Financial Accountant
Centro Salama by Rotana
Total years of experience :11 years, 5 Months
Reporting direct to Cluster Financial Controller and General Manager
Responsible for GL reconciliation
Attend briefings and meetings on behalf of Cluster Financial Controller
Responsible for monthly financial reporting to Corporate office in Abu Dhabi
Responsible for overviewing the departmental operational activities
Support various departments & create liaison
Draft & present monthly P&L and departmental for management
Payroll processing and balance payroll accounts and maintain department accuracy
Create schedule reports for management
Audit within the department to ensure standard operating procedures are being followed
Pre-opening
As a Pre-Opening team contributor, I not only was in-charge of accounts Payable, but also performed diversified operations.
I. Fixed Assets tagging
II. Prepared various reports pertaining to preopening like, fixed assets list, allocation of the payments made by head office on the hotel behalf to their respective expense heads.
III. Prepared report for the expense incurred in preopening and went through the transition from pre to post opening.
IV. Manage Fixed Assets, derecognition based on International Financial Standards (IAS 16)
Accounts Payable
Responsible of full cycle of account payable process.
Composed effective accounting and ad-hoc reports summarizing A/P data for inventory, HR and other departments.
Implemented controls to foster an environment of continuous improvement.
Reconciling all the supplier account as previously the payments were made by passing manual entry i.e. no allocation of invoices through system.
Rebuilt trust with vendors/suppliers, repairing damaged relationships by ensuring timely, correct payments for all goods/services received
Reconcile and process payroll and coordinate with regional office for payroll related reports and closing.
Costing Executive
Recording of food and beverage costs and reporting them statistically
Review purchase procedures are being followed
Monitor store issuances and F&B consumptions are within the budget
Audit of revenue generating F&B outlets
PAYROLL
Payroll processing and balance payroll accounts and maintain department accuracy
Verified employee data and made necessary corrections and reconciliations
Create schedule reports for management
Reconcile payroll accruals
Balanced payroll accounts and maintained department accuracy
Other Tasks
Responsible for GL reconciliation.
Reconcile and posting of Current account and inter- company charges.
Performed costing analysis related to F&B, like Menu engineering & Event Costing.
Continuous cost analysis for other related expenses like payroll, energy, operating supplies and gives recommendations to the management and achievable action plan.
Achievements:
• Departmental trainer
• Received various training pertain to self-development & time management.
• Received highest rank in the department in appraisal review 2015.
- External audit of Libety Textile, a leading Listed Textile exporter in Pakistan.
- Designed SOPs and job description for FMCG client.
- Designed manuals for Audit Firm itself.
- Monitoring and suggesting De-listing legal requirements for clients.
- Sent as an In-charge of the audit team for statuary audit of KASB Capital Protected Gold Fund in just fourth month of joining the firm; leaded the audit team for statuary audit of Unisys Pakistan Private Ltd.
- Established and maintained working relationship with clients.
- Understanding and documenting the finance and accounting structure, process flow and internal control system of key business areas such as sales, production, treasury etc. of seven different natures of industry.
- Identify, plan and test controls; recommend actions to management on increasing internal controls and offer bottom-line
oriented solutions.
- Reporting and reviewing the correctness, relevance and timeliness of the financial and other information in light of IFRS
(International Financial Reporting Standards) and other applicable accounting frameworks.
- Recognized risk factors and assessed general reporting systems.
- Formulated reports for Managers and documented fieldwork.
- Met strict deadlines of reporting to supervisors and senior management, especially during audit of Listed Clients.
- Checking compliance of these companies with latest accounting standards and laws and regulation.
- Analytically evaluated the financial performance of clients and prepared presentation oriented analytical review reports.
- Prepared many Excel spreadsheet macros useful for minimizing entry time and automatically cross-referencing for errors.
-Management of the portfolio of investor & entrepreneur clients who wants to immigrate to Canada.
-To make cash flow of the client since the inception of client's business.
-To ensure if the client has acquired all properties & assets through legitimate source.
-Auditing client's Financial Statement, Tax returns and any relevant legal document to verify it's appropriateness
-Ensures workload completion and timely submission of reports
-Communicates challenges and issues in a timely manner to department manager.
-Ensures professional coordination and communication, both internally and externally
-Liaise and coordinate with colleagues and other fellow staff and beneficiaries representatives to ensure efficient
processing of beneficiaries applications
-Responsible for initial and ongoing training of Case Processing staff
-Work closely with CP Coordinator/Deputy CP Coordinator and other CPMs to develop departmental goals, policies and
procedures
-Other duties as assigned.
Accomplished 2nd Division. Mostly papers are self studied without any tutors.
