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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Medecins Sans Frontières/Doctors without borders (INGO)

WORKED AS COUNTRY ACCOUNTANT AT MEDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES (CAPITAL OFFICE ISLAMABAD) FROM NOVEMBER 17, 2014 TO FEBRUARY 09, 2018

Providing comprehensive emergency healthcare to people in remote regions of Pakistan is a priority, yet accessibility and security are a constraint for both Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the patients.

Office Administration

• Review all Invoice received for payment from logistics department.
• Booking of Monthly accruals and prepaid expense accounting system.
• Prepare payroll for whole mission including payroll tax calculation.
• Responsible to transfer salaries to employee’s account using straight2bank online banking system.
• Review the contracts/agreement received from field offices to finalize these.
• Prepare monthly bank reconciliation statements for bank accounts.
• Focal point for all bank correspondence.
• Reply to the all vendor’s queries.

Budgeting & Grant Management/Donner Reporting

• Support the annual budgeting and quarterly reforecast processes for MSF Pakistan including donor and MSF funding.
• Ensure annual and quarterly reforecasts are provided to donors as per their reporting requirements.
• Ensure that all volunteers and staff understand the donor rules, the budget and how expenditure should be accounted in a compliant manner.
• Deliver training to, staff and partners based on needs, including induction and project kick off meetings.
• Recommendations made to project team on how to manage grant funds appropriately and smartly.
• Ensure all grant files online and hard copies are well maintained.
• Answer all staff, volunteer and partners queries accurately and timely.

Financial Oversight

• Ensure internal financial procedures, systems, policies and controls are applied and complied with throughout the country programmed operations by staff.
• Provide Capital Office with all necessary financial information both proactively and on request.
• Monitor and control the balance sheet accounts.

Procedures, Systems and Controls

• Ensure compliance with local regulations in respect of financial and other matters (e.g. Registration, Foreign Exchange, taxation and labor laws).
• Conduct internal audits for the field sites every month, to ensure that all financial and administrative procedures are carried out in line with INGO policies and guidelines and local Legislation.
• Regularly review the financial and reporting systems to ensure that they continue to be fit for purpose.

HQ Reporting & Monitoring of expenditure

• Prepare financial reports for Head Quarter in Amsterdam for the whole mission in line with HQ reporting requirements.
• Provide HQ with final export file of monthly financial reports.
• Monitor on-going levels of expenditure on individual programs against budget, and provide timely advice of likely over or under-spends to the Country Finance Coordinator.
• Ensure respective Project Coordinators and Program Managers understand variances Implications and how to respond to and manage them effectively.

End of Month Procedures

• Provide Monthly feedback to Project Accountants on soft and hard copies of bookkeeping.
• Perform monthly translation of currency to the presentation currency.
• Booking of month end gain/ (loss) on currency translation.
• Booking of month end adjusting entries to reconcile monthly balance sheet accounts.
• Prepare monthly Balance Specification Report.
• Support field staff in completing the cash and bank book.
• Support Islamabad office in Monthly Cash Forecasting.
• Explain BVA’s for all new projects to the relevant colleagues.
• Update Internal BVA’s for all running projects on monthly basis.
• Analysis the BVA’s to ensure no errors are present for expenditure made by Field.
• Highlight any over or under expenditure to the PC, logs officer, and budget holders.

End of year procedure (Yearly Closing & Audit)

• Prepare all kind of adjusting entries for year-end closing.
• Prepare Trail Balance and draft accounts including balance sheet & profit & loss account for yearly audit.
• Prepare and Maintain Fixed assets register for year-end closing and audit.
• Prepare depreciation schedule including calculation of depreciation charged and accumulated depreciation.
• Prepare yearly break down of advance taxes charged on utilities.

RAABTA CONSULTANTS, NGO (Sister Organization, PEPL UK)

Raabta aims to empower communities in Pakistan by connecting them with valuable social services provided by the government, NGOs, charities and the private sector. Specializing in developing two-way communications with hard-to-reach communities. Raabta combine a strong local understanding of the diverse regions and people of Pakistan with the technical capacity to connect them with the relevant service providers.

WORKED AS FINANCE OFFICER AT RAABTA CONSULTANT ISLAMABAD FROM NOVEMBER 19, 2013 TO NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Accounts Payable (AP)

• Booking of Invoices in accounting software from various vendors.
• Verifying Invoices received from vendors.
• Processing of payments to various types of vendors.
• Preparation of monthly prepayments schedule.
• Preparation the schedule of prepayment of Insurance.
• Preparation & posting of Bank Payment & Receipt Voucher in Accounting Software Quick Books Enterprise.
• Expense Allocation on different projects and outputs.
• Booking of accruals for cost related to services and other OPEX and CAPEX.
• Preparation of Monthly Bank Reconciliation Statement.
• Preparation of Monthly variance analysis report, comparison between budgeted and actual expenses with reasoning of variance.
• Record payments and maintain supporting documentation for audits and verification.
• Ensure that an expense is backed with complete documentation.
• Maintenance of appropriate petty cash record, cash count and reconciliation.
• Monthly financial closing.
• Responsible for routine banking transactions and bank related matters.
• Maintenance hard copies of all contracts, warranties, MOUs.
• File financial reports, vouchers and letters in an organized order.
• Record accounting entries in QuickBooks Enterprise accounting software.

Payroll & Taxation

• Preparation of monthly employee’s payroll including salary tax calculations.
• Preparation Salary Slips of Employees.
• Preparation Income Tax Deducted detail of Employees Salary.
• Processing the payment of Tax Deducted of Employees Salary.
• Generating PSID for payment of Employees withholding tax.
• E-filing Monthly statement of Collection & Deduction of Income Tax of Employees Salary.
• Preparation of Tax Withheld detail on payments other than Salary.
• Generating of PSID for payment of withholding tax deduction on payments other than Salary.
• E-filing Monthly statement of Collection & Deduction of Income Tax of other than Salary.
• Submission of Income Tax and Sale Tax Return.
• Preparation and monthly update of detail Tax Withheld / Advance by our Customer’s.
• Providing Vendor’s and Employees Tax deduction Certificates.


INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM ENGINEERING AND SERVICES (PVT.) LTD.

Local Partner of Huawei and NEC Japan in Pakistan
Founded in February 2004 Headquarter in Islamabad
Major Share in the Telecom Market
Services Provided to All Major Telecom Operators and Equipment providers

WORKED AS ASSOCIATE FINANCE AT INTERSES (PVT) LTD (H.O) ISLAMABAD FROM JUNE 1ST, 2011 TO NOVEMBER 16TH, 2013

Receivable & Payable

• Preparation of monthly commercial & Sales Tax Invoices for engineering services and supplies.
• Booking of Revenue against Engineering Services in GL.
• Monthly translation / revaluation of foreign currency receivables and booking of exchange gain / loss.
• Preparation of Quotations for corporate customers.
• Maintenance of Memorandum record of (Engineering Services) Contracts as Well as Purchase Orders (POs) & Purchase Requisitions (PRs).
• Preparation of IBUY invoice in Huawei Technology (SCS Module) Online system.
• Submitting the Invoices to corporate customers.
• Maintaining Track sheet of all customers’s to evaluate outstanding revenue.
• Preparation of Monthly detail of expected Receivable / due date.
• Preparation of Monthly Revenue Analysis Management Report.
• Monthly Reconciliation of Receivable from Clients.
• Monthly Closing of revenue & coordinating with external auditors for audit.
• Booking of Invoices from various vendors.
• Processing of payments to various types of vendors.
• Preparation of monthly Prepayments schedule.
• Preparation the schedule of prepayment of Insurance.
• Preparation of All kind of Bank Instructions.
• Transferring Amount to projects for daily activities.
• Booking of accruals for cost related to engineering services and other OPEX and CAPEX.
• Preparation of Monthly Bank Reconciliation Statement.
• Preparation of Monthly Variance Analysis Report, Comparison between Budgeted and Actual expenses with reasoning of variance.

Payroll and Taxation

• Preparation of monthly employee’s payroll including salary tax calculations.
• Receiving details of deductions from salaries from regions and incorporating in monthly payroll.
• Preparation Income Tax Deducted detail of Employees Salary.
• Processing the payment of Tax Deducted of Employees Salary.
• Generating PSID for payment of Employees withholding tax.
• E-filing Monthly statement of Collection & Deduction of Income Tax of Employees Salary
• Preparation of Tax Withheld detail on vendors payments other than Salary.
• Generating of PSID for payment of withholding tax deduction on payments other than Salary.
• E-filing Monthly statement of Collection & Deduction of Income Tax of other than Salary
• Submission of Income Tax and Sale Tax Return.
• Preparation and monthly update of detail Tax Withheld / Advance by our Customer’s.
• Preparation and monthly update of detail Withholding Tax deduction on Utilities Bill.
• Preparation of Detail Tax Withheld by Customer’s on Services and Transportation.
• Preparation of Detail Tax Withheld at Import Stage.

CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS FIRM - MULTAN, PAKISTAN
WORKED IN GHAZI & COMPANY MULTAN CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS AS TRAINEE AUDITOR
DURATION: FEBRUARY 2010 TO JULY 2010

• Verification of Monthly Financial & Quantitative Accounts.
• Vertical & Horizontal Ratio Analysis of Quarterly Accounts.
• Preparation of Monthly Revenue Analysis Report (RAR)
• Verification of Letter of credit (LC).
• Verification of Monthly Bank Reconciliation Statements. (BRS)
• Verification of Authorization limits for payments
• Verification of Accruals/ prepaid expenses.
• Verification of Monthly Inventory control report.
• Observation of Inventory stock take and verification of short/Excess treatment of inventories.
• Set Checks on finance dept. by the preparation of short term borrowing analysis.
• Check on monthly inventory control processes.
• Vouchers’ Verification i.e. Journal Vouchers (JV’s), Bank Payment/Receipt
• Vouchers (BPV/BRV), Cash Payment/Receipts Vouchers (CPV/CRV) etc.