Sabeer Basheer

• Lead, supervise, and mentor a team of accountants — allocating workloads, reviewing deliverables, and
developing technical capability to ensure consistent, high-quality output across the finance function.
• Lead project cost management across concurrent multi-million SAR construction and event projects, applying
the Percentage of Completion (POC) method to safeguard budget adherence and profitability.
• Produce consolidated monthly management accounts, project-level P&Ls, board packs, and rolling 13-week
cash flow forecasts supporting C-suite decision-making, treasury, and banking covenant compliance.
• Compile and present monthly, quarterly, and year-end financial reports, variance analyses, and KPI
dashboards to senior management, translating complex financial data into clear, decision-ready insights and
actionable recommendations.
• Drive financial, tax, and ZATCA audits through to successful closure — preparing audit-ready schedules,
resolving auditor queries, and finalising statutory financial statements to secure a clean (unqualified) sign-off
within agreed deadlines.
• Design, document, and implement Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for core finance processes,
standardising the month-end close, strengthening internal controls, and improving efficiency and audit
readiness.
• Manage IFRS 15 revenue recognition cycles; review unearned revenue against billing schedules and approve
ZATCA-compliant e-invoices.
• Prepare monthly VAT, withholding tax (WHT), and Corporate Tax schedules; liaise with ZATCA and external
advisors to ensure timely, penalty-free submissions.
• Build and maintain detailed project cost models covering direct labour, subcontractors, materials, and
overhead allocations, providing real-time margin visibility for senior leadership.
• Control accruals, prepayments, and FX gain/loss recognition; maintain monthly bank reconciliations across
BSF, ANB, Al Rajhi, Al Bilad, and SNB.

• Managed the full accounting function for a multi-branch restaurant chain; finalised trial balance and prepared
monthly P&L statements for consolidation at the Dubai head office.
• Established and maintained standard and recipe-costing frameworks across all branches, monitoring food
and beverage cost percentages against targets and flagging variances for corrective action.
• Led monthly cost-control reviews with branch managers, analysing material usage, wastage, and portion
control to drive margin improvement and protect profitability.
• Built break-even analyses and product cost models to inform menu pricing and new store feasibility studies.
• Filed quarterly VAT returns with full supporting schedules; managed WHT compliance across supplier
contracts.
• Prepared cash flow statements, bank reconciliations, vendor reconciliations, and supplier payment runs.
• Audited petty cash across all branches, identified leakages, and implemented tighter expense approval
controls.
• Processed monthly payroll and coordinated year-end closure with external auditors.

• Executed full monthly close cycle within Microsoft Dynamics 365, including accruals, prepayments,
depreciation, and intercompany eliminations.
• Prepared and reviewed monthly bank reconciliations for all company accounts; resolved unmatched items
and escalated discrepancies to treasury.
• Conducted vendor reconciliations to maintain a clean accounts payable ledger and support timely payment
runs through Microsoft Dynamics.
• Reviewed VAT and WHT schedules each month, ensuring accurate declarations and on-time filing with
ZATCA.
• Produced project-level analyses (budget vs actual, gross margin, cost-to-complete) and facilities reports
covering loan utilisation, interest accruals, and covenant tracking.

• Posting of PL & Balance sheet entries (Journal, Purchase, Bank, Depreciation, etc)
• Monthly Bank Reconciliation
• Assisting Finance Manager in Payments to Supplier after their accounts reconciliation
• Assisting our Internal Auditor (by clear trial balance figures)
• Timely updating the cost of new/ existing items
• Analyzing the markup value of the product with cost effect
• Auditing the cash, credit card and credit sales
• Liaison with supplier for any facilities and business promotions
• Provide updated accurate cost reports every month with comparison against budget and variance analysis
• Periodic inventory verification and reconciliation
• Keep updated Asset register

• Owned the factorys full cost accounting function, maintaining standard costs and analysing material, labour,
and overhead variances to support production efficiency.
• Prepared periodic cost-of-goods-manufactured and cost-of-goods-sold reports, giving management clear
visibility of unit economics across product lines.
• Developed product cost sheets covering raw ingredients, direct labour, packaging, energy, and factory
overheads to determine accurate retail and wholesale selling prices.
• Recalculated selling prices in response to commodity price fluctuations (sugar, flour, ghee, nuts) to protect
target margins.
• Reconciled finished-goods production against raw-material consumption to detect wastage and pilferage;
conducted inventory verification across raw materials, WIP, and finished goods.
• Maintained full-cycle accounting (P&L, balance sheet closing entries, monthly bank reconciliations) for the
food manufacturing operation.
• Audited cash, credit, and card sales; computed and validated sales commissions; supported supplier
payments and internal audit queries.

• Preparation of Monthly MIS, Cash flow.
• Filing the E- Returns (VAT, NSSF, PAYE, LST ) and other related returns
• Preparing payroll for employees with tax schedule
• Preparation of costing for spare parts (Imports)
• Preparation of GP by item wise, to avoid dead stock for slow moving items.
• Accounts Payable: Checking of Internal Material requisition, verification and comparison of quotations from suppliers. Verify the purchase orders, store receipt voucher and supplier invoices. Reconciliation of all suppliers accounts and prompts payment to suppliers.
• Job involves managing receivables and payables; monitoring and controlling cash, bank, sales & purchase, online payments and orders and maintaining structured and organized financial records.
• Processing of all documents for Trade Finance Facilities.
• Liaison with import suppliers.
• Overseeing the timely execution of bank reconciliations (11 Banks USD & local).
• Looking overall accounts for the Company Construction
• Handling other Secretarial work with R.O.C
• Auditing Tanzania Branch quarterly and finalizing books and taxes with Internal Auditor.

• Oversaw the complete accounts payable cycle for a motorcycle and spare-parts trading company, performing
invoice-to-PO matching, processing supplier and import-financing payments, and reconciling creditor
balances monthly.
• Managed direct and indirect tax compliance, preparing VAT and withholding tax returns for filing with the
Uganda Revenue Authority and reconciling tax ledgers ahead of statutory deadlines.
• Maintained vendor master data and supplier statements, resolving discrepancies and negotiating payment
timelines to optimise cash flow against import financing facilities.
• Prepared comprehensive landed cost analyses for every import shipment, consolidating FOB price, ocean
freight, insurance, port handling, customs duty, demurrage, clearing fees, and inland transport.
• Maintained an SKU-level spare-parts cost master file ensuring consistent margin calculation across hundreds
of items for motorcycles, engines, and accessories.
• Produced monthly management accounts, creditor ageing reports, and inventory valuation reports.

• Assisting the Books of Accounts up to finalization i.e. Trial Balance, Trading, Profit & Loss Accounts, Balance sheet and General Accounting
• Controlling of Cash and Credit Sales as per the company’s policies.
• Inter-shops and Divisions Reconciliation (including HO).
• Coordinating for preparation and finalization of Retail Outlet targets.
• Controlling of Inventories by conducting stock-taking at frequent Intervals.
• Verification and Posting of Sales Sheets, Invoices & Documents prepared at Shop Level.

• Supported import costing for pharmaceutical containers, consolidating CIF price, customs duty, port handling,
cold-chain freight, clearing fees, and demurrage into total landed cost per product line.
• Assisted in preparing competitive tender submissions for NGO and public hospital supply contracts, including
unit-cost build-ups and margin calculations.
• Maintained pharmaceutical inventory records and performed stock reconciliations; processed supplier
invoices, accounts payable, and bank reconciliations.