Accounts & Audit Manager
M Wajid & Associates
Total years of experience :19 years, 9 Months
• Liaising with clients (individuals or businesses) and providing financial information and advice
• Reviewing the company's systems and analysing risk
• Performing tests to check financial information and systems
• Advising clients on tax planning (within current legislation to enable them to minimize their tax liability) and tax issues associated with activities such as business acquisitions and mergers
• Maintaining accounting records and preparing accounts and management information for small businesses (accountancy)
• Advising clients on areas of business improvement
• Detecting and preventing fraud (forensic accounting)
• Managing junior colleagues.
• Prepare, examine, and analyze accounting records, financial statements, and other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards
• Analyze business operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations, to project future revenues and expenses or to provide advice
• Report to management regarding the finances of establishment
• Develop, implement, modify, and document recordkeeping and accounting systems, making use of current computer technology
• Monthly reconciliation of General Ledge
• Develop, maintain, and analyze budgets, preparing periodic reports that compare budgeted costs to actual costs
• Assist in internal and external auditing services for businesses and individuals
• Represent clients before taxing authorities and provide support during litigation involving financial issues
• Manage Accounts receivable on behalf of clients
• Assist clients in Book Keeping requirements
• Prepare monthly fixed asset journals for additions, disposals and depreciation
• Provide a high level of customer service in a complex retail environment
• Deliver all job tasks on time and with accuracy and participate in the successful implementation of store promotional programs and initiatives
• Support BP Retail's Vision and Mission
• Role model and provide coaching to team members on all company HSSE policy and procedures to improve BP Retail's HSSE performance providing a safe work place at all times
• Drive store initiatives to maximise sales and financial performance
• Ensure control procedures are followed and escalate breaches of policy as required
• Support the business in driving a high performance culture that focuses on giving every customer a reason to return
• Ensure that every decision is viewed through the lens of a customer
• Compares purchase orders to invoices and distributes to proper Department Head for approval
• Reconciles all statements, requests missing invoices and makes adjustments as necessary
• Ensure all accounts payable transactions have been approved
• Input approved invoices in the computer and balances the open invoices to the computer listing
• Follow up and clear on a monthly basis, outstanding open supplier invoices awaiting authorisation, missing invoices, credit notes and adjust where necessary
• Receivable account; verifying totals; preparing report
• Protects organization's value by keeping information confidential
• Maintaining the Book of Accounts - Purchase and Sales ledger’s
• Preparation of monthly Income Statements
• Accounts reconciliation
• Assisting in the preparation of the annual budget
• Chasing the long over-due debtors
• General Administrative Duties
Pursuing CPA from Australia.
