Muhammad Shahbaz, Senior Financial Reporting Associate

Muhammad Shahbaz

Senior Financial Reporting Associate

Rocket Inter SE

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Finance and Accounting
Experience
11 years, 10 Months

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Total years of experience :11 years, 10 Months

Senior Financial Reporting Associate at Rocket Inter SE
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since December 2016

• Preparation of stand-alone and foreign currency based consolidated set of financial statements at various business levels under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) on monthly basis.
• Providing management with monthly, quarterly and annual management accounts along with detailed analysis and commentary for various entities in different countries across the Group having major implications related to IAS-21 (Foreign Currency Translations).
• Preparation of Investor Decks reflecting Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), liquidity analysis, and summary of financial information presented in the financial statements.
• Coordinating and liaising with group and component auditors to ensure timely interim and year-end audits.
• Ensuring that all VAT transactions are applied accurately and consistently across the accounting system.
• Preparation of monthly funding request along with detailed analysis of working capital for various businesses across the group.
• Preparation of business plans, budgets and forecasts for different businesses.
• Building financial models using historical data and providing forecasts based on various industry-related operating metrics.
• Identify and recommend necessary changes in accounting system to meet growing business needs.
• To continuously review and monitor the adequacy of systems, procedures and other relevant records to ensure compliance with VAT and other taxation regulations in UAE, KSA & Jordan.

Chief Accountant at Prospace Group of Companies
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • March 2014 to December 2016

• Handling full spectrum of financial and cost accounting role including payable, receivable, and general ledger.
• Supervising the accuracy and completeness of General Ledger (GL) including update of the Charts of Accounts, modification and closing of posting cycle of the journal vouchers.
• Preparing management reports (MIS) for the board of directors to assist in decision making.
• Supervising and leading preparation of annual budgets, including CAPEX to generate pro-forma financial statements.
• Managing working capital through maintaining monthly cash burn reports and forecasting future payments and receipts.
• Looking after project costing to highlight deviation from budgeted cost targets and developing controls to avoid such controllable variations in future.
• Leading central cost allocation at business & project level and ensuring intercompany balances reconciliation.
• Providing assistance to the Managing Director regarding all aspects of the financial management for effective business decisions.
• Maintaining relationships with third parties including auditors, key clients, bankers, lawyers and vendors.

Senior Audit Associate at PKF International
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • June 2012 to January 2014

• Developing of general audit strategy, detailed audit plan and audit programs in co-ordination with audit staff for conducting audit assignments.
• Performing audit procedures on key business processes including revenue, cost and other components of financial statements.
• Making detailed time budgets and coordinating with the staff to meet the reporting deadlines.
• Identifying weaknesses, addressing risk and giving suggestions to improve internal control system.
• Proactively interacting with key client’s management to gather information, resolve problems, and make recommendations for business processes improvements.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Finance and Accounting
  • at Oxford Brookes University
  • March 2016

Oxford Brookes University has over 150 years of history. They started out as a small School of Art in borrowed teaching rooms and have grown into one of the UK's top modern universities with a local, national and international reputation for teaching and research excellence.

Master's degree, Accounts & Finance
  • at Higher Education Commission (HEC), Pakistan
  • June 2015
Diploma, Auditing, Accounting and Finance
  • at Accountants and Auditors Association (AAA)
  • February 2015

he Accountants & Auditors Association (AAA) is the national accountancy body of the United Arab Emirates. We are a not-for-profit organization and have Undertaken Key strategic initiatives to develop the accountancy and finance profession in the country. The Association was established in 1997 through a federal mandate with the key objective of building capacity of the national accountancy and finance profession in line with best global practices and standard.

Diploma, Auditing, Accounting and Finance
  • at Associate Chartered Certified Accountant (ACCA)
  • December 2012

Founded in 1904, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) is the global professional accounting body offering the Chartered Certified Accountant qualification (ACCA or FCCA). As at June 2015, ACCA had 178,000 members and 455,000 students in 180 countries. ACCA's headquarters are in London with principal administrative office in Glasgow. ACCA works through a network of 91 offices and centres and more than 8,500 Approved Employers worldwide, who provide employee development.

Higher diploma, Finance, Accounting, Auditing and Taxation
  • at Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
  • February 2012

Specialties & Skills

MS Office tools
Auditing
Financial Accounting
Financial Analysis
Consolidation
Account Receivables
External Auditing
Bank Reconciliation
Financial Reporting
MS Office
Account Payables
Working Capital Management
MIS Reporting
Reconciliation of Accounts
Internal Controls
Analysis of Financial Statements
Costing, Budgeting and Forecasting
Value Added Tax (VAT)
Consolidation of Subsidiaries
Financial Statements Preparation

Languages

Urdu
Expert
English
Expert
Punjabi
Expert
Hindi
Intermediate

Memberships

Association of Chartered Certified Accountant (ACCA-UK)
  • Accounts and Finance
  • February 2015