to Accrual of expenses accurately
Monitors expenditure of petty cash holders.
Reconciles processed work by verifying entries and comparing system reports to balances
Charges expenses to accounts and cost centers by analyzing invoice/expense reports, recording entries accurately and timely manner
Maintains historical records by filing documents and soft copies
Accomplishes accounting and organization mission by completing related results as needed
Prepare and Maintain updated Schedules for providing to Auditors and Management as required
Ensuring proper documentation for accounting of Sales, purchase bills and Expense bills.

• Purchase booking and ensuring proper authorization and validating data before booking those vouchers.
• Monthly Provision of Expenses and accounting for prepaid expense.
• Ensuring proper documentation for accounting of Sales, purchase bills and Expense bills.
• Reconciliation of Bank Statements on Monthly basis.
• Providing necessary documents to External auditor at the time of yearly audit as per their requirements.
• Accounting for Sales Bills in Tally and preparing the bills with proper documentation.
• Following up with customers for collections on weekly basis as per due dates.
• Preparing monthly Payroll for the employees on the basis of punching machines and validating the same with partners.
• Tracking employee loans/advances paid to the employees and adjusting the same from the Salary.
• Managing the Inward register as per ISO Guidelines for all the input and output of materials for the Job work.
• Providing timely reports to the Partners on a weekly basis for Vendors and debtors for timely payments and collections in Tally.
• Communicating with customers & Vendors through mails on behalf of the partner for their queries.

Briefing the project updates to the stake holders and also in client forums
•Coordinating within the team for workload balancing and production planning in order to deliver the reports within the targeted deadlines
•Responsible for setting up mechanism to handle change requests
•Ensure achievement of targeted Client Satisfaction Scores
•Ensure smooth running of migrated processes for the teams being managed.
•Ensure achievement of target KPIs for the teams being managed.
•Responsible for tracking of Productivity and Quality of each of the team members.
•Responsible for monitoring overall Delivery and enhancing Productivity of all teams.
•Responsible for knowledge transfer, training team members and troubleshooting of the project.
•Responsible for raising Alarms for any anticipated red Flags.
•Ensure compliance to all process specific requirements for their respective team members.
•Taking updates from SPOC (Single Point Of Contact) and attending call with them.
•Responsible for generation of set KPIs (Key Performance Indicator or targeted SLAs), metrics and MIS reports and sharing the same with the Counter Team Leader.
•Sending the relevant updates to the Onshore country SPOCs regarding day to day operational activity & technical queries.
•Review the queries to be raised by the teams.
•Attending the operational daily / weekly calls and sending the minutes.
•Updating the SOPs, Process Maps, Checklists and sending updates to the relevant onshore teams.
•Organizing and attending the RCA with the team.
•Manage the to and fro operational communication between the offshore and the onshore (onsite) teams
•Manage the internal QC.

ASSOCIATe sales - back office

Adherence to SEBI & NSDL guidelines while opening Electronic Securities account.
•Identify Anti-Money Laundering in Demat accounts by scrutinizing high value transactions.
•Dematerialization, Rematerialization, Transmission & Redemption of securities.
•Undertake Market, Off-market and Inter-depository transactions for clients.
•Providing account statements to customers and resolving customer queries.
•Auditing transaction report on daily basis.

• Inter transfer Cheques clearing.
• Cash Teller (receipts and payments) and its reporting.
• Handling cash CRISP on daily basis and informing customers for discrepancies. Tally the cash and report the teller by the day end.
• Providing account statements to customers and resolving customer queries.
• Front desk activities (Demand drafts, Pay orders, Fixed Deposits etc).
• Assisting customers in Account opening and Account closure.