sikander ali, Chief Accountant

sikander ali

Chief Accountant

Emirates National Schools

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Doctorate, Accounts
Experience
15 years, 11 Months

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Total years of experience :15 years, 11 Months

Chief Accountant at Emirates National Schools
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since September 2015

Manage all accounting operations including Billing, A/R, A/P, GL and Counsel, Cost Accounting, Inventory Accounting
and Revenue Recognition.
 Coordinate and direct the preparation of the budget and financial forecasts and report variances.
 Prepare and publish timely monthly financial statements.
 Coordinate the preparation of regulatory reporting.
 Research technical accounting issues for compliance.
 Support month-end and year-end close process.
 Ensure quality control over financial transactions and financial reporting.
 Manage and comply with local, state, and federal government reporting requirements.
 Develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls.
 Preparation of stand-alone statutory financial statements and assisting with preparation of the Group annual report.
 Review of balance sheet schedules from various teams and ensuring actions points are timely closed.
 Assist with Half year and Year-end audit requirements by managing the client assistance schedule and attending to
external audit requirements on a timely basis.Reviewing complex business transactions and ensuring they are accounted for in accordance with IFRS.
 Review of GL accounts to ensure reliability of data for internal and external reporting.
 Account Receivables & Payable summery Reports, Variance Analysis of Actual & Budgeted statements.
 Review control on purchase orders, approval process & supply chain monthly.
 Monthly follow up of open purchase orders (undelivered purchase orders) & received purchase orders to be closed
properly for invoicing.
 Review check lists, original invoices, purchase orders, GRN, internal memos, special approvals & supporting
documents to process Authorized payments.
 Ensure that monthly reconciliation of GL (Inventory ledgers), Inventory report (inventory & warehouse
management) & physical inventories are in the same line having physical & financial values.
 Ensure that Intercompany transactions its Tracking & reconciliations are accurate.
 Review reports for Account receivables & follow-up procedures as per organization strategy.
 Ensure that Distributions of funds as per management decision has been done properly.
 Coordinate with payroll department to ensure that payroll has been processed accurate in the system.
 Guide and help junior staff in their routine activities.
 Managing & supervising a team of 9 accountants across the organization.
 Ad-hoc reports as requested by Higher Management.
 Successful implementation for Dynamics Ax 2012 after Partner Company closed & left project in initial stage.
 Provide support functional for Dynamics AX 2012 for all branches.
 Implemented Dynamics AX 2012 in Emirates National School.
 Provide training for Dynamics AX 2012.

Senoir Accountant at Emirates National schools
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • February 2014 to August 2015

Worked as Senior Accountant;-

• Verify, allocate, post and reconcile transactions.
• Produce error-free accounting reports and present their results.
• Analyse financial information and summarize financial status.
• Provide technical support and advice on management.
• Review and recommend modifications to accounting systems and procedures.
• Participate in financial standards setting and in forecast process.
• Provide input into department’s goal setting process.
• Prepare financial statements and produce budget according to schedule.
• Direct internal and external audits to ensure compliance.
• Plan, assign and review staff’s work.
• Support month-end and year-end close process.
• Develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls.

Auditor at Martin Cox & Associates
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • June 2012 to January 2014

Worked as Auditor reporting to Audit Manager in
• Planning Audit & understanding the entity & its environment.
• Review of the expenses and revenue to discover the wrong transactions & control weaknesses.
• Review of clients, suppliers, debits account, credits account and the other sub - accounts.
• Preparation of Audit working papers during audit.


• Performing analytical procedures including trend and ratio analysis for financial statements.
• Performing substantive audit procedures and analytical reviews.
• Preparing financial statements for statutory and reporting purposes.
• Compilation and analysis of financial information to prepare financial statements including monthly and annual accounts.
• Ensure financial records are maintained in compliance with accounting standard.
• Reporting audit findings, impacts and recommendations and control issues to senior auditor.
• Submitting my report to Audit manager for final approval & reports.
• Internal control reviews & suggesting recommendation to client for strong internal control system.

Senior Accountant at KCAM
  • Pakistan
  • April 2011 to April 2012

One year & one month (April 2011-April 2012) experience as Accountant in KCAM Reporting to Finance Manager in
• Review routine transactions and maintenance of General Ledgers according to International Financial Reporting Standards.
• Ensure proper handling & usage petty cash and cash in hand, preparing monthly bank reconciliation statement, making adjustments in cash book and tracking unpresented/uncleared cheques.
• Conduct variance analysis of petty cash, its allocation, performance evaluation head wise of each expense & department monthly basis.
• Maintaining trade receivable/payable ledgers with ageing receivable/payable analysis and reconciliation of individual receivable/payable ledgers with control accounts as well as with customer/supplier statements.
• Writing technical reports to provide structured information to aid the Finance Manager in the decision-making process
• Make management reports to corporate management in assisting different scenarios such as shut down decisions.
• Finalizing accounts by preparing income statement and balance sheet according to IASs and IFRSs

Audit Associate at Zafar & Company
  • Pakistan
  • May 2008 to April 2011

Ten months experience as Audit Junior in Zafar and company Cost & Management accountant
• Initial planning of the audit and identifying key risks during the process and responding to these risks according to applicable audit methodologies.
• Audit of assets, liabilities, equity, expenses and income according to specified audit programs.
• Setting the level of detection risk by identifying the overall audit risk.
• Fulfilling the different check lists relating to different matters i.e. related parties, going concern, subsequent events etc.
• Identifying internal control deficiencies, their impact on financial statements and making recommendations to remove these weaknesses.
• Obtaining written representations and issuing management letter.

Education

Doctorate, Accounts
  • at CPA
  • March 2013

CPA

Diploma, Accounting finance audit
  • at ACCA
  • June 2011

letter of Affiliation. letter of good standing fronACCA

Master's degree, commerce
  • at Islamia university
  • January 2010

Major commerce subject

Specialties & Skills

Audit Support
Supportive
Team Leadership
Advance Excel Level 3
Dynamics AX 2012 support Manager
account finalization
costing skills
Advance Excel
Financial Reporting
Team Leading
MS Dynamics AX 2012

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

CPA (Training)
Training Institute:
ICPAP
Date Attended:
September 2014
Duration:
365 hours

Hobbies

  • working on Dynamics AX 2012
    Hobby is to working on Dynamics AX 2012 as consultant to Increase my capabilities.