Waqas Ahmad, Section head finance

Waqas Ahmad

Section head finance

Maaden Aluminium Companies

Location
Saudi Arabia - Khobar
Education
Master's degree, Accounting and Auditing
Experience
16 years, 11 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :16 years, 11 Months

Section head finance at Maaden Aluminium Companies
  • Saudi Arabia - Eastern Province
  • My current job since February 2015

Positions held:
- Section Head Financial Reporting - July 2018 to present
- Accountant I - February 2015 till June 2018

Responsibilities:
Below are my key responsibilities
- Incharge of general ledger activities
- Incharge of intra-group transactions and balances
- Coordinating internal, external and government audits
- Handling VAT, zakat and income tax matters
- Incharge for transition from SOCPA to IFRS

Reporting hierarchy:
I report directly to
- Vice President Finance
- Director Finance

Achievements:
Below are some of the achievements of the Company in which I had major participation
- Reduction in time required to complete the monthly closings, preparation of management reports and statutory financial statements, while maintaining high quality of reporting
- Reduction in the intra group balances through efficient followups from the respective departments and improvements in the invoicing process
- Reduction in the finance related audit observations through improving the internal controls
- Successful improvements in Oracle information system to accurately capture and report all VAT transactions
- Successful implementation of IFRS accounting framework
- Successful implementation of cost saving programs

Assistant Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
  • Saudi Arabia - Khobar
  • June 2012 to February 2015

Positions held:
- Assistant manager (September 2014 - February 2015)
- Senior associate (June 2012 - August 2014)

Responsibilities:
My key responsibilities included
- Leading the audit teams through the planning, execution and conclusion stages of audit engagements ensuring the audits are effective
- Completing all engagements within the allotted hours to ensuring the audits are efficient
- Training sub-ordinate team members

Reporting hierarchy:
I reported directly to
- Partner
- Director

Achievements:
- Designated as "champion" for consolidation
- Completion of audits on time and within the allotted resources
- Successful clearance of audits in regional and international internal reviews with nil exception

Manager Internal Controls and Costing at Al Noor Sugar Mills
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • June 2011 to April 2012

Responsibilities:
I was primarily responsible for
- Internal audit activities which primarily included preparing SOP’s of each department and monitoring its implementation
- SAP based procedures which primarily included ensuring appropriate costing setup in the newly implemented SAP information system, providing SAP training to end users and testing the quality of the data being input in SAP by the end users

Reporting:
I reported directly to
- CFO
- Director operations

Achievements:
Below are some of the achievements of the Company in which I had major participation
- Successful implementation of costing setup for SAP
- Successful development of the new policies and procedures after the implementation of SAP

Audit Trainee at KPMG Taseer Hadi & Company Pakistan
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • May 2007 to May 2011

Positions held:
- Audit senior
- Audit semi-senior
- Associate auditor

Responsibilities
- Involved in statutory audits, internal audits and special assignments at different levels of authority for a variety of clients relating to manufacturing, trading, service and financial activities

Reporting hierarchy:
I reported directly to
- Partner
- Senior manger
- Manager

Achievements:
- Completion of audits on time and within the allotted resources
- Successful clearance of audits in regional and international internal reviews with nil exception

Education

Master's degree, Accounting and Auditing
  • at Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan
  • February 2012

Qualifiied Chartered Accountancy (ACA) from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan.

Specialties & Skills

Internal Audit
Finance Operations
Microsoft Excel
SAP Business One
Accounting
Oracle ERP
MS Excel
Management

Languages

English
Intermediate

Memberships

ICAP
  • Member (Reg No. 6745)
  • February 2012