Adept at managing budgets, payroll, invoicing and general accounting functions. Instrumental in keeping business operations fully compliant and working within budgetary guidelines.
Organized Accountant with 8 years of involvement in managing accurate accounting information, tax return support, bookkeeping and Managements reporting .
1- Accounting & GL
Carefully managed and recorded cash and credit transactions, diminishing financial discrepancies.
• Review of monthly trial balance.
• Monthly P&L and Balance sheet reporting to Management
• Assisting staff members in the preparation of monthly and quarterly accounting reports.
• Analyzing financial statements to ensure accuracy and compliance.
• Identifying potential cash flow problems and financial irregularities
2- Value Added TAX (VAT).
Oversee regulatory filling across VAT, ZAKAT related matters as per the department timelines.
• Respond back on quires from ZATCA for timely completion of monthly VAT audit.
• Support management on follow up for refund claims from ZATCA.
• Ensuring all required documentation and reconciliations are well-maintained.
• Manage and maintain the company's tax database.
• Maintain effective control procedures over all aspects of the tax process.
3- WHT & ZAKAT
• Manage reviews of all declarations, filings, obtaining certificates, ZATCA queries, assessments, appeals and issues resolutions for Zakat, Income Tax, Withholding Tax, Excise Tax, Transfer Pricing, Contract Submissions, and other Zakat & Tax compliance requirements.
• Manage and facilitate ZATCA income tax audits: preparing responses, creating schedules,
• Ensure where (applicable) Withholding tax is deducted and deposited in
Government treasury on monthly basis.
• AWTR compliances and timely filling on yearly bases
• Ensure Zakat and Tax Returns are filed and liability settled on timely basis to avoid any delay and penalties.
• Compute deferred tax liability as required
• Ensure transfer pricing rules are compiled and filing in time
• Prepare and maintain the Local and master file as per ZATCA Requirement
• Prepare the TP Discloser form and report with the annual WHT &Zakat reporting as compliance
• Ensuring that other relevant regulatory requirements are complied with such as Arabic Books and
Records, Record Achieving etc.
• Maintains standard costs for products including raw material and purchased parts.
• Preparation of cost of sales, operating cost and other cost with timely and accurate completion.
• Perform analysis and create reports concerning inventory costs.
• Perform reporting variances and supporting analysis in costing system.
• Preparing the actual manufacturing cost comparing with budgeted manufacturing cost.
• Prepare and input actual, forecast and budget reports.
• Preparing the costing models in order to estimate product cost.
• Provide management with reports summarizing expenses
• Supervise month-end closing process, including review of GL entries, preparing closing journals as deemed necessary.
• Supervise the Cost Accountants staff to review their activities.
• Compiles cost information to be used in preparing operating budgets.
• Identify and analyzing variances, researching the causes of the variances and making recommendations based on analysis.
• Conduct the physical annual inventories/stock counts.
• Prepare ad-hoc reports/schedules as required by the management.
• Serve as a liaison with external auditors during quarterly and year-end audits.
• Ensure the spending is recorded correctly and invoices are codded in correct cost canters
Costing and Inventories
• Inventory Valuation of Semi Finish & Finished Good, Packaging and Fuels.
• Stock Planning, Periodic Stock Checks & Reconciliation/Valuation.
• Preparation of account reconciliation, reviews financial reports, and
Preparation of standard and recurring journal entries and analyzing the same.
• Preparation of Cost schedule to identify the impact on result of operations.
• Co –ordination with internal auditor, external and cost auditors
• Ensure that cost sheets, ERP GL, ERP inventory, Production report are reconciled.
• Monthly monitoring planning and daily monitoring of various Raw Materials like
Gypsum, Laterite, Fly Ash, Cement Bags etc.
• Preparation of cost statements as per company laws of Pakistan and their timely submission to the security and exchange commission of Pakistan.
General Ledger
• Booking & posting of Journal entries with proper supporting in ERP.
• Booking of Monthly Accruals and there reversals accordingly
• Variance analysis of trial balance.
• Preparation and control over the monthly accounting closing schedule.
• Account analysis and reconciliations.
• Budget control and variance analysis.
• Compilation of information and preparation of schedules required by internal and independent auditors.
• Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) reporting in the Group on Monthly basis.
Fixed Assets
• Scrutiny of all Purchase Requisitions (CAPEX/OPEX)
• Monitoring the Capital Work in Progress (CWIP) booking for the period & Year
To Date (YTD) for the approved CAPEX.
• Updating the Payment status for Contractual and direct payment for CAPEX
• Preparation & updating of Fixed Asset Register.
• Monthly Fixed Asset reconciliation
• Addition & Retirement of Items in FA Module
• Calculation of Monthly Depreciation & Recon with GL
Tax Reporting
• Preparation of monthly income Tax & sales tax report.
• Completing the Quarterly & Annually Tax reporting.
• Reconciling and Updating of all tax deductions and collection
• Monthly reporting to the Govt Authorities via Online portal
• Liaise with internal and external auditors