Senior finance professional focused on developing processes, streamlining procedures and finding cost-effective solutions. Successful at managing multiple assignments while meeting tight deadlines.
• Improved outdated financial management system by creating, revising and documenting accounting policies and procedures. Responsible for hierarchy and scalability in chart of accounts and accuracy in the general ledger and financial statements and has ultimate authority over classification and booking of all transactions.
• Manage the monthly financial close process, including ensuring all costs incurred are properly recorded, reviewing journal entries, account balance reconciliations and report preparation.
• Analyze the effect of statutory accounting practices and studies regulations and guidance to ensure correct application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
• Make recommendations for changes as needed and ensure that company policies and procedures are followed and establish the proper techniques to discover and prevent fraud.
• Successfully worked with staff in improving knowledge base and skills sets to create efficiencies in overall workload and time management.
• Hired and trained staff for finance department. Supervised a staff of three persons which consisted of daily training, monthly evaluations, goal setting, and mentoring. Reviewed the work of Financial (A/R, A/P) and Administrative staff
• Implemented cross functional team work between finance and operations, and helps senior management in organizational structure by developing hierarchies and departmentation to improve overall performance and profitability
• Developed long term relationships with bankers, solicitors and consultants.
• Reduced payroll processing time by 20%, saving PKR 100,000 implementing an in-house payroll system, eliminating the errors and established the transparent and fair payroll process and accurate pay rates and overtime.
• Maintained the PKR300 million General Ledger encompassing multi currencies transactions.
ERP Implementation
• Take a lead role in the implementation of the ERP Project finance modules including; chart of accounts, accounts receivable, accounts payable, general ledger, cash management, payroll, fixed assets, projects and financial reporting.
• Assist the Senior ERP Implementation Project Manager in implementing change management strategies to support staff in positively adopting new systems and procedures throughout the project.
• Assist in the creation of process flows, work instruction, test scripts and end user training.
Accounts Payables
• Ensured payments (invoices, expense reports and check requests) for 2 different branches were processed in a timely and accurate manner.
• Maintains and balances subsidiary accounts by verifying, allocating, posting, reconciling transactions; resolving discrepancies.
• Printed disbursement checks, ensuring all necessary documentation is attached and obtaining supervisors\' approval according to departmental procedures
• Created reports and spreadsheets for vendors and consultants
• Conducted research and compile data for report preparation resolving any discrepancies with data.
• Trained new hires and made sure their \"on boarding\" process ran smoothly
All finance related activities