Saad Aleem Khawaja, Senior Accounts Officer

Saad Aleem Khawaja

Senior Accounts Officer

Pakistan International Airlines

Location
Pakistan
Education
Master's degree, MS-Finance
Experience
5 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :5 years, 6 Months

Senior Accounts Officer at Pakistan International Airlines
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • June 2006 to February 2010

Served as In-Charge Credit Control Unit:

• Monitoring of outstanding credit position extended across the network, Preparation of debtors ageing schedules and its provision, Ensuring compliance to recover the outstanding credit as per corporation’s rules.

Served as In-Charge Refund Unit:
• Kept a close eye on refund requests for immediate response and settlement thereafter.

Served as In-Charge Credit Cards Unit:
• Monitoring of credit card sales across network and its reconciliation & communication with our Acquiring bank i.e. M/s Euroline for settlement thereafter.

Tax audit module

Served as In-Charge Revenue Assurance Unit:
• Receipt of revenue documents on day to day basis of the operated flights, its reconciliation thereafter with respect to passenger document certificate and trim sheet
• Coordinated across the network to settle the discrepancies on flight wise/date wise/route wise basis for safeguarding corporation’s interest
• Crafted & implemented standard operating procedures for avoiding revenue leakages, ensured compliance to safeguard the customers’ as well as the corporation’s interest
• Prepared numerous reports including days sales outstanding, daily revenue document receipt report, revenue documents mismatch report and duplicate usage report
• Implemented an oracle based revenue assurance system that liaisons with the revenue accounting system.
• Communicated & coordinated with M/s Pregem (Pvt) Ltd for the upgrade and debugging of their Aries system applications during its implementation phase.

Managing Audits

• Successfully handled Semi-annual & Annual financial accounts audits for the above cited units with M/s Deloitte, M/s Grant Thornton & M/s Ford Rhodes. Resolved issues and queries raised by auditors in light of International accounting standards, accounting separation regulations and on technical grounds.

Accounts and Finance Executive at Hajvairy Group
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • September 2004 to May 2006

My prime responsibilities were the following:

1. To help in assisting and maintaining the monthly charts of accounts
2. To perform bank reconciliation on monthly basis
3. To prepare monthly salary sheets
4. To assist in carrying out the periodic audits
5. Dealing with the vendors regarding their dues settlement

Education

Master's degree, MS-Finance
  • at Mohammad Ali Jinnah University
  • July 2011

I did my Master of Sciences in Finance and my dissertation was on, " Impact of Corporate Governance on Dividend Policy" for Firms Listed on Karachi Stock Exchange.

Master's degree, MBA - Finance
  • at Mohammad Ali Jinnah University
  • August 2004

I was listed thrice on the Chancellor's Honor list for scoring 3.6 gpa and above.

Specialties & Skills

MBA Finance
MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point
Quasar Pro (Revenue Accounting system - Oracle based)
Pregem Applications (Oracle based)

Languages

English
Intermediate
Urdu
Expert