I am an active ACCA member and I have diversified experience of more than one decade. Currently, I am working at the Pakistan institute of labour education and research as Manager Accounts & Finance & and I have completed articles from Baker Tilly Mehmood Idrees Qamar Chartered Accountants.
Along with my full-time career in Accounting and Finance, I also enjoy working as a freelancer on various online freelance marketplaces in my leisure time On FIVERR.COM and PEOPLEPERHOUR.COM, I have served more than 80 global clients and successfully delivered approximately 177 projects. if you want to take it to the next level then reach out to www.maheraccountancy.com
My expertise: Financial reporting, Budgeting, Accounting, year-end closing, preparation of financial statements, Bookkeeping, Financial Management, Filling of withholding income tax, Management of employee benefits, and auditing.
Continued professional development with the help of the ACCA CPD program, online learning forums, and government-initiated skill development programs. I love to have the opportunity to help my team, colleagues and also support the general public online.
Establish the overall audit strategy and preparing an audit plan in the context of applicable financial reporting framework, SBP frameworks, guidelines, industry-specific reporting requirements and reporting objectives of the engagement
Effective planning and execution of audits,assigments of management functions
Evaluating system of internal control and risk management procedures, identifying control weaknesses and suggesting appropriate best practices to management
Responsible for managing, training and supervising audit staff as well as performance evaluations and motivating team
Ensuring timely preparation of deliverables including executive summary, Audit reports (highlighting control weaknesses and recommendations)
Currently I am working as a Manager Accounts & Finance and my responsibilities are as under
• Preparation of annual financial statements & monthly management accounts.
• Co-ordination with statutory auditors
• Finalize of journal vouchers, payment vouchers and receipt vouchers
• To assist joint director and CEO
• Dealing with complex and adjusting transactions while closing period end books.
• Support in strategic decision making
• Review, finalization of payroll and managing employee incentive plans.
• Review and check monthly bank reconciliation.
• Monthly analysis of the financial position for the arrangement of fund shortage.
• Co-ordination with donors for the quarterly projects’ audits, budgets, eligibility assessment and due diligence
• Preparation of projects’, organizational annual and monthly budgets.
• To ensure the staff income tax and supplier WHT deducted properly and paid to government timely.
• To review receivable/payable reconciliation of the different projects to each other and guide assistants for necessary adjustments.
• Other tasks assigned by management
• To support management committee for the design and implementation of SOP(s)
• Ensure the compliance with donors’ funding and expenses guidelines and organizational policies and procedures
Responsibilities were as under:
• Book keeping, preparation of journal vouchers, payment vouchers and receipt vouchers
• Preparation of monthly management accounts
• To assist director finance and manager finance
• Closing period end books.
• Preparation of payroll and along with employee incentive plans..
• Preparation of bank reconciliation
• Calculation of staff Withholding tax
• Preparation of budgets of specific projects
• Preparation of receivable/payable reconciliation of the different projects to each other.
• Preparation of staff loan amortization schedules.
• Effective planning and execution of assignments to meet stringent deadlines;
• Conducting business and audit risk assessment through client meetings, industry-specific research, market analysis and cumulative audit knowledge;
• Establish the overall audit strategy and preparing an audit plan in the context of applicable financial reporting framework, industry-specific reporting requirements and reporting objectives of the engagement;
• Supervising the progress of audit including consultations on difficult or contentious matters, resolution of differences of professional judgment amidst audit team and client, and addressing significant accounting and auditing issues raised during the audit;
• Coordinating with various professionals such as other auditors, internal auditors, actuaries, bankers, lawyers, independent valuators, etc;
• Managing client relationships and ensuring quality service provided;
• Providing basic advisory services to clients in respect of accounting treatments of complex transactions, and secretarial practices etc.;
• Evaluating system of internal control and risk management procedures, identifying control weaknesses and suggesting appropriate best practices to client management and /or those charged with governance;
• Responsible for managing, training and supervising audit staff as well as performing performance evaluations and motivating trainees and new recruits;
• Summarizing and documenting audit issues for the attention of the engagement partner; and
• Ensuring timely preparation of deliverables including financial statements, management letter (highlighting control weaknesses and recommendations), communication to Board of Directors and other deliverables