I am finance and audit professional with experience of one of the finest retail organisation currently operating in Pakistan.
Having a solid understanding of manufacturing and retailing industries, with specialization in accounts/finance and business planning.
Heading Inventory Control Wing of Finance and Business planning department in Central 1,2 and partially north 2 regions of ideas (retail Wing)
Also dealing with the matters relating to inventory of Wholesale business centers nationwide.
-Making a yearly calendar for the whole wing and to ensure its complied with.
-Budgeting overall expenses for all the in station audits and outstation audits to be conducted during the year.
-Also to ensure that every store is audited 3 times in a financial year.
-Charging of shortages identified during audit and coordinating with internal audit department, HR and retail regarding the deductions to be processed in payroll.
-Identification of dead stock at retail end and questioning the reasons from respective DGMs and AMs.
-Identification of damages and providing with the verdict of whom to relate it to, either product or handling.
-Verification of inventory received from Lassani Warehouse, 3rd party productions and stores.
-Verification of consignments prepared by supply chain department for dispatch to stores.
-Adjustments of variances identified in dispatch after investigating.
-Approving stock dispatch to franchises if exceeding their designated limit.
-Half yearly audits of Warehouse.
*Planning and budgeting inventory counts and surprise audit visits for each quarter.
*Making sure that the 3 inventory counts and the 6 surprise audit visits on each outlet takes place every financial year
*Uploading of inventory shortage deductions in oracle and ensuring that all the uploaded deductions are reflected in the payroll.
*Monitoring loyalty program and ensuring correct award and redemption of points. If any error detected timely reporting of the issue to IT department.
*Making sure that the issuance of FID cards is as per the company policy, customers are registered correctly in the AX 2012.
*Investigation of cases where the cards found being misused during daily monitoring of FID transactions after obtaining visual evidences from CCTV records.
*Daily monitoring of material sales and return transactions, ensuring that the returns are genuine and the sales punched are as per the company policy.
*To ensure that all the discounts are in accordance with the company policy, are approved by appropriate authority and are accurately recorded.
*To conduct audit of monthly payroll function to make sure that the payroll is prepared in compliance with company policy, all the elements (Income/Deductions), new joiners, loans and advance are correctly reflected in the payroll.
*Payments are made in accordance with the pre audited payroll.
*Making sure that the deposits are made into the correct bank accounts provided to each outlet for daily sale deposits and the deposited amount is in accordance with previous day’s sale.
*Assist in performing all tasks that are necessary to carry out the internal audit programs effectively, economically and efficiently
*Assessment of the sales and the marketing department by carrying out the market audit.
*To ensure adequate controls are in place and that are effective to fulfill the requirement.
*Audit of purchasing activity for the group.
*Audit of management accounts and production schedules for use by Executive management, as well as the Audit/Finance Committee and Board of Directors
*Audit of payroll function and the analysis of legitimacy of the commissions earned by the sales teams.
*Oversee customer addition process to make sure that the customers and payments made to the customers are legitimate.
*Audit of the raw material and their consumption of the production functions of the company at 3 sites (Hattar, Lahore and Multan)
*Execution of forensic audit assignments at manufacturing facilities and collection of facts and evidences.
*Sample testing of the receipts and payments made on the monthly basis.
*Taking part in process of analyzing and evaluating business and operational plans on the request of management.
*To conduct monthly stock counts.